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Entries Tagged as 'Elections'

Brian Hayes takes to the video

January 19th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Tweet comes in ‘Here is my latest video update’  Ah video great says I.  Now I don’t remember the last update or any before that but I have seen Deputy Hayes do some FineGaelMedia ones and indeed this is the first video uploaded to his Youtube account but let me not be pedantic there are […]

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Dinny McGinley rallying in Donegal

January 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Regular readers know that I have lost my heart to Donegal. Wallace Media are keeping me more than entertained with their election coverage and today’s gem is this speech from Dinny McGinley TD to the Fine Gael selection convention of his county colleague Joe McHugh. I don’t know which bit to recommend to you most, […]

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ERA launch Election Campaign

January 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on ERA launch Election Campaign · Elections, Equality, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

The Equality and Rights Alliance launched their general election campaign yesterday asking voters and political parties to put equality and human rights at the centre of their voting intentions and campaigns. The Alliance is comprised of 155 organisations and activsts representing over 250,000 people living in Ireland. One of the key calls of the campaign […]

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The Audacity of Enda

January 15th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Some think I’m unfair or obsessed with the subject so with the resumption of the new Fine Gael social media strategy I waited 24 hours to comment and watched many of the rest of Ireland on the internet dissolve into a mixture of mirth and disbelief. How lucky are we!!! For free you can download […]

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Candidate Video #2 – Eoghan Murphy

January 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)

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