At least they’re Flickring behind closed doors
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Update: Twittering inside the Green Event. Rebeltastic! Updates live 
The Green Party Flickr account shows two new photos inside the closed doors special meeting of the Green party. I believe bloggers asked to attend and got told no. Shame. The Press Office did email bloggers to let them know of the photos though. Tease.
Update: Blog post from Ciarán. (See what I’m doing? Using his first name like we’re blog buddies or something. Makes it look like I in some way have his ear. 
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Anyway, good blog post, very optimistic and lovely final quote:
sometimes the devil has all the best tunes
Reference to his deal with the devil blog post?
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June 13th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
“I believe bloggers asked to attend and got told no. Shame.”
They didn’t refuse bloggers because they were bloggers, they refused non-Green-member-bloggers because they aren’t members of the Green Party. If journalists or architects or artists or redheads asked they would get the same answer…
This meeting is (I believe) a members-only affair; I think they’re entitled to their private meetings. It’s nothing to do with blogging
and at least the members get to have a say, as opposed to Fianna Fáil (there were no bloggers in their parliamentary party meeting either, other than Noel Dempsey).
June 13th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
On the other hand I’d give at least one limb to be there. But I can see why they want to keep it private, and the Greens are on the good side of the openness spectrum in general.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
What, ELECTRIC light? At the Green party conference? Next you’ll be saying that some of them arrived in cars!
June 13th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Ooops, I didn’t mean to make it sound like they excluded bloggers because they were bloggers. I just meant some of the IrishElection.com crew asked to go and they said no. I was hoping since they are into blogging now and they even have their own press mailing list for bloggers, that they’d invite them along. I wonder had I joined the Green Party yesterday, would I have been allowed go?
And yeah, it’d be intriguing to see how something like this would be debated. Typhoid McKenna was on RTE a few minutes ago making a fuss over the whole thing and a deal with FF. She said she’s probably vote no. Why be constructive when you can be sensationalist, eh Typhoid?
June 13th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Don’t forget we have tweets coming from inside the building.
June 13th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I don’t think McKenna has ever voted yes to anything? Anyway, “Typhoid” - dare I ask?
June 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Conor O’Neill’s nickname after the whole MMR shite.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
photo reminds me of “close encounters”
is this their close encounter
http://url.ie/4e7
June 13th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Just live on RTÉ. 86%.
June 14th, 2007 at 9:39 am
From one of the twitterers: “There are a lot of green party member who are civil servants they’re all asking very specific questions on policy. A bunch of realos i say.”
Interesting claim that a lot of the GP members are civil servants. If it’s true it would be a breach of civil service regulations (unless they’re all in very junior grades).