Much mirth in Dáil Eireann yesterday during the committee stage of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 – an interesting bill with amendments being tabled on electoral expenditure limits, website costs and the like. Alan Shatter could hardly control himself as he recounted to the house his frequent visits to Youtube to view that clip of […]
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Micandidate.eu is a database of candidates being rolled out across 27 countries and launching next month – according to Micandidate it ‘will be the largest ever candidate verified database of candidates standing for election in Europe.’ Last weekend Micandidate announced that the Green Party were the first party in Ireland to sign up to the […]
Several times on Saturday at the Ard Fheis I wondered aloud and online about the absence of news. Ok so there’s no money available to announce anything new but that shouldn’t stop a bit of “makey uppey re-announcing previous new news” if you understand me. I did hear that everything was being put into the […]
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Lots and lots of random thoughts from a day at the 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis. Party Membership – Where were all the 30-40 year olds? Mostly running for election in the locals? Or working for the organisation or a minister? But as members where were they? What’s the Party age profile? All I saw […]
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I’ve been offline today but listening to the radio and it seems Enda Kenny has a bone from digging or perhaps a sabre in a satchel. Word from Leinster House and outside is that a Government Minister who facilitated a circle or partook in another manner – though Enda is not quite saying that but […]
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