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Fianna Gael? The grand coalition and a lesson from the history books

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…

August 23, 2010 in New party politics, Politics.

Voluntary registration of lobbying is worthless

By Gary Murphy Harry McGee the political correspondent of the Irish Times had a very interesting article in Saturday’s paper  Irish political lobbying: who’s who and how does it work In it he notes that despite the current government pledging in its revised programme for government to introduce a register for lobbyists, so far there…

March 30, 2010 in Corruption and Accountability, Lobbying.

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