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Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

Mandatory Stance

April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics

It seems that some political parties believe that if caught out with hypocrisy that taking the ostrich position is the only way to go. I’ll be back over the weekend to the story of the website, the code cogging, the Russian, the denial and the guaranteed Irish campaign which went awry and the spinning machine […]

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Obama Juice on sale to local councillors

April 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, US Election 2008

On Friday night next in the City North Hotel more Obama juice arrives to be sold to Irish politicians. This appears to be a very watered down version being sold at an expensive price. Recently local authority councillors received leaflets from a company based in Antrim called Performance Enhancement. The company announced that it was […]

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UK blogs arrive – or UK media notice their arrival

April 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging

I’ve never read so many UK blogs as I’ve read this weekend.  I’ve always thought of UK politics blogs as being very aligned one way or the other and some of them of being quite a bitchfest.  I’ve a few in my google reader and sometimes there will be a post which is more thought […]

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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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Anything you can tweet…

April 8th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

I’m very #bludget hung over today and even worse I’ve been dealing with some of the announcements in the day job capacity and it’s not been pretty. As a result I was not paying close attention to twitter and the speeches in the Dáil on the resolutions or as they are known Financial Motions of […]

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