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My poor son. He’s only 2 years and 4 months old but in another 60 years he will still be paying for Fianna Fáil’s failed policy of throwing cash at problems in the hopes that a solution may present itself. No doubt by now you are all fed up of hearing about NAMA, “going forward [...]

By now we all know the gritty details of how much NAMA is going to pay out for these so called ‘toxic’ debts. €54bn is an awful lot of money isn’t it? Yet we are told that it is essential for the survival of our economy. No doubt you have perhaps read much about it [...]

I missed out on getting the 9th seat on Youghal Town Council at the final count by 93 votes after the final count. But I’m not half as disappointed as you might think I should be! Given that I was only selected as a candidate just 5 weeks before the election meant that I would [...]

The last two months have been an absolute blur. All of April was spent preparing for my exams the last of which was on the 7th of May. From the 8th of May I was out pounding the pavement as much as possible. I’m now into my fourth and final week canvassing and althoughI’ve covered [...]

My election literature arrived yesterday as you can see on the left. Canvassing will begin this weekend although only at a relative snails pace as I have exams next week and the week after. From the 7th of May however I will have the best part of four weeks to start pounding the pavement which I plan [...]

This June we will be asked to vote to choose our representatives in our local councils and our representatives in the European Parliament. It is with great honour to announce that I will running as a candidate for Fine Gael for the Youghal Town council alongside two existing Fine Gael councillors, Barbara Murray and Michael [...]

It’s a topic that pops up every now and then in the news and seems to be a pet project of Energy Minister Eamonn Ryan’s. This electricity interconnector that we are told is vital for the country. So vital infact that there is a rather swish website extolling the virtues of it and how it [...]

Cork City Councillor Sean Martin who is a brother of Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Martin has been hauled over the coals for issuing political statements from .. wait for it.. A Department of Foreign Affairs e-mail address. Why has a Cork City councillor got a DoF e-mail address anyway? More here in the Indo.