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Green Ink is on hiatus – he wil be back soon

7:41 PM Christine Bohan – Brian Lenihan says Prime Time broke the broadcasting moratorium, in a story in Friday’s Indo. How? By reporting on how Moody’s has downgraded Anglo Irish Bank’s rating. Thread about it on p.ie: www.politics.ie 12:59 AM dlooney – On an early morning leaflet drop before polls open #le09 1:01 AM longmanoz [...]

2:00 AM Simon McGarr – RT @LE09_PO: I’m a Presiding Officer at a Rural Irish Polling Booth in the Local/European Elections on 5th June 2009. #le09 2:00 AM Simon McGarr – Tomorrow, we’ll have a liveblog for voting day. Anything interesting you see happening, tag the post with #le09 and we’ll try to add it [...]

Democracy@TASC has some tools to help you make your mind up on election day. Vote Match and Candidate Watch. Check it out.

Green Ink is on temporary insanity. No, leave.

UPDATE: MiCandidate have dropped their prices – but their attitude remains. See Suzy for more details. – There were a number of interesting developments that stemmed from the analysis of MiCandidate.eu posted here last week. Firstly, The Irish Times got in contact to say they have no arrangement whatsoever with MiCandidate to display information collated [...]

Nothing more to add really. Except, possibly, well done that man.

So the blogosphere is a blaze with the whole picturegate thing. But lets look at this beyond the hysterical Stalin reference and the governments reaction. Was this picture Satire and if it was what was point the artist was making? Or was it just a cheap shot at Cowen’s not so Adonis looks.

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