A Bumper Weekend Edition First up today’s REDC opinion poll leader Sean Gallagher. His presidential election broadcast. —– Brendan Strong blogs his opinions on the candidates. —– The Gay Mitchell Story – according to Johnny Doyle! —– Channel 4 News have been over for a visit. Carl Dinnen’s report on the campaign. —– I previously [...]
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Just in from Mary Davis, her favourite song. Wake up maggie I think I got something to say to you It’s late september and I really should be back at school I know I keep you amused but I feel I’m being used Oh maggie I couldn’t have tried any more You lured me away [...]
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If you are a lgbt teacher and feel like writing a letter about Section 37 of the Employment Equality Act, the Taoiseach may need a lesson in his own programme for government. The publicly identified bit in the programme for government may need a bit of editing too while you are at the suggesting! Labour [...]
Congratulations to everyone on their election. I’m forward to lots of changes and much more action and plain speaking in the Dail. That large majority is going to be strange enough. It is going to be very difficult to manage it and also to show TD’s actually doing something other than reading pre-prepared scripted speeches. [...]
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No analysis here of the events gone by. Well not yet. In fact you will have enough of that everywhere else on and off line. Thanks to all for helping me out before and during the campaign and also on making the count more accessible. Special thanks to everyone for all their emails, tips and [...]
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Finally we are ready If you want to follow the count online there are plenty of ways to do it. You can do it via twitter – you don’t have to have a twitter account to do this. You can do a search for your constituency by searching for the tag at search.twitter.com Or you [...]
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You may remember on the eve of the 2007 General Election that Bertie Ahern dropped a leaflet to his constituents looking for second preferences for Cyprian Brady and no mention of Mary Fitzpatrick. Cyprian got elected with only 939 first preferences as Bertie’s surplus went straight to him as directed and got him elected. Today [...]
To mark the election Gill and MacMillan have given me a copy of John Drennan’s Cute Hoors and Pious Protesters to give away in an election competition! The book is a collection of original essays on the ‘traits and characteristics of Irish Politicians’ by the political humourist who will be known to regular listeners to [...]
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So Lucinda Creighton does not believe in same-sex marriage. Neither do I. But I wouldn’t stop anyone from doing it and would passionately support people’s right to marry if they wished to. However I won’t engage in trying to change the mind of someone who is against it or engage in vilifying her. It’s not [...]
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Ok it’s not a song whatever Gino’s press release says, it’s a series of slogans recorded over a song. Gino Kenny is running for the People Before Profit Alliance in Dublin Mid West and it seems that he has released campaign songs before. All I could think of was Power City ads. Sorry Gino! Vote [...]
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