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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Media'

‘Fianna Fáil – The Publican Party’

September 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics

The Satire bit from Monday night’s Frontline is on Youtube – it finally put the S in satire bit on RTE. Wonder did any phones ring in Montrose after it.

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Ronan Mullen and me on a panel

September 21st, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media

Yes it surprised me also. Next Monday night a public debate on Politics and the Media will be held in Galway City Museum at 8 pm. Hosted by the Galway Green Party the panel will debate the relationship between old and new media and politics and given garglegate last week and #simoncoveneysfault promises to be […]

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Freefall fairly free from oestrogen

September 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Feminism, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Recession

Lenihan was at the races when the head of the ECB called and he didn’t remember Cowen swearing during the talks where the Government guarantee was agreed on. And oh Brian Lenihan can speak French. What else can we garner from last nights Freefall other than the programme makers love shots of traffic and big […]

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Five minutes to a shortlist

September 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, LGBT

If you were to name your LGBT Friendly Politician of the Year who would you include? Senator David Norris? (well if he wasn’t gay friendly that’d be a problem) Senator Ivana Bacik (won the title last year) Senator Eoghan Harris? Yes Eoghan Harris – he’s made the shortlist for the GALAS – The awards ceremony […]

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Scraping the barrel

August 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM

While #Fag-gate starts to rumble (it’s still August unfortunately) some political correspondents are clearly desperate for news to joke about it. It is a joke right? Niamh Lyons is a political correspondent with the Irish Daily Mail – wishful tweeting? It’s not the usual political correspondent tweet (no they’re not all devoid of humour but […]

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