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DCC and JCDecaux: Adding to the danger of Dublin city’s streets

A thread on boards.ie has been the source of some impressive citizen activism in the last week and it seems the campaign there is just getting started.
As some people already know, Dublin City Council recently signed a deal with advertising group JCDecaux which would see a number of advertising panels erected on the city’s streets [...]

Padraig Flynn on the Late Late Show, January 1999

I finally got my hands on it. I had trouble finding it anywhere on the internet, so someone may have already beaten me to it.
Anyways here it is. Pee Flynn destroying his political career in one interview. The quality is not the best as it was recorded on VHS nine years ago, but it is [...]

It’s like it was written for an Irish audience

Some of the arguments made in this satire piece by The Onion ring a bell.
Remind you of anything?

The All New Adventures of the Progressive Democrats

Enjoy

Green Ink.

Irish Political Video Stats - Updated May 14th

The list of youtube videos from the election with the highest views, the largest views by a long way for Enda Kenny’s meeting with American Idol. Full list below the fold.

Political Thicko Returns to the Dark Side

We had a run down of how they think and work, now its time to take a look at the canvassers superpowers;

Bertie Ahern on the trail

CitizenJon follows Bertie
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Rock the Vote in ‘Actually Quite Good’ shocker

There was a feature on News 2 tonight about Rock the Vote, who launched their first tv ads this evening. The main ad is here, and it’s good; gets the message across and not nearly as cringey as you’d imagine.

This is… exploitative?

Labour have just launched their latest campaign video, “This is Bernard” , as part of their campaign for safe and secure communities. And I don’t like it.

Labour new video.

After Margaret. Labour give you Aoife.
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East Meath Candidate A.J. Cahill understands online campaigns

Repost from Mulley.net
A.J. Cahill seems to be the one candidate so far that has a better grasp of the online turf that any other candidate, anywhere in Ireland. AJ is blogging and not afraid to pull some punches with this post about Dominic Hannigan and he is making some quite fresh and original videos and [...]

Mary Harney a response

A response to Mary Harney’s vidcast. View This Video on You Tube (Thanks boozy for the heads up)

Vote PD

A new Votetube candidate? View This Video on You Tube (hat tip Niall)

VoteTube

Simon McGarr is running the VoteTube experiment and looking for people to use YouTube as a political tool. Here is his own video:
View This Video on You Tube

VoteTube Competition Announcement

VoteTube is a competition for the most entertaining, most persuasive and most effective political and civic message videos made about Ireland.
There are two categories for entry. One is specifically for third and second level students and the other is for everyone else. You can enter as often as you like. Videos may be entered by [...]

The Dancing Taoiseach

From Johnathan Brazil comes this sparkling bit of dancing from Bertie and Mary.

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