I was invited by the Oireachtas Communications Unit to the Dáil to watch and tweet some of the proceedings of today’s debate to mark Europe Day. Myself, Ken Curtin, David Cochrane from Politics.ie and Billie Sparks from the European Movement were in attendance. There was little to report on the debate itself or that which [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Twitter'
Explaining and broadcasting the Oireachtas
May 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Irish Politics, Social Media
Tags:#europeday·Oireachtas·Twitter
Pravda in Mount Street
January 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Elections, General Election 2011, Irish Politics, Social Media
I’ve been keeping a list of twitter accounts established by candidates in the General Election. It’s interesting to watch campaigns take shape and candidates find their feet online. Some use it to react to voters and national election/political issues, others talk about the feelings/opinions of voters that they are experiencing on the canvass. Many FG [...]
Tags:#ge11·Enda Kenny·Fine Gael·Twitter
Advice to a Tweeting Taoiseach
April 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Ok so it’s unasked for advice but here goes anyway. You may have heard that Brian Cowen is interested in blogging and twittering. On Saturday last while speaking to Marian Finucane about Twitter I had hoped to be able to deal with the matter of the Taoiseach and Twitter but alas there was only so [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Online Communities·Social Networking·Taoiseach·Twitter
Form an orderly queue there
February 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Social Media
Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned [...]
Jon Stewart does Twitter
March 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Social Media
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Twitter Frenzy Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin Political HumorJoke of the Day Anyone else feeling a bit …concerned? Self reflective? No? Good!
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‘This will be a very serious ardfheis.’ – It’ll be a blogged one also!
February 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Blogging, Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging
“This will be a very serious ardfheis.? Mary Coughlan, Tanaiste, Launch of Clar for 72nd Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis, 25/2/09 The Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis begins this evening and with this mornings opinion polls combined with/resulting from the recession and of course the little difficulties about the launch of the website during the week it [...]
When a seminar became a launch
February 25th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Social Policy
Yesterday I heard about a seminar being organised by Strawberry Media where Joe Rospars, New Media Director for the Obama campaign was to speak. It was pitched at bloggers and political and techie types and I was among the first to sign up and the organiser asked me to blog about the event and spread [...]
Tags:Blue State Digital·Fianna Fáil·Joe Rospars·New media·Political party·Twitter

