Tag: politics

  • LocalElections.ie Covering Kilkenny / Carlow

    Ballot paper for the Manchester TIF referendum
    Creative Commons License photo credit: Frankie Roberto

    I stumbled across LocalElections.ie last week via KCLR 96FM, the station running the site as a means to get information to the masses on the local elections in Carlow / Kilkenny for 2009.

    The site itself is heavy on the information side of things with plenty of information available on the structure of the elections, the breakdown of the councils within Carlow and Kilkenny, the power of councillors and lists of all current sitting councillors and those standing for election come June. While the names are there, it might be nice to get some profiles added on the actual councillors themselves – pictures, key election points etc. – something I’m sure will appear on the site before the election date in June.

    One thing that is happening is that they’re getting blogging. Sue Nunn, who heads to Brussels today in advance of a live broadcast tomorrow with the current Ireland East MEPs, is blogging. There’s also two hustings blogs running, the Kilkenny one packing a bit of a no-holds-barred approach to the local elections while the Carlow one has just gotten off the ground.

    Sue’s show is live tomorrow from 10am to 12pm and you can catch the stream via the KCLR website.

  • Bebo Now A Political Playground?

    Notice to politicians… call to my front door, try flag me down in the street or have a word with me at a gig but keep comments like these off my Bebo page, blog, MySpace…. you get where its going.

    Bebo Politics

    If this is going to be the “in thing” now in the run up to the elections I’m gonna be mighty pissed off….