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FFNua

November 18th, 2010 · Irish Politics

Not that I think many are interested in the future of Fianna Fáil at the moment but a few weeks ago I heard about the meeting of FF activists interested in rebuilding the party. 

Led by Jerry Beades, a member of the FF National Executive, it was disclosed on RTE yesterday that they intend to go ahead and bring together a grouping of people to reform the party. A website is mentioned as being in development.  (Beades was also in the news yesterday for other reasons.)

In reaction to this news, Stephen Kearon, staunch FF loyalist, uber texter into radio programmes, former local election candidate and former adviser to Dick Roche registered the url www.fiannafailnua.com.  This site redirects to the official party website.

Isn’t is grand for them buying websites while the country ‘burns’.   Jerry Beades is being called a canard teller there by Stephen Kearon mind you.  So we’ll see the official FFNua website soon enough I suppose.

(Canard – the word FF ministers use when they want to say people other than themselves are telling lies or mistruths. )

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Keeping up with the chicken

November 17th, 2010 · Blogging

Just to point out a few new toys available on the blog.

For those of you who don’t use a feed reader and want to know when there are new posts on the blog you can subscribe and get an email sent to you twice a day with links to the latest posts. The email will only go out when there are new posts to alert you to.

Also when you comment on a particular post you can set up an alert to get emails alerting you to new comments.

Finally if you want to share a post with someone at the end of each post there is a share button where you can save the post, email it to someone, facebook or twitter a link to it.

There is a new liveblog tool which I have yet to try out – this will allow me to have a post which I can update when watching or attending a particular event. Liveblogs which are mass participation are still going to be a problem as my favoured liveblog software is now out of reach financially but am sure we’ll find a way round it.

Again many thanks to Jean O’Brien for her great work on the redesign. The reaction has been fantastic and the traffic to the blog has significantly increased since the new design also.

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Dick Roche on Newsnight

November 17th, 2010 · Elections, Irish Politics

On the night the ECB/IMF said they were coming to Dublin and that the bailout was ready, Dick Roche, Minister for Europe, chuckling away, fabricating rubbish, went on Newsnight looking for votes for FF.

From 8.14 in

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‘I believe that Children are our future’

November 17th, 2010 · European Union, Irish Politics, Social Media

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 issue.

They asked some of our MEPs to speak on a video about the role of young people in European Decision Making and send good wishes.

It would be inappropriate to suggest a drinking game but hell, one milkshake for mention of facebook, another for twitter, an icecream sundae for Gay Mitchell’s description of networking. And a knickerbocker glory for remembering what Liam Aylward looks like.

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Are you registered to vote?

November 17th, 2010 · Elections, Irish Politics

The draft electoral register for 2011 has been published and you have until 25th November to check the details and get yourself included.

You can check online and download a form to correct it or add yourself on to it and return to your county/city council BEFORE November 25th.

We may all be going to the polling station rather shortly – this new register comes into effect on February 15th 2011.

However if you are not on the register and we get to vote before this you will need to fill a supplemental register form which you can find here and return it to your council at least 14 Working Days before the election takes place

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