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Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

So will you come in for a glass of…?

May 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Do you think Fintan O’Toole was proposing to offer Eamon Gilmore a glass of TK red lemonade and thus fight off the coke and pepsi politics? Photo on Labour’s Flickr Stream and taken on Sunday 10th in Artane/Whitehall. If anyone ever manages to canvas me I’ll get a picture and give them a glass of […]

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It’s not every day you find a politician up a pole

May 10th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

Driving through Raphoe in Co. Donegal today a wannabe councillor was spotted up a ladder putting up posters! Now this was not just any candidate – so the car was stopped and camera rooted for. My partner’s relatives are now confirmed in their thoughts that I’m a lunatic as I decide to approach Frank McBrearty […]

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Good Luck

May 6th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics

Before getting really stuck in with regards to candidates, campaigns, issues and the like I do want to wish the best to anyone who decides to run in the forthcoming elections and those who support them.  I may not support your causes (a list of those who’ve caught my eye is being made) but I’m […]

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If it’s Thursday it must be a brethern day

April 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · eejit.., Irish Politics

When word went out earlier that Jim Corr was going to be on the Last Word on Todayfm you could hear radio switches click and kettles boil in anticipation. It is nearly a year since we were all agog listening to Jim’s intervention into the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. Well Jim was back today to tell […]

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Cheap Job, Badly Done.

April 19th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Media

Sunday morning and Fine Gael are still trying to bury the story of their new website and the fact it’s design is unoriginal and actually awful looking and fails to improve on previous offerings except we can now see Enda Kenny’s videos. Following the ‘launch‘ of the Fianna Fáil website last month the word reached […]

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