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I managed to catch up with Sinn Fein’s Dun Laoghaire candidate Eoin O Brion at 9:30 this evening in Dun Laoghaire. The pier out there is stunning. The interview was done on dictaphone, apologies if its a little phonically-challenged.

Our second candidate from Labour (and final, we tried to get two from everyone) Eric Byrne. Councillor and blogger. Eric took time to talk to me in his office in Crumlin.

Previous: Ciaran Cuffe (Green), Ruairi Quinn (Lab)
There will be more this evening as we keep going and editing. No specific time for the next one [...]

The second installment of our interviews with party figures to keep you going on this day of barren election coverage. Here I am talking to Ciaran Cuffe, Green TD in Dun Laoghaire as he canvasses in Shankill Dart Station. Ciaran has a blog at cuffestreet.blogspot.com. He discussed his campaign, the national campaign and why to [...]

A word before we begin to publish these interviews. It is a matter for parties and candidates who gets put up here. We contacted all parties, asked for two people. Sometimes we went to candidates with a web presence and doubly asked. The result is likely to be a mixed picture on parties (likely reflecting [...]

Pat Rabbitte was just on the tail-end of the 9 o’clock news,  saying that he doesn’t know whether it’s going to be a ‘fiery’ debate or not, but that most people ‘have already made up their minds who they’re going to vote for’ so it’s not the most important debate ever.
Er, wtf? Last time I [...]

Michael Reade presents the Loost Talk show on LMFM. He is hosting debated between the candidates of Meath East Louth. He is hosting these debates on his site at loosetalkmicheal.com.
Today, (Independent) AJ Cahill, Candidate for Meath East, (Sinn Fein ) Councilor Joe Reilly, Candidate for Meath West and (Fine Gael) Regina Doherty, Candidate [...]

I would like to thank Mr Gogarty for taking my questions.

A few months ago, the Green Party started its 50 Steps program where you would release fifty policies on education on the run up to the election. It was going well for a while with roughly one a week. However since step nine on July [...]

On Friday I spoke with Senator Tom Morrissey of the Progressive Democrats at the end of the party’s ‘A New Heart for Dublin’ conference, which detailed their idea of redeveloping Dublin Port into a residential area. Senator Morrissey is the man spear-heading the idea, and the conference was launched by Michael McDowell, where he spoke [...]

Ciaran Cuffe of the Green Party is a TD for Dun Laoghaire. Some interesting feedback in there that you might want to pontificate on-Lab/FF as the most likely government, pedestrianising of College Green, turning Bank Of Ireland, College Green into a civic building.
Ciaran Cuffe Thanks for talking to us.
IE.com: Quick reaction to the death of [...]

And yes I was hoping for a little more engagement
John Gormley thanks for agreeing to talk to us;
IE.com: The Green Party are enjoying 7% support in the polls and the national agenda currently seems to suit them (sustainable energy, public transport etc.) What are Greens looking for at the next election? Is there a potential [...]

I have conducted an interview with Green Party TD for Cork South Central Dan Boyle.
The interview touches on a number of issues including the current Government’s financial policies, the North and of course Green issues.
The interview can be read here.

United Irelander’s words on Wednesday is with Pat Rabbitee. Interesting answers. Check it out

Morgan Stack a university lecturer from Listowel is planning to run for the Irish 9/11 Truth Movement organisation. Which believes that 9/11 was an intelligence operation planned and conducted by very senior elements in the current Bush administration(you can see a documentary on some of the common theories here). He is running in the next [...]

The second and final part of the interview Eric Byrne did with Irish Election. Part 1 is here. The last three questions have been asked in the comments elsewhere.
IE.com: Slightly connected, business and the private sector make a great deal of noise about tax levels, so much so that Pat Rabbitte suggested that Labour would [...]

Part 1. Eric Byrne is a Labour Councillor and Candidate for Dublin South Central in 2007. He blogs here.
IE.com: Eric, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. First of all, your running in Dublin South Central next year, how do you fancy your chances? Is there a better platform for Labour success on [...]

Irish Election has just finished doing an interview with Cllr Eric Byrne, Labour candidate for 2007 in Dublin South Central.
It’s going to be posted in three parts on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week once I get some time to do the editing.