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Entries Tagged as 'Fine Gael'

The Audacity of Enda

January 15th, 2011 · 15 Comments · 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 […]

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Candidate Video #2 – Eoghan Murphy

January 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Eoghan Murphy FG, Dublin South East (and yup the guy in the seat with the glasses in that pic) is all about the ‘new’ media, his website, his twitter, his facebook, his blog, and here’s his campaign launch video. (He has a whole youtube channel recently launched with all his recent media appearances on it!)

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Why was the Fine Gael website hacked?

January 10th, 2011 · 6 Comments · General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

Fine Gael are saying that they do not know why their website was hacked. (as per Paschal Donohue’s appearance on Six One News this evening.) In the statement that was sent this morning to Kevin Doyle, political correspondent in the Evening Herald, the hackers explained why. They also sent Kevin a copy of the database […]

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A very bad week for Fine Gael

January 9th, 2011 · 11 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

After the Brazillian copying, the hosting outside of the state with their election guru, the numerous questions on data privacy, the changes to the site in response to those questions, tonight Anonymous visited the new FG website and left some dodgy html and visitors received the following message. Photo thanks to @Darraghdoyle – via Politics.ie […]

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Fine Gael, Brazil and Ravi Singh

January 4th, 2011 · 40 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media

As we know from the last time Fine Gael launched a website things are never as they seem and techies and website developers discovered that Fine Gael had a little help for their design from a freelancer who used BBC code in the design. It is no different with the site launched today according to […]

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