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Entries Tagged as 'Elections'

Lisbon Referendum Results

October 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Lisbon, Live Blogging

I’ll be in Dublin Castle tomorrow at the National Count Centre with Cian and Alexia and a load of foreign media scratching their heads and wondering what is going on! There is a liveblog already established for the count results and we are looking forward to pulling in news from around the country as the […]

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Name your presidential candidate in one

August 16th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

It’s a perfect August story – two years to the election and the bookies have a poll on it. Who’s going to be the next president of Ireland? Fergus Finlay is a bit surprised at his mention, last week I heard Niall Crowley’s name a few times as a possible Labour nominee. Is nobody mentioning […]

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So that was interesting

June 8th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Blogging, Declan Ganley, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Uncategorized

Understatement! I’ll let other people talk about the liveblog and the results. The weekend was stunning on a personal note and it was brilliant to work with Cian, Alexia, Mark, and Damien over Saturday and Sunday in bringing it all to life and have inputs from so many others around the country. Thanks again to […]

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Irish Bloggers Election Coverage

June 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics

This weekend is like Christmas for some (ok me) – tallying and watching transfers and predicting and the like. At IrishElection.com we’re running a liveblog which will collate information as we can get it from counts around the country. More coverage on the election will also be found on the the blog including links to […]

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Single Issue LGBT Candidates in Irish Elections – a (very) brief history

May 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, LGBT

Lisa Connell is standing as an Independent LGBT Candidate in Dublin South West Inner City/Dublin 8 area of Dublin City Council. Lisa is not the first independent LGBT candidate to contest an election in Ireland – the first I believe was Liz Noonan who ran as a Lesbian Feminist Candidate in 3 Dáil elections in […]

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