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		<title>An open letter to Richard Bruton and Enda Kenny</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/an-open-letter-to-richard-bruton-and-enda-kenny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cowen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Enda Kenny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentlemen,
It is with a heavy heart that I accuse you of making a mockery of mockery.
You have broken the hearts of a generation of humourists. Cartoonists are sticking pencils in their eyes, sketch writers are taking hammers to their hands. Gentlemen, these are people with families.
If satirists believed in lawyers they would be suing you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate honour as Gormley may leave Cabinet to become a plant</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/ultimate-honour-for-gormley-as-he-leaves-cabinet-to-become-a-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment Minister John Gormley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rotating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach Brian Cowen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has learned that Environment Minister John Gormley is considering stepping down from his Cabinet position in order to become a plant in the Organic Centre in Leitrim.
&#8220;This is a great honour for Mr Gormley,&#8221; a Green source said. &#8220;In our world it doesn&#8217;t get any better than being a plant.&#8221;
It is understood that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TDs accuse Ryan of trying to bring politics into repute</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/tds-accuse-ryan-of-trying-to-bring-politics-into-repute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/tds-accuse-ryan-of-trying-to-bring-politics-into-repute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[struggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TDs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has been accused of trying to bring politics into repute by saying the Government would help homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages.
A spokesman for the Department of Finance was quick to pour scorn on the suggestion saying that the Cabinet had not considered the idea.
Fine Gael, Labour Fianna Fail and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank crisis inquiry to proceed with &#8216;mental reservation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/bank-crisis-inquiry-to-proceed-with-mental-reservation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/bank-crisis-inquiry-to-proceed-with-mental-reservation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bank crisis inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fianna Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inquiry into bank crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental reservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[negotiators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire understands that Fianna Fail and Green Party negotiators have reached a compromise that will allow some elements of the inquiry into the banking crisis to be heard in public.
The impasse was broken early this morning when it was apparently agreed that witnesses giving evidence in public would be encouraged to use the &#8220;mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minister for Health position may be discontinued if Harney resigns</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/minister-for-health-position-may-be-discontinued-if-harney-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/minister-for-health-position-may-be-discontinued-if-harney-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Lenihan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Mary McAleese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach Brian Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach in waiting Enda Kenny]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fears that Mary Harney may resign as Minister for Health have prompted panic on all sides of Leinster House where no one wants to succeed her.
Taoiseach in waiting Enda Kenny has called on pretend Taoiseach Brian Cowen and real Taoiseach Brian Lenihan to ask President Mary McAleese to convene a Council of State to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mire reflects on a pig&#8217;s mickey of a year &#8211; twisted and crooked</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/the-mire-reflects-on-a-pigs-mickey-of-a-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/the-mire-reflects-on-a-pigs-mickey-of-a-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bertie Ahern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Green Party TD Paul Gogarty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinness brewery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Delaney]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obesity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Kenny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rural drinker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sepp Blatter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swine flu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach Brian Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Woods]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trevor Sargent]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://themire.net/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a year that began with a visit from several British MPs to Dail Eireann to study the mystifying way in which our TDs resisted resigning.
Then there was the shocking news that the Celtic Tiger was caused by inappropriate alcoholism.
There was good news when the HSE announced that Ryanair would take over the running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuck you is fine, Gogarty&#8217;s error was to say &#8220;sincerity&#8221; in Dail</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/fuck-you-is-fine-gogartys-error-was-to-say-sincerity-in-dail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/fuck-you-is-fine-gogartys-error-was-to-say-sincerity-in-dail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ceann Comhairle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deputy Emmet Stagg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuck you]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party TD Paul Gogarty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oireachtas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Gogarty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seamus Kirk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The office of the Ceann Comhairle Seamus Kirk has revealed that there was a complete misunderstanding over the use of unparliamentary language in the Dail by Green Party TD Paul Gogarty last week.
&#8220;It appears people thought Mr Gogarty was criticised for using the words &#8216;fuck you&#8217; in addressing Deputy Emmet Stagg. This is clearly nonsense. [...]]]></description>
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