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Sent to us from Mayo – the first bumper sticker and the first anti-candidate ephemera of Elections 2009.  Suppose if it was going to be any candidate it would be The Chairman.

Former Dublin West Socialist Party TD and Candidate in Dublin for election to the European Parliament Joe Higgins is hosting a bit of first later today.  A live online event aimed at ‘new’ media and voters with an open invite to bloggers to attend. (Full Details here). The event will be broadcast live  on his [...]

‘If it all goes terribly wrong there will always be a spot of umpiring’ or An Taoiseach visits Gaines (Europe) in Wicklow where they make premium pet treats. Other pics to be found from An Taoiseach in Gorey and Letterkenny on Fianna Fáil Flickr.

John Bracken ran in the last General Election in Laois/Offaly and came to national attention due to the musical releases which accompanied his campaign. (Ok John’s hair, posters, slogans also may have had something to do with the interest.) John also ran in the local elections in 2004. Unsuccessful on both occasions it seems John [...]

Due for broadcast on RTE and TG4 tomorrow evening the Labour Party have released their PPB on Youtube announcing early viewing on Twitter and Facebook. It’s heavy on the Eamon and promotes Labour’s Candidates in the European Parliament Election Campaign.

Green Party Deputy Ciaran Cuffe describes adventures in postering – it’s a great post and I’m left wondering if any other TD actually went up a ladder during this campaign (and nearly got electrocuted in the process). There is also news from other Green Party candidates and their ways of trying to talk about things [...]

Brian Cowen emailed this afternoon – anyone who had signed up to the mailing list when the Fianna Fail site relaunched last week received an email also. The email was sent to FF’s ‘strongest supporters’ and encourages them to watch the FF Party Political Broadcast on youtube before it is transmitted on RTE later that [...]

Of course we probably all realised that this campaign could not pass without reference to the Great One. From Galway this morning an image of Daniel Callanan’s poster reaches us. Cllr. Callanan is a former Sinn Fein member and is now running as an independent candidate.

Reports reached me over the weekend of sightings of tag rugby games by canvassers in various parks in the South East Dublin area.  The story went that canvassers went from park to park in t-shirts playing matches and there were posters about and much merriment.   No match reports or sightings of new players emerging to [...]

RTE tonight confirmed that they will not be using data from MiCandidate.eu in their online and on-air coverage of the Local and European Elections. RTE will be using their own data with regards to coverage of candidates, campaigns and results. Sky News yesterday confirmed that they also are not using the company or it’s content [...]

Tom Stafford is a Fianna Fáil councillor running for election in Dublin’s North Inner City. He had a car dealership on Amien Street as I remember. His brother John was a Fianna Fáil TD in the late 1980′s and is an undertaker. Charlie Haughey loyalists to the core, the Staffords are the last people one [...]

Too many interesting things to hold back until later in the week. Many thanks for all the emails and texts! Keep them coming. (Previous round ups can be read here). Eamon Gilmore has been getting on his bike, it’s the windswept look it seems. Pictured at the Alex White Campaign Poster launch today.

Overall Opinion Poll Results – 1000 people polled. Fianna Fáil 24 +1 Fine Gael 34 + 1 Labour 18 -1 Green Party 5 -2 Sinn Féin 7 +1 There are also Local and European Poll Results as party of this opinion poll – I (or Cian!) will add results later.  The only fact I remember [...]

So much stuff to cram in to the round up and in so many formats. Fianna Fáil’s four new bloggers are introducing themselves in a series of posts on the Fianna Fáil website. I look forward to hearing more about the campaign trail, the reasons they are running and reactions to policy and it’s implementation [...]

Someone in Fine Gael now has a video camera (!) and recorded George Lee’s acceptance speech at the Dublin South Fine Gael Selection Convention.

As in 2007 ‘s campaign coverage on Irishelection.com we’re planning roundups of online action several times a week.  Two years on  the world has moved technologically but have the candidates?  There have been many debates over the attempts to Obamaify campaigns and these will continue. But I’m not planning on participating in these and for the moment I’m going [...]