It was with great sadness that I watched the final speech of Michael D Higgins last week during the debate on the Finance Bill. You can watch the speech here and it’s really worth it. Michael D. is a poet and thus we could surmise that the Dáil is to lose it’s laureate. However yesterday […]
Tags:#ge11·Alan Shatter·Fine Gael
Fine Gaelers are in overdrive on the video front, I assume that we’ll see lots of candidate videos from other parties in the weeks to come. Some of these videos are great showreels for TV presenter jobs in case they don’t get elected! Today we start with Senator Ciaran Cannon, ex PD leader who joined […]
Senator Paschal Donohue is by now an old hand at this social media stuff having blogged his bye-election run in Dublin Central in 2009 and to his credit continuing to blog and engage online throughout the past eighteen months. He’s trying video blogging now (His youtube channel if you want to keep an eye on […]
I’ve been keeping a list of twitter accounts established by candidates in the General Election. It’s interesting to watch campaigns take shape and candidates find their feet online. Some use it to react to voters and national election/political issues, others talk about the feelings/opinions of voters that they are experiencing on the canvass. Many FG […]
Tags:#ge11·Enda Kenny·Fine Gael·Twitter
Regular readers know that I have lost my heart to Donegal. Wallace Media are keeping me more than entertained with their election coverage and today’s gem is this speech from Dinny McGinley TD to the Fine Gael selection convention of his county colleague Joe McHugh. I don’t know which bit to recommend to you most, […]
Tags:Dinny McGinley·Donegal North East·Donegal South West·Fine Gael·Joe McHugh·Olwyn Enright