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The key document released to Rossa McMahon following his FOI appeal to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation was An Smaoineamh Mór's proposal document for the Your Country Your Call competition. It is valuable because it exposes more than just this particular set of proposals. It reveals the relationship between Fianna Fáil's public, elected, face and its much larger invisible manifestation.
Some thoughts that drift through my mind as I sit on the bus on the way to town. LumpsReportedly, a recent opinion poll suggests that voters feel cheated by the government. They feel that the outgoing FF ministers didn't tell them the truth during the election.
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Mediocre to poor Ministers don't write their own speeches. They read the speeches written for them by their civil servants as amended by their political advisors. The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis is on this week.
Colm MacCárthaigh gives an overview of the timeline of events surrounding the evoting fiasco. Here's an interesting snippit. We come in just as the Oireachtas has formed a committee to look into concerns about evoting.
There will be an election within the year. People who claim knowledge of these things say it will most likely take place around next Easter. Lots of bloggers have been commenting on the political parties’ maneuverings as they try to position themselves.
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