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Ministers must adjust too

Thursday November 12 2009

EAMON O CUIV is the latest minister to defend lavish spending on limousines and chauffeurs while on foreign trips. The singular duties of a Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs brought him to Delhi and New York, and he acknowledges that some of the car hire along the way was very expensive and he promises that it will not happen again.

End designer outrage

Thursday November 12 2009

HOW else would you describe a decision not to pay a Christmas bonus to social welfare recipients other than 'heartless', as the Labour Party chooses to. Heartless perhaps, but it is primarily a moneyless decision.

O Cuiv defends his €20,000 on chauffeurs in two years

Thursday November 12 2009

A GOVERNMENT minister spent €20,000 on chauffeur services while on foreign trips over the past two years.

DIVIDED: Eamon O'Cuiv, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

Funding in crisis

Tuesday November 10 2009

One of the success stories of EU funding has been the LEADER programme. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the programme, in three different incarnations, has made a huge difference to rural communities and the rural economy.

At long last Cowen joins Lenihan in real world

Sunday November 08 2009

AS the days are ticked off from now until the Budget on December 9, the warnings of impending doom grow more shrill and the language more apocalyptic. It is tempting to dismiss it as hyperbole, to close the ears and hope against hope that this is the normal war of attrition that takes place before a difficult budget, but these really are defining moments.

US soldier earns stripes at Sean-nos song contest

Monday November 02 2009

A SERVING US soldier from Brooklyn, New York, who learned Donegal Irish from the internet, progressed to the finals at a weekend Sean-nos singing competition.

State pays €1.8m to translate reports into Irish

Tuesday October 27 2009

THE translation of rarely-read reports into Irish by State agencies and councils cost the taxpayer nearly €1.8m last year, an investigation by the Irish Independent reveals.

Cranks . . . Outrage . . . Equality . . . Demoralised

Friday October 16 2009

  • I think Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon O Cuiv should be ashamed at the waste of public money in the pointless translation of state documents into Irish.