E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped

E-Voting Machines To Be Scrapped

Is there anything that shows up the stupidity of the Ahern years better than the e-voting debacle? Back in 2002, they paid €50 million for 7,000 e-voting machines, which works [...]

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Buying From A Shop -- Your Rights

Buying From A Shop — Your Rights

A few useful facts about your legal protection as a consumer

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Limerick City Council Prays to Marks & Spencer

It doesn't matter, apparently, how many talented, creative, committed citizens come together to produce ideas for the rejuvenation of the planning-blighted Patrick Street area of Limerick.  The City Council has [...]

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Mind-Games With The Traffic Wardens

Is any profession more detested than the traffic warden?  Well, yes.  There's the, eh … The, eh … Give me a minute.  It will come to me. There's the, eh [...]

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Banning Smoking In Cars. The Nanny State?

Banning Smoking In Cars. The Nanny State?

The British Medical Association has called for a ban on smoking in cars, and a private member's bill to this effect will be debated in parliament a couple of days [...]

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Capital Spending Cuts

Capital Spending Cuts

So now we know what capital projects the government is cutting.  Metro North, Grangegorman DIT campus and Thornton Hall prison.  The National Children’s Hospital will be built with lottery money which [...]

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Defining the Public Service and the Constitutional Amendment on Judges' Pay

The proposed amendment on judges' pay is written in tortured language and will baffle most reasonably intelligent people. Section 3 is the worst: Where, before or after the enactment of [...]

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Much Wants More -- Bertie and the Millionaire Tribunal Lwyers

Much Wants More — Bertie and the Millionaire Tribunal Lwyers

In the same week that a man in Kerry wrote to the media revealing that his children are hungry because all his money goes on the mortgage, we have the [...]

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Smoking Ban In Private Cars

Smoking Ban In Private Cars

A new law to break

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