I will be on Virgin Media later this evening for the Tonight Show’s end of year review, and I thought I would share some of my speaking notes with you here. We’ve been asked to prep our “of the year”s; moment, story, villain and person. I only
The results are in; Catherine Connolly won the Irish Presidential election of 2025, gathering 914,143 - or 63% - of the vote. There is a lot of talk of spoiled ballots (including from me) - but - this win is historically comprehensive. Catherine Connolly has garnered the highest percentage
Over the last few months I have tried to dig out and get on the record some of the hidden and more ephemeral aspects of this election. Here is a recap of what we covered.
This video is worrying; it shows a combination of both intent and skill in building out very deceptive content, in a way that resonates with Irish audiences.
Aoife Dunne's "Sorry now" video is one of the most subtle yet devastating pieces of political content I have ever seen.
By burying the lede and handing over airtime, have Fine Gael committed an own goal?
Our politics is a techno-coloured pick-and-mix, this election is a Soviet department store
Fianna Fáil unlikely to get the €250k back from the state they would have if Jim Gavin had run
Have the dates on Google's Fidesz ads changed in its ad archive?
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had been told
3 good reads and some Linkedin news you can use
What the first political ads tell us about how the campaign might look
