Month: Jul 2025

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Mary Harney retired with a package worth more than €300,000 and is entitled to an annual pension of over €120,000. She receives an annual ministerial pension of over €70,000 and a TDs pension of €50,600. She also received a pension lump sum of €160,000, a termination lump sum of about €17,000 and monthly termination payments from the Oireachtas during her first 12 months of retirement worth another €66,900, Mary then married one of the heads of FAS who found it very difficult to explain where the €1 billion (yes billion) a year they were recieving in a time of nearly full employment went, Her Husband left FAS an opened up a training agency himself. I wonder who he gets the work off? It’s one big club baby, and you ain’t in it, (but we will allow you to pay for it).

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Ireland is brilliant at sport We are brilliant at music We are brilliant in industry But we are woeful at politics. Just as, professional sport-stars start in local clubs, musicians in local pubs and founders from local enterprise hubs…..so too should politicians… “All politics is local” the famous maxim But over the last two decades, we have systematically stripped our local councillors of real power and purpose. They are now nothing more than messengers of doom, managing fallout of awful Govt policy. Not allowed to make any meaningful decisions. Parties that claim to stand for democracy won’t even let councillors nominate freely. I believe in Irish exceptionalism. We need a new movement, not necessarily a new party, but a new mindset, that empowers local representatives to: 1. Make real decisions for their communities 2. Reject tokenism 3. Demand reforms that restore power to local govt 4. Speak up… even when it means going against their own party leadership. If we want better national politics, we must fix local politics.