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Dinny McGinley rallying in Donegal

January 18th, 2011 · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Regular readers know that I have lost my heart to Donegal. Wallace Media are keeping me more than entertained with their election coverage and today’s gem is this speech from Dinny McGinley TD to the Fine Gael selection convention of his county colleague Joe McHugh.

I don’t know which bit to recommend to you most, the inhaler, the comparison of a certain Dublin North TD to Noel Browne, or the ‘special’ welcome for Olywn Enright who is leaving politics at the next election and moving to Donegal.

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ERA launch Election Campaign

January 18th, 2011 · Elections, Equality, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

The Equality and Rights Alliance launched their general election campaign yesterday asking voters and political parties to put equality and human rights at the centre of their voting intentions and campaigns.

The Alliance is comprised of 155 organisations and activsts representing over 250,000 people living in Ireland. One of the key calls of the campaign will be the introduction of a socio-economic ground in equality legislaiton to ensure that targetting poverty is prioritised.

Yesterday the Alliance confirmed that Rev. Jessie Jackson will visit Ireland in February to further promote the campaign and also launch a document which contains a Roadmap for a strengthened Equality and Human Rights Infrastructure in Ireland.

More actions to promote equality and human rights issues in the course of the election have been promised including a drive to make members aware of the issues when casting their vote.

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Cowen is Still Here

January 18th, 2011 · Uncategorized

From DT Finn aka Cutbacks

D.T.Finn is a dilapidated animation producer, exhausted after years in industry and education.

He lives on a hill, far from broadband coverage, surrounded by demanding children and faithfully attended by a devoted redhead.

D.T.Finn wants to squander his remaining career on abstract sculpture and on his own feature-length animation projects.

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The Audacity of Enda

January 15th, 2011 · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

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 and print this poster for your window or your wall. There are facebook, twitter and mobile phone versions too!

There has got to be focus group research somewhere that indicates that Enda worship is going to go down well or else Ravi and co. are scripting this off their own election plan hymn sheet? Or is Ravi still working for FG after hack gate?

I hear there are new communication types working in HQ and of course Enda told us himself on the Six One News the other day about the 40 new technology people in HQ who are learning all about this stuff. I’ve christened them the blueshirt hamsters.

There’s a new video from Enda of course. It was recorded before the ‘incident’ but the relevance of the message remains the same.

More Obama bingo being played here if you have not noticed.  I have an Obama poster up on my wall for the past two years, the idea did not come from the Democratic party but from an artist (who has since disowned Obama!)  So it’s not the same thing to create the hype yourself and especially not psychedelically.  I’ll give it 24 hours before FG release figures about their ‘viral’ poster.

There is a school of thought in Mount Street that all this craziness and being hacked and resulting coverage is a good thing.  There are other schools of thought too and I’m sure you can add your thoughts below or elsewhere online.

Update:  In a further demonstration of how these things work (and FG don’t really get it) – can I direct you to the Enda Poster Generator.   You may wish to come back here after your session of art therapy and leave a link to your creation in the comments.  A gallery has been opened on Boards.ie

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