This Diary is the #Aras11 Movie Show. Get your popcorn and ice-cream ready and settle in for a while. —– The Trailer in our show is this video from Michael Fisher ex RTE reporter from Belfast who captured the seven hopefuls in a photocall before their first debate on RTE Radio 1 yesterday. (You can […]

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  That didn’t take long at all. h/t Panti and Aidan 🙂

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We are finally at D Day.   Campaigns are officially launched, nominations closed but most importantly debate season has begun and questions have to be asked and answered (or avoided but we’ll know what they are doing). —— In case you missed Senator Norris’s remarks at the end of his quest for nominations at Dublin City […]

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Campaign buses, poster trucks and samba bands are being reported the last few days as operations swing into gear and nominations are confirmed.   This pic was sent to me of the Mary Davis bus spotted over the weekend.   Those buses don’t come cheap. So Mary has taken to her kitchen to look for […]

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Think it’s time to start the campaign diary entries again.  Thanks to Rick O’Shea for the first poster find from the ploughing (where all the candidates tweeted that they had a marvellous time but I’m not sure how much ploughing they saw!) Martin McGuinness declared on Sunday morning and lo and behold the campaign posters […]

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