Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Haughey was corrupt
Meanwhile, Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern, who delivered the most robust defence yet of the Taoiseach yet during a visit to Belfast on Wednesday, insisted yesterday that “Charles Haughey was a great politician”. Asked if Mr Haughey had not been shown to be corrupt, Mr Ahern, following a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary of…
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Ahern on Leader's Allowance, September 10 1999
The tribunal will be required to ascertain whether there were substantial payments, who the donors were, how much was involved, when they were made, whether any of the controversial decisions were made at that time involving that donor and whether, as a consequence, the tribunal believes that either Mr. Haughey or Deputy Lowry did any…
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Where wind turbines go to die…
El Reg story.
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Response to the Second Interim Report
Since the line being given by Fianna Fail is that we should await the report of the Tribunal, let us cast our minds back to 2002, and the publication of the Tribunal’s Second Interim Report. The report dealt with the first five years of its investigations, from 1997 to 2002. During that time it investigated…
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Ahern finances
PrimeTime with a good summary of the latest on Ahern:
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When Mahon goes to town…
Judge Mahon is absolutely correct. He has put it up to Ahern to put up or shut up. And the crowds cheered. It is time to resign Mr Ahern.
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Undersea cables
A feature on the recent cable cuts in the Middle East penned by me is in today’s Examiner. Go read it, if you get the chance. There’s also a nice map of undersea cables to go with the story. I really should write more.
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Ahern at the tribunal
More stories spun. I don’t have time to look into his evidence in detail, but I will. Things to note: 1. He didn’t pay taxes that he should have – tax evasion? 2. As P O’Neill notes, why did he get cheques from family and cash from friends? 3. St Luke’s rears its ugly head…
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Defamation
If I were to reconsider my decision to pull a post relating Monica Leech, would there be legal repurcussions following the decision of the court? Maybe Eoin can enlighten me.
Got any book recommendations?