Enda Kenny and Friends and a Cherry Picker
Posted by Maman Poulet on 17 May 2009 at 05:12 pm | Tagged as: Elections, Irish Politics, Social Media
Thanks to the tip off I received and a break in the weather I headed up to see Enda Kenny and Fine Gael’s European Parliament Election Candidates unveil their poster for the campaign a few hours ago.
It was interesting to see who turned up and who didn’t. Gay Mitchell MEP the lone candidate running in Dublin was first to arrive, followed by Enda Kenny who seemed to be minding Senator John Paul Phelan. Phelan needs a bit of minding given that Mairead McGuinness seems not to want acknowledge him at all in her race to top the poll in the East consituency. Last to arrive was Senator Joe O’Reilly from the North-West Constituency. No sign of Jim Higgins, Sean Kelly, Colm Burke or Mairead herself.
Following a press gaggle where Kenny probably called on the Greens to walk from government and the like, (It was all a bit much for me to muscle in to get to hear) he bounded across the road (nearly jaywalking) and headed for the cherry picker. You can watch the rest below and no doubt see the pictures on the TV news later on and in tomorrows papers.
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It’s a teensie little bit cocky to be demonstrating such big heads at this stage, no? Highlight for me was certainly the amount of Labouring that the poor crane had to do to get them that high in the polls. Very Euro-centric slogan overall, which is a light relief I suppose, but certainly lacking any of the fangs that some wounded dogs can be expected to bare in the coming weeks. God bless your Sunday diligence, Suze.
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They should stay up there to keep them away from the electorate. It still shows the kind of circus antics that politicians get up to. What’s next ? Labour candidates doing a group bungee jump for Liberty Hall ? Or what about the combined FF/GP group doing a three legged race around the M50/DPT ?
Priceless! – now there’s a bunch of people who, if ever in power, look like they’ll spend our money wisely!
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