Irish Election - Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs

Thanks to everyone who came on Saturday and those who watched the live stream online. Thanks to the guests for speaking – especially Zack for making the trip over to talk to us. I am currently working on getting the video uploaded. Tom Duke did a fantastic job of streaming and grabbing the video. If [...]

Joe Zefran is the editor of RTE online at RTE.ie – the online presence of the State broadcaster and he is going to be attending the Irish Social Media conference on October 4. He will be talking about the developments in the mass media here with regard to the internet and technological change. I met [...]

Before lunch at the conference on October 4 we will be hearing from a number of people active in the NGO sector on the role of the internet and social media in their work and activism. Our own Damian O Broin from askdirect will be along to talk about his work and we are working [...]

I am a bit behind the curve on this one -wierd since we are organising it! In the next couple of days, we here at irishelection.com and  partners at EU Irish Representation will be announcing full details of the 2008 Blogging and Social Media Conference. Running on October 4th in the EU Building on Dawson [...]

Reviewing one online campaign, and looking forward to the next. Six months on, it seems fairly clear that the impact of the web on the 2007 General Election campaign was minimal at best. Much was made in advance of May 2007 about the potential impact of the blogs (I remember the enthusiasm of the blogging [...]

I set out tonight to focus in on blogs from left-wing candiates, but first a quick mention of Thomas Byrne, FF candidate for Meath East, who got into a bit of a tizz with Mary Hanafin over the issue of education and autism. His comments were reported in the Drogheda Indo, while Thomas gets to [...]

Happy New Year, Irishelection.com folks! As I just mentioned on Maman Poulet, I am getting a list together of bloggers who wish to attend press launches and events in the next Irish general election. If you are interested let me know—this is a follow up activity of the Blogging the Election conference and aims to [...]

Damien Blake, a FF County Councillor from Donegal appeared in today’s Sunday Times for stating the obvious: that the electronic voting system the government spent €52 million on buying and still spend €2000 euro a day storing should never be used. “I am unaware of any impartial, independent person who knows what they are talking [...]

Big thanks to both Jon Ihle and Conor Ryan for covering the Irish Bloggers Conference at The Irish Times and Irish Examiner respectively. Thanks to both of them for making the effort to be there on the day. The organisers and I appreciate it. Ciaran Cuffe‘s “canvassing in a bar” comments were made to highlight [...]

In light of yesterday’s proceedings at the Irish Bloggers Conference, there is some active consideration of how blogs can begin to take political action a step further. With regards to blogging the election, I am looking for some input. While I have ideas and projects in the works, I want to nail down some form [...]

[Edit: I blatantly cogged Damien's fine piece of blogging work because it summed up my sentiments on the day exactly. Thanks to everyone who came, who spoke, who sponsored. We appreciate it and we very nearly ran into the black ink! Damien asks below and I too am curious, is there an interest in a [...]

If you haven’t already began to use it, the full page of online content is beginning to take shape. It’s here and firstly a big thanks to our sponsors, Digiweb, Technofutures and SensorPro. The content is starting to come together and Bernie Goldbach at Podcasting.ie has Richard Delevan’s opening remarks posted. I’ll be updating the [...]

They’ve done it again! We announced at today’s conference that Irishelection.com and bifsniff.com will be launching Irish Political Top Chumps over the coming months. The first six are available as PDF from the site. We plan to launch them in lieu of cartoons over the coming months and hope to generate enough interest to get [...]