Much mirth in Dáil Eireann yesterday during the committee stage of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2009 – an interesting bill with amendments being tabled on electoral expenditure limits, website costs and the like. Alan Shatter could hardly control himself as he recounted to the house his frequent visits to Youtube to view that clip of […]
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Several times on Saturday at the Ard Fheis I wondered aloud and online about the absence of news. Ok so there’s no money available to announce anything new but that shouldn’t stop a bit of “makey uppey re-announcing previous new news” if you understand me. I did hear that everything was being put into the […]
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Saturday night after the Cowen Speech- the Nine News on RTE 1. You missed it? Youtube is our friend – thanks to Assetracker 🙂
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Lots and lots of random thoughts from a day at the 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis. Party Membership – Where were all the 30-40 year olds? Mostly running for election in the locals? Or working for the organisation or a minister? But as members where were they? What’s the Party age profile? All I saw […]
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This email arrived in my inbox at 9.12pm – if you signed up to hear more about Fianna Fáil on their new website you were included. I think we’re talking 17,000 plus addresses but I’m open to correction on that. What do you think of it? More Obamaification? Dear friend, I’ve just come off stage […]
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