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Campaign Song – Michael Conaghan – Rest Outside

February 15th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

Blogging holiday adjourned for a minute. A campaign song for Labour’s candidate in Dublin South Central, Michael Conaghan. Thank you to the Chicken who sent it to me – much appreciated. No mention for the other colleagues on his ticket and giving them preferences? 🙂 Rest Outside – Michael Conaghan Over to you Alan Kelly!

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Blogging holiday

February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Blogging holiday · Elections, Feminism, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Gone on a blogging holiday for the day – you’ll find me over on the Antiroom talking about how I can’t see myself or many other people I know in this election.

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The politics and reporting of attack

February 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Still two weeks to go and as the polls make people jumpy I expect that the attack politics will continue and as the majority of policies have been unveiled it’s going to get far more personal.  The three leader debates to come in the next ten days will also focus people on personal issues and […]

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Fine Gael’s obsession with bad taste and the implications

February 13th, 2011 · 18 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

I can’t put words to blog post regarding the latest stunt. Just want to show what I got this evening which shows how it can be abused. From Leo Varadkar’s email address addressing me as Lez (as in short for lesbian which is what I am by the way in case you are new to […]

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Saturday’s links are full of

February 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, linkiness

Harry McGee has a very interesting post on the realities in the election including the positioning and freewheeling of Ruairi Quinn and Pat Rabbitte on policy matters. Glad to know others are noticing it. Pass Level Politics guides us to a good canvass (He’s a Labour Party canvasser but the advice applies well to all!) […]

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