Another Useless Minister January 11, 2010
Posted by Keith in General, Uncategorized.Tags: Ciaran Cuffe TD, cutbacks, Dun Laoghaire, Fianna Fail, Government, Green Party, holiday, Last Word Show, Matt Cooper, Minister Dempsey, Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey, Today FM
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Tonight on Today FM, the Last Word Show with Matt Cooper, Noel Dempsey told us to turn off our taps and not to let them drip – he is Minister for Transport not the Environment Department. Then Ciaran Cuffe TD for the Dún Laoghaire area, from the Green Party comes on and says to use common sense and let it drip for a few seconds if you need to. Is it the Greens and Fianna Fail that are in Government or have I missed something.
Also Minister Dempsey says his family are more important than the weather in this country and nothing was going to ruin his holiday – there is some kind of moral there somewhere – A Ministers family and his holiday are more important than the country but yet his Government have ruined many a families life with cutbacks left, right and centre. They have their priority’s right, look after themselves.
Credit Due to the Gritting Team in Co. Meath January 9, 2010
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I have to say that credit is due to the three gentlemen that I saw this morning in my little village in Co. Meath. They were gritting the footpath and it has made such a difference to the local people going to the local shop for supplies as the footpath over the last couple of days has been very slippery.
So I would like to thank Meath County Council and or Trim Town Council for not forgetting our little village, Thank You.
Claire Tully’s column is dropped by the Irish Sun December 18, 2009
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Claire Tully, the Irish page three model has had her weekly column with the Irish Sun dropped. The reason, well it’s a recession and the Irish Sun allegedly says it’s because of budget cutbacks. The outrage amongst the male readers of the Irish Sun has reached fever pitch with a group started on Facebbok.com to get the Irish Sun to change their mind to the email system at the Irish Sun being inundated with requests to get them to change their mind.
In case you don’t know who Clare Tully is well here are a few facts about our Irish girl. In 2003, she got 600 points in her leaving cert. She then went to study Biochemistry and Immunology in Trinity College, where she graduated with a first class honours degree in 2007. The following year she became the first Irish page three model to pose topless for the Irish Sun Newspaper.
Claire’s column in the Irish Sun was a light hearted view with everything from President Obama to violence against women to football, one of her favourite’s passions. Many readers bought the Irish Sun for Claire’s column in the Irish Sun and she will be missed very much by all her fans. Although the Irish Sun’s loss, it may be someone else’s gain as we are sure that another Irish newspaper will want to snap up our Claire and bring her loyal legion of fans with her. If you disagree with the Irish Sun dropping Claire’s column vote with your pocket and buy another newspaper.
This is the response we got from the Irish Sun today by email after we asked why Claire’s column was gone.
Dear Keith,
Blank Blank sent me your email. Thanks for taking the time to write to us and I really appreciate your loyalty to the Irish Sun and that you care enough to write in.
Claire Tully is still very much part of our team. We use her on p3 and she is heavily involved in promotional work and other photo shoot jobs. We pay close attention to feedback on all our columns and it showed hers was not what the majority of our readers wanted. However she does have a loyal army of fans – and she will keep on contributing. I can assure you Claire will continue in the Irish Sun – just not in a column.
We do have 11 Irish columnists already as it stands. These are: Ben Dunne, Xpose, Dustin the Turkey, David O’Leary, Joe Kinnear, Tony Cascarino, Mick O’Dwyer, Graham Geraghty, Babs Keating, Sinead Desmond, Dermot Keely,
It has been our aim to give our readers a much more local paper. And the sales and reader interaction with the Ben Dunne column has proved a great success. We aim to let our readers know this great new package we have over the coming months with a big TV, radio and billboard campaign.
I hope you continue to buy the Irish Sun and I thank you for caring about what we produce every day.
Paul Clarkson
Deputy Editor
Irish Sun
If you would like to help the campaign to bring back Claire Tully’s column in the Irish Sun, leave a comment below or visit the Groups section on www.facebook.com and search for ‘Bring Claire Tully’s column back to the Sun Newspaper’
Will Paul Gogarty list the use of bad language on his profile December 12, 2009
Posted by Keith in General, Uncategorized.Tags: Budget, Budget 2010, Child Benefit, Emmet Stagg, FAS, Fianna Fail, Government, Green Party, John Gormley, Leinster House, Lisbon Treaty, Ministers, Paul Gogarty, Paul Gogarty TD
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On Friday 11th December 2009, Paul Gogarty TD, launched a foul mouthed rant at Deputy Emmet Stagg. Maybe he was feeling the pressure of Budget 2010 of which his party, the Green Party are a part of. Unfortunately he may have been better placed facing his leader and telling John Gormley to F**k off, for running this country as far as possible into the ground. But since the Budget was announced, I have not heard of any Green Party member on any media feed saying anything about the Budget. Is this because they are fearful of a backlash against them or do they think that if they say nothing, people will just think it was all the idea of Fianna Fail ?
People who are blind, did not ask to be blind but yet the money they lose is only the cost of a glass of whiskey in the K Club bar. But if we blindfolded some of our Government Ministers, they would surely reverse this decision.
The money a Carer will lose is the price of a cigar to a property developer. But yet they do it for the love of a family member and it is a thankless job and the Government have really let you know how they feel about you. To me, I think you do a fantastic job and I say THANK YOU for being such a caring person.
The money a mother will lose on her Child Benefit is the cost of a lunch in the Leinster House bar.
But to that mother it is the cost of two loaves of bread and two containers of milk or maybe some money off her ESB bill that she has run into arrears with. Or money for school books or uniform or it maybe just a treat for kids because the downturn is not of her kids making.
“ITS NOT MY MAKING, THIS DOWNTURN”
Well this is what we hear from people all the time, trying to justify their uncalculated and afterthought policies that only effect the voiceless.
We let the boss of FAS to resign with a massive pay packet and an Audi car because he would have been entitled to it, had he taken them to court. Run along a few months to last week and the incoming boss of FAS will also be getting a new car and guess what type it is ? you got it, an Audi car. Now what was wrong with the old car, could it not have been kept as it was a FAS car after all.
Better still, why not just let him go and if he dared take FAS to Court, fight him all the way and take the chance.
But they are spineless creatures.
We all voted for the Lisbon Treaty, for or against does not matter but we voted. But yet the Government are not happy with the way the monkeys voted and they bring it back again to us to vote.
At the last local elections, a Fianna Fail councillor called to my day the night before the election. I told him he had some neck calling to my door with what has been going on. He replied that I had it good for ten years and what was wrong with me. I bid him farewell and told him that I hoped he and his colleagues lost their seats. He did lose his seat but soon after the Town Council he sat on gave him a nice juicy reward for doing so. This is wrong, the People spoke by not voting for him and yet he is rewarded by the local authority for losing his seat. Money that could be better spent on local issues not on rewarding the loser.
Some information on Paul Gogarty, if you have never heard of him before his outburst.
Profile of Paul Gogarty TD
First elected to Dáil Eireann in May 2002 and returned in May 2007. Paul Gogarty TD represents the constituency of Dublin Mid West
Paul first joined the Green Party in 1989 and since then he has been active on many issues locally including the promotion of school places, community facilities and public transport. He was elected to South Dublin County Council in 1999 (topping the poll in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Quarryvale area). During his time on the Council he fought tirelessly on behalf of local communities still suffering from the consequences of bad planning decisions made by other political parties.
Paul Gogarty TD represents the constituency of Dublin Mid West which includes the large population areas of Clondalkin and Lucan as well as towns and villages such as Brittas, Newcastle, Palmerstown, Rathcoole and Saggart. Paul is the Green Party’s Spokesperson on Education and Science; Sport; Dublin. He is Chair of the Education and Science Committee in the Oireachtas.
Paul Gogarty TD was instrumental in protecting some of the lands along the Liffey Valley from speculators and pushed far harder than other public representatives to ensure that the new town of Adamstown will be developed in a sustainable manner, with sufficient infrastructure and facilities provided in tandem with housing.
In line with the Green Party’s policy on double jobbing, he resigned his Council seat in 2002, co-opting Cllr Fintan McCarthy, who was subsequently elected in his own right in the 2004 local elections. He still continues to work on local issues throughout the constituency, liaising with Green Party local representatives and Council officials. His constituency office has built up a reputation for an effective and discreet response to issues of concern.
As a TD, Paul has supported community groups throughout the constituency on a range of local issues, including CE cutbacks, planning applications and the healthcare system. His motto is “Not Just at Election Time” and he regularly distributes newsletters in built up areas outlining his work on behalf of the community. Recent campaigns include protecting the Liffey Valley at St. Edmundsbury from housing development, seeking funding for urgent school roof refurbishments in North Clondalkin, the M50 widening scheme in Palmerstown, a school places campaign in Lucan and the retention of respiratory treatment facilities at Peamount Hospital, Newcastle. He has supported the work of groups such as Rally Round the Tower in Clondalkin, the combined Action Group in Palmerstown, LTQL and FIG in Lucan and the combined residents in Newcastle, Saggart and Rathcoole.
Thanks to Paul Gogarty’s website for text and photo and if you want to know more about Paul’s work log onto www.paulgogarty.com
