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Candidate Video #12 – Colm Keaveney

January 31st, 2011 · Comments Off on Candidate Video #12 – Colm Keaveney · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

I know that Cllr. Colm Keaveney has featured in a video post already but this was too notable a gift to candidate cinematography to pass by.

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Alan Shatter’s twitter haikus

January 31st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

It was with great sadness that I watched the final speech of Michael D Higgins last week during the debate on the Finance Bill. You can watch the speech here and it’s really worth it. Michael D. is a poet and thus we could surmise that the Dáil is to lose it’s laureate. However yesterday […]

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The political party photoshop – Exhibit 1

January 31st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Earlier tonight from Mary Lou McDonald, Deputy President of Sinn Fein and  Candidate for Dublin Central via her twitter account. Further examples of such ‘creativity’ are welcome to tips (@)mamanpoulet.com

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Handbags over Civil Partnership and Government Collapse

January 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · General Election 2011, Green Party, Irish Politics, LGBT, Same Sex Partnerships

There is going to be a lot of revisionism and distorting of the facts in the next four weeks and I am sure we’ll be catching and factchecing a lot of claims along the way.  Some of it is off before the campaign has begun, no surprise there! On Friday Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, […]

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Candidate Video #11 – Ciaran Cannon

January 30th, 2011 · Comments Off on Candidate Video #11 – Ciaran Cannon · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Fine Gaelers are in overdrive on the video front, I assume that we’ll see lots of candidate videos from other parties in the weeks to come. Some of these videos are great showreels for TV presenter jobs in case they don’t get elected! Today we start with Senator Ciaran Cannon, ex PD leader who joined […]

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