I'm really looking forward to the election count tomorrow and Sunday. I've covered counts before, but as a purely print reporter. This will be the first one I am tweeting and live blogging and I'm looking forward to the utter confusion of it all! You can follow my tweets on @deshocks (I'll be mainly [...]
With only 6 women out of 67 candidates running throughout Cork, the odds are certainly not stacking up at 50-50. As Áine Kerr wrote in yesterday’s Irish Times, Mná na hÉireann are losing ground. But that’s all set to change, if a new group set up in Cork before Christmas has its way. The [...]
On my way to UCC yesterday to meet Alastair Campbell I had a most interesting chat with the taxi driver who brought me. I was expecting serious political discussion and judgement of the political parties’ electoral prospects at the event, but not before it. But like many of the voters I met on the [...]
Well, some of the fuss is over. Yesterday passed remarkably calmly, for a day that, according to various political musings, tweets and bluster, could have seen the Government fall and Eamon Ó Cuív elected leader of Fianna Fáil. Neither of those things happened, and there’s a curious sense of disengagement matched with anticlimax. Of course, many [...]
Despite ourselves, there’s a note of optimism creeping into proceedings for 2011. There is an election on the horizon; a feeling that the worst has happened, economically; and, crucially, most of us have had a few days off to recharge the batteries. With the election coming up, most probably towards the end of March, [...]