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Entries Tagged as 'General Election 2011'

The Web General Election begins today

January 4th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Seemingly… Harry McGee reports in today’s Irish Times that the Fine Gael Website is going to be taken down and replaced with one page with a video message from Enda Kenny. (So this is what he has been doing over the holiers?) The party will shut down its main website – containing hundreds of pages […]

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Mary O’Rourke to contest for FF selection for Election 2011

December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

Mary O’Rourke told those asking that she would consider her future over Christmas. And promptly on St. Stephen’s Day she tweets. (Yes I know I too was rather excited by the news that she had taken to ‘the twitter’, bathroom tweets agogo!)

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Tidings of goodwill …ummm

December 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Earlier this week Lord Mayor Cllr.  Gerry Breen (FG) took the opportunity of one of the coldest days of the year to speak out against beggars in the city of Dublin. The remarks were quite  outrageous and based about his social life in Dublin 2.  He repeated them on RTE news later that day and […]

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Campaign Clouds and Campaign Slogans, FG Style!

December 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

The parties are getting their houses in order or maybe in a spin – news from Fine Gael.  Warning!  US based election guru’s are on the Irish horizon.  Visiting Ireland recently was founder and CEO of Electionmall.com and former candidate for the Republican Party, Ravi Singh. Singh has been travelling Europe recently and advising members […]

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Cabinet Minister using PR Firm for constituency communications

December 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Seeing a tweet after midnight on a Saturday night from a Cabinet Minister had me wondering about who was up so late telling his constituency and followers about the latest programme they could benefit from (Cabinet Ministers are rare on twitter and they never engage, it’s usually to announce something in terms of funding or […]

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