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Entries Tagged as 'irishelection2007'

‘Real and Immediate Political Discussion’ is wanted

February 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Social Media

Some advice possibly for Fiona O’Malley PD TD. and other T.D.’s who were told by political gurus that blogging is not worth the effort from Harriet Harman, UK government minister and deputy primeministerial hopeful. Blogging is worth the effort. A feature on political blogging in the UK on yesterday’s BBC1 Sunday AM programme discusses all […]

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April Fools!!! Rock the Vote and make lots of money!

February 10th, 2007 · 9 Comments · April Fools, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, More Money than sense, Rock the Vote, Social Media

You know the way they say the Irish are late for everything, even their own funerals? Well so it seems is any major campaign aimed at mobilising the youth vote in Ireland. Maman Poulet would usually have no problem in supporting anything that mobilises young people to stick their number 1 (and other votes) on […]

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Brian Cowan is not lighting the electorate’s fires.

February 5th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007

More from Frank Luntz and his focus group on the Week in Politics last night. If you like me missed it you can catch it again here. Although not as interesting as the first episode the highlight for me was the rather revealing non reaction to the possiblity of Brian Cowan as the next leader […]

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Happy New Year and Blogging the Election

January 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Personal, Social Media

Well It’s been quiet at Maman Poulet the last few weeks as I’ve travelled around abit doing festive things and today started a new job which due to the nature of the work involved I won’t be blogging about! Mulley is doing his usual 500 things at the one time and the blog awards date […]

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Paper Round ala Maman Poulet

December 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishblogcon, irishelection2007, Social Media

Excuse me whilst I have a tuppence inspired paper round moment! The Irish Independent tells us today that Fine Gael’s Jim O’Leary is breaking new ground in webcasting his message for the under 35 age group and he’s paying some company money for it too! Should have gone to the Blogging the Election Conference Jim […]

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