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Captions please

January 13th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Irish Politics

At the BT Young Scientist Competition today, Cllr Eoghan Murphy, FG candidate for Dublin South East in the driving seat and Enda.  Your captions please.

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When 140 Characters won’t do

January 13th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Green Party, Irish Politics

So I did say it was going to be a very long day. Worse off then when we started, people who are not going for re-election convince a Taoiseach who doesn’t reveal information and can’t run the country that he has done nothing wrong. So he’s going to have a chat with a load of […]

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Thursday is going to be a long day

January 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Thursday is going to be a long day · Irish Politics

Wednesday was a very long day, with lots of long questions and longer answers, few of them to the questions that were being asked in the Dáíl. As I depart for bed word reaches me that Thursday may be even longer. #ffheave Goodnight.

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Get standing

January 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · General Election 2011, Irish Politics

The website is still not working so Enda Kenny was spot on when he said he said he was going to stand it down but he is back in town ready for the Dáíl. In remarks just delivered on the plinth of Leinster House he’s talking about his plans to ‘Get Ireland Working’. You may […]

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The political family who tweets together

January 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics

Meet FF Councillor Aengus O’Rourke. And here is Aengus’s mother Mary.  (O’Rourke TD) All together now!  Ahhh!  [Ok so she didn’t correct his spelling but that will come soon no doubt!] Some of us were expecting a FF heave after Mary’s earlier tweet yesterday.  But she explained later that while she did mean it, it […]

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