Bloggers in the house today at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis include

Mark Coughlan who keeps running off and coming back with great nuggets to blog about!

Gavin Sheridan has been busy with the video camera.

Eoin Bannon from Yellow Roman Candles is comparing speeches of Gerry Adams and Dermot Ahern and finding similarities.

They’re all far more interesting and dedicated to their art than I am – more from me after the event and now on the live blog where I’m doing culinary reports from #ffaf.