Sean Gallagher

11:00am   TG4 Debate (Pre-record),  Baile na hAbhann, Co. na Gaillimhe

4:00pm   Candy Lab, Spranger’s Yard, Temple Bar, Dublin

One of the most striking things that one notices when flicking through Sean Gallagher’s Flickr Photostream is the amount of photos of Gallagher and his wife on the campaign trail. Feels presidential already? Perhaps the reason why. Is Trish our Jackie O To Be?

Sean and Trish Gallagher at the campaign launch, 2/10/2011 (Flickr)

Are other candidates’ partners on the road with them? If so, are they as visible?

I’ll be running a liveblog tonight on the Leader’s Debate. I’ll pop the frame into this post for easy navigation. Call back after 8pm!

Who knows, maybe Enda will pop by and check it out since he’s decided he can’t watch it on the telly.

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I hate to poke my fingers in the eternal wound of Dublin media vs people who eat their dinner in the middle of the day. But I do love this picture. Via Enda Kenny on Twitter.

Apologies on the blogging front. Election.ie has been a little quiet. Yoyoing between bouts of panic buying gouge-happy stuff for burning and combining the odd reminents left in my press into new meal concoctions. Hello meat stuff with goopy onion tapenade. Darina, how are ya?

On a night where the rebellion against Brown looks well and truly alive, it is interesting to see the financial disclosures of spending in European Elections by UK political parties.

The Electoral Commission released figures yesterday showing just over £9 million was spent by UK political parties for campaigning for the Euros. Some 80% of the amount was spent by the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and United Kingdom Ind Party.

Breakdown of the spending by the parties:

(Table snipped)

Over Christmas, Suzy linked to the SIPO report to the Ceann Comhairle on spending by Irish political parties for their European campaigns. Very interesting reading there!