The Year That Was..2010
Dec 27, 2010 Comments Off GavinDuffyIndependent Group Local Newspapers 29/1/2011 This week I am going to look back on 2010. I am so conscious of what an awful year it was for thousands - many losing their job, others losing sleep about their mortgage and their mounting debts and, this Christmas, so many looking at the prospect of losing members of ...
Continue ReadingIvor’s expenses
Aug 9, 2010 Comments Off GavinDuffyThere has been a lot said and written about the now disgraced Fianna Fail Senator Ivor Callely. He has protested he is the victim of a media witch hunt. It is true he has been the focus of journalists’ attempts to expose the corrupt culture of easy expenses paid as a type of top up to ...
Continue ReadingRural Ireland Awake, Fáilte to her Majesty & I’m a Bainisteoir
Jun 28, 2010 Comments Off GavinDuffyThis week we have seen evidence of the great urban - rural divide in our country as the Green Party, lead by John Gormley, tried to force through their bill to ban stag hunting. I was brought up on a farm. Sometimes that involved helping my Dad to sheer horns off cattle and to cut lambs ...
Continue Reading