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Democratic 2020 Congressional candidate in #CA25 and all-round humble pie merchant Cenk Uygur is reluctantly making headlines today. He and other social media Democrat politicians are seeking to block legislation being brought by House Republicans ahead of the congressional 2020 elections in November. The Bill entitled – Egomaniac crimes against the use of the word…
State Papers 1989 The 1989 General election and Mayo football features prominently in the release today of the State Papers from the same year. Taoiseach, Fianna Fail Leader and Castlebar native Charles Haughey called a snap general election in June 1989. In Mayo, a FF campaign promising to deliver Sam Maguire, within the life-time of…
President Donald Trump recently announced the 37,684th record high of the US Stock market to take place during his presidency. In retaliation, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has promised to replace Wall Street with a nice, appropriate sized windmill. The Wall street windmill is expected to generate at least $4.87 a month in revenue. Democrats point…
The Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has plunged his minority government into crisis over the festive holidays. A Fianna Fail motion banning the public display of 6 packs during the the upcoming election campaign has been met by stiff resistance by the Fine Gael Leader and Taoiseach – Leo Varadkar. Varadkar launched his party’s general election campaign…
Ghost of Christmas Present: If he’s like to die, he better do it and decrease the surplus population. Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol It’s quiet on the corner of Luke and Poolbeg street on the weekday nights. That’s the main reason I like it. Not much competition or trouble. Another plus. It’s the best place to…
I spent the summer of 1990 in New York. Nassau County on Long Island to be exact. I was 16 years old and it was a mixture of vacationing and part-time work. 10 years previously my parents had made the decision to leave Long Island and return home to Ireland. So this trip in 1990…
So I have been conducting an experiment the last number of weeks while pop-corning on the impeachment inquiry of everyone’s favorite President. At the moment my Netflix addiction has been replaced with impeachment fever. As part of my deep-dive into this political minefield , I decided to infiltrate a twitter hashtag. #TRUMP2020 For the technologically…
On the eve of the Impeachment vote, US President Donald Trump has penned a letter addressed to and directly attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The 6 page letter is a stinging rebuke of the Impeachment Inquiry and a robust defence of his actions. The House of Representatives and Senate are both copied on the Letter….
There was a concise anecdote, amongst Arts students in U.C.G., back in the 1990’s about student union politics. It went something like this: 1st years: Don’t know who runs the campus. 2nd years: Think they run the campus. 3rd years: Don’t give a fuck who runs the campus. I am frequently reminded of this and…
Ironically, the first time I heard the name Steve Bannon was in April 2017 watching a Saturday Night Live sketch of President Donald Trump on Youtube. As many of you know SNL is not a hot-bed of right wing conservatism or a particular fan of the 45th President of the United States. What drew my…
In an election with one central issue it is perhaps fitting that the scale of the Conservatives victory lay in one pivotal decision. In an election like no other, the winning chess move was made not by Boris Johnson but by Nigel Farage. It’s a huge win for the Conservatives but so too a subtle…
Speaking plainly – Joe Biden is fucked. I am not sure why he doesn’t seem to realise it. Harsh language and I do apologize but true nonetheless. It is pretty simple. The video of him openly bragging about severely pressurizing the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor, means he can never, ever beat Trump in…
When the dust settles in the Salem Witch trials that are ongoing in the United States at the moment, the future of the 45th President of the United States will be determined for good or for ill. Game of Thrones eat your heart out. I will wager a bet, that if history records the contributions…
John the Baptist was a great man back in the day. A unique figure across Christianity, Islam and eh…. Mandaeism. Whatever that is. Not bad for a wandering Jewish preacher. Most scholars agree John baptized Jesus. Today though, we are here to talk about 2014 and the time Jesus baptized the Baptist. That’s the problem…
There’s a great phrase in the media at the moment – ‘opportunity cost’ Mostly, as it relates to the impeachment process of President Donald Trump. It’s a term used by Republicans pointing to the log-jam of legislation awaiting safe passage in the US House of Representatives. The USMCA trade deal, finalizing a Budget and legislation…