There is going to be a lot of revisionism and distorting of the facts in the next four weeks and I am sure we’ll be catching and factchecing a lot of claims along the way. Some of it is off before the campaign has begun, no surprise there! On Friday Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, […]
Tags:#cpbill·#ge11·Brian Lenihan·Civil Partnership and Certain Rights of Cohabitants Act·Green Party
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 […]
John McGuirk formerly Fine Gael, formerly Libertas, fomerly National Forum and sometime commenter on Maman Poulet. Now an independent candidate for Cavan Monaghan and by the sounds of it he’s aligned to the Independent Alliance for Change (aka Profit Before People) He’s ‘no oil painting’, I nearly needed a tissue! Not sure where the website […]
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