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One for the blogging and politics nerds

July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on One for the blogging and politics nerds · Blogging, Social Media

The Swedish Social Democratic Party invited two leading bloggers from the USA to give a seminar on blogging at the Almedal political conference. John Aravosis from Americablog and Jane Hamsher from the excellent FireDogLake were brought over to speak and the seminar was captured for Youtube. There is a lovely potted history of blogging in […]

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How rubbish does this sound?

June 16th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media, Social Policy

Today’s Questions to An Taoiseach specifically about his Department of the Taoiseach raised the issue of PR companies and the way Government tenders are awarded. The word Twitter was heard in the Dáil and Ciaran Cuffe was not involved. It was time for me to get out my shovel. Deputy Enda Kenny: The Government information […]

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Goal!

May 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

ah oops wrong sport sorry.. Find out who own’s this Mascot, who’s been putting up Maurice Ahern’s posters in Dublin Central and what Fianna Fáil candidates are experiencing on the ground in the latest round up on Irishelection.com

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Enda Kenny and Friends and a Cherry Picker

May 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Thanks to the tip off I received and a break in the weather I headed up to see Enda Kenny and Fine Gael’s European Parliament Election Candidates unveil their poster for the campaign a few hours ago. It was interesting to see who turned up and who didn’t.  Gay Mitchell MEP the lone candidate running […]

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So will you come in for a glass of…?

May 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Do you think Fintan O’Toole was proposing to offer Eamon Gilmore a glass of TK red lemonade and thus fight off the coke and pepsi politics? Photo on Labour’s Flickr Stream and taken on Sunday 10th in Artane/Whitehall. If anyone ever manages to canvas me I’ll get a picture and give them a glass of […]

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