Yesterday’s Sunday Business Post had a poll on Party Support and the upcoming treaty referendum. For the referendum the Yes side has much to be comforted by. The results are: Yes: 53% (+6) No: 31% (-4) Don’t Know: 16% (-2) When you exclude the Don’t Know yes side lead 63% to 37%. This shows the strength of the Yes side before the entry of Declan Ganley to the debate so it will be interesting to see if his contribution...
Disclosure: I served on the USI LGBT Campaign between 2006 and 2008 Reports have surfaced that two Dublin Colleges are mulling their membership of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). Both Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) have issues with current USI Policies and Campaigns according to a post on Studenty Dublin. According to the post TCDSU president Ryan Bartlett is seeking a referendum on the Union’s affiliation with the USI. Bartlett’s main criticisim focused on...
One of the big issues to be discussed at this weekend’s Young Fine Gael National Conference in Tullamore will be the issue of Gender Quotas. The National Executive of YFG have a motion on it which reads as follow YFG calls on the Minster for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to impose the 30% gender quota as outlined in the Electoral (Amendment) Political Funding Bill 2011 on the 2014 Local and European Elections This along with the motion...
The Sunday Business Post has two polls for us about the Irish Presidential Election. It has one poll with the 5 nominated candidates so far and one poll with the 7 candidates who will most likely be on the ballot on October 27th. In the 5 Candidate poll the 1st preference vote would look as follows: Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 27% McGuinness, Martin (SF) 20% Davis, Mary (Ind) 20% Mitchell, Gay (FG) 15% Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 15% This poll...
The count for the Agricultural Panel started last night and has continued today in Leinster House. 28 candidates battled it out for 11 seats on this Seanad panel. The quota for this panel was 88,834. At least four candidates must be elected from each sub-panel. The following have been elected. Heffernan, James (Lab) 1st Count (inside panel) Burke, Paddy (FG) 8th Count (outside panel) Bradford, Paul (FG) 14th Count (outside panel) Ó Clochartaigh, Trevor (SF) 17th Count (inside panel)...
I have finished another week on the door steps and this week saw me canvassing for Jerry Buttimer and Deridre Clune. On Monday we were out canvassing in Ballinlough for Jerry Buttimer and we got a good response. I got my first local issue on the door that night. Someone was giving out about City Council and the pothole outside their house. This was no ordinary pothole though! It was huge! So she had to complain! Thankfully Enda had...
This week I have been sharing my time with the three Fine Gael candidates in Cork South Central. I find that is the best and easiest thing to do. It also broadens your canvassing experience! Monday So on Monday I was out with Deirdre Clune. We were canvassing in Donnybrook in Douglas. I was paired with Fiona and it seemed that we got every nice person in the estate! We had lovely chats with people who wanted to talk...
So today I took part in the European Movement Ireland poll canvass in Cork on the European Citizens Initiative. A canvass also took place in Galway and Dublin. We got a great reaction from the people in Cork and I heard the same from Galway and Dublin. We were out in our T-shirts handing out lollipops and pens and postcards with the poll on it. (The front of the postcards are the images in this post). Expect to see...
Hello from the Copenhagen Think2 Launch Event! I have started off a live blog of the event and also there is a livestream of it! If anyone wants the embed code just ask!
So it seams I was right in my blogpost the other day about B*Witched. Instinct have updated the event on Saturday night to “EDELE AND KEAVY FORMELY B*WITCHED LIVE AT INSTINCT MARCH 28 – 03-09″. So it is only the two Lynch sisters! So there you have it! I was right! It dosent happen very often, but there you go!
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