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Entries Tagged as 'Blogging'

The GALAS

October 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging

The National Lesbian and Gay Federation GALAS were held last night. I am delighted to have won the Blogger/Website of the year award and thanks again to the NLGF and category sponsor Dublin Pride. It was great to see Emma Donoghue winning Person of the Year and making a very bold speech. More of that [...]

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Unwanted mail

August 3rd, 2011 · 9 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics

I know I invite people to email me and I do welcome emails, information, invitations, publications, reports etc. However I’m not interested in receiving slander or crude defamatory rubbish about candidates in the Presidential election. There are lots of reasons to vote or not vote for people in elections and I’m sure I’ll be busy [...]

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Guest Clucks sought

August 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging

It’s never the silly season here.  If anyone has a guest post on an issue of interest  or campaign in the next month I would welcome publishing it.  You know what sort of thing I’m into and that readers might be interested in. (If you don’t just ask!)  6-800 words – email tips @ mamanpoulet.com [...]

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Look over there, quick, they are worse than we are

July 11th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Media

Thinking aloud for a bit. For years I have endured commentary from those in mainly the print media about the fact that bloggers can’t be trusted, have no editors or legitimacy.  Despite asserting that blogging and mainstream journalism were different things, talking about crowd sourcing and fact checking and pointing to the fact that often [...]

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Guest posts sought

May 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging

The time of year is nearly upon me when I head for tapas, vitamin D and some nice cold San Miguel.  Last year I ran a series of guest posts during the course of my holidays and I think it was quite successful. If you are an organisation with a campaign or an issue you [...]

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Weekend Supplements

February 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Christine Bohan is writing excellent daily updates regarding the campaign on IrishElection.com. Dublin Central FG Candidate Paschal Donohue reflects on the end of Week one. The Big Ticket is a public debate between candidates to be held in Sligo next week. Get ready for the Leaders Debate with Leader Debate Bingo on Election2011.ie Claiming Our [...]

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In case you missed them

January 24th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics

- Independent Candidate for Cork South Central, David McCarthy, is blogging the campaign at Campaigntrail.ie It will be interesting to see if the Independent Alliance for Change he mentions develops and if this is a version of Profit Before People (Copyright – Miriam Lord) PDNua (Copyright mise agus Cathal) or the League of Extra Ordinary [...]

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Candidate Video #2 – Eoghan Murphy

January 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)

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General Election 2011 – Are you blogging it?

January 4th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

I am putting together a list of blogs for General Election 2011 – so if you are a party member who blogs, a candidate or an interested other who will be writing on the election or the politics leading up to it , please leave a comment below and I will publish and update the [...]

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‘I helped pioneer election blogging’

January 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

I did say that seemingly Web General Election had begun… This in from ‘Election blogging Pioneer’ Thomas Byrne TD (Meath East) East Meath TD Thomas Byrne has today welcomed Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny’s tentative return to the national political stage after his recent protracted leave of absence Commenting on Fine Gael’s new online gimmick, [...]

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