That’s tea with a small t, but it describes possible campaigning activities described at ‘hourly’ meetings which took place in several locations last weekend with independent candidates wanting to start a new political movment of ‘like minded’ independents who would act together in the Dáil like ‘a party without a whip.’ Some of these meetings […]
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Tweet comes in ‘Here is my latest video update’ Ah video great says I. Now I don’t remember the last update or any before that but I have seen Deputy Hayes do some FineGaelMedia ones and indeed this is the first video uploaded to his Youtube account but let me not be pedantic there are […]
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Eoin O’Broin is the Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Mid West. He previously ran for the party in Dun Laoghaire in the 2007 General Election but tells me that he lives in Dublin Mid West now. (lucky move given how crowded it is out by the sea, though I’m hearing it’s getting crowded in Dublin […]
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You’d be forgiven for thinking there were not 437,000 people on the live register given the last ten days of fightbacks, distractions, chicken impressions (Mary Hanafin) and the rest. Now Dara Calleary (next leader of FF though I don’t see the draw myself) today was anxious to talk about the 1250 jobs that were […]
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Regular readers know that I have lost my heart to Donegal. Wallace Media are keeping me more than entertained with their election coverage and today’s gem is this speech from Dinny McGinley TD to the Fine Gael selection convention of his county colleague Joe McHugh. I don’t know which bit to recommend to you most, […]
Tags:Dinny McGinley·Donegal North East·Donegal South West·Fine Gael·Joe McHugh·Olwyn Enright