Irish Politics, Politicians in Ireland, TDs, Irish Government

Beating Blogorrah to it - The Trevor is a badass too, like Vincent

Seen on Damien Mulley

Via the Green Party Flickr account. (Kudos for having one lads and ladies.) … jibes. In case you need to know Ciaran Cuffe dines in Govindas while Eamonn Ryan dines on tuna... Continue reading »

The Greening of Ireland

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The Green Party has been right all along with respect to Environmental concerns, public transportation, sensible use of our natural resources, their stand on the nuclear issue, the preservation of our antiquities, climate change and the carbon and waste problems. Trevor Sargent, Ciaran Cuffe, John Gormely... Continue reading »

Hello Eagle-Eyed RTE viewers!

Seen on VoteTube

Hello Eagle-Eyed RTE viewers! Posted on April 14th, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Meta-VoteTube. Fast reading viewers might have caught VoteTube’s address in the report on today’s RTE TV news. (Click for the video). Take a look around. Here are links to some of the videos shown in the news report: Mary Harney, Frank Chambers, Ciaran Cuffe... Continue reading »

Oisín Quinn (Lab) wants his Bath fixed

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Oisín Quinn (Lab) wants his Bath fixed Posted on April 5th, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video, VoteTube Entry, Politician’s Videos. It seems that quality of life, and of the environment that voters live in is a focus of Dun Laoghaire based candidates. Certainly Oisin Quinn, like Ciaran Cuffe before him, wants to see the crumbling... Continue reading »

Project a Success as Recycle Points Installed in Dublin Commuter Hubs

Seen on Brian H Fitzsimons Online

Project Introduction : As Im typing this Im on my way back from Galway where I spent a long weekend / mini mid-term winding down from a few pretty intensive weeks in work. I thought I’d blog about a mini side-project of mine that Ive been working on. Firstly, I need to bring you up to speed ! few months ago I blogged about a UNESCO... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe (Green) takes a walk to Blackrock baths

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Ciaran Cuffe (Green) takes a walk to Blackrock baths Posted on March 22nd, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video. This is a curiosity. VoteTube’s favourite Green TD leaves off the hard sell for this video and makes a short movie to show us into what state the derelict Blackrock sea baths have fallen. What’s interesting about this is... Continue reading »

Oisín Quinn (Lab) says Hi

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Oisín Quinn (Lab) says Hi Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video, VoteTube Entry. A new recruit to the world of VoteTube videos, Oisin Quinn has started his small screen career by letting us know how we can get hold of him. He’s to the point here, you have to give him that. This, and all his subsequent videos,... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe (Green) has a Future for Cherrywood

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Ciaran Cuffe (Green) has a Future for Cherrywood Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video, VoteTube Entry. Short video? Check. Candidate focused? Check. On location in the Constituency? Check. Shadows of your camera crew? A new must have. Check. An entry to VoteTube? Check.... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe (Green) stars in “Good Food at Farmer’s Markets”

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Ciaran Cuffe (Green) stars in “Good Food at Farmer’s Markets” Posted on February 6th, 2007 by Simon McGarr. Categories: Irish Video. Stars is the operative word. Despite being on location talking to a real person, Ciaran preferred his own voice-over to letting the woman to whom he was talking be heard for most of the video. Error! Not a... Continue reading »

Boycott of politicians in election urged at Tara protest

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Boycott of politicians in election urged at Tara protestNov 6, ‘06 8:37 AM for everyoneBoycott of politicians in election urged at Tara protest The Irish Times, November 6, 2006 Campaigners against the planned M3 motorway route which passes close to the Hill of Tara have vowed that their fight is only starting, and have called on people to... Continue reading »

Speak freely. Just don’t read any.     Heard through the grapevine …

Seen on The Doc Searls Weblog : Halloween, 2006

Speak freely. Just don’t read any. Heard through the grapevine that Oireachtas — the Irish parliament — is banning employees from reading or writing blogs, as well as indulging in other ordinary online activities. Went rooting around for evidence and found Blogs banned in Leinster House (and Blackhall Place) in tuppenceworth.ie. That points back... Continue reading »

Energy efficent my ass.

Seen on Fatmammycat.com

There’s an ad on TV at the moment, one of those twee hand wringing jobbies from the government, where ink drips from walls and lights and radiators into a family home. This-naturally- is the governments way of imploring us to spend less on heating and save energy. To further fuck with the good people of Ireland, our gas bills now have a 33% hike... Continue reading »

Revenge of the bloggers

Seen on In Fact, Ah

Like Redmum, if I don’t post this now I never will … It was great to meet some of the old reliables (Dick, Damien and Kevin) on Saturday. The story told by Dick about my name still being on a pole in Merrion Square cracked me up. He figured that it’s there since the night of the blogging awards last March. I have no recollection of taking off... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe TD (Green Party) Newsletter…

Seen on Anti Monkstown Ring Road

The residents are thrilled with the rock solid support by Ciaran Cuffe TD and the Green Party on its campaign to have the MRR stopped. The Green Party is extremely disappointed with yesterday’s decision by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to proceed with the construction of the controversial Monkstown Ring Road. The four Green... Continue reading »

Blogging the Election

Seen on red mum

BEING the last person to blog on the weekend’s Blogging the Election conference (or it certainly feels like it from all the other posts I have seen) I thought if I didn’t do it soon, I would probably not get around to it. [ The organisers of Blogging the Election] Damien, Mick, Cian and Suzy Well it was a great day and night, I was a sh*tty mess... Continue reading »

How a Politican should Blog: Ciaran Cuffe gives…

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How a Politican should Blog: Ciaran Cuffe gives a master class Writes Simon of The Dossing Times on October 10th, 2006 Read More: Green Party, Dun Laoghaire Ciaran Cuffe of the Greens continues to show how a politican should blog. None of this crap about “No day is a typical day,” he details what actually happens on one of his days. Keep it... Continue reading »

Check out the Bertie Blog!

Seen on Chips With That!

Check out the Bertie Blog! October 9th, 2006 Well, not yet. But if the organisers of last Saturday’s Politics and Blogging conference in Temple Bar could have their way, all our politicians and candidates would be setting up a weblog and holding forth. There are already plenty of political pundit bloggers in Ireland, but only a handful of... Continue reading »

Blogging the Election Conference

Seen on The Health Tech Blog

I attended the Blogging the Election conference in the Digital Hub on saturday. Last week, I wrote a short piece about an Active Citizenship event I was recently at - my civic spirit seems to be in flow at the moment. It’s good to see bloggers focusing on a particular niche which is less about blogging and the technology/geek factor/ego, and... Continue reading »

I must be famous now…

Seen on GUBU

Just in from a family birthday dinner where my mother informed me (she is part of my team who reads papers on my behalf and tells me what I should know) that Ciaran Cuffe namechecked me in the IT today. Cool. (IMHO). “Sarah Carey in her GUBU blog discussed his tears last week during that television interview.”... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe Blogging for Re-election

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[ Ciaran Cuffe]Ciaran Cuffe knows the difference between a political party’s press release, a mail shot to constituents and a weblog. He explained his use of each of these channels of communications to an Irish audience interested in the way blogs might be used during the upcoming general election. His comments form part of a 21-minute [15.1 MB... Continue reading »

Wrap up

Seen on Maman Poulet

Aren’t the Blogging the Election Team all a happy bunch. (read shattered) This event does not end with a plenary - instead it ends on the blogosphere….ie. the debate and discussion continues and more events are to come. I forgot to mention Ciaran Cuffe T.D.’s op-ed piece in this mornings Irish Times, it’s a very good read on political blogging... Continue reading »

Blogging the Election Conference

Seen on Cllr Damien Blake, Letterkenny Town Council

I’m in Dublin today at the Blogging the Election conference, where we are discussing ways in which the Internet will impact on the Political process in Ireland, with particular reference to the next General Election (expected in June 2007). I shared a platform earlier with Ciaran Cuffe TD of the Green Party and Labout Party Councillor Dominic... Continue reading »

Blogging The “Blogging the Election C…

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Blogging The “Blogging the Election Conference” - Live More badly taken notes…..Suzy contacted a range of politicians who blogged (not putting up just press releases) and she contacted some of the parties. She shows Brody Sweeney vlog. (That’s the guy from O’Briens Sandwiches - I didn’t know he was in politics but he is - for Fine Gael - his... Continue reading »

Ciaran Cuffe’s Information on the Monkstown Ring…

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http://www.ciarancuffe.com/DunLaoghaire/BlackrockW… Information on the Monkstown Ring Road 27 June 2006 Monkstown Ring Road Decision by An Bord Pleanála Dear Residents, An Bord Pleanála has approved the proposed Monkstown Ring Road with 13 conditions. Most of these conditions ensure that the Council builds higher boundary... Continue reading »

Ros O’Shaughnessy took some nice Pics of the…

Seen on Anti Monkstown Ring Road

Barry Troy of the Rowanbyrn and District Residents Association with Cllr. Ciaran Cuffe (Green Party) and Cllr. John Bailey (FG) Listening to speech from Cllr. Nessa Childers (Green Party) Even in the torrential rain…. this will give you all the scale of the event.... Continue reading »