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The final conference in the season is taking place this weekend as the Labour Party head to Galway (Fianna Fáíl will be holding their conference later this year). Already their prescence has drawn a dig from FF’s Deputy Mayor of Galway regarding that campaign and petition of themselves they launched this week. The Labour Party [...]

Trying to cut some numbers to take account of the myriad comings and goings experienced in the current Dáil. Anyone want to poke holes? Sure am missing something. First draft looks like this:

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 [...]

There is a conference on political reform in Ireland tomorrow (Monday June 22nd) in the arts block in TCD. Sorry for the late link, I thought this was widely publicised but it seems a few of the politicos on Twitter have only heard about it today. Details are available here and here. Entry is free [...]

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 [...]

Michael Ring‘s speech didn’t quite get carried on the live feed, fortunately someone took a few minutes and put them on youtube. Including the paroxysms as he sent the crowd into the stratosphere. No one, not even Howard Dean, does the shout/yelp like Michael Ring.

The early morning session (the one after head office motions on candidate selection were moved to a delegate conference in the autumn) was chaired by Gay Mitchell Gay’s speech was typical of the man, all over the place. With metaphors about shooting fish in a barrel (missing and shooting the barrel to drown us) and [...]

At Citywest in a nice room with TV feed to conference (three floors below and a building away, will be heading down soon as the coffee and biccies are gone). Suzy, Lexia, Squid and Stephen are here so far – think there are more to come. Follow us on twitter over on the live blog. [...]

Along with other bloggers like Suzy, Mark, Alexia and Eoin I will be heading along to Citywest this weekend for a while to smaple the atmosphere at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis. If you cannot make it along there will be live streaming on the FG website (the Clar is available here). A live blog [...]

Three very interesting articles in the wake of the Labour Party conference from Saturday (as well as the liveblog of the day). None of them are the pre-written tripe based on a script and some well chosen comments (e.g. “it was a well receieved speech”), Simon McGarr was down there and his takes makes for [...]

WE saw last night the very interesting announcement of Susan O’Keeffe for Labour’s euro candidate in North-West as Labour kicked off its conference. The whole thing has a really nice sub-site on Labour.ie and as you would expect from them full streaming on ustream, lots of pics and blog posts as well as a substantial [...]

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.

Some intersting tweets coming out of the Ard Fheis, it is definitely boiler plate stuff so far. Perhaps it is understandable that the bulk of the non televised event would be run of the mill stuff. As it moves toward a midday lull, the good news is bloggers are fed and watered. GAvin is posting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is thought to be the few places to do well in a recession (no doubt thanks to the E80 million that government put in the prize kitty every year) but your local bookie might be hurting. If they happen to be Celtic Bookmakers here are some of the more interesting politics bets you will [...]