The Civil Unions Bill 2006 is now dead, after the motion to restore the bill to the Order Paper was deleted, and replaced with a series of truisms and half-promises. This happened on Thursday last, but I’ve held off on posting about it over the weekend, as I wanted to consider my views before putting [...]
Archive for November 5th, 2007
Civil Unions Part IV
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Labour and SDLP
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I spent the weekend attending SDLP Conference in the Armagh City Hotel. This was my second full SDLP Conference, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Attending political conferences as a visitor is a terrific experience – it’s like a proper conference, without any of the responsibility! Rather predictably, given the recent moves by Fianna Fáil, there was [...]
