I was invited by the Oireachtas Communications Unit to the Dáil to watch and tweet some of the proceedings of today’s debate to mark Europe Day. Myself, Ken Curtin, David Cochrane from Politics.ie and Billie Sparks from the European Movement were in attendance. There was little to report on the debate itself or that which […]
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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 […]
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Ok so it’s unasked for advice but here goes anyway. You may have heard that Brian Cowen is interested in blogging and twittering. On Saturday last while speaking to Marian Finucane about Twitter I had hoped to be able to deal with the matter of the Taoiseach and Twitter but alas there was only so […]
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Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned […]
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