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Video blogging the campaign – Paschal Donohue

January 29th, 2011 · Comments Off on Video blogging the campaign – Paschal Donohue · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

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 […]

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A tale of two tweets

February 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics

Yesterday as news spread on twitter about George Lee’s resignation from public office many turned to Senator Paschal Donohue for comment, he is the most followed and active FG rep using the medium.  And Paschal usually replies back to those who ask questions – it’s called conversation – something others using twitter might take note […]

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‘My Constituency, My Party, My Country, My First Campaign Video’

April 12th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Everywhere you look these days he’s there (except for that Late Late Show). Last weekend he sprinted for the podium in a bid to raise Enda Kenny’s hand aloft at the end of the Ard Fheis speech.  On Good Friday he was representing FG on the Six-One News.  Now Senator Paschal Donohue adds to his […]

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Fine Gael and Late Late Show – handbags – actually no handbags!

March 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, MSM

Flicking through some press releases in my reader tonight I noted one from Fine Gael regarding their decision not to participate in the Late Late Show debate on the Seanad earlier this evening. I was wondering about all that testosterone on the top panel. Reading the statement I was none the wiser that RTE had […]

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