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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Lots and lots of random thoughts from a day at the 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis. Party Membership – Where were all the 30-40 year olds? Mostly running for election in the locals? Or working for the organisation or a minister? But as members where were they? What’s the Party age profile? All I saw [...]
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Bloggers in the house today at the Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis include Mark Coughlan who keeps running off and coming back with great nuggets to blog about! Gavin Sheridan has been busy with the video camera. Eoin Bannon from Yellow Roman Candles is comparing speeches of Gerry Adams and Dermot Ahern and finding similarities. They’re [...]
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“This will be a very serious ardfheis.? Mary Coughlan, Tanaiste, Launch of Clar for 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, 25/2/09 The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis begins this evening and with this mornings opinion polls combined with/resulting from the recession and of course the little difficulties about the launch of the website during the week it [...]
Now the US Election is over (those of you with withdrawal symptoms should keep an eye to the Hag of Beara for her posts on campaigning in Ohio) we have returned to the lucky bag that is RTE’s Questions and Answers for live blogging sustenance. Last nights panel : Olivia Mitchell (very invisible Fine Gael [...]
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We’ve live blogged the debates, commented on the Irish mentions, blogged about anything and everything, watched the youtubes, and some have even gone over to work on it or watch it. Tomorrow night Irish bloggers and non bloggers are going to watch the votes come in, get lost amidst the electoral colleges and see the [...]
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