And now onto the Seanad. It’s 21 years since the first European State passed a registered partnership bill. Ireland today is on it’s way to catching up – slow as ever. The Bill passed without a vote and there were moving speeches at the end, some acknowledging the fact that the bill does not go […]
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Remember the last time Blue State Digital, who include some of the creatives behind the Obama campaign, came to Dublin? John Drennan delights (as only he can!) in telling readers of the Sunday Independent that BSD are coming back and are going to address a meeting of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party on Tuesday night. […]
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I’m getting my fill of elections and politics at the moment by watching as much as possible on the happenings across the water and less so up the road in Northern Ireland. As interesting as the politics is the communication methods being used, the lessons learnt from US Election 2008 and the moves forward that […]
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I’m in the RDS this afternoon for the Green Party Conference on the Renewed Programme for Government. There is a liveblog running and Green Party members are inside the hall tweeting. You can read the full document online and it was available a good hour before the printed version. Loads of reaction online to the […]
You can read Cian’s ‘analysis’ of Deirdre de Burca and the arrival of the pantsuit in Irish Electoral politcs on IrishElection.com But I’m reeling from the fact that I got a mention in a Green Party press release and it was a nice one! I still can’t figure out how pointing to some very slight […]