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Irish Blog Awards 2009

February 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Irish Blog Awards 2009 · Blogging, Irish Blog Awards

The first round of judging in the Irish Blog Awards has taken place in the past week and this blog has reached the long lists of the Best Politics Blog (Sponsored by Digital Revolutionaries) and Best News and Current Affairs Blog (Sponsored by IGO people). The long lists for all the categories were announced last […]

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The media epidemic that is Ivan Yates

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Newstalk, Recession

Ivan Yates in case you have possibly missed him is a former Fine Gael minister and former country’s youngest TD turned bookie, stand in presenter on Newstalk and rent a mouth and paid guest speaker. (Really interesting site that – a speaker agency with mouths for hire.) The rent a mouth part has reached epidemic proportions […]

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Government receives another standing count

November 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

EU Commissioner Margot Wallström reminded her various audiences today that the Irish Government will be reporting to the EU commission/council of ministers next month about how it proposes to solve the Lisbon problem. As bloggers informed her (in what might be described as an extensive post debate huddle) following her interview with Ursula Halligan, that […]

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