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Fake email from Tourism Ireland ends up as spam

January 11th, 2012 · 3 Comments

“Tourism Ireland has always strived to be at the cutting edge of e-marketing and we have worked hard to strengthen our social media presence.” So says Vera Stedman, Tourism Ireland’s deputy head of Great Britain, when she accepted the award for Best Use of Social Media’ category at the UK travel industry’s Travolution awards in […]

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Tags: Social Media

Dermot Desmond’s Cultural Odyssey

November 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Suggestions as to what Mr. Desmond’s Cultural Odyssey might be in the comments please.  Wonder if he had an arts guru think that up for him. (Original and really interesting article on the new found love of the arts from the Political classes and business tycoons here. )

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Tags: eejit.. · Irish Media · Uncategorized

Fine Gael’s online spend in General Election 2011

November 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments

The Standards in Public Office Commission published the 2011 General Election expenses from all registered political parties and candidates last month. It is interesting to see how the war chests are spent and how many companies earn from elections being held. Election Mall (based in the USA) were paid €149,435 by Fine Gael for publicity […]

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Tags: Elections · Irish Politics · Social Media

Campaign Diary #19

October 26th, 2011 · 3 Comments

No post yesterday due to flooding related connection problems and well that was a good thing given the state I was left after chequegate. The Irish Times are cranking up the video podcasts from their politics team and in this video Harry McGee analyses the debate. —– The Green Party have been busy asking questions […]

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Tags: Elections · Irish Politics · Trot for the ARAS 2011

Fine Gael terminate relationship with Ravi Singh

June 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments

In today’s Sunday Times (behind a paywall) Mark Tighe reports that Fine Gael have dumped ‘guru’ Ravi Singh and Election Mall. After the website was hacked an investigation with the Data Protection Commissioners took place and it appears that Election Mall refused to cooperate with the investigation and would not provide the logs to the […]

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Tags: Irish Politics