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Entries Tagged as 'General Election 2011'

ERA launch Election Campaign

January 18th, 2011 · Comments Off on ERA launch Election Campaign · Elections, Equality, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

The Equality and Rights Alliance launched their general election campaign yesterday asking voters and political parties to put equality and human rights at the centre of their voting intentions and campaigns. The Alliance is comprised of 155 organisations and activsts representing over 250,000 people living in Ireland. One of the key calls of the campaign […]

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The Audacity of Enda

January 15th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Some think I’m unfair or obsessed with the subject so with the resumption of the new Fine Gael social media strategy I waited 24 hours to comment and watched many of the rest of Ireland on the internet dissolve into a mixture of mirth and disbelief. How lucky are we!!! For free you can download […]

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Candidate Video #2 – Eoghan Murphy

January 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)

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Candidate video #1 – Colm Keaveney

January 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

(It’s the weekend, pretend this is a giveaway DVD with your newspaper or something…) First up in General Election Candidate video reviews here’s Colm Keaveney, Labour Candidate for Galway East. Yes that Colm. Someone lend him a smile.

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While we await for someone (anyone) to make their mind up…

January 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

We don’t get to see enough Mary Coughlan T.D. on our screens. Here she is after being nominated by F.F.  Donegal South West last weekend to contest the next general election. The convention was rushed forward on the 9th with only 48hrs notice given to members. Little bit of a dig in it at John […]

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