From the 'e-Thursday' section of the 'Business Week' supplement of the 'Irish Independent' , 21st August 2008 ." 1169 And Counting is a wealth of information on our Republican past and present , and demonstrates how the Irish political landscape , like that of any nation, will never be a black and white issue."
A good review , we feel (...even if we do say so ourselves!) , from a good column ('Blog Digest') in a newspaper we otherwise wouldn't read as we don't agree with the political slant (anti-Republican) propagated by it on a daily basis.
But the review we can live with...!
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Political Fat Cats...'Fundraising operations made up less than €200,000 of the party's
income in the republic (sic) last year.... "the primary source of donations to (P) Sinn Fein in the south comes from each of the party's TD's (sic) and MEP who each donated €6,000...' and... 'Despite the Dail (sic) sitting for fewer than 100 days a year, the TDs' (sic) pay bill now stands at €20.3m -- an average of €122,000 each.....'
Could you live on a wage of €2416 a week ?
From here.
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Inappropriate spam...I received this a few days ago :
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Thanks anyway , Tina , but if my friends , colleagues and comrades heard that I was in receipt of payment from the British Exchequer I would have to re-locate to the hallowed halls inhabited by those I mentioned in the 'Fat Cats' piece , above! And I don't think much of the circles they 'move' in....
