Much of page 12 in today’s Irish Times is given to follow-up articles on yesterday’s conference on political reform. Like most conferences, it had its good parts and…
I spent the day in a bunker-like lecture hall deep in the bowels TCD’s Arts Block listening to highly-informed journalists and academics. The vast majority of the speakers were either insightful, educational or [...]
From Thursday the national airwaves go quiet to give voters some time to contemplate their decision ahead of voting on June 5th. That vote will be counted over Saturday and Sunday and Suzy, Alexia, myself and all the team at irishelection.com are going to be covering all aspects up to the minute.
We have plenty in [...]
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 ustream [...]
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 for [...]
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 to [...]
UPDATE: MiCandidate have dropped their prices – but their attitude remains. See Suzy for more details.
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There were a number of interesting developments that stemmed from the analysis of MiCandidate.eu posted here last week.
Firstly, The Irish Times got in contact to say they have no arrangement whatsoever with MiCandidate to display information collated by MiCandidate on [...]
Fianna Fail put up the first group of videos of Brian Cowen taking questions submitted via the Fianna Fail website (first thought: get a decent mic).
I embedded the economy one below, I am interested to know what people think.
The left the ground to Fianna Fail last week, whose midweek fail was followed by an Ard Fheis that was successful in parts (the email with dodgy link to own site and clunky language was fun too).
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 [...]
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 [...]
Interesting find by Gavin, an article of Shane Ross‘ which identifies a group getting together to invest €500m in Anglo Irish Bank. One of the members was named as a member of the Anglo ten on Sunday.
A meeting took place in a Dublin hotel recently in which it was decided to buy shares worth up [...]
Very interesting take by Henry over on Crooked Timber on the Financial Times by Matthew Engel article over the weekend on how bad things have gotten here.
The Fianna Fail party’s support seems to be cratering, despite the ineptitude of the leader of the main opposition party, Fine Gael. The last major opinion poll saw Fianna [...]
Cometh the hour…..following the 120,000 strong demonstration on Saturday and the general implosion of the Irish economy and public confidence in Fianna Fail we have another specialist economics blog to welcome to the scene.
Progressive Economy @ TASC is a new economics blog with a progressive outlook and contibutors such as
It is likely to be of interest to our readers that Fianna Fail are looking to recruit a web editor. Take a look at the info here. Description below the fold. It looks like an effort to take online organisation more seriously than at present (which is not all that hard on reflection). Do let [...]
Good bank, bad bank.
The IrishEconomy FG call for a good bank to be instituted (could one even begin to turn Anglo into it? – I doubt it) with clean balance sheets while the bad debt was shifted to what amounts to a stuffed shirt with a banking licence, managing decline, is an interesting one.
Are you running in the forthcoming Local or European Elections? Do you blog, twitter or have a facebook supporters page, videoblog, bebo or myspace? Do you know a candidate who does?
During the last election on Irish Election a number of us did regular roundups of candidates using social media and what was being said and [...]
So, 13 men make up the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women’s Issues. Only in this Banana Republic. Thanks to Ger for drawing my attention to it. And we wonder why the Government often appears to have so little knowledge about the issues upon which they should be legislating.
Councillor bound to peace for insulting fellow FG activist
A NEWLY ELECTED Fine Gael councillor has been bound to the peace for 12 months for calling a fellow party member “a f****** scab”.
Green members’ conference set for July
The debate on Lisbon is underway as the Green Party look at getting their meeting out of the way on 18 July – can we expect the fireworks and close vote of last time out or will the Greens take part on the Yes side this time out?
Average public worker earns more than €50,000 a year
Grist is added to the mill of An Bord Snip nua as the CSO figures on pay are released.
Is Charlie McCreevy in the running to lead the No campaign for Lisbon II? asks Jamie Smyth of The Irish Times.
