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Entries Tagged as 'General Election 2011'

Following the Count (s) Online

February 25th, 2011 · 14 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Finally we are ready If you want to follow the count online there are plenty of ways to do it. You can do it via twitter – you don’t have to have a twitter account to do this. You can do a search for your constituency by searching for the tag at search.twitter.com Or you […]

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Bertie Ahern writes to his constituents one more time

February 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

You may remember on the eve of the 2007 General Election that Bertie Ahern dropped a leaflet to his constituents looking for second preferences for Cyprian Brady and no mention of Mary Fitzpatrick.   Cyprian got elected with only 939 first preferences as Bertie’s surplus went straight to him as directed and got him elected. Today […]

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Election Prediction Competition – Win a Book

February 24th, 2011 · 41 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

To mark the election Gill and MacMillan have given me a copy of John Drennan’s Cute Hoors and Pious Protesters to give away in an election competition! The book is a collection of original essays on the ‘traits and characteristics of Irish Politicians’ by the political humourist who will be known to regular listeners to […]

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Some things are best left alone

February 23rd, 2011 · 18 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Same Sex Partnerships

So Lucinda Creighton does not believe in same-sex marriage. Neither do I.  But I wouldn’t stop anyone from doing it and would passionately support people’s right to marry if they wished to. However I won’t engage in trying to change the mind of someone who is against it or engage in vilifying her.  It’s not […]

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Campaign Song – Gino Kenny

February 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Ok it’s not a song whatever Gino’s press release says, it’s a series of slogans recorded over a song. Gino Kenny is running for the People Before Profit Alliance in Dublin Mid West and it seems that he has released campaign songs before. All I could think of was Power City ads. Sorry Gino! Vote […]

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