If you are thinking of donating to a charity this year you might consider the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre for their support of a victim of sexual assault subject to horrific community bullying in Listowel.
Cross-posted from Tuppenceworth/Facebook:
The following is the text of a message I sent to the 4,205 members of the Expel the Papal Nuncio Facebook Group.
I’m posting it here so that Non-Facebookers can also read it and, hopefully, take the moment to click the link and send their message to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
I’ll write more [...]
By pushing through this Blasphemy provision, Dermot Ahern is advertising himself as the Leadership Candidate most likely to deliver on Abortion. When the time comes, that impression is likely to translate into a healthy dollop of organised and well-funded support being brought to bear on backbenchers.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to write another 1000 words on liveblogging.
I just wanted to tell you some of the things that have come up while we’ve been running our Moratorium Day, Voting Day and marathon Count Day liveblogs here.
Firstly, we’ve put Blacknight’s machinery under unwarranted stresses. They’ve been fantastically helpful and Cian was heaping [...]
5:15 PM Simon McGarr – Suzy, Alexia and Cian have run this liveblog. It has outperformed any other source of information and original reporting in the entire country. Huge thanks and congratulations.
7:46 AM Suzy Byrne – To join in go to www.scribblelive.com or put #le09 at the end of your Twitter tweets. Priority on the [...]
7:41 PM Christine Bohan – Brian Lenihan says Prime Time broke the broadcasting moratorium, in a story in Friday’s Indo. How? By reporting on how Moody’s has downgraded Anglo Irish Bank’s rating. Thread about it on p.ie: www.politics.ie
12:59 AM dlooney – On an early morning leaflet drop before polls open #le09
1:01 AM longmanoz – Who [...]
2:00 AM Simon McGarr – RT @LE09_PO: I’m a Presiding Officer at a Rural Irish Polling Booth in the Local/European Elections on 5th June 2009. #le09
2:00 AM Simon McGarr – Tomorrow, we’ll have a liveblog for voting day. Anything interesting you see happening, tag the post with #le09 and we’ll try to add it in.
2:00 [...]
The ScribbleLive based liveblog of the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis had been a fantastic success- with no advance coverage beyond a post on tuppenceworth and some (few) twitter posts it attracted quite large audiences. The #ffaf hashtag was, for a while, the fifth most popular topic on twitter as a whole. Gavin, who was reporting from Citywest on the day, found that the photographs he posted were attracting around a thousand views each very quickly.
The government has announced that it intends to save some money by merging and closing various state agencies. So far the common thread linking all the named agencies for the chop is that in some way they have opposed or embarrassed the executive during their existence.
However, I’d like to use this as an opportunity to [...]
I’ve been snapping all the anti-treaty material that I come across for a while and have released them on a Creative Commons attribution and non-commercial licence.
I’ve now made a Flickr Group for such pictures as I see a few other people have been doing the same- including EWI.
The Link for the Group’s page is http://www.flickr.com/groups/769144@N21/
So [...]
Last night, unexpectedly, I was called by Newstalk’s Breakfast Show and asked how I thought the electorate were reacting to the personal attacks between Enda Kenny and Bertie Ahern.
Firstly, I pointed out that my record of reading the mind of the electorate is similar to my success at becoming heavyweight champion of the world. Then [...]
Elections are moments of truth- when we get as close as we can to really hearing what other people are thinking, albeit as a collective.
And one of the more interesting things I’ve heard from this election was the general feeling (except from some Green party members) that having the Green Party in government could only [...]
The following is taken from my notebook. It was written on January 3rd this year, as I tried to make a list of problems to solve or salve. I haven’t changed any of it in the light of hindsight. It will be my last post on politics for a month.
The main opposition party is further [...]
Day 23
Photo originally uploaded by The Labour Party.
It’s voting day today. The sun is shining in Dublin. All over the country people are going to find time to put ones, twos and threes and so on down the list of names who want to represent them.
The last few days of the Election campaign [...]
I’ve written before about the problem of discussing public affairs in videos when you can’t legitimately reuse portions of the RTE news- the primary source for any current affairs videos.
Eoin O’Dell has started the ball rolling to try to persuade RTE to release the footage of the upcoming debates in a format which would allow [...]
I tried to repost it here, but there seems to be some Style Sheet restriction of unfathomable form. See Tuppenceworth.ie/blog for its full glory
Dan Boyle sheds the green jersey. His Sunday Tribune comments (which only got a weblink late in the day) are noted by Reuters.
Ivor the Driver — full Seanad report. It was nice of Bertie to send Ivor’s letter of appointment to his Cork address.
How ossified is Irish politics? In the blink of an eye, Australia — which had no recession — replaces its Prime Minister.
I’m a victim of unique Irish blame culture, says Harney
Things Ministers don't do part 2: Harney is not really responsible for these clinial fuck-ups. Sure kick her over policy but not failure. Typical Irish begrudgerry.
