What is it with Fianna Fáil and their families. The current ruling troika of Cowen, Coughlan and Lenihan are all the children of TD's and "inherited" their seats from their Dads. The FF conventions for the forthcoming by-elections in Dublin Central and Dublin South were held this week and the winners were;
Maurice Ahern - brother of Bertie,
and
Shay Brennan - son of Seamus Brennan.
The losing candidate in the Dublin Central convention was Mary Fitzpatrick, daughter of Dermot Fitzpatrick
I know times are tough but can none of these people go and get their own jobs.
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good piece. Michael Taft on his notes from the front blog is very good at pushing a reflationay approach to addressing the economic problems we face.
He has been veru cautions, but promised to look in to it more. If you can give me the links to your Iceland info I'll post them over there, or maybe you could.
Inbetween putting up posters and canvassing
How did that appear on this post. it was meant for the one on the euro. Too many all nighters putting up posters!
Starry, all the Iceland stats are on http://www.statice.is/pages/916
Takes a little digging to get all the figures but the basics is that all the bad indices are going down and the good ones up.
Unlike Ireland
It is interesting. Bertie revelled in the "Drumcondra Mafia" vibe, with him being the Boss.
But the real interesting thing is that the real Mafia, i.e. the Cosa Nostra are in fact a parallel state despensing justice and living by their own rules without regard to the law of the land. They are subversive criminals.
And the Drumcondra Mafia were/are the same.
Funny isn't it, especially considering that one of the big criticisms of Sinn Fein was that they didn't regognise the organs of justice in the state etc.
And the SF candidate for Ireland South in the European elections is, eh, who?
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