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Posted by Maman Poulet on 02 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging
Tonight in Trinity College Dublin a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on the Constitution will take place to discuss electoral reform. It’s believed to be the first time that the committee will have met outside the Oireachtas to debate. Discussions at the meeting will include presentations by members of the public on electoral reform. (Yes I know the meeting is only down the road, but you never know what this may have started! The decentralisation of the Dáil and Seanad cannot be too far away!)
Tonights meeting will then be followed by a panel discussion chaired by John Bowman with participants including Noel Dempsey, Minister for Transport, Professor Ken Benoit, head of the Department of Political Science, Senator Ivana Bacik, Trinity Fellow, Sean Ardagh, Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee, Jim O’Keeffe, Vice Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee and The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Clarke.
The event is hosted by TCD JS Irish Politics (3rd year) class and TCD Department of Political Science.
There will be a liveblog and webcast, more information can be found on TheStory.ie. I’ll be liveblogging at some stage hopefully if the wifi goddesses oblige! So please join in and we’ll try and get some points across from the viewing public!
Posted by Maman Poulet on 11 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession, Seanad Eireann
The Seanad is debating the NAMA Bill and Alexia began a live blog of the debate yesterday which for this injured chicken was a delightful way of continuing my recuperation!
Some intriguing questions – Where was Shane Ross during the debate – ‘Business Regulation Expert’ too busy promoting the book? Or too wary of speaking in the house on the issue? Why is Joe O’Toole of INTO and ICTU fame consistently voting with the Government on the issue? He thinks supporting NAMA is consistent with supporting social democracy according to Senator Alex White.
The Green Party contributions have been as numerous as in the lower house – ie. not a lot.
And then there’s been the tweeting Senators – this is now officially the the most tweeted event from members of the Oireachtas. Paschal Donohue, Jerry Buttimer and sometimes even Dan Boyle are tweeting during the debate from the chamber – the heckles continue online and are captured in the Liveblog.
The debate in the Seanad has actually been of a high quality with speakers generally well prepared. And there has been a flock of ministers into bring the bill thorugh the house (Flock according to Frances Fitzgerald – whirlygig according to David Norris)
Hop over to the liveblog to have a look at the pictures, Duracell Bunnies and Ladybird books as well as the results and commentary as it happens.
Posted by Maman Poulet on 10 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Green Party, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession
I’m in the RDS this afternoon for the Green Party Conference on the Renewed Programme for Government. There is a liveblog running and Green Party members are inside the hall tweeting. You can read the full document online and it was available a good hour before the printed version. Loads of reaction online to the contents already this morning. More from me on the liveblog later.
Posted by Maman Poulet on 02 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Lisbon, Live Blogging
I’ll be in Dublin Castle tomorrow at the National Count Centre with Cian and Alexia and a load of foreign media scratching their heads and wondering what is going on!
There is a liveblog already established for the count results and we are looking forward to pulling in news from around the country as the tallies come in. Cian posts about how to contact us with information and as usual in Irish blogging/online crowdsourcing and all hands on deck is the way to go.
Thanks in advance for helping out if you are at a count or otherwise following results. If you have contacts outside of Ireland who may be interested in keeping in touch with things you should point them in the direction of the liveblog and also to additional coverage and analysis on Irishelection.com.
I’m voting later today and will be on the look out for Cóirites monitoring the goings on. Watching them watching us eh? We even have a blog for watching the votes go in.
Posted by Maman Poulet on 11 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Irish Politics, Live Blogging, MSM
Emerging from Montrose is the title of the new Current Affairs show to be hosted by Pat Kenny on Monday Nights.
The Frontline will be broadcast in the same timeslot as it’s predecessor but word is that it will be more news driven and flexible rather than panel or audience driven. No news on the Youtube/Twitter effect yet.
The first programme will air on September 28th – 4 days before the Lisbon 2 vote and just as I return from holidays to join in the liveblog fun no doubt!
Posted by Maman Poulet on 29 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, MSM
It’s the final Questions and Answers programme tonight. The funeral is a specially extended edition at 10.30pm on RTE1 with 20 mourners as guests. (Kathy Sheridan, one of the better panellists over the years interviewed John Bowman in Saturday’s Irish Times).
Unfortunately there are very few Q&A clips on Youtube – so jogging your moment with ‘the best of’ was going to be very difficult.
But you may be able to relive them for us without clips for Maman Poulet’s Q&A awards?
The 1990 presidential election and Brian Lenihan Snr and his claims of having ‘no hand, act or part’ in attempt to pressurise President Hillery not dissolve the Dáil comes to mind for me.
My favourite guests – Michael D. Higgins, Pat Rabbitte (shock!), and Nell McCafferty when she was on form.
I’m also thinking up awards categories that you might not hear of on tonights show. Care to add a few?
Most frequent audience member award?
There must be UCD Alumni (Kevin Barry Cuman members in particular) all over the world who got plenty of free beer on regular Monday nights to keep them going through college – some probably have showreels on the basis.
Most tokenistic female panelist ever?
Q&A was legendary for it’s one female panellist among all the lads.
Tonight’s programme promises archive clips and it’ll be liveblogged.
Have you other award categories we could use in a Q&A awards programme?
Meanwhile this is the only clip on Youtube I could find apart from Michael O’Brien’s recent compelling intervention. It’s a good one of Dermot Ahern and Pat Rabbitte pre the last general election.
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Posted by Maman Poulet on 08 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Declan Ganley, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Uncategorized
Understatement!
I’ll let other people talk about the liveblog and the results. The weekend was stunning on a personal note and it was brilliant to work with Cian, Alexia, Mark, and Damien over Saturday and Sunday in bringing it all to life and have inputs from so many others around the country. Thanks again to D4 hotels for the room for the blogger HQ and like many of the readers and commenters on the live blog it seems people are saying roll on the General Election and online media bringing news to people who are interested and those who claim not to be intersted but really are!
I’m very tired but have had a few thoughts simmering – excuse the babble!
And finally for all those wheelie bins out there – time to fight back against those who are looking for you and claim you went missing!

Posted by Maman Poulet on 06 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession
Marian Finucane stumbled over the B word a few weeks ago in reference to tomorrow’s Emergency Budget and Bludget seems most apt in terms of the fear that exists in some quarters. Over the weekend there was some downplaying saying it was not going to be as bad as feared – this even after the alarming exchequer figures released last week!?
Yesterday Fianna Fáil released another video of An Taoiseach addressing the nation (or people who happen to drop by the FF website). No stumbling here, but we’re told that ‘we’ll come through it and at the end of the day look back and be proud of the collective effort we all made’. (Too easy I know to ask if it’s the collective effort to mess things up.)
Tomorrow afternoon as it all unfolds in Dáil Eireann there will be a live blog of the Emergency/Supplementary/Not so Mini Budget. Please come over and join in the analysis and reaction to Minister Brian Lenihan and the speeches of the opposition spokespersons. The tag for the microbloggers on Twitter is #bludget.
In the meantime if you are undertaking reality avoidance measures (or like me have not got a clue what will happen or what is best in the national interest) you may wish to play the fantasy budget and listen to others speculate thanks to Newstalk.
Posted by Maman Poulet on 03 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Irish Media, Live Blogging, Ryan Tubridy
24 searches for Madame Poulet yesterday – Contrary to popular belief I’ve never run a house of ill repute or appeared in an opera by Puccini
I assume my diction is a little poor from the radio chat with Mr. Tubridy and Damien yesterday but people found me anyway. It was very enjoyable and to hear Val and her special brand of engagement with himself. Ryan can’t say he doesn’t understand us or know anything about blogging and please don’t hesitate to ask a blogger for their qualified or otherwise opinions on so many things!
Anyway back to normal now and time for a bit of sleep, catching up on reading and some tlc etc. If you are new here welcome, enjoy, don’t forget to dip into irishblogs.ie for everyone else and let me know what you think along the way.
Posted by Maman Poulet on 01 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: Blogging, Elections, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Recession
Lots and lots of random thoughts from a day at the 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis.
To the Fianna Fáil party – (and FG/Labour/Greens are you reading this?)
I’ve loads to say to the Mainstream Media -who I think today got their first full on view of blogging in action in Ireland.
Finally a word of thanks to the bloggers in City West – Eoin, Gavin (the Videos are his), Mark, and all the bloggers and livebloggers and tweeters all over the world who were following online and joining in, commenting and creating their own content.
And hello to all my new Fianna Fáil supporting readers and twitter followers? Come join the fun and comment away!?!