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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 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 [...]

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

The Prime Time documentary. Harrowing Stuff. Requires Real Player. A&E – A National Emergency Prime Time Investigates looks behind the scenes at patient conditions in Accident & Emergency departments and gets the views of stakeholders on how A&E overcrowding can be tackled Questions and Answers debate afterwards

Dr Tormey being interviewed on the Late Late show suggested that families with members who engage in anti-social behaviour be put into ghettos with curfews, amoungst other things. From Breaking News The Fine Gael leader is playing down controversial remarks by an election candidate for the party. Enda Kenny said this afternoon that Dr Bill [...]

Video  Part 1 2 3 4 5 During his speech, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny attacked the government on both the Accident and Emergency crisis, and crime. He promised that he would take what he called “weekend warriors,” a name he gave to those who go into A and E units after drunken behaviour, and [...]

WordPress doesn’t like YouTube imbedded video so you will have to follow this link to see the video. Update: Simon Working now Part 1 View This Video on You Tube