Much noise in the past 48 hours with the official announcement of the candidacy of 23 year old Dylan Haskins in Dublin South East. Dylan is standing as an independent candidate and has been involved in promotion and organisation of cultural events in Dublin city. I get the impression that lots of people know Dylan, […]
Tags: Elections · General Election 2011 · Irish Politics
Recovering from the use of the term ‘butt plug’ in the title of a blog post, a few links for you. (And unlike Miriam Lord I know the difference between a butt plug and a rampant rabbit but maybe she’s just given the former leader of the Labour Party a new nickname, I may never […]
Tags: Irish Politics · linkiness
This morning I though we had lost an elder statesman such were the gushing tributes on twitter (twibutes!) from Fergus O’Dowd Louth FG TD. Fergus had come to twitter a few months ago to talk about his weight loss on Operation Transformation. Now we get progress reports (3 Stone gone) interspersed with concerns about transport […]
Tags: Irish Politics
Yesterday as news spread on twitter about George Lee’s resignation from public office many turned to Senator Paschal Donohue for comment, he is the most followed and active FG rep using the medium. And Paschal usually replies back to those who ask questions – it’s called conversation – something others using twitter might take note […]
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So we had the audio, The video and the Ringtone, and the unofficial transcript. All in 90 mins from the utterance. Update Kildarestreet.com have rushed out the transcript of the incident and urge us to ‘Get it before they remove it from the record!’ Harry McGee writes about the list of words that are banned […]
Tags: Green Party · Irish Politics