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Sunday Business Post Red C Poll
Fine Gael 34 (no change) Fianna Fáil 21 – 3 Labour 18 (no change) Sinn Féin 10 + 3 Greens 4 -1 Independents 13 +1
The ‘Naked’ Candidate
From my inbox this morning. North Sligo saw a new poster on it’s poles yesterday. Joe Leonard is a councillor of long standing (23 years) elected to Sligo County Council. He was not selected by his local party last year to contest the election but was later added to the ticket. Describing himself in the [...]
Irish Times TNS/MRBI European Constituency Polls
The early numbers are out from tomorrow’s breakdown of the European race. Keith had some of the early East constituency numbers online a while ago and the rest of the details is clearing up now. Yesterday had Fianna Fail on 20%, Labour on 23% and Fine Gael on 36% – interesting to see how the [...]
Cowen’s Efforts to Get the Fianna Fail Party Moving
Blink and you would miss it, a speech written to get traction with the press on how Cowen is ‘getting a grip of the campaign’ and taking it ‘by the scruff of the neck’ to bring his demoralised troops over the line kicking and screaming. Like when he intervened in the general election 2007, the [...]
The Evil Political Elites Hit out at Declan Ganley for his position on Jobs
If they are up tomorrow in the poll, Libertas are getting a pre-emptive hammering. From the FF press office today:
Anglo To Get up to €4 Bn from The Government
Their half-year results blew people out of the water, Anglo Irish bank has set aside €4bn to cover losses it expects to make on loans, mostly advanced to property developers, along with another 235 million euro in losses on various investments. The Minister for Finance, effective owner of the bank, reveals that the government will [...]
George Lee Interview
George Lee does an interview over on Tallyman. Very interesting stuff head over for a listen.
Mr Austerity, Guardian Profiles Brian Lenihan
I guess this is part of the Brian Lenihan tour of uncomfortable media hotspots, a feature in today’s Guardian with Economics Editor Larry Elliot. The tone is remarkably conciliatory, cautious and even underwhelming. Stark contrast to the irrepresible talk of green shoots, doom mongers and Lehman Brothers from the party when talking for domestic consumption. [...]
Occasional Photo Post
I dont like doing caption comps, since we have nothing to give away. There are a few gems in my inbox at the moment though for various reasons but don’t quite fit a web roundup. So I am just going to do a nice lazy photo post for the beautiful day that is in it. [...]
The Web Roundup is here and we Brought our Baby Photos
Well well well, Fianna Fail left holding the baby. Pat ‘the cope’ was snapped at Galway’s Ocean Race stopover with the obligitory baby photo. It would be a fright to keep it to ourselves. Local politics, big ideas. Sligo Leitrim Roscommon Green grouping candidate Garreth McDaid – a candidate in the Leitrim council elections – [...]
Irish Times Poll
Tomorrow’s poll numbers: Fine Gael 36% (-2) Labour Party 23% (+3) Fianna Failure 20% (-1) Hat tip to Aoife. update by Cian: Greens on 3% Sinn Féin on 8% Leaders:Cowen on 21% Kenny on 31% Gilmore 49% Gov approval 12%
More calls for Televised Leaders Debate
Gormley wants one, Gilmore wants one. Do we want one? We sure had fun last time.
I have two polling cards….
How many do you have? Pictoral evidence to follow this afternoon once I get a pic from Tralee. Got my card in Dublin yesterday after applying to be taken off the Kerry register and put on DLR for the 2007 General Election. Got two then and two more now. Excellent work by our authorities. Anyone [...]
Announce, Announce before it is too late
Yesterday we had plans for apartment dwellers (can you canvass them?), plans for the unemployed (well 2,000 of the almost 500,000), plans for retraining those on part-time, opposition policies for Dublin and for small business. Calls for tax cuts and incentives – woo hoo for voters! You would think it is a general election. A [...]
Michael Woods: It was the Irish people what done it
Dug up from the RTE archives. Michael Woods trying to justify the indemnity deal on September 30, 2003. Yes Michael, it was done by the people of Ireland, not the religious orders. You gobshite. Full clip here.
The Web Roundup goes to the dogs
Tonights web roundup is pretty video heavy thanks to the work that Suzy is putting in to the election. The first video is Lord Mayor Eibhlin Byrne’s take on Barneycam the videos that followed Bush’s dog (not Tony Blair) around the White House. Samcam might not sound as good but the mayor’s dog shares, well, [...]
