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Update: Official Press Release here. – In a decision sure to spark furious condemnation from “no” campaigners, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland has announced new regulations on airtime set to grant the political-parties the vast majority of airtime during the campaign. Broadcasters are not required to allocate exactly the same amount of time to both [...]

So yeah, the facebook wall of John McGuirk, Libertas’ Irish press officer is below. I said Libertas was an organisational shambles last week, the downfall will reflect exactly why. Expect law suits to be splattered all over the place (edit: in fact, they already are being thrown about, a letter was sent by Simons’s solicitor to [...]

In the course of my work today I was looking back over Libertas’s campaign, how the organisation emerged, it’s modus operandi etc etc and it struck me – it could be argued that even putting the words ‘Libertas’ and ‘organisation’ beside one another, was a bit of a stretch. There doesn’t seem to have been [...]

The early numbers are out from tomorrow’s breakdown of the European race. Keith had some of the early East constituency numbers online a while ago and the rest of the details is clearing up now. Yesterday had Fianna Fail on 20%, Labour on 23% and Fine Gael on 36% – interesting to see how the [...]

Sent to us from Mayo – the first bumper sticker and the first anti-candidate ephemera of Elections 2009.  Suppose if it was going to be any candidate it would be The Chairman.

If there is one thing you should do today it’s buy The Irish Examiner. Go, g’wan, buy it. Even if you’re not from Cork. Even if you’re not from Munster. Feck it, go and buy it if you’ve never bought a paper or watched the news before. Please, for the good of the country, buy [...]

Follow up post on Simon’s earlier post Hilarious press release from Libertas was waiting for me in my inbox when I arose from my slumber this morning. Thank you, Chairman Ganley for brightening my day. The rather excellent headline of “Libertas.eu the most visited political party website worldwide” was clicked on with a cynical smirk. [...]

Libertas.eu the most visited political party website worldwide Brussels, May 15th: Libertas.eu, the website of the pan European people’s movement for more democracy, accountability and transparency in the EU, had more visitors mid-week than any other political party in the world Sorry Declan you don’t quiet have. The Indian National Congress has more (Ok they [...]

Update: The legendary personality is Polish activist Lech Walesa Libertas’s conference kicks off soon in Rome, you can watch online. You really should becuase we hear last night; Big name Guest Speaker at Libertas convention Friday May 1st Just a quick note to say that a legendary personality will speak at the Libertas convention in [...]

They are running a petition on their French site against Turkish membership of the EU

The Irish Times reports an arguement in the west. In a weekend speech in Galway announcing his candidacy, Mr Ganley referred to Mr Higgins as “Swimmer Jim” because of the MEP’s support for a €9.2 million plan for a swimming pool at the European Parliament. “I have heard Jim Higgins preaching about the Government wasting [...]

So the Declan Ganley European tour is on stop number 2 today in France. Announcing his French candidates for the EU Parliament Viscount Philippe de Villiers, Frédéric Nihous and Jérôme Rivière.  Out of the three you probably have only heard of De Villiers. He is quiet the controversial guy and supposed creator of the term “Polish Plummer” in [...]