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		<title>Noonan&#8217;s Budget 2012 Speech in Full</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot of the mailbox, here's Noonan's address to the Dail. Click through to read the speech.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Michael D Higgins &#8211; Moratorium Q&amp;A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of preparation do you do prior to debates? I have had a lot of experience of speaking on the national and international stage and I think the best thing is to go in with a fresh approach and open mind, ready to listen and respond to the concerns and issues that emerge. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Norris &#8211; Moratorium Q&amp;A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the fading hours of the #Aras11 race, I sent out list of questions to all of the candidates. In fairness, I didn&#8217;t expect much of a reply, given the fatigue factor they must be experiencing, but David Norris did reply. &#160; What kind of preparation do you do prior to debates? My secret weapon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Electile Dysfunction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s probably unfair to suggest that the race for The Áras has failed to arouse the nation&#8217;s imagination. In fact, it has been the most dysfunctional presidential election campaign in our nation’s short history of such campaigns. Our election campaigns are in the process of being Americanized. Negative electioneering has been slowly imported by Sky News and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Aras11 Tracker 21/10/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Norris 12:00pm &#8211; 1:00pm: Walkabout in UCC Campus, Cork. 1:15pm &#8211; 2:00pm: Walkabout in Cork City Centre. 4:00pm &#8211; 5:30pm: Walkabout in Waterford City Centre. &#160; Sean Gallagher 11.00am: Walkabout in The Square Shopping Centre, Tallaght, Dublin. 12.00pm: Dominic&#8217;s Community Centre, Tallaght, Dublin. 2.00pm: The Guardian Project, Arklow Bay Hotel, Arklow, Co. Wicklow. 3.30pm Walkabout of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest posts welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We received a very nice guest post this morning, and we&#8217;d like MOAR! We&#8217;d like to run this as a rolling series, so if you have any posts searing in you or commentary you&#8217;d like to make, wrap it up in a mail to newsdesk at election.ie. Anything current affairsy, or politics-based welcome, especially submissions with a little humour! Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Aras11 Tracker 20/10/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Dana Rosemary Scallon 10:30am – 11:30am: Walkabout from Bridgewater Shopping Centre, Arklow, Wicklow. 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Walkabout from Main St, Gorey, Wexford. 3:00pm – 4:00pm: Walkabout from Main St, Wexford town. 4:00pm: Interview with South East radio 5:00pm - 6:00pm: Walkabout from main square, Waterford City. &#160; Michael D Higgins 10.00 am: Pat Kenny interview, RTE Radio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Aras11 Tracker 19/10/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael D Higgins 11:00am: Safe Ireland Presidential Discussion, Davenport Hotel, Dublin 4.30 pm: The Last Word with Matt Cooper &#8211; Today FM 6:05 pm: Six One News &#8211; RTE]]></description>
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		<title>TG4 Presidential Debate Liveblog 18/10/2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Find the liveblog along this link. For you liveblog newbies, we&#8217;ll having fun more than reporting verbatim.]]></description>
		<link>http://election.ie/2011/10/tg4-presidential-debate-liveblog-1102011/</link>
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		<title>#Aras11 Tracker 18/10/11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean Gallagher 11:00am   TG4 Debate (Pre-record),  Baile na hAbhann, Co. na Gaillimhe 4:00pm   Candy Lab, Spranger&#8217;s Yard, Temple Bar, Dublin 6:30pm    Launch of &#8220;How 2.0 Market Your Business Online&#8221; Pop-up shop, Lower St. Stephen&#8217;s Street, Dublin &#160; David Norris 9:00am &#8211; 1:00pm   TG4 Debate (Pre-record),  Baile na hAbhann, Co. na Gaillimhe 2.00pm &#8211;  3:00pm  NUI Galway [...]]]></description>
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