Upcoming Events

Sligo | Politics / Elections

no events match your query!

New Events

Sligo

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Jul 08, 2025 01:13 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Watch: Moment Two Brothers ?Assaulted Police Officers Trying to Arrest Them at Manchester Airport? Mon Jul 07, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The moment when two brothers allegedly assaulted police officers at?Manchester Airport?last summer ? leading to a viral edited video of a police officer kicking one in the face ? was shown to a jury today.
The post Watch: Moment Two Brothers “Assaulted Police Officers Trying to Arrest Them at Manchester Airport” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour is Acting Like Communist China, Says Lloyds Bank Chief Mon Jul 07, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
The Chief Executive of Lloyds Bank has compared Labour's pension plans to policies used by communist China, saying new powers to force pension funds to invest in Britain are like the capital controls used by Beijing.
The post Labour is Acting Like Communist China, Says Lloyds Bank Chief appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Brighton Council Leader Reports the Spectator to the Police Mon Jul 07, 2025 15:40 | Will Jones
The leader of Brighton Council appears to have too much time on her hands, as she has reported Spectator Editor Michael Gove and columnist Rod Liddle to the police after Liddle joked about nuking Brighton.
The post Brighton Council Leader Reports the Spectator to the Police appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Panic Over Labour Wealth Tax to Fill ?30 Billion Black Hole as Millionaires Flee UK Mon Jul 07, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
Alarm has set in as Labour grandees and union paymasters push Reeves to bring in a wealth tax to raise spending and plug a yawning ?30bn black hole in Government finances, despite millionaires already fleeing the country.
The post Panic Over Labour Wealth Tax to Fill ?30 Billion Black Hole as Millionaires Flee UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Former Cllr. criticises political direction of Labour Party

category sligo | politics / elections | other press author Monday April 23, 2007 15:38author by kat - lp Report this post to the editors

The newly selected Green Party election candidate in Sligo-North Leitrim Brian Scanlon has accused the Labour Party of not being representative of the working class and the underprivileged anymore.

Mr Scanlon was a former member of the Labour Party, and served on Sligo County Council as a Labour councillor from 1999 to 2004.

He resigned from the Labour Party at the end of last year.

He says while he found it hard to do so, he became disillusioned with the political direction Labour were heading in.

Mr Scanlon says when he lost his seat on Sligo County Council three years ago, he always intended to return to politics.

He says the Green Party's policies are ones he can associate with

Related Link: http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/sligoleitrimnews.php?articleid=000001338
author by blue peterpublication date Mon Apr 30, 2007 21:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Why vote for the new right wing Labour party when you can vote for the real thing the Blueshirts,or better still vote for the Greens.

author by P. K Lynchpublication date Mon Apr 30, 2007 21:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

When are we going to hear the end of this clap-trap from the Scanlon/Bree camp? Brian Scanlon can attack labour all he wants it still won't get him elected or give hime the numbers for him to claim he damaged McGarry

This is without doubt the most absurd attempt at a smear campaign from one so thoroughly discredited. Nobody will vote for Cake. Why the hell would they?

On top of this, Bree is still in danger of looking like a fool. McGarry doesn't need to get elected. He doesn't need to play a blinder or even come close. All he has to do is outpoll Brees last outing and Bree will made a laughing stock of. That is what is at the bottom of this crusade against McGarry. This is not about political Ideology or even Left vs Right within the Labour Party. It is purely about ego. Declan Brees.

author by Red back under the bedpublication date Thu May 03, 2007 21:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Cake is green
The Rat is red
Im your old friend
back under the bed

The election is nigh
The die will be cast
The blues are all ready
to raise the gael mast

The orange is neutered
The shinners are white
Bertie is purple
Afraid of the light

Henry is smiling
will she ever be
Just like her dad
A dodgy TD ( Tax Dodger..)

Devins is yellow
Scanlon is grey
Will he be back
selling mince for his pay

Comminsky and Perry
lemon and lime
Thinking of Oduffy
and the best of time

Colours are lovely
colours are great
Watch out for a rainbow
on May the 28th

author by P. Powers - Gravediggers AApublication date Thu May 03, 2007 21:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The cake is back,
He loves his Jack,
It wont be long,
Till he gets the sack.

author by Red back under the bedpublication date Thu May 03, 2007 21:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its true its true
He got the boot
But the rising greens
Dont give a hoot

 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy