Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

Local discussion of national politics tends to fall within the spectrum of moderately conservative to arch-conservative thought.

Local politics often involve this issue.

Local New York politics were tightly controlled by a parochial elite led by Governor George Clinton, and local political leaders did not want to share their power with the national politicians.

* Konnert, Mark " Local politics in the French Wars of Religion "

In the mid 20th century the square hosted the headquarters of both the main parties of British politics, and it is now home to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Local Government Association and the London base of the European Parliament and European Commission.

Local politics is controlled by Fife Council although there is interest being shown by some people in redeveloping more locally centred councils.

Though the Times had been a strong backer of Cryer, the paper in 1927 published an editorial referring to the city government as " Our Local Tammany ", a reference to Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall machine that controlled New York politics in the 19th Century.

Local politics left Wellington in conflict with Wrekin District ( now Telford & Wrekin ) Council for many years, with claims and counter claims of neglect.

Local politics and business interests become involved, including the president of the bank to which Croker is indebted, Roger Too White's former fraternity brother ( now Mayor of Atlanta ), and the entirety of ' respectable ' Atlanta society.

Local politics have been dominated by the Labour Party for much of the 20th century, however Ashfield attracted media attention in the late 1970s with a shock by election win for the Conservatives.

That the metropolitan county councils were controlled by the Labour Party led to accusations that their abolition was motivated by party politics: the general secretary of the National Association of Local Government Officers described it as a " completely cynical manoeuvre ".

For those who disagreed with El Centro de la Raza ’ s far-left politics and savored historical irony, it didn ’ t get better than this: an organization that staunchly supported workers ’ rights, the AFL-CIO ( OPEIU Local 8 ), accused El Centro of violating the labor rights of its own staff.

The resulting battles were fierce: in Local 601, which represented Westinghouse workers in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and whose members had a tradition of radical politics dating back to Eugene V. Debs ' candidacy for President in 1912, the two factions were led by brothers Mike and Tom Fitzgerald, who attacked each other personally as vigorously as the factions did on political issues.

Local people often seek to defend their real or perceived culture, and local politics is often dictated by a desire to preserve the traditions and habits of the Island.

* Local activist Dave Meslin created City Idol — an initiative and contest to encourage local citizens who were otherwise alienated from politics to seek office in this election.

The show's success as ABC Local Radio's highest rating weekday program is bolstered by a team of experts who are featured every week to discuss such topics as motoring, literature, movies, American politics and travel destinations.

Local hosts had been instructed to not limit themselves to sports, but also include politics, celebrities, relationships, and current events.

Local cuisine patterns had established by the mid 18th century.

Local caudillos had declared several regions autonomous of the central government known as Jefaturas Supremas.

Local churches were forced to appeal to Rome to obtain restitution from the imperial bishops who had taken advantage of the Investiture Controversy to obtain property for their own benefit, as the Emperor turned a blind eye.

Local residents brought a class-action lawsuit, one of the first held in Massachusetts, against the United States Industrial Alcohol Company ( USIA ), which had bought Purity Distilling in 1917.

Most PCs that used VESA Local Bus had only one or two VLB capable ISA slots from the 5 or 6 available ( thus 4 ISA slots generally were just that, ISA only ).

Local nobles resisted the claim, but William invaded and by 1064 had secured control of the area.

Led by the African American Ben Fletcher, Local 8 had over 5, 000 members, the majority of whom were African American, along with more than a thousand immigrants ( primarily Lithuanians and Poles ), Irish Americans, and numerous others.

Local German citizens claimed that they didn't know what was going on, though at least a few admitted to knowing of the atrocities but insisted they had been powerless to stop it.

In 1889 he became an Alderman on the Caernarfonshire County Council which had been created by the Local Government Act 1888.

Local industries had several millions of dollars worth of heavy ordnance machinery.

Central Region had been created in 1975, under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973, to include the county of Clackmannan plus the Muckhart and Glendevon areas, formerly in the county of Perth.

Local government traditionally had limited power in Egypt's highly centralized state.

Local construction and civic maintenance had come to a standstill.

Local authorities had installed a set of lights but before they became operational the lights were removed.

Local civil rights leaders in Selma had been protesting Jim Crow laws that prevented blacks from registering to vote.

The former County Borough of Carlisle had held city status until the Local Government Act 1972 was enacted in 1974.

In 1957 a Royal Commission on Local Government in Greater London had been set up under Sir Edwin Herbert, and this reported in 1960, recommending the creation of 52 new London boroughs as the basis for local government.

Local landowners were already familiar with the dark clouds of smoke from coal-fired stationary engines and had imposed regulations on most new railways that locomotives would ' consume their own smoke '.

Local Moroccan shepherds used it for grazing of livestock but the vast majority of Spaniards and Moroccans had not heard of the islet until July 11, 2002, when a group of Moroccan soldiers set up base on the islet.

Having previously held the Local Government and Finance portfolios, he now became simultaneously President of Dáil Éireann ( Griffith had returned his office to its pre-August 1921 name ) and Chairman of the Provisional Government.

Local curators within the country such as Gao Minglu and critics such as Li Xianting ( 栗宪庭 ) reinforced this promotion of particular brands of painting that had recently emerged, while also spreading the idea of art as a strong social force within Chinese culture.

Until 1995, the forecasts had been played at various times each hour, but are currently shown at times ending in " 8 ", hence the title of the local forecasts is " Local on the 8s " ( though local forecasts are reduced to once every half-hour when non-forecast programs are aired which is now a majority of the air day ).

O ' Connor, a leader in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Local 608 who was later convicted of racketeering himself, was believed to have ordered an attack on a Gambino-associated restaurant that had snubbed the union and was subsequently shot and wounded by the Westies.

Local stations, however, had always been free to use recordings and sometimes made substantial use of prerecorded syndicated programs distributed on pressed ( as opposed to individually recorded ) transcription discs.

By 1940, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor had successfully organized Hershey's workers under the leadership of John Shearer, who became the first President of Local Chapter Number 464 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers Union.