The boundary commission have now closed for submissions and will move on to make their report. I made a submission relating to the Naas area. In my submission I have sought to frame the Naas area, in so far as possible, within the one Dáil constituency which is in keeping with the review terms of [...]
Recent works by Kildare County Council to provide parking around Sallins village have had some unintended and imho detrimental effects for traffic flows and traffic safety around the village.
In particular the provision of extra parking spaces between the Railway Inn (Neds) and Bamburys bookmakers and down as far as the church all along that street have caused [...]
I see Chris Andrews is seeking to preserve the Poolbeg towers, over in his own constituency of Dublin South East.
The towers have long served as sentinels to Dublin bay and have had a functional purpose as part of the ESB generation plant up till recently. Along with the old gas works at Ringsend, they comprise [...]
All of the above are statistically more likely to represent you than I am. You could also add Farmer, Teacher, Auctioneer, Publican, Company Director, Accountant and Solicitor to the list. Basically the odds on a PAYE worker, 9-5, commuting, wage earner, sitting on a council near you are quite slim.
What do the above occupations have [...]
OK take below with a reasonable degree of salt (atlantic cake dried marine variety of course) as I’ve yet to sit down and do any serious study of today’s form guide, but off the top of my head I’ll be looking at:
Exotic Dancer in the Gold Cup; whenever there’s so much hype about two [...]
No Cheltenham today, as storm stopped play, so I’ll turn attention instead to my other vice, online activism, which I’ve tried to knock on the head for Lent, along with the pints but with less success. Until that is, an abstinence was forcibly applied, since the anoraks’s favourite hangout, Politics.ie (or P.ie for short) went [...]
It’s that time of year again and, like most racing fans, my heart will be in mouth and maybe skip a beat when the roar goes up at 2pm today to mark the start of the festival… There is nothing in the world quite like national hunt racing, especially on opening day, scent of rain [...]
This is the last I’m going to say about the blog awards, they’re done and dusted for this year and it’s time to move on.
But I did stumble upon this pic which was worth posting up..
Antoin, Michael and James at the Blog Awards
The gentlemen to my left were Antoin (psychologist, philosopher and technology entrepeneur) and [...]
The constituency review is currently underway for local electoral boundaries as I spoke about previously. The committee is presently accepting submissions although this closes on Friday week (14th March).
I have been doing some background work on my own submission although have not got around to uploading it yet. I will do so in the next [...]
not me.. IrishElection.com stole the top polblog honours at the 2008 Irish Blog Awards. Well done it was in fine company.
Cedar Lounge revolution was my own personal polblog favourite for sheer academic quality content and of course the boys are all P.ie gene pool, not that we’d be nepotists or anything like that of course. [...]