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As well as making the obvious point about the Taoiseach's eleven nominees, Noel Whelan makes another point that had escaped me - the electorate for the 43 vocational seats in the senate is fixed by law, not the constitution, and can easily be changed if the government should wish.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-1-2011
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, by Stephen Fry
Second paragraph of first chapter: Why not indeed. Here's a list of the most likely possibilities: 1 Beat — Monometer He bangs The drum.…
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire, by Kyle Harper
Second paragraph of third chapter: Aristides had come to Rome, much as Galen would a generation later, an aspiring young provincial ready to try his…
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My books of 2018, and a poll
I read 262 books this year, the seventh highest of fourteen years that I have been keeping count, so squarely in the middle. (Full numbers: 238 in…
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