Election 2011 Blog

• Friday, 18 February 2011

  Attacks and counter attacks

  Martina Fitzgerald was with Eamon Gilmore as he met students who had plenty of questions about their future.

  

  Lots of tough talking with policy attacks and counter attacks on Day 16 of the campaign.

  Child benefit cuts. Families. Stealth taxes.

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• Thursday, 17 February 2011

  Zen and the art of democracy maintenance

  David McCullagh enjoys the calm of a deserted Leinster House, and hears the latest dispatches from those on the frontlines of trench canvassing.

  

  Leinster House is a pleasant place these days. All is calm, all is relaxed. No queues in the self-service restaurant. The tumbleweed rolling down the corridor was probably in my imagination, but you get the picture.

  The reason for this Zen-like state is, of course, the absence of politicians, currently undergoing the most rigorous job interview process known to humanity in every corner of the State.

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• Wednesday, 16 February 2011

  Students learn Irish election history

  Ray Kennedy reports on a primary school that is teaching its students the history of elections in the Irish State.

  

  It passed by in a matter of seconds, but as the Fine Gael convoy made it's way south from Galway to Bruree in Co Limerick, we passed the childhood home of Éamon de Valera

  A small cottage, perfectly restored and with a museum nearby. There has been plenty written about what the country's founding fathers may make of our current position.

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• Wednesday, 16 February 2011

  War of words in Limerick

  Cathy Halloran reports on verbal exchanges between Fianna Fáil candidate Niall Collins and Fine Gael.

  

  It's an election war of words in every sense of the word in the constituency of Limerick, formerly the Limerick West constituency, located in the heartland of rural Limerick.

  Fianna Fáil Candidate Niall Collins has said that Fine Gael in Government would endanger and be a threat to our neutrality. He quotes a section of the Fine Gael manifesto, which he claims outlines the party’s desire for Ireland to get involved in the construction of a new European security system at an early stage so that we can join and influence it. He said this amounts to a precursor to a deeper military engagement in Europe.

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• Wednesday, 16 February 2011

  Political apathy in Longford

  Photo opportunities were few and far between as Mícheál Martin visited Longford, with Joe Mag Raollaigh in tow

  

  A bizarre thing happened during Mícheál Martin’s campaign today. He was canvassing in Co Longford and driving into the town his cavalcade pulled over where two men were plastering a wall. Out jumped Mícheál with local candidate and long-time TD for the area Peter Kelly.

  Kelly squired his party leader over to another man in a hi-vis vest and declared with great gusto that this was the lad contracted to build the Longford bypass!!

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• Wednesday, 16 February 2011

  Seismic political shifts - but to what extent?

  Cian McCormack hears that we are at the ‘epicentre of an electoral earthquake.’

  

  If recent opinions polls are anything to go by – and correct - we are heading towards a seismic shift in our political landscape.

  Today’s Irish Independent Millward Brown Lansdowne opinion poll is predicting a Fine Gael surge toward a single-party government and political annihilation for Fianna Fáil.

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