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Entries Tagged as 'Fianna Fáil'

David Davin-Power and friends at Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis

March 2nd, 2009 · 32 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics

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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Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis – Some Thoughts…

March 1st, 2009 · 29 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession

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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Brian Cowen emails me

February 28th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Irish Politics, Recession

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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‘This will be a very serious ardfheis.’ – It’ll be a blogged one also!

February 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging

“This will be a very serious ardfheis.â€? Mary Coughlan, Tanaiste, Launch of Clar for 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, 25/2/09 The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis begins this evening and with this mornings opinion polls combined with/resulting from the recession and of course the little difficulties about the launch of the website during the week it […]

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When a seminar became a launch

February 25th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Policy

Yesterday I heard about a seminar being organised by Strawberry Media where Joe Rospars, New Media Director for the Obama campaign was to speak. It was pitched at bloggers and political and techie types and I was among the first to sign up and the organiser asked me to blog about the event and spread […]

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