Ireland Decides

A strange election, I am sure you will agree - much promise of change, little delivery. I was struck by how rubbish the internet coverage of the election was. OK, it was fine if you want to listen to streaming audio, but if you want frequently updated text you would have been poorly served by the websites of either our national broadcaster or paper of record. I feel that in the future some kind of blog style provision of information the would be the way forward. Media outlets in other countries seem to have mastered this kind of technology, maybe one day it will arrive in Ireland.

Here is a picture of someone who might be smiling at Michael McDowell losing his seat:

I am however now officially sorry for Michael McDowell and thought it was a bit poor that he was jeered on leaving the RDS.