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Entries Tagged as 'Irish Media'

Holding a Lisbon related event in September?

August 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Lisbon

In Dublin? Fancy having it liveblogged or written about? Emails please to tips (@) mamanpoulet.com as I’m trying to sort out September! (Keep being asked how I’m going to cover Lisbon – well if I’m covering it I might as well do something interesting!) Indeed Lisbon aside  if you are holding any event/launch/campaign this autumn […]

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Bertie Ahern signs for the News of the World

August 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Sport

It’s been a while since I’ve brought you news on a Bertie earner – being the recession and all I suppose times are tough for the Iar Taoiseach and the way he might scratch a few euros to make up for his pension levy losses. However news reaches us today of Bertie Ahern’s signing as […]

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Brenda ‘Turnip’ Power

July 5th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Homophobia, Irish Media, Irish Politics, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships

She writes to antagonise. Many of you are going to be extremely angry at reading her latest bit of rubbish. I could suggest that you not to bother with her. Or you could make her some Irish Stew. Or tell her something about children’s rights because she claims to be something of an expert. She’ […]

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Your favourite Q&A moment?

June 29th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, MSM

It’s the final Questions and Answers programme tonight. The funeral is a specially extended edition at 10.30pm on RTE1 with 20 mourners as guests. (Kathy Sheridan, one of the better panellists over the years interviewed John Bowman in Saturday’s Irish Times). Unfortunately there are very few Q&A clips on Youtube – so jogging your moment […]

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Subliminal Campaigning?

April 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Declan Ganley, Elections, Irish Media, Irish Politics

There will be many a nickname for (and many eyes drawn towards) the campaign for the European Parliament election in the North-West Constituency. This video was recently loaded on the Facebook Page of Jim Higgins, Fine Gael’s MEP for the region. The cartoon is two years old and was created by the European Movement in […]

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