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Entries Tagged as 'Rock the Vote'

The Emperors New Clothes

April 2nd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Elections, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Rock the Vote

The blogger briefing for miCandidate.eu took place on Monday night and you can see a lot of what took place thanks to Alexia. I’ve written about this campaign before and had further responses from candidates in 4 political parties asking for my opinion on the product. Here’s that opinion so far… miCandidate.eu is a company […]

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Hello Rock the Vote! Welcome to the Party!

May 15th, 2008 · 11 Comments · More Money than sense, Rock the Vote

When one is organising a campaign there’s polite lateness and then there’s Rock the Vote downright tardiness. Yup less than a month to Lisbon Treaty D-Day and John tell’s us that Rock the Vote are relaunching for the referendum. And yes Cian was right, there was some rejoicing tonight, Lisbon was looking a little barren […]

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Rock the Vote – The Advertisements

May 3rd, 2007 · 3 Comments · April Fools, irishelection2007, More Money than sense, Rock the Vote, Ryan Tubridy, Social Media

It’s been a while since I checked in with the good folk at Rock the Vote. You might have noticed that the majority of those big jobs were filled by the lads – the junior positions have some female participation – nice to see they reflected the glass ceiling that exists everywhere else in society.  […]

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Take it away there Frank

March 26th, 2007 · 8 Comments · April Fools, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Rock the Vote, Same Sex Partnerships

That’d be the deposit that’ll be taken away because in Dublin South Central Frank McNamara does not have a hope of getting a seat for the PD’s. Flying in off his piano stool from Dunboyne, (that’s Dunboyne, Co. Meath!) Mr McNamara has spent this afternoon on Liveline defending himself. One of the last times I […]

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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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