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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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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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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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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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