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This year’s election campaign is less than a week old and already has jumped from the sublime to the ridiculous. Last night’s Nine News, case in point.

Another day, another confidence motion. Well it may have been if #fgheave was not going on in the background. If you care to watch the main speeches you can watch Enda Kenny here (with James Reilly his new best friend/wannabe deputy leader sitting beside him) , Brian Cowen and him saying sorry for the government’s [...]

First time I’ve seen the Irish Trade Union movement do something good on the PR side.  They’re usually left in the wake of the better resourced employers:

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Enjoy Green Ink.

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.

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

CitizenJon follows Bertie View This Video on You Tube

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.

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.

After Margaret. Labour give you Aoife. View This Video on You Tube

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 [...]

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

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