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Entries Tagged as 'European Parliament'

The Emperors New Clothes

April 2nd, 2009 · 11 Comments · Elections, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Rock the Vote

The blogger briefing for miCandidate.eu took place on Monday night and you can see a lot of what took place thanks to Alexia. I’ve written about this campaign before and had further responses from candidates in 4 political parties asking for my opinion on the product. Here’s that opinion so far… miCandidate.eu is a company […]

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Standing for Spellchecks

March 24th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics

Déirdre De Búrca a name too hard for a url? Instead we get WhatIStandfor.ie for the Green’s Candidate for the Dublin Constituency in the European Parliament Elections. We also get an interesting spelling of thousands according to this picture of Senator De Búrca’s billboard in today’s Irish Times.  Senator De Búrca launched her campaign yesterday […]

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EU Affairs – Which are the best blogs?

November 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Blogging, European Union, Social Media

Image via Wikipedia As will become clearer later in the week I’m heading eastwards for a while in my blog reading. Anyone got good suggestions for blogs regarding the European Union/Commission/Parliament? I’m aware of the blogging commissioners (no Charlie McCreevy – his would be good for racing tips if it did exist!) but if there […]

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Parachute for Senator De Burca

September 13th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Green Party, Irish Politics

The parachute is only needed for her journey from Wicklow, Senator Deirdre De Burca was this afternoon selected to run for the Green Party in Dublin the European Elections next year. Photo owned by antonkudris (cc) Now you wouldn’t know that she is running in Dublin from the press release I got from the Green […]

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Zack Exley to speak in Dublin (and it’s a blogger conference!)

September 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blogging

The European Commission Representation and the European Parliament Office in Ireland and Irishelection.com are organising a conference on blogging and social media. The schedule for the day is available here and preregistration is required given the limited number of places available. The line up is impressive. Zack Exley Margot Wallström (By videolink) Damian O Broin […]

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