Fixing Smithfield with UnCommercial Enterprise
Smithfield: Buildings, but no people, originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Smithfield is a failed space. The property developer is in trouble.
Scenes from the Labour Party Conference
Going to a Labour party conference, as opposed to just hearing about one through the press or the web, is a strange experience. You arrive and find yourself in a bustle of bodies, huddled in quiet clusters or laughing and relaxed in the bar. There's a touch of a big country wedding, with the same mix of ages and people catching up who haven't met in person all year.
Labour Party Conference 09
I'll be here all day Saturday. You can see the rolling Liveblog below, but if you'd like me to ask anything specific or anything else about the whole show in Mullingar just leave a comment.
RTE’s Cowen Apology: My Complaint & Their Response
Sir or Madam,I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about your craven apology to the Taoiseach for a report which was entirely accurate and newsworthy. While there are countries that have laws governing disrespect to the state and its offices, these are not countries in which any Irish person would like to live, and their laws are not mirrored here.
More “Findings” From Peninsula
Some time ago I posted about a survey by an outfit called Peninsula Ireland. The alleged findings of the survey were so absurd that they could be seen to be untrue after a split second's reflection. Two broadhseet newspapers either failed to invest this split second, or else, having done so, were happy to print commercially-motivated untruths as fact.
The Great House Insurance Mystery
Where is the Society of Chartered Surveyors 2009 report setting the rebuild costs on which insurance companies base their premiums? Apparently they don't even have an estimated date for delivery. Instead, we're all paying our insurance companies based on values in the May 2008 report.
“Playing” Politics
Politics is an unusual game. Not unlike the “blame game”, it is played by pretending that your opponent is playing it but you’re not. When caught red-handed in an act of mendacity, accuse anyone who has the temerity to call you on it of playing the Blame Game.
Pre-Review of Cowen Ard Fheis Address
(Written 3:30pm Friday 27th February, autopublished 8:30pm 28th February)Not long ago I wrote about the stubborn resistence of pesky reality to conform with the conventional wisdom of a political media class that only knows how to tell the old stories. Coming off the back of another disasterous poll, it is safe to say that Brian Cowen faces a tough first Ard Fheis as Fianna Fáil leader.
Fianna Fail Ard Fheis Liveblog
This liveblog can also be seen in glorious Technicolour here. The contributors are a mix of Fianna Fail members and activists and non-Fianna Fail Bloggers.
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