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Wicklow Stability Treaty LEA Breakdown

Tally was accurate to 0.4% Below is breakdown per Local Electoral Area plus East Carlow

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Wicklow Stability Treaty Tally 2012

The tally will start with the count at 9am, and is made possible due to representatives from all parties and civic groups working together and is usually extremely accurate. The boxes are normally opened in numeric order so there will be regional shifts during the tally. Live updates through Twitter, just click here to view. Current status of […]

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Towards 2016

During the course of the next number of months celebrations will commence marking the centenary of the 1912 signing of Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant. Despite the passage of one hundred years, both traditions on this Island will look back to this and other events over the next decade with different feelings about what these […]

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Labour Cllr Denies Connection Between Labour and Unions!

Cllr Barry Nevin was interviewed on East Coast Radio‘s Morning Show today. When my text “It shouldn’t be forgotten that Labours insistence on giving their public service union buddies pay rises via increments will cost twice as much as the household charge will raise” was put to Cllr Nevin he refused to answer. At the […]

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Wicklow Sinn Fein Cllrs must confirm they didn’t benefit from Dáil ink fiasco

Fianna Fáil PRO in Co Wicklow, Stephen Kearon has called on local Sinn Féin representatives in Co Wicklow to confirm that they were never in receipt of printing assistance or products which benefitted their own political work within Co Wicklow. Mr Kearon said, “Since this story first appeared in the Daily Mail, a number of […]

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If Carlsberg did weekends

What a weekend – a hugely successful Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis coupled with Ireland leaving Paris undefeated. The energy and enthusiasm at the Ard Fheis was palpable, not to mention the great feeling from being surrounded by thousands of real Republicans, without a single balaclava or cartridge in sight. (more…)

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O’Snodaigh​’s prints dont stack up – LITTERally

Media reports say the number of toner cartridges he took would be enough to print between 3 to 4 million pages If we take the lower figure of 3 million, divide by the pages per minute of a fast colour printer (20ppm) we get 150,000 minutes Divide this by 60 we get 2,500 hours Divide this […]

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Minister for Misery Attacks Working Families

Minister for Misery, Labour’s Brendan Howlin, certainly lived up to his party’s pledge to protect the Croke Park agreement, all at the expense (literally) of the 1.5m people who work in the private sector.  This is Labour’s way. Rather than stopping the €1.2b in increments paid to his public service union buddies, he attacked working […]

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Martin McGuinness 40 years too late

I note in Friday’s Irish Times Martin McGuinness predicated that attacks on his campaign would cease because they had not worked,  if only he had come to the same conclusion 40 years ago, the thousands of people murdered by his IRA’s campaign would be walking around alive today, such as three year old Jonathan Ball, […]

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McGuinness as President? No thanks

One of the first interviews Martin McGuinness gave as a candidate for the Irish Presidency was with RTE. In it he stated that he wanted to be judged on his last two decades in Irish life.  I can fully understand why he would only want a limited examination of his career. The contribution he made […]

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