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Economics is not my forte, nor is it that of many of Irishelection’s stable of regular posters, yet it relates to much of our other content. I’m therefore going to curate the important commentary on the subject from elsewhere in the blogosphere and media and hopefully this post might provide a platform for an intelligent [...]

Youth Media Europe’s Eoghan Dockrell nails down Brian Cowen for an interview and (wait for it) he is impressive. Maybe he should talk to more young people.

The Green Party will be making a final pitch for votes with a question and answer session tonight at 8:30. ‘The Green Room’ will be live on their website with questions taken live for John Gormley, Eamon Ryan and Deirdre de Burca / Dan Boyle too.

Early noon webroundup with most of the moratorium busting pleas from our pols and a couple of decent blog posts to boot. Enjoy the fare, as Adams and Ganley and plenty of others beg for your vote. Pat Cox is a notable former MEP whom Eoin Ryan was hoping would swing some support for him, [...]

A gem on one of Eoin Ryan‘s posters, thanks to the reader than sent that on. The sun brings out the fun…

We’ve entered the final stretch and parties were busy yesterday with events of one sort or another. Today and tomorrow are the last days of camapaign coverage in the broadcast media. (Keep an eye to Irishelection.com on Thursday for some special ‘No Moratorium Online’ coverage!)

Good Morning – we continue to bring you the best of the web on the election or election on web. No thanks are necessary (except of course to those who send us the goodies!), consider it part of our service to the nation. The use of the Twitter by Green Party Candidates to express their [...]

From my inbox this morning. North Sligo saw a new poster on it’s poles yesterday. Joe Leonard is a councillor of long standing (23 years) elected to Sligo County Council. He was not selected by his local party last year to contest the election but was later added to the ticket. Describing himself in the [...]

Tonights web roundup is pretty video heavy thanks to the work that Suzy is putting in to the election. The first video is Lord Mayor Eibhlin Byrne’s take on Barneycam the videos that followed Bush’s dog (not Tony Blair) around the White House. Samcam might not sound as good but the mayor’s dog shares, well, [...]

Due for release tomorrow Irishelection.com has an ‘exclusive’ preview of a piece of political rap for a candidate. Don’t make the wrong choice was written by GMC (Garry McCarthy) featuring State of Jay.

Entering the second last week of the campaign and the online campaign jewels shine brightly. On Election.ie Alexia Golez spent Saturday trailing the Labour Party Leader travelling in Gilforce 1 and 2 and meeting the party’s by-election candidates. Meanwhile in Limerick, Alexia’s sister Klara spotted Labour local election candidate Tom Shortt skateboarding with his brother [...]

‘If it all goes terribly wrong there will always be a spot of umpiring’ or An Taoiseach visits Gaines (Europe) in Wicklow where they make premium pet treats. Other pics to be found from An Taoiseach in Gorey and Letterkenny on Fianna Fáil Flickr.

Manix Flynn has probably cropped up on the radar in the past few days for anyone following the publication of the Ryan report. I would say we here were lamentably silent, only that I couldn’t come up with words to type. Manix was back on the campaign trail today and who should pop up to [...]

John Bracken ran in the last General Election in Laois/Offaly and came to national attention due to the musical releases which accompanied his campaign. (Ok John’s hair, posters, slogans also may have had something to do with the interest.) John also ran in the local elections in 2004. Unsuccessful on both occasions it seems John [...]

Green Party Deputy Ciaran Cuffe describes adventures in postering – it’s a great post and I’m left wondering if any other TD actually went up a ladder during this campaign (and nearly got electrocuted in the process). There is also news from other Green Party candidates and their ways of trying to talk about things [...]

Of course we probably all realised that this campaign could not pass without reference to the Great One. From Galway this morning an image of Daniel Callanan’s poster reaches us. Cllr. Callanan is a former Sinn Fein member and is now running as an independent candidate.