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.

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 politics had an interest in the market's audience.

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

Local police have hesitated to prosecute them because of the heavy court costs involved even for the simplest offense.

Local groups have argued for a reinstatement of the rail link south to Manchester via Haslingden and Bury, that was closed in the 1960s.

Local public BDSM communities often have strong ties with distant BDSM communities, with popular educators traveling widely ; large events attracting attendees from wide areas ( and occasionally internationally ); popular speakers, authors, or players gaining relative celebratory status ; and websites attracting over a million members.

Some communities have developed their own " Local Exchange Trading Systems " ( LETS ) and local currencies, such as the Ithaca Hours system, to encourage economic growth and an enhanced sense of community.

Local congregations have far-reaching powers concerning " controversial " matters ( such as whether or not women are admitted as members of the congregation's consistory or admittance to holy communion ).

Local meetings of hierarchs have been called " pan-Orthodox ", but these have invariably been simply meetings of local hierarchs of whatever Eastern Orthodox jurisdictions are party to a specific local matter.

Local congregations ( branches, wards, and stakes ) have de jure boundaries by which members are allocated, and membership records are centralized.

Some Local Government Areas around Australia have introduced " anti-graffiti squads ", who clean graffiti in the area, and such crews as BCW ( Buffers Can't Win ) have taken steps to keep one step ahead of local graffiti cleaners.

However, a number of Local Governments in Victoria have taken steps to recognize the cultural heritage value of some examples of graffiti, such as prominent political graffiti.

Local state governments in India have less autonomy compared to their counterparts in the United States, Africa and Australia.

Local rings also don't have such idempotents, but for a different reason.

Of the administrative structures established under the 1898 Local Government Act, the only type to have been completely abolished was the Rural District, which was rendered void in the early years of the Irish Free State amidst widespread allegations of corruption.

The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.

The galaxies of the Local Group cover a diameter of ( see 1 E + 22 m for distance comparisons ) and have a binary ( dumbbell ) distribution.

Most of the barangay roads are unpaved village-access roads built in the past by the Department of Public Works and Highways ( DPWH ), but responsibility for maintaining these roads have now been devolved to the Local Government Units ( LGUs ).

Local traditions as well as surviving images indicate that similar structures ( also known as, " Morras ", " Majanos ", " Molleros ", or " Paredones ") could once have been found in many locations on the island.

Local types of pizza have been made, for instance mochi pizza ( crust made with Japanese mochi cakes ).

With the exception of supernovae, individual stars have primarily been observed in our Local Group of galaxies, and especially in the visible part of the Milky Way ( as demonstrated by the detailed star catalogues available for our

In the Local Supercluster it is possible to see star clusters, and current telescopes could in principle observe faint individual stars in the Local Cluster — the most distant stars resolved have up to hundred million light years away ( see Cepheids ).

However, outside the Local Supercluster of galaxies, neither individual stars nor clusters of stars have been observed.

Rainwater absorbs fractional amounts of Carbon dioxide from the air as it falls, making a weak carbonic acid solution that eats into the limestone and eventually forms hollows and channels Local bedouin have always know these caves and some were used as water supplies.

Local landmarks include the Christie Park, the Fountain ( a traffic junction in the town centre, although there has not been a working fountain there for some years ),

Local deities of different village regions in India were often identified with " mainstream " Hindu deities, a process that has been called " Sanskritization ".

Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has an associated group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy surveyed has been found to possess a system of globular clusters.

The reforms arising from the Local Government Act of 1972 resulted in the most uniform and simplified system of local government which has been used in England.

For general desktop computer use it has been supplanted by later buses such as IBM Micro Channel, VESA Local Bus, Peripheral Component Interconnect and other successors.

Local application of estrogen in the rat hippocampus has been shown to inhibit the re-uptake of serotonin.

From 1846 onwards the establishments in the United Kingdom were gradually reduced, while the last vestige of the British quarantine law was removed by the Public Health Act 1896, which repealed the Quarantine Act 1825 ( with dependent clauses of other acts ), and transferred from the privy council to the Local Government Board the powers to deal with ships arriving infected with yellow fever or plague, the powers to deal with cholera ships having been already transferred by the Public Health Act 1875.

As introduced in Parliament, the Local Government Bill would have transferred Newmarket and Haverhill to Cambridgeshire, but Colchester would have been transferred in from Essex ; but those changes were not included in Act as passed.

Local influences have also been a strong part of Scouting.

Since the time of Bussard's original proposal, it has been discovered that the region surrounding the sun has a much lower density of interstellar hydrogen than was believed at that time ( see Local Interstellar Cloud ).

In the era of 8-meter-class telescopes, eclipsing binaries have been found throughout the Local Group.

But much more complex services have since been built on IN, such as Custom Local Area Signaling Services ( CLASS ) and prepaid telephone calls.

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.

The city's Sesotho name is Mangaung, meaning " place of cheetahs " and it has been included in the Mangaung Local Municipality since 2000.

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

Orchestrators in Hollywood have always been paid " by the page " ( meaning every four measures ) with rates determined by the Los Angeles Local 47 Musician's Union.

Leadville's Annual Boom Days, which takes place the first full weekend in August, has been honored by the United States Congress as a Local Legacy Event.