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Entries from September 2008

What will Sarah Palin say to Bono today?

September 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · US Election 2008

Surely they must share Shannon Airport stopover stories? As part of her speed dating with foreigners exercise Sarah Palin is meeting the great one in New York today. Bono says he hopes to meet Obama before the election too… As Palin is not doing press conferences or any coverage where a reporter can be present [...]

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Shooting the Messenger?

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Recession

Image via Wikipedia Are we going back to Government broadcasting policy of the 1980′s? Brian Lenihan rings the RTE Boss to complain sorry have a cordial conversation about the contents of Liveline last week. If you missed it, callers were ringing Joe and talking about moving their money to under the mattress or the post [...]

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Ya wha?

September 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics

As if The Office of Bertie Ahern (and I’m referring to the concept – don’t even get me started on the cost of the suite of rooms with the shower and all!) wasn’t over egging it, tonight my feedreader lights up with news from Newstalk of Bertie’s preferred form of address in public. From Newstalk [...]

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Visual cues for the aul sod

September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment · US Election 2008

About 1’20 into the programme see how the Today show on NBC do Ireland. (And do over Palin and her list of lies…)

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Les Mizbarack

September 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments · US Election 2008

Some culture for Maman Poulet readers, opera singers and musical queens alike… Ulitmate Improv bring us Les Mizbarack h/t Joemygod

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Liveblogging Questions and Answers

September 15th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized

With the US Elections, the recession, party conferences and X Factor amongst the items hot on the agenda I’ve been watching Simon McGarr of Tuppenceworth try out some live blogging software over the past few days. He also watches America’s Got Talent and America’s Next Top Model in the earnest quest to perfect his live [...]

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Homophobic Attack in Maghera

September 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Homophobia

I’m subscribed to press releases from all the political parties and the title of this one from Sinn Fein made me actually open one for a change. And my stomach turned reading it… Chairperson of Magherafelt District Policing Partnership, Councillor Seán McPeake has condemned a vicious homophobic attack on two young men in Maghera at [...]

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Here come the women*

September 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Feminism, Irish Blog Awards

Do you remember the days in the Irish Blogosphere when people wondered why there weren’t more women blogging in Ireland or if there was even a need to encourage more women to blog. We had the discussions about women and why they blog or don’t blog. And there were also the times when the men [...]

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Chap Poach Palin?

September 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments · US Election 2008

Or otherwise known there is nothing on the television other than the People of the Year Awards and I’m definitely not going there! I think Sarah Palin has had her 5 minutes of fame…and I’m not going to become a Palin Pop Culture blogger (However I did laugh when I read that she had not [...]

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Parachute for Senator De Burca

September 13th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics

The parachute is only needed for her journey from Wicklow, Senator Deirdre De Burca was this afternoon selected to run for the Green Party in Dublin the European Elections next year. Photo owned by antonkudris (cc) Now you wouldn’t know that she is running in Dublin from the press release I got from the Green [...]

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