The big day is here. Mick’s in Cavan at the moment (more on that soon) and will be in Roscommon & Kilkenny later – go along if you can. Update: We’ve added a ‘CoverItLive’ window in this post (thanks Mark McG!) – it’ll probably be fairly quiet until tomorrow but worth checking back to see if you’re not a regular Twitter user: Election 2011 John has just posted on his expectations and is asking you to put your cards on the table …
Apologies for the multiple posts on this one. We’ve finalised the venue now for the final leg of our roadtrip on Friday. If you’re anywhere near the Lyrath Estate Hotel in Kilkenny, myself and Peter will be there to hear what you’ve got to say. It’s another interesting one because Fianna Fail’s dissenter in chief, former Minister of State John McGuinness is standing. Not cut and dried that he will win. In Mary White it has one of the few …
Myself and Peter Geoghegan are doing three RTE Election Meet Ups – polling day events to sample in depth the opinion of local people and to share them online via Twitter and Facebook. The first one of the day will be in Cavan – details here. We’ve chosen it because it could be an interesting one . It could be a weather-vane showing the extent of any Fine Gael surge. If they gain three seats here they may be on …
This just a quick post in passing (as I am about to run out of the door), but if you are around in Roscommon on Friday lunchtime, you can book your free space at the Hannon’s Hotel (the least we can offer is a nice cup of coffee and a sit down)… To see who else may be going, to flag it up, see also the Facebook page… Event Registration Online for RTE Slugger #GE11 Roscommon South Leitrim Meetup powered …
Leaders Debate Live RTE Frontline tonight accommodates the first full leaders debate at 9.35 GMT. All five main party leaders will appear tonight in the one show. Four years ago, when there were six main parties, it was split into a major and minor debate. So who will corpse first? Enda or Gerry? Both are perceived to be the weakest links in this debate. But there is no Michael McDowell this time, will anyone take the trouble to take Gerry …
