The manifesto launches begin tomorrow. Not a moment too soon after a week of bondholders and renegotiating roundabouts with added debate debates. I went to my first press conference of the campaign today and learnt little new about Fine Gael’s plan to scrap the HSE. Most of what I heard today was released last year [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Irish Blog Awards'
Policy on something? Anyone?
February 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · General Election 2011, Irish Blog Awards, Irish Politics
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Thanks
March 29th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards
I was delighted and honoured to win an Irish Blog Award (for Best News and Current Affairs) on Saturday night. I was very happy to be in great company with the other finalists in the category. Many thanks to all the people who came up and said hello and I know I missed seeing lots [...]
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Thanks!
February 23rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards, Irish Media
It’s still a bit surreal and sinking in what happened in Cork on Saturday. I’m very happy and still very humbled by the results. I blog for fun, for anger, for stress relief from my day job, as a source of pain relief (you wouldn’t believe the nerve endings that can be numbed by a [...]
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The Morning After
February 22nd, 2009 · 28 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards
I’ll have a more substantial (and less hung over) post later but thank you for all the emails, twitters, facebook msgs and texts. It was really great to win the Best News and Current Affairs category again this year. I am completely blown away however to win the Grand Prix as it’s being called (very [...]
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And the winner is!? Blogging!
February 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards
Good Afternoon from Cork where despite the best efforts of some still slightly mysterious illness that has me out of work and going slowly doolally, I’ve made it to Cork International Airport Hotel – the most original, coolest, kitchest hotel in Cork Ireland. I’ve also heard that I’ve joined 19 others in a feature in [...]
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Irish Blog Awards Finalists Announced
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Irish Blog Awards
After an awful lot of judging the list of finalists for this weekends Irish Blog Awards is out. I’ve made the lists for Best News and Current Affairs Blog and Best Blog Post. Many thanks to readers, commenters and judges. Amazing list of finalists throughout and roll on the weekend’s festivities!
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Irish Blog Awards 2009
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards
The first round of judging in the Irish Blog Awards has taken place in the past week and this blog has reached the long lists of the Best Politics Blog (Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries) and Best News and Current Affairs Blog (Sponsored by IGO people). The long lists for all the categories were announced last [...]
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Irish Blog Awards 2009 – it’s time to nominate!
January 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards
Nominations for this year’s Irish Blog Awards have been open over a week and there is a week left and I’m only now getting round to thinking about who I’m going to nominate in some if not all of the 20 categories on offer this year. The awards this year are being held in the [...]
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Here come the women*
September 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Feminism, Irish Blog Awards
Do you remember the days in the Irish Blogosphere when people wondered why there weren’t more women blogging in Ireland or if there was even a need to encourage more women to blog. We had the discussions about women and why they blog or don’t blog. And there were also the times when the men [...]
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Amadáns = ammado
May 26th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards, More Money than sense, Social Media
Oh I’m one of the special ones to get spammed. I got an email today targeted at bloggers from ammado about themselves and World Refugee Day and the UNCHR and taking a picture of me or someone else with my hands over me head in a pose to protect refugees and posting it on their [...]
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