Green Party leader John Gormley’s announcement about saving the Equality Authority from the drastic cuts in budget and stopping the move to Roscrea made at the Green Party Conference is full of?? Answer to question from Aengus O’Snodaigh from Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform Dermot Ahern on March 24th To ask the Minister [...]
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Diarmuid Doyle on Picturegate in today’s Sunday Tribune. The problem is that the people doing the managing on his [Cowen's] behalf are doing a poor job. Anybody with even the basic knowledge of modern communications, of how a small story can be propelled around the world by a combination of blogs, social networking sites, YouTube [...]
The Labour Party National Conference is taking place this weekend in Mullingar. There is a lot of online coverage with many bloggers and embedded tweeters. You can follow the live blog here and watch proceedings live on Ustream. I’m wondering as I did for Brian Cowen and John Gormley what musical offering you would suggest [...]
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In case bloggers and others interested in online engagement are not aware – Monday next (30th March) sees the folk from Micandidate.eu provide tea, coffee and pastries and hopefully answers to lots of as yet unanswered questions on the new platform. It takes place at 6.30pm in the European Commission Offices in Molesworth Street. All [...]
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I’ve been trying to get some sort of hold on what I think this week’s events are about. So here goes… Picturegate was not about the pictures, not about the gallery and someone putting the pictures into a gallery. It’s not about gender or the exasperating comment heard from Mary O’Rourke this week ‘if a [...]
There are quite a number of unresolved issues from #picturegate – #Cowengate which I’m interested in exploring. The nature of the complaints to RTE before and after the apology was broadcast is one area and I’ve been in touch with RTE this afternoon. Following the broadcast of the original piece on Monday night RTE received [...]
Tags:#cowengate·#portraitgate·BBC Editors blog·picturegate·Radio Telefís Éireann·RTE
Garett is running for Fianna Fáil in the forthcoming local election in the constituency of Pembroke/Rathmines. Can I make it through a post without mentioning his older brother? Well Garrett is far more web savvy than himself it seems – he still says the words ‘web blog’ with difficulty and well probably not appropriately but [...]
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From this mornings Irish Times – I paraphrase. Cowen didn’t ask for complaint to be made (or was consulted about it) regarding the piece on the Nine O’Clock News. Instead it was a Government Press Officer performing a solo run (oops that nearly came out as knicker twister ala Miriam Lord). But RTE say that their [...]
Miriam Lord, Queen Bee of parliamentary sketch writing, on Portraitgate/Cowengate in today’s Irish Times. The Taoiseach’s mobile phone rings twice while he is on his feet during Leaders’ Question. He doesn’t take the call. It’s probably from one of the knicker-twisters, getting in touch to tell Brian that the Garda Emergency Response Unit can be [...]
Tags:#cowengate·Miriam Lord·Parliamentary Sketch·picturegate·Taoiseach
Maman Poulet’s inbox is a treasure trove some days. Tonight’s jewel is a leak of the new Fine Gael logo due to be launched at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis next week. Lots of leaflets were printed for local election candidates with the old logo but instead of a new leader as many would like [...]
Tags:Ardfheis·Fine Gael·Fine Gael Ard Fheis·Ireland·Politics·Society and Culture
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