Tag Archive: evoting

Apr
23

Inconceivable

John Gormley and his senior advisors [picture from Irish Times]

The Friday Irish Times front page, which went to press an hour or so ago, has a picture of environment minister John Gormley chatting with some national school children. Gormley’s other official duty today was to announce the scrapping of …

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Feb
13

Dead Weight

Bertie never believed in the merits of 'silly ould pencils'.

The voting machines just won’t go away. The useless machines are stored by local councils under contracts which commit them to pay millions for up to a quarter century. So far, the electronic paperweights have cost €54 million, and the …

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