It was with great sadness that I watched the final speech of Michael D Higgins last week during the debate on the Finance Bill. You can watch the speech here and it’s really worth it. Michael D. is a poet and thus we could surmise that the Dáil is to lose it’s laureate. However yesterday […]
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Earlier tonight from Mary Lou McDonald, Deputy President of Sinn Fein and Candidate for Dublin Central via her twitter account. Further examples of such ‘creativity’ are welcome to tips (@)mamanpoulet.com
There is going to be a lot of revisionism and distorting of the facts in the next four weeks and I am sure we’ll be catching and factchecing a lot of claims along the way. Some of it is off before the campaign has begun, no surprise there! On Friday Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, […]
Tags:#cpbill·#ge11·Brian Lenihan·Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act·Green Party
Fine Gaelers are in overdrive on the video front, I assume that we’ll see lots of candidate videos from other parties in the weeks to come. Some of these videos are great showreels for TV presenter jobs in case they don’t get elected! Today we start with Senator Ciaran Cannon, ex PD leader who joined […]
Senator Paschal Donohue is by now an old hand at this social media stuff having blogged his bye-election run in Dublin Central in 2009 and to his credit continuing to blog and engage online throughout the past eighteen months. He’s trying video blogging now (His youtube channel if you want to keep an eye on […]