Jerry Buttimer – Deshocks

Election promises

Opinion

Election promises

What's a red line issue to you? For me, in this election, it was the 8th Amendment. I didn't give a preference to candidates who didn't support repeal. For others before the last election, I imagine marriage equality was one. If the 8th Amendment is repealed, I expect it to remain a red line issue for me. [...]

2018-12-01T09:54:46+00:00 March 7th, 2016|Categories: Opinion|Tags: campaign, Chuck Feeney, contracts, Dominic Hannigan, Election 2016, electoral strategy, equal rights, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Jerry Buttimer, John Lyons, Labour, Leo Varadkar, LGBT, Marriage Equality, voters|

Tired and emotional!

And that's just the election candidates and their teams; I'm on another level entirely after a crazy weekend spent in Cork City Hall. Between us, Peter and I uploaded 52 blogposts and countless (I tried, and failed to count them) tweets as we liveblogged and tweeted the count. It was a phenomenal experience and [...]

2011-02-28T14:17:52+00:00 February 28th, 2011|Categories: Opinion|Tags: Cork Community TV, Cork South Central, Deirdre Clune, Fianna Fail, Jerry Buttimer, Simon Coveney, Twitter|