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Daily Archives: July 21, 2010

Lucinda Creighton and Reform

Elsewhere on this site the full text of Lucinda Creighton’s speech to Magill is produced. However, there are no comment faculties there and given the importance of some of what she said I thought I would link it here for comments. She is obviously disillusioned but makes some interesting points. In particular she points to…

July 21, 2010 in Dail Reform, Government reform, New party politics, Political culture, Strategic Policy Planning.

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