Donnelly has panicked because he knows heās fucked in the election with his lack of work on the ground out in Wicklow. He needs a vehicle to get his national message out and canāt join an establishment party. In the long run he isnāt that close to Murphy and Shorthall politically imo and the type of voter who went for him last time wouldnāt have been a Murphy/Shorthall type so this wonāt last. Itās a gamble that they can avoid contention but the lack of leader goes to show what this is and could cause them to come unstuck in the election.
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Independents like Mick Wallace are doing powerful work in the DƔil though.
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Debatable but his street credit seems well & truly fucked throughout his constituency. Has he a realistic chance of retaining his seat?
Debatable? Have you been asleep for his work on the GardaĆ and NAMA? The man has been an absolute revelation.
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That was second hand info, all he did was air the news. Any legislation from Mick?
rolleyes smiley from the old site
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A right smelly looking unkept Political Colossus.
He does his own thing, heās not a conformist sheep like most of the other TDs.
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Agreed, he is just the sort to be sending to China, Dubai & America on trade missions.
Mick has just claimed some lad exited NAMA by handing ā¬15k in a bag to a NAMA exec
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Wallace and Boyd Barrett should be fucked out of the DƔil because of their clobber alone. You see better dress on casual Fridays.
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I donāt think he has panicked. He has a higher profile now than he ever did going into the last election. Even then, much of the profile he had was from his Vincent Browne appearances and the likes. It is odd when you see him lumped in with the left-leaning independents because he doesnāt appear to be left-leaning at all. In the short-term his economic policy seems broadly aligned with what Shortall and Murphy espouse but I wonder how long it would stay like that.
Fantastic story if true
Yes, Fine Gael.
Progress - me bollox
Equality - 1 female in 9 ministers
Democracy - vastly more guillotined legislation than any government before
Sustainability - mooted tax breaks coming up to an election despite a vastly underfunded public service
fastest growing economy in the developed world under Kaiser Noonan. Weād be like North Korea under the Sinners
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But we would be happy. 
I see auld Mick is fucking the cat amongst the Pigeons again today in the Dail. No wonder the government hate him. Its great to see. If this 15k in a bag to a NAMA exec is true its going to bring the house down. 
A cod of a statistic given start level and where the growth is coming from.
Weāre back
Irish Exchequer Returns: Tax receipts to end June show cumulative tax receipts were up ā¬805m or 4.1% on target thanks to an excess of ā¬606m in Corporation Tax revenues which are up 28.1% on the target. Total net voted expenditure to end June was ā¬304m or 1.5% below target.
The Exchequer statement for the first half of 2015 was published Thursday by the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It shows that the Exchequer deficit at end of the second quarter 2015 stood at ā¬292m. Excluding all of the substantial one-off transactions the underlying Exchequer position is showing a year-on-year improvement of c. ā¬2.7bn due to increased tax and non-tax revenue and reduced expenditure.
Income tax receipts of ā¬8.31bn were collected to end-June 2015, a year-on-year increase of ā¬478m or 6.1%, and was slightly above target (ā¬54m or 0.7%). For the month of June, income tax receipts amounted to ā¬1.27bn, which were exactly on target.
The first six months of the year saw VAT receipts of ā¬6.00bn collected which represents an increase of ā¬441m or 7.9%, when compared to the corresponding period last year and is marginally above target (ā¬36m or 0.6%). VAT receipts for June, were ā¬54m (15.6%) below target, but as June is a non-due month, these monthly figures are of limited use on their own.