The manifesto launches begin tomorrow. Not a moment too soon after a week of bondholders and renegotiating roundabouts with added debate debates. I went to my first press conference of the campaign today and learnt little new about Fine Gael’s plan to scrap the HSE. Most of what I heard today was released last year […]
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I was delighted and honoured to win an Irish Blog Award (for Best News and Current Affairs) on Saturday night. I was very happy to be in great company with the other finalists in the category. Many thanks to all the people who came up and said hello and I know I missed seeing lots […]
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It’s still a bit surreal and sinking in what happened in Cork on Saturday. I’m very happy and still very humbled by the results. I blog for fun, for anger, for stress relief from my day job, as a source of pain relief (you wouldn’t believe the nerve endings that can be numbed by a […]
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I’ll have a more substantial (and less hung over) post later but thank you for all the emails, twitters, facebook msgs and texts. It was really great to win the Best News and Current Affairs category again this year. I am completely blown away however to win the Grand Prix as it’s being called (very […]
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Good Afternoon from Cork where despite the best efforts of some still slightly mysterious illness that has me out of work and going slowly doolally, I’ve made it to Cork International Airport Hotel – the most original, coolest, kitchest hotel in Cork Ireland. I’ve also heard that I’ve joined 19 others in a feature in […]
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