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Ladies and Gentlemen… Your Opposition

May 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · Irish Politics, Social Media

Fine Gael have this week launched a new campaign titled NewEra, with accompanying website outlining their plans for jobs, broadband, energy and water policies. The website has videos from Enda Kenny, Simon Coveney and Leo Varadkar talking about these plans (George Lee look at what you are missing!) And then there is this – Whack […]

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State funding of political parties – lots of money for the lads?

May 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Politics

The Standards in Public Office Commission this week released a report into the state funding of political parties. The purpose of the state funding is laid out in the Electoral Act 1997 ” … the general conduct and management of the party’s affairs and the lawful pursuit by it of any of its objectives and, […]

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Fianna Fáil learn to tweet (again)

May 9th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Irish Politics

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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Fine Gael’s full of the joys

April 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Irish Politics

Next week Fine Gael is launching a site called Nationaldebt.ie – complete with one of those clocks that keeps moving upwards with Ireland’s national debt on it. They even have stats on the debt per household and per person. You can get a sneak preview on Leo Varadkar’s website. Our national debt increases by €35,578 […]

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And then there were Seven

April 27th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Irish Politics

So as expected there were politicians giving up and ‘voluntarily forgoing’ their pensions all day. Labour’s 3 ministerial pension holders went first (not before time) followed by the Fine Gael crew (not before time either) and then came Bertie (Fianna Fáil were so fed up dealing with requests from the Press for comments on Bertie […]

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