Category: Politics


  • This morning it was announced by the Minister for Transportation that there would be a move to partly privatise the driving test. In an attempt to decrease the backlog of […]

  • Just listening to the news and having read an earlier report today about the EU action against Ireland with respect to our appalling waste management. I applaud the EU for […]

  • Scenario: man is victim of Garda corruption, man is punished for a crime he did not commit and man’s life is made miserable because of corruption. Man cannot afford huge […]

  • After much talk in recent days about the deportation of 19-year-old Nigerian student, Olunkunle Eluhanla, while still in his school uniform, it seems as though some sense has emerged. Minister […]

  • Interesting article in the Times as to why Waterford needs a University. Now I have to say that anything in favour of my beloved city getting acknowledgment is a good […]

  • In recent days there has been much controversy over the increase in tolls on the West Link Toll Bridge in Dublin. To be fair to the general public this increase […]

  • The government paved the way yesterday (well, actually, paved sounds like work was done, really they just abolished a rule) for large superstores like Ikea that previously could not enter […]

  • Great news from the ESRI (for once). It looks as though the current growth in jobs is set to increase into 2005. Opportunity presents! source: Irish Times In other news […]

  • Bertie has said that the potential fiasco surrounding Minister Cullen and Monica Leech will have options looked at. Well, I know I’ll sleep sounder now knowing that options are being […]

  • No it’s not the cost of moving house but rather the cost of moving job location or to be more accurate the cost of moving your employees. This debate of […]