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Entries Tagged as 'Fine Gael'

The Web General Election begins today

January 4th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Seemingly… Harry McGee reports in today’s Irish Times that the Fine Gael Website is going to be taken down and replaced with one page with a video message from Enda Kenny. (So this is what he has been doing over the holiers?) The party will shut down its main website – containing hundreds of pages […]

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RTE to blame for the weather – FG Senator

January 1st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

Happy New Year all.  I didn’t think I’d be joining you this soon with a bit of a story but our politicians fail to disappoint on the silly stakes. Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames was recently selected to contest the General Election for Fine Gael in Galway West.  Her twitter account is a stream of consciousness with […]

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Tidings of goodwill …ummm

December 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Blogging, Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics

Earlier this week Lord Mayor Cllr.  Gerry Breen (FG) took the opportunity of one of the coldest days of the year to speak out against beggars in the city of Dublin. The remarks were quite  outrageous and based about his social life in Dublin 2.  He repeated them on RTE news later that day and […]

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Campaign Clouds and Campaign Slogans, FG Style!

December 20th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Uncategorized

The parties are getting their houses in order or maybe in a spin – news from Fine Gael.  Warning!  US based election guru’s are on the Irish horizon.  Visiting Ireland recently was founder and CEO of Electionmall.com and former candidate for the Republican Party, Ravi Singh. Singh has been travelling Europe recently and advising members […]

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Enda Kenny – He’s Alive!

December 12th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Elections, Irish Politics, Recession

Enda Kenny – remember him? Leader of the opposition from Mayo, longest serving member of the Dáil, survivor of the heave. He’s been missing a lot this week – of course he’s in the Dáil asking the long strangulated question of the Taoiseach (ok not as long and strangulated as Gilmore’s can be) but generally […]

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