Northwest Pride kicks off on Thursday in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim and in it’s fourth year the festival is making even more firsts. All the events over the weekend can be found here and everyone is welcome to attend. The Pride Parade takes place in Sligo Town on Saturday and there are several other events in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'irishelection2007'
Easkey (pop. 250) hosts LGBT Pride event
August 5th, 2009 · 6 Comments · irishelection2007, LGBT
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Magill Politician of the Year Awards
April 30th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007
Breaking News from Dublin City Centre is the announcement of the winners of the Magill magazine’s Politician of the Year awards. (Thanks to RM!!) Campaigning politician of the year – Brian Hayes Wigmore award – Gaffe of the year – Terence Flanagan (for copying Joan Burton’s speech) One to watch – Sean Sherlock Political Humourist [...]
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Ciaran ‘Cop Out’ Cuffe T.D.
October 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Ciaran Cuffe, Cop Out, Equality, Gay, Homophobia, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, KAL Case, LGBT, Queer, Same Sex Partnerships
Updates to this post can be found here and here Ciaran Cuffe – is this what doing a deal with the devil is all about? Today on Lunchtime on Newstalk you were laying out the various reasons why it might not be the right time to vote in favour of redebating the Labour Party’s Civil [...]
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New Irish Podcast
August 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Podcasting
Inside Out is a programme on Dublin City Anna Livia. But from today Inside Out is a podcast hosted by IrishElection.com. For the first podcast myself (‘lifestyle’ blogger according to them would you believe!) and Cian were interviewed about elections and blogging. Find out more about the podcast here and how you can listen to [...]
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TCD Seanad Election – First Count – Ross and Norris Elected.
July 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007
First Count announced before 11 pm tonight in the exam hall, TCD. The Quota is 4230 – Spoilt votes 60 Total Valid Poll 16917 Bacik 2794 Conway 214 Douglas 183 Efobi 201 Gueret 1155 Hutchinson Edgar 330 McDonagh 684 Martin 223 Norris 5240 O’Connor 514 Ross 5379 Shane Ross and David Norris were elected on [...]
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It’s 4am!
May 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Uncategorized
Moment of the day, getting this text (from one of our very many sources who made Irishelection.com’s coverage rock) and checking it and then forwarding it on. We had it several minutes before RTE did. It’s been like that all day Goodnight!
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Irishelection.com reboots, reloads, kicks ass
May 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Social Media
So will we get our first out gay TD elected tomorrow?? How long will we wait for someone to call for someone to resign/retire? All this and more on Irishelection.com where I have moved for the past few weeks. The new site looks great – the new gadgets are bloody amazing – I really really [...]
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Getting Ready for Friday
May 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishelection2007, Uncategorized
Cian at IrishElection.com tells about blogging the count, mysaying the count, and god knows what else which is taking place on Friday. So if you are going to be in or within a sniff of a count and want to get involved in webbing the election with rumours, tallies and gossip go here, read it, [...]
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Green Party Political Broadcast
May 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Irish Politics, irishelection2007
Sniff, this is very good, makes me want to have babies, well almost! The Green Party’s Party Political Broadcast – is that Ireland? Are’nt they all lovely childer? Wouldn’t you want to vote for them too! The stars would probably do a better job than some of the adults! (Wouldn’t be hard!) I bet some [...]
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Asking the questions
May 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Blogging, Irish Politics, irishelection2007
Kathy Sheridan of the Irish Times was a dose of reality when the opposition floundered all around her on Q&A tonight trying to make Bertiegate go away. Talbot Street (Independent Group) which is FF HQ’s extension annex is working to make it go away. But Kathy was not letting it go away and tired as [...]
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