Introduction
Hello and good afternoon everyone. My name is Louise Sheridan and these are my team members Sarah Nealon. Aisling Whelan, Aoife Doyle and Seamus Hanafin. We are here today to make a pitch to you all about a new piece of innovative technology, which we are proud and confident to have created. We as a team know and believe that this piece of technology will make a huge difference to the current political voting system inIreland. Read the rest of this entry »
Political education idea pitch
Political and Dáil reform has recently been widely debated inIreland. There has been heightened interest from the public since the crisis, a situation which has highlighted the many deficiencies the political-economic structures in this country. In this debate about reform, it is important that the voices of the people are heard. In order for this to happen, citizens need to have a more informed understanding of how the political system works in Ireland, which would, moreover, lead to heightened interest in Irish political society. Read the rest of this entry »
OIREACHTASBASE.IE: “A NEWPolitical Place”
Background Information
Having had experiences with politicians on social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, one can notice that TDs, Councillors and Senator pages are either: used daily, used every few weeks or months, are hardly ever used, have created a page but have never been used, have false accounts created in their name or, have no account at all. Also, attached to this problem, those who use twitter for political reasons can share their opinions but you cannot necessarily view the opinions of others in response to their arguments, as it is generally a one way conversation. Facebook, being a world wide social media innovation, is generally not used for political reasons, as you can see Enda Kenny page just points you links to other political pages, there are no real discussions taking place. Read the rest of this entry »
POLITICAL ACTION IRELAND –The educational DS game for the Nintendo DS
The game will focus on politics inIreland. It will have twelve levels moving for grassroots level all the way to becoming the Taoiseach. Each level will have a number of tasks that must be completed by the budding politician before they can go on to the next level.
Is there a niche in the market for a game like this?
Yes there are no other games like this available on the Irish market that caters to this interest. And yes there will be people who will be interested in this purchasing this game. Read the rest of this entry »
The NUIM Apprentice Presidental Election Task
This task invites each of the three student teams to contest the NUIM Apprentice Presidential election – and the stipulation that you need to be an Irish citizen aged 35 years, or over, will not apply here! Read the rest of this entry »
This weekend saw the last big weekend of qualifer matches (eight games, as opposed to the remaining weeks when just four games will be played). Read the rest of this entry »
Population change in Co. Laois, 2002-11, by electoral division
The provisional Census 2011 figures published today offer some interesting insights in terms of demographic change in Ireland over the last five years. Despite speculation that population growth levels may have slowed during the Celtic Tiger era, the percentage level of population growth nationally proved to be similar to that for the 2006 Census (although this of course was covering a much shorter time period due to the postponing of the 2001 Census until 2002). As always, there is a very definite geography to population change and population growth levels have been especially concentrated on the counties in the Dublin commuter belt, and the county to especially stand out in this regard, having experienced the greatest percentage increase in population since 2006, is Laois Read the rest of this entry »
This weekend’s eight qualifiers games have changed the rankings somewhat with some results flying in the face of regular qualifiers form. Read the rest of this entry »
Interesting data on success levels in all of the All Ireland Football Championship qualifier matches accompanying today’s article by Martin Breheny in today’s Irish Independent – (Breheny (23 June 2011), “Win or Bust: Teams risk early exit but qualifiers can be launch pad for assault on Sam”, Irish Independent, p.62) Read the rest of this entry »
Adrian Kavanagh, 26th May 2011
The return of juries in the late 2000s as part of a new 50-50 voting system combining the votes of televoters and professional juries was generally viewed as a positive development by Ireland, espeically given our run of successes in the 1980s and especially the 1990s during the jury voting era and our abysmal run of results for most of the televoting era in the late 1990s and 2000s. This definitely proved to be the case in 2010 when jury votes were needed to ensure Niamh Kavanagh qualify for that year’s final but the advantage offered by jury voting proved to be less clear for Ireland in the 2011 contest. Read the rest of this entry »
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