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Earlier I asked which Cowen might show up, the party’s man or the leader of the nation and whichever one did what could he possibly say to the country? I should have listened to Fergal. We got our answer this evening, video of which will hopefully be up soon. I want to see Noel Dempsey [...]

SBP poll: FG 30 -3 FF 23 -5 LAB 22 +8 GRN 6 -2 SF 11 +2 Ind 8

Horse, meet open stable door.  The fnancial regulator is writing to banks and building societies to ask about directors’ loans.

Some intersting tweets coming out of the Ard Fheis, it is definitely boiler plate stuff so far. Perhaps it is understandable that the bulk of the non televised event would be run of the mill stuff. As it moves toward a midday lull, the good news is bloggers are fed and watered. GAvin is posting [...]

The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis has kicked off this morning. Universally acclaimed as the TV event of the year so far, it is being liveblogged over on Simon McGarr’s magic blog. If you prefer to twiter simply put #ffaf at the end of your tweet to get picked up by the live blog. Suzy is [...]

We don’t discuss the topic of electoral reform here on Irish Election, so I thought I’d throw out some crazy ideas I’ve had on how we can reform the process to fix some of the endemic problems in our system of government.

Martin Mansergh On BBC Northern Irelands Hearts and Minds. He gets a bit mad.   Speaking of mad. Famous speech from the movie Network. 

The satisfaction with the government is at 10% George W Bush lowest poll rating ever was 20% in a poll taken from the 10/31 – 11/2/08 for CBS So at his lowest rating he was twice as popular in America as the government are at the moment. Although Brian Cowens own rating is about the same at [...]

At this stage we have seen enough of Brian Cowen‘s handling of the current crisis to make a call on his leadership skills. Unfortunately for him, but more to the point for us, he has failed quite miserably.

The ground has been prepared, the stage has been set. Brian Cowen becomes Barack Obama before our very eyes this weekend at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis. Suzy and Gavin are accredited bloggers for the event and there is loads more going on too. There is a live blog running for everyone who cannot make [...]

Indo poll tomorrow. Headline: FG 30% Ff 25% Lab 22% Green 5% SF 7% Gov approval at 10% and Enda Kenny‘s figures will worry. Gilmore app at 52% as I get it.

Minster for Finance Brian Lenihan has effectively told the Dail that the new Chief Executive of Bank of Ireland, Richie Boucher was second choice, he admitted that the bank only appointed someone on the inside, after a well qualified external candidate turned down the job. Newsworthy clips: [display_podcast]

As launches go the one last night was panned universally. Far from being bloggers descending on an FF event with a scent of blood it was engaged in with enthusiasm. As Gav highlights on his blog this was a different event depending on who you were. That is the issue at heart. If you are [...]

Back in the heady day of the Celtic Tiger. We here on Irish Election ran a campaign to get the day of the election moved away from Thursdays(loads of posts here).  Getting 1381 signatures. We got on radio and in the media. Fine Gael even brought a motion in the dail up. We even had [...]

So the Joe Rospars event did turn to double up as a Fianna Fail function for soft web launch. Bloggers on Twitter let rip – go check #rospars and suddenly we read they are ringing one blogger/Twitterer to control message. More later. As Rick might say 166 lads. Hardly a flashmob, bloggers signed up to [...]