Sometime after midday the shortlists for the blog awards emerged from the ether. I’ve been shortlisted for the first time ever. Best Blog and Best News and Current affairs. Thanks to the judges for getting me this far. And thanks to the sponsors of Best Blog and indeed all the other categories Congratulations to all […]
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Last week I received an invitation from John Gormley‘s office to attend a consultation that the Green Party was holding to discuss forthcoming developments in the legislation for Civil Partnerships for same sex couples. Readers of MP will know I have been vocal on the issue of the Green Party policy in government regarding same […]
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I’ve been nominated for Best Politics Blog and Best News/Current Affairs Blog and Best Personal Blog in this years Irish Blog Awards. Along with 135 others I’ve also been nominated for Best Blog. That’s a few too many nominations for a smooth judging process. (Poor Damien, he’ll need more that a few gins to get […]
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More leaks than a colander has become the discovery of the long list for the Irish Blog Awards 2008. What do I find but the long list for the Best Specialist Blog. The full list and how you get judged etc. will be available tomorrow on Awards.ie Best Specialist Blog In order of nomination date: […]
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Shane Hegarty writing about blogging and nastyness and commenters in particular wonders about heterosexual male privilege. In particular he wonders if women bloggers do attract particular nastiness; and with reference to the practice of commenting generally how much the anonymity allowed by comments threads gives people licence to be homophobic, racist or sexist; and whether […]
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