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Election promises

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Election promises

What's a red line issue to you? For me, in this election, it was the 8th Amendment. I didn't give a preference to candidates who didn't support repeal. For others before the last election, I imagine marriage equality was one. If the 8th Amendment is repealed, I expect it to remain a red line issue for me. [...]

2018-12-01T09:54:46+00:00 March 7th, 2016|Categories: Opinion|Tags: campaign, Chuck Feeney, contracts, Dominic Hannigan, Election 2016, electoral strategy, equal rights, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Jerry Buttimer, John Lyons, Labour, Leo Varadkar, LGBT, Marriage Equality, voters|

Circus masks real issues

I love a good election campaign as much as the next journalist, but we are in danger of letting characters, spin and incomprehensible economic waffle cloud the real issues of this election. All the talk of the IMF leaves a lot of people cold, but the real repercussions of austerity are being felt and [...]

2011-02-03T13:52:34+00:00 February 3rd, 2011|Categories: Opinion|Tags: austerity, Ballymun, campaign, contest, Dublin, election, inequality, International Monetary Fund, Ireland, poverty|