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Entries from May 2009

I’m over there

May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics

I’m getting comments and texts and having conversations with people wondering why I’m not blogging the election etc.  – maybe I didn’t make it clear enough that during the campaign you’ll find me over on Irishelection.com Given work and surviving life it’s all I can muster at the moment. The odd post here when I [...]

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Single Issue LGBT Candidates in Irish Elections – a (very) brief history

May 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, LGBT

Lisa Connell is standing as an Independent LGBT Candidate in Dublin South West Inner City/Dublin 8 area of Dublin City Council. Lisa is not the first independent LGBT candidate to contest an election in Ireland – the first I believe was Liz Noonan who ran as a Lesbian Feminist Candidate in 3 Dáil elections in [...]

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Goal!

May 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

ah oops wrong sport sorry.. Find out who own’s this Mascot, who’s been putting up Maurice Ahern’s posters in Dublin Central and what Fianna Fáil candidates are experiencing on the ground in the latest round up on Irishelection.com

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Enda Kenny and Friends and a Cherry Picker

May 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Thanks to the tip off I received and a break in the weather I headed up to see Enda Kenny and Fine Gael’s European Parliament Election Candidates unveil their poster for the campaign a few hours ago. It was interesting to see who turned up and who didn’t.  Gay Mitchell MEP the lone candidate running [...]

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Green Party Election Website – sneak preview

May 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

They’re down to 3% in the TNS/MRBI Poll however tomorrow the Green Party are launching their local election manifesto and a new election website. And in the fine tradition of the Irish Blogosphere finding all the Political Party’s new websites first (ok so they did not really hide it too well  – I just went [...]

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Libertas Phone Canvass

May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Declan Ganley, Elections, Irish Politics

So anyone received a phonecall from one of the 15 full time ‘genuine Libertas volunteers‘ (free lunch provided!) doing phonebanking and making calls to 100,000 households? I know it’s been underway for a few weeks but wonder what the pitch is now as we are well into the campaign? Any Dublin Calls being made or [...]

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So will you come in for a glass of…?

May 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

Do you think Fintan O’Toole was proposing to offer Eamon Gilmore a glass of TK red lemonade and thus fight off the coke and pepsi politics? Photo on Labour’s Flickr Stream and taken on Sunday 10th in Artane/Whitehall. If anyone ever manages to canvas me I’ll get a picture and give them a glass of [...]

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Poster watch, Celebrities, and sightings of former economics correspondents

May 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media

All this and more over at the lastest web election round up on Irishelection.com Many thanks for all the tip offs – keep them coming

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It’s not every day you find a politician up a pole

May 10th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

Driving through Raphoe in Co. Donegal today a wannabe councillor was spotted up a ladder putting up posters! Now this was not just any candidate – so the car was stopped and camera rooted for. My partner’s relatives are now confirmed in their thoughts that I’m a lunatic as I decide to approach Frank McBrearty [...]

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Strongly Independent, weakly Fianna Fáil?

May 8th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

The tales of bad receptions on doorsteps and signs warning FF/Green Party canvassers to stay away continue to accelerate.  Finding posters of Fianna Fail candidates from Dublin to Letterkenny today was difficult – lots of the Chairman (more about him and the way he might smile at you later) and plenty for various  Sinn Fein, [...]

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