No doubt there is a lot of fevered scribbling going on amongst political parties at the moment with regards to writing their manifestos to be launched during General Election 2011. After the election during the coalition negotiations a Programme for Government will be produced with more lobbying by pressure groups and priorities slipping in the […]
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What will be in the Manifestos?
January 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on What will be in the Manifestos? · Elections, Equality, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships, Social Policy
General Election 2011 – Are you blogging it?
January 4th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics
I am putting together a list of blogs for General Election 2011 – so if you are a party member who blogs, a candidate or an interested other who will be writing on the election or the politics leading up to it , please leave a comment below and I will publish and update the […]
The Web General Election begins today
January 4th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics
Seemingly… Harry McGee reports in today’s Irish Times that the Fine Gael Website is going to be taken down and replaced with one page with a video message from Enda Kenny. (So this is what he has been doing over the holiers?) The party will shut down its main website – containing hundreds of pages […]
Mary O’Rourke to contest for FF selection for Election 2011
December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized
Mary O’Rourke told those asking that she would consider her future over Christmas. And promptly on St. Stephen’s Day she tweets. (Yes I know I too was rather excited by the news that she had taken to ‘the twitter’, bathroom tweets agogo!)
Tidings of goodwill …ummm
December 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics
Earlier this week Lord Mayor Cllr. Gerry Breen (FG) took the opportunity of one of the coldest days of the year to speak out against beggars in the city of Dublin. The remarks were quite outrageous and based about his social life in Dublin 2. He repeated them on RTE news later that day and […]
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