Lisbon Treaty Events This Week

Busy week for me despite the relative quietness here. On Monday night I went to the Cóir public meeting in prep for the Lisbon Treaty at the Skylon Hotel. Highjink City! Video and audio from the Cóir public meeting. And last night I popped along to the Feminist Open Forum debate on the Lisbon Treaty [...]

An Bord Snip: Outsourcing and ICT

The light is shining on the findings of An Bord Snip. It’s interesting to see the level of rationalisation in local bodies. The report propose that local bodies such as County Enterprise Boards, Business Innovation Centres in a newer, more streamlined Enterprise Ireland to the tune of 10s of millions of savings. €100m drop in [...]

At The Counts

I spent the weekend at the RDS stalking anyone that’d look at me twice. The exciting thing at the counts is how immersive the experience is. It swallows you whole. Racing between tallies. Watching the watchers. Eagle-eying the counters. Getting jumped on by shithead photographers that’d as easily set a granny on fire as they’d [...]

Rolling News on Moratorium Day

As the web does not adhere to the media moratorium, it’s the place to be for rolling news today. For breaking news, check out the #le09 hashtag on Twitter. If you’re not a Twitter fan, pop by the liveblog.

On Media and MiCandidate

Suzy has written a piece on the adoption of MiCandidate data by media organisations in the run up to the June 5th elections. Go, take a read!

Tracking Down Candidate Cutouts

Forget technology, in the run-up to the elections I’m taking my new-found career path as a cutout correspondent very seriously. I want to hear sightings of cutout candidates around the country. I’m especially interested in Dublin candidates. Does your local, byelection or Euro candidate have cutouts? Have you tried to borrow one? Send me your [...]

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