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From twentymajor the new FF website

Television – News – Disabled BBC presenter ‘scaring’ children – Digital Spy this came via a tweet but I am posting it here as it is just so crazy, I mean really totally crazy.

As a member of Blue State Digital is in town tonight, organised by blogging’s favourite Fianna Fail councillor, and Fianna Fail go about improving their outreach, today in advance of the Ard Fheis we get a new website from them. Fianna Fail won’t confirm that the work for them was done by Blue State Digital [...]

Its all below the fold.

From Breaking News.ie  The Taoiseach is calling on the people of Ireland to get behind the Government in order to get the economy out of its current difficulties.Brian Cowen told the Dáil that industrial action will achieve nothing. Later today Gardaí and taxi drivers will take to the streets in protest over the pensions levy. [...]

Via an intermediary…oh it is all very cloak and dagger…a member of the Anglo Golden 10 speaks to the Irish Independent this morning. This comes as the resignations begin to gather momentum as former board members like Gary McGann and Anne Heraty resign from their other board positions. The member is unidentified except to note; [...]

Obama campaign team, Blue State Digital are in town.Via Strawberry Media / Damien Blake. Its a pretty heavy hitter to have around the place and sure to be quite interesting, wonder what party representation will be like. You have to register to attend – here. Strawberry Media are pleased to organise an open seminar with [...]

Via breaking News: Fraud squad officers and white-collar crime investigators raided the headquarters of the Anglo Irish Bank today. Gardaí are understood to be searching the St Stephen’s Green offices in central Dublin for books, documents and other materials which could provide evidence of any offences under company law. Anglo Irish Bank was nationalised last [...]

Noel Dempsey followed up on his call to see those members of the Anglo 10 ‘nailed‘ with the quote that they had committed ‘economic treason’ yesterday. As Shane Ross noted back in April, this was not the way that the 10 saw it, an neither did the regulator or the politicians briefed by Anlgo. MINISTER [...]

Getting away for a moment about the close proximity of stories in April 2008 to the acutal goings on at Anglo. A comical musical interlude.

Gift Grub – Don’t Panic Today FM's Gift Grub sketch from Thursday 19-02-09. Fantastic skit on Duffy's contribution to the down turn (MP3 link).

Tuppenceworth.ie blog ” The Dead Hand of Conventional Wisdom Last week Brian Cowan made a speech. It was a mediocre speech. Nonetheless, he got a standing ovation for it. The reason for this is clear: He made the speech to the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, surely a disproportionally FF-supporting crowd. They’d have given him a [...]

Agencies poised to inflict painful cut in AAA downgrade The potential downgrade to Irish credit rating has a big knock on effect on our ability to narrow the gap between the 37bn income and 63bn spend this year. The market perception of the bailout shouldn't matter as much as it does – we have a [...]

Downturn Ends Building Boom in New York If Dunner et. al. think they have it bad – not even Jay Z can get his development projects off the ground as New York's reliance on building comes back to bite.

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Maman Poulet ” What’s happening in Fianna Fáil? Wil they eat themselves and why are only 'b' teamers being put out to bat for government? Something big must be coming down the line.