Well the opening speeches of the Fine Gael Ard Fheis are over and the first session is under way. Senator Francis Fitzgerald gave the local welcome to the Ard Fheis and placed the blame of the current crisis’ firmly at the feet of the Government. Following her, after some formalities, was the main speech by Enda Kenny. He started off about our candidates in the local elections. We ahem, I mean Fine Gael, have 733 candidates in the locals...
Im at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis this weekend in Dublin. Follow the action on twitter with the hashtag #fgaf My latest Th!nk post is up. Also as I mentioned on Wednesday they are looking for guest bloggers, let me know if you are interested! Suzy looks at what miCandidate are offering, she makes a lot of good points. I have been advising local election candidates to avoid… Darragh has some brilliant interviews from the Labour Conference, hopefully he’ll...
Thanks to the wonderful Suzy for these links. I’m off to Dublin today for the Ard Fheis and you too can keep up with the action. You have two ways, you can watch all the tweeting on scribblelive showing all the action from twitter or you can watch the live streaming on the Fine Gael website. The live stream will be between 19:00 – 21:00 today and 11:00 – 21:00 on Saturday with some of the day’s sessions and...
Well tomorrow marks nine weeks to polling day so from next week I am out canvassing two nights a week for a candidate in Cork South Central. He is a candidate who I am getting quite a few google search hits for. His name? Emmet O’Halloran. We had a meeting tonight with Ken White the Director of Elections for Cork City and he told what we need to do and how to deal with people on the door. Granted,...
As some of you know I do a bit of nightclub work taking the money at the door for Goldsoundz, well it seams my next time working there 11th April will be my last night working there and the last night of Goldsoundz. From the mailshot: I know many of you will be very disappointed, as are we, that we have decided to stop Goldsoundz in its present format. You like us, possibly really liked the venue and the...
So we are at the half way point of the EU Blogging Contest “Think About It” and I must say I am enjoying it. The first month was hard for me, but I got back into the swing of it last month. This month sees a change of focus. From now on we have to blog purely about the European Parliament to stay in the competition. We can still blog about European issues but they wont count towards the...
So far I have managed to avoid all April Fools Day pranks today (on and offline!) and Joe has a post about past ones and Googles one this year. The ELDR informed me (a journalist don’t you know ) that they have launched their electoral website, VoteLiberal2009.com. From the PR: A new exclusive tool for promoting our liberal candidates for the EP elections; our political contents through the four liberal campaign themes – economy, civil liberties, environment and foreign...
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