Eoin O’Malley, 25 August, 2010 Fionnan Sheehan this morning on RTÉ repeated a complaint he made in yesterday’s Irish Independent about the inability of Brian Cowen to sack the Senators that were nominated by a Taoiseach (in this case by his predecessor). He thinks that ‘the notion of the Taoiseach of the day being able…
By Gary Murphy 23 August, MMX It may be the silly season but the front page article in the Irish Daily Mail on Sunday suggested that a number of disaffected Fine Gael politicians were secretly discussing a type of merger with Fianna Fail after the next election as they do not want to go into…
1.8 million Australian voters used the ‘early voting’ facility provided by the Australian electoral commission in the three weeks before today’s election to cast their votes, a record number. The Australians also have facilities for voting if a citizen happens to be outside of the electoral district in which they are registered on the day of the election.…
Sarah Carey’s article in today’s Irish Times is the latest contribution in the debate on whether we should consider adopting party-level gender quotas for the nomination of candidates. This article appears to me to be a particularly striking example of the combative rhetorical strategies that both sides of the debate have employed. Several opinion pieces on this topic have followed the…
David Farrell (August 11, 2010) On Saturday Sept 18, UCC are hosting a one-day conference on women’s participation in politics. The draft programme can be downloaded here. Conference Programme-6
Claire McGing and Adrian Kavanagh (August 5, 2010) A report on trends as to female candidate selection levels for the upcoming 2014 Local Elections can be viewed here. In light of ongoing discussion in relation to number of female TDs, this piece – a section from an article we wrote on last year’s local elections…
David Farrell (August 4, 2010) In today’s Irish Times Mary Minihan reports on a survey of the existing women TDs about their views on gender quotas and the consensus is distinctly against any such move for Ireland. This is on the back of the recent report of the Joint Committee of the Constitution’s call for…
TASC, a left-leaning think tank, have published two discussion papers by Dr. Nat O’Connor which are of particular relevance to political reform. The Role of Access to Information in Ireland’s Democracy and An Economic Argument for Stronger Freedom of Information Laws in Ireland. The papers are part of a project on Public Information, which will restate…
Irish Politics Forum 