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Letter to the Editor: Contribution of Tom Johnson
The Editor, Letters Page, The Examiner, Dear Editor, Gerard Howlin ( Opinion 3oth March) rightly praises the early leaders of this State for cementing our Parliamentary Institutions. Yet, once again in the narrative of our country’s history, the name of the one person who, more than many, ensured that the new Dail Eireann…
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Blocking Property Tax is not the Solution
It is extraordinary, indeed somewhat surreal, that once again we are having a debate on the introduction of a Property Tax/Council Charge in the absence of virtually any contribution from those who actually work within the local government sector and who try to make a dysfunctional system work at all. Instead we have had myriad…
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Annual Report 2012
Annual report to the Dublin South East Labour Party Election as Group Leader: During the year I was delighted to be elected the new Dublin City Council Labour Group Leader in a contested election. The immediate task of the Group is to secure agreement on the City Budget for 2013 in the context of massively…
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Socialist MEP – some cheek (Letter to the Editor)
The Editor, The Sunday Times. Dear Editor So “never been elected to anything” Paul Murphy MEP, is suddenly an authority on Labour voters (Sunday Times 3rd June) and the Labour Party. For the record, as a member of Dublin City Council since 1993, the voters of Ballsbridge have re-elected me in 1999, 2004 and 2009, along with…
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Annual Report to Labour Party Constituency Council
What a year! A new Government, an additional Labour TD in Dublin South East, a new Labour Councillor in South East Inner City, a new Government and a Labour nominated President. However, it was also a year in which the housing crisis continued to grow, our transport system remained inadequate and disjointed, bin collection services…
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Report to Labour Dublin South East Constituency Council
Below is the report I delivered to the Labour Party’s Dublin South East Constituency Council meeting this evening (16th May). Report to Dublin South East Constituency Council – May 16th. City Council: The main issue of concern to the Council is the same as the Country – Finance. However in the case of Local Government…
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Opinion Article – The Irish Times
Today’s (Monday’s) Irish Times carries an opinion piece I wrote on the need for local government reform in Dublin. You can read it below and on the Irish Times website. Ending the Department of the Environment’s stranglehold over local government is the key to effective reform, writes DERMOT LACEY FOR IRELAND’S sake, Dublin needs to…
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The Year in Review
Report on 2009 Activities to the Labour Party’s Dublin South East AGM – January 2010 2009 has been one of the most dynamic years in a long time. Labour in Dublin built on our previous successes with no small contribution from Dublin South East. In Pembroke –Rathmines winning three seats was quite simply unprecedented and…
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Rathgar Public Meeting
There was a well attended and well run Public meeting held last night ( 21st April) hosted by the Rathgar Residents Association. The formal was simple all those on the Panel had two minutes to introduce ourselves and there then followed a Question and Answer session. All three Labour Councillors attended as did most of…
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Eamon Gilmore Video
The famous Eamon Gilmore video, which was shown at the Labour Party Conference on Saturday, and has received quite a bit of comment in various places, is now online. You can see it here.
