Choose: The wolf or the mouse
The choice was straightforward. Give the mouse Enda a fright with a mild boo or slash a leg off the wolf of arrogance, incompetence and corruption. The people chose to boo at the mouse, he’ll be over...
View ArticleFor so long as we keep talking we do not have to face the reality of what we...
When scandal, corruption, arrogance and incompetence raise their ugly heads in Ireland, as they frequently do, they are dealt with by talk. The entire nation engages in endless discussion until the...
View ArticlePromoting O'Rourke's rag in the Senate
Mary O’Rourke’s memoir Just Mary was published on Friday 19 October 2012. Seanad Eireann closes on a Friday and doesn’t reopen until the following Tuesday. So it wasn’t until Tuesday 23 October that...
View ArticleThe Senate: What needs to be done
Excellent letter in today’s Irish Times. Reforming the Seanad A chara, Diarmaid Ferriter’s article, “Referendum defeat does not have to spell trouble” (Opinion, October 12th) needs to be challenged....
View ArticleUpdate on Senator Landy's bribery allegations
I received a letter on 11 October last from the Committee on Members Interests Seanad Eireann advising me that the Committee had received my complaint against Senator Landy under the Ethics in Public...
View ArticleThe Senate: We had our chance
Letter in today’s Irish Examiner We had our chance to get rid of Seanad Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his coalition government will, by now, have recovered from the effects of the ‘wallop’ that they...
View ArticleSenate: Back to (ab)normal
Letter in today’s Irish Times. Reforming the Seanad Sir, Thomas O’Connor assures us that “the people will appease their appetite for change at next year’s local and European elections” (January 7th). I...
View ArticleSenator Landy snubs Seanad inquiry
I was delighted that the Sunday Times reported on my continuing efforts to bring Labour senator Denis Landy to account over his refusal to act on bribery allegations he made in July of last year....
View ArticleLabour senator Denis Landy is a traitor and a political coward
Labour senator Denis Landy is a traitor and a political coward. In July 2013 he announced to the country that he had, effectively, been offered a bribe by a political person within the confines of the...
View ArticleLabour Senator Denis Landy: Not fit to be a public representative
Labour Senator Denis Landy is not a fit person to be a public representative. Not only is he a political coward but he has no respect whatsoever for the democratic institutions of our country. It was...
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