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Entries Tagged as 'Elections'

‘My Constituency, My Party, My Country, My First Campaign Video’

April 12th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Everywhere you look these days he’s there (except for that Late Late Show). Last weekend he sprinted for the podium in a bid to raise Enda Kenny’s hand aloft at the end of the Ard Fheis speech.  On Good Friday he was representing FG on the Six-One News.  Now Senator Paschal Donohue adds to his […]

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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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Fine Gael Ard Fheis 2009

April 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

The final party to host their annual conference this season is Fine Gael.   The Ard Fheis is being held in City West this weekend and a number of bloggers have been accredited to attend including members of the party who blog. The event is being live streamed on the Fine Gael Website and bloggers have […]

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The Emperors New Clothes

April 2nd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Elections, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Rock the Vote

The blogger briefing for miCandidate.eu took place on Monday night and you can see a lot of what took place thanks to Alexia. I’ve written about this campaign before and had further responses from candidates in 4 political parties asking for my opinion on the product. Here’s that opinion so far… miCandidate.eu is a company […]

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MiCandidate.eu blogger briefing

March 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics

In case bloggers and others interested in online engagement are not aware – Monday next (30th March) sees the folk from Micandidate.eu provide tea, coffee and pastries and hopefully answers to lots of as yet unanswered questions on the new platform. It takes place at 6.30pm in the European Commission Offices in Molesworth Street. All […]

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