Irish Politics Blogs - Who are they all?
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There used to be a list (oh no the L word!) on some site that listed the various Irish political bloggers but I can’t find it now. I seem to recall last year that there didn’t seem to be that many Irish political blogs represented at the blog awards so I’ve thrown together the below list from submissions to the last blog awards as well as from the Irish Blog Directory and IrishBlogs.info. It’d be nice if we could could tag such blogs so we could stream the likes of IrishBlogs.ie and planet.journals.ie into sections. Are there any blogs I haven’t on the below list?
(Also don’t forget the Politics in Ireland competition. Only a few days left.)
http://www.sluggerotoole.com/
http://iepolitics.typepad.com/iepolitics/
http://www.disillusionedlefty.blogspot.com/
http://dossing.blogspot.com
http://gaskinbalrog.blogspot.com/
http://unitedirelander.blogspot.com/
http://elblogador.blogspot.com
http://gavinsblog.com
http://freestater.blogspot.com
http://www.threatstodemocracy.com/
http://1169andcounting.blogspot.com
http://www.thefi.org
http://www.theleveebreaks.co.uk/
http://www.damienblake.com/
http://www.youngunionists.org.uk
http://bestofbothworlds.blogspot.com/
http://rossfrenett.blogspot.com/
http://www.michaelturley.com
http://www.midnightpublishing.net/wordpress
http://stormont.blogspot.com/
http://backseatdrivers.blogspot.com/
http://badmananthem.blogspot.com/
http://www.chrisandrews.ie/
http://fdelondras4.blogspot.com/
http://www.brianmeaney.net
http://www.youngunionists.org.uk/
http://pneill.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveireland.blogspot.com/
http://skinflicks.blogspot.com/
http://greeninkpen.blogspot.com/
http://seamusryan.blogspot.com/
http://semperidem.blogs.ie/
http://www.branedy.net/
http://harpingon.blogspot.com/
http://www.irishelection.com/
http://www.realitycheckdotie.blogspot.com/
http://ericbyrne.blogspot.com/
http://wagging-the-dog.blogspot.com/
http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/
http://stephenspillane.blogspot.com/
http://kalcase.wordpress.com/
http://braz.blogspot.com/
http://www.everythingulster.com
http://hilloftara.blogspot.com/
http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/
http://cmurf.blogspot.com/
http://tomgriffin.typepad.com/the_green_ribbon/
http://theirishliberal.blogspot.com/
http://thelandofireland.blogspot.com/
http://ceadaoin.blogspot.com/
http://saoirse32.blogsome.com/
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November 22nd, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Thomas Byrne, as http://thomasbyrne.blogspot.com - he’s standing against Dominic Hannigan, and they’ve started a bit of a blog-war between them (see This post and Dominic’s response
And there’s John Curran, TD, at http://blog.johncurrantd.ie/
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:45 pm
We have worked out a way to do this a while back on IrishBlogs.ie - not on the basis of the bloggers but on the basis of the text in the post. We could work out the liklihood of a blog post being politics, technical or sport with a fairly high degree of accuracy (particularly if a post was over a certain no. of characters e.g. 200). Our plan was to have a tabs on the home page for each of these categories. The potential problem with calling people “political bloggers” is that they can also be sports bloggers, technical bloggers and personal bloggers -or the other side of the coin, you miss political posts from people who wouldn’t be considered “political bloggers”. Unfortunately we haven’t had the time to carry out our plan.
November 22nd, 2006 at 4:42 pm
I suppose I’d be one of those multi-topic bloggers; I’d usually cover politics and media… and now a little bit of business (although they’re never proper blog posts)
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Pleased to meet you!
November 25th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Michael Taft’s blog, http://notesonthefront.typepad.com/ is well worth a look.
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for the list - quite useful, and I’ve come across some interesting stuff courtesy of it.
I’ve one new one to add, http://viam-maniunto.blogspot.com/
December 2nd, 2006 at 8:39 pm
[…] Courtesy of Mulley’s list of Irish political blogs, my online reading has been expanded. Thanks for that. […]
December 21st, 2006 at 5:59 pm
[…] Just testing this out to see hot well it works and hopefully in time it can be added somewhere on Politics in Ireland. This searches through all the Irish Politics blogs I previously listed. Have a bash. […]
January 6th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Great Stuff, I like it.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
I started a blog recently and in fact there is a good few Labour representatives and candidates that have blogs now and our Party website is itself a blog. If you go on to the site and click on ‘Get Involved’ there is a section ‘Blogging for Labour’ and currently there are listed 17 Labour politicians that have blogs. I noticed also that at least 2 political journalists, Harry McGee and Kevin Rafter have started blogs recently.
January 11th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Ahem , Cough. You did,nt forget anyone, did you Damian?
January 24th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
A recent addition to the fold.
http://jaundicedireland.blogspot.com/
February 7th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Hello,
Was wondering if my little site qualified as a blog.
http://www.eirbiz.com
Thanks.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Damian,
Nice work my friend. I really like your blog. Perhaps I could talk you into blogging for my site sometime. I am not sure if you do a whole lot of technical blogging … but you should. Take a look at my site at Texan IT - DFW Computer Networking | DFW Website Design.
Mark
March 26th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
[…] I thought it was high time I acknowledged the huge range of wise and wonderful blogs out there on politics and rather than link to them all I chose the lazy option; Damien’s Mulley’s excellent set of links to link to them all Comments » […]
April 20th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Hi Damien,
I started my political blog only yesterday, I was reporting for years on politcs etc in the Kilkenny Standard (gone) amd The Munster Express, Waterford. Perhaps most of us can collaborate on the Election ? Gra, Michael.
July 15th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I have a blog that discusses politics a lot also.
http://wwwdarrenjoe.blogspot.com/
August 8th, 2007 at 5:32 am
Just a note to say thanks for the list - it will provide a core for my politics-ireland.co.uk aggregator.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Check out:
http://proudtobeleft.blogspot.com
February 25th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Been Blogging for over two years and would appreciate a link if possible.
Cheers
Keith
March 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Its wicked