I often read the New York Times wedding announcements, sometimes they have lesbian and gay weddings announced, increasingly so since same sex marriage became legal in Canada. This weekend there was an announcement from a couple who have been together 42 years and who got married last Tuesday in Canada. Whilst their marriage has little [...]
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It was great to see Dr. Garrett Fitzgerald and others teaching Frank Luntz about the Irish electoral system. As you’ll know I was not a fan of the American ‘guru’ and his take on Irish politics, never mind the way in which he tried to put words into the mouths of those participating in the [...]
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I’m listening to the re-enactments of the Mahon Tribunal today and in particular to the statement of the Taoiseach’s lawyer. He called Tom Gilmartin a puppet and said his statements were mendacious. Off I trotted to the dictionary! Ah such a posh word for calling someone a liar. Well we’ll see who’s giving mendacious statements [...]
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I did this all on my own! No not made the actual design but the installation. I’m going to go widget mad for a while too I think.
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I had the pleasure of meeting PT yesterday, he joined myself and Damien in the Irishelection.com war room and later at the Teachers Club. In the space of the afternoon he put this video together – he also blogged on IE whilst tallies rained in on us and political careers ended and began. Lovely guy, [...]
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Moment of the day, getting this text (from one of our very many sources who made Irishelection.com’s coverage rock) and checking it and then forwarding it on. We had it several minutes before RTE did. It’s been like that all day Goodnight!
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So will we get our first out gay TD elected tomorrow?? How long will we wait for someone to call for someone to resign/retire? All this and more on Irishelection.com where I have moved for the past few weeks. The new site looks great – the new gadgets are bloody amazing – I really really [...]
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Cian at IrishElection.com tells about blogging the count, mysaying the count, and god knows what else which is taking place on Friday. So if you are going to be in or within a sniff of a count and want to get involved in webbing the election with rumours, tallies and gossip go here, read it, [...]
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Ah it’s been busy, and I’ve had no broadband at home for 9 days. It’s not been pretty. Meanwhile Mary Lou McDonald is doing apparitions… I kid you not and might even bring you the photo of the flag flying outside the house around the corner where all it needs is a halo and wings [...]
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Sniff, this is very good, makes me want to have babies, well almost! The Green Party’s Party Political Broadcast – is that Ireland? Are’nt they all lovely childer? Wouldn’t you want to vote for them too! The stars would probably do a better job than some of the adults! (Wouldn’t be hard!) I bet some [...]
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