Senator Paschal Donohue is by now an old hand at this social media stuff having blogged his bye-election run in Dublin Central in 2009 and to his credit continuing to blog and engage online throughout the past eighteen months. He’s trying video blogging now (His youtube channel if you want to keep an eye on [...]
I’ve been keeping a list of twitter accounts established by candidates in the General Election. It’s interesting to watch campaigns take shape and candidates find their feet online. Some use it to react to voters and national election/political issues, others talk about the feelings/opinions of voters that they are experiencing on the canvass. Many FG [...]
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Some think I’m unfair or obsessed with the subject so with the resumption of the new Fine Gael social media strategy I waited 24 hours to comment and watched many of the rest of Ireland on the internet dissolve into a mixture of mirth and disbelief. How lucky are we!!! For free you can download [...]
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Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)
Fine Gael are saying that they do not know why their website was hacked. (as per Paschal Donohue’s appearance on Six One News this evening.) In the statement that was sent this morning to Kevin Doyle, political correspondent in the Evening Herald, the hackers explained why. They also sent Kevin a copy of the database [...]
As we know from the last time Fine Gael launched a website things are never as they seem and techies and website developers discovered that Fine Gael had a little help for their design from a freelancer who used BBC code in the design. It is no different with the site launched today according to [...]
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Happy New Year all. I didn’t think I’d be joining you this soon with a bit of a story but our politicians fail to disappoint on the silly stakes. Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames was recently selected to contest the General Election for Fine Gael in Galway West. Her twitter account is a stream of consciousness with [...]
Today is International Students Day and the Irish Second Level Students Union and the Children’s Rights Alliance are holding Your World – Your Say a Consultation on Children’s Views on their Engagement in European and International Levels of Decision-Making. 100 young people from all over the country are gathering in Dublin to talk about the [...]
Tags:Childrens Rights Alliance·European Parliament·Gay Mitchell·ISSU·Liam Aylward·Prionsias de Rossa·Sean Kelly MEP
He’s not great at being interviewed by the media, he doesn’t do the pieces to camera on the FF youtube very well. So what does the Taoiseach do next? He gets his own deputy press officer from the Government Press Office to interview him instead and shies away from press conferences. Hardly any hard questions [...]
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Yes it surprised me also. Next Monday night a public debate on Politics and the Media will be held in Galway City Museum at 8 pm. Hosted by the Galway Green Party the panel will debate the relationship between old and new media and politics and given garglegate last week and #simoncoveneysfault promises to be [...]
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