Email sent to all Fine Gael members today from Tom Curran, General Secretary of Fine Gael. Note the attribution of advisor to party on new media to Daniel Sullivan. Take a bow Dan! (Doubt you made any money like Ravi did! Or maybe you are happy you didn’t make any money from twolicy!) And poor Helen Keogh, vote for her because of her husband!
A number of Fine Gael members are contesting the Seanad Election on the University Panels.
We would encourage members and their families who are eligible to vote to for them in order of preference.
They are;
NUI PANEL
There are 27 candidates, 3 of whom are Fine Gael members, please vote 1,2,3 in order of your choice.HELEN KEOGH – Former Fine Gael Senator and Dail candidate, contested General Election. Her husband Paddy Hayes was Director of Elections in Dublin South East where we won 2 seats.
JOHN KENNEDY – Presently Constituency Secretary in Dublin South and Young Fine Gael activist.
DANIEL SULLIVAN – Party activist. Was involved in Young Fine Gael (University of Limerick). Has advised the Party on New Media.
TRINITY PANEL
There are no Fine Gael members contesting on this panel.Tom Curran
General Secretary
My advice on IT generally (rather than new media per se) was given quite some years ago I think it was around 2005/6 in fact. And I had no real involvement in the recent election on that side at all, indeed a good portion was in the opposite direction of what myself and the other person involved had advised be done. I believe I had commented and pointed that out on here a month or two back during the campaign. I stuck in the main with the old door knocking and such like. And the occasional bit of commentary.
Also, my involvement with YFG in UL ended around 1991 when I graduated, that would have been around the time when Brian Hayes was president of the organisation: records and research are evidently not quite what they once where. It does omit that I was a local election candidate in 2004 but perhaps it is just as well given my less than stellar performance. And I suppose I should be glad that any political dalliances any of the 3 of us might have had with other parties in the 90s don’t need to have any undue attention drawn to them.
I was expecting to be placed last on any message (such is the life of those named further down the alphabet) that might be forthcoming but I had rather thought that ‘n’ came before ‘o’. Still, we learn new things every day.
I understand that it was considered at one point to indicate to people that a particular individual who has semi-traded on their loose FG associations, is not nor has ever been a member despite turning up outside branch meetings in recent times to canvass them. But wasn’t the point when erstwhile ex-ministers tweet for them and cameramen just happen to spot them in a rugby crowd just as someone is tweeting the fact.
It’s a funny old campaign, and there’s weeks to go yet.
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It would appear that Labour issued a mail endorsing James Doorley, odd that they would endorse one candidate in preference to any of the other Labour party members involved.
http://twitter.com/Fifffii/statuses/51660150473371649
I presume that you will be posting the content of this mail if it is real too.
Yup a copy sent to me and post queued for tomorrow – not quite an endorsement well in comparison to the FG request anyway
Labour members got emails from both James Doorley and Donnacha O’Connell. They weren’t endorsements from the party but instead emails from both candidates outlining as to why they should get votes.
As far as I know, they are the only Labour members running on that panel but I’m not an NUI voter so haven’t looked closely
Actually, the mail as you’ve posted it today and as it appears it was sent from the account of the party general secretary comes across to me at least as being more of an endorsement but that could be just my reading of how it will present to members.