There's an interesting debate going on at the moment regarding the direction that irishelection.com should take. It has received significant publicity in the print media recently and may well have an impact similar to what was experienced by US blogs in the run up to the US Presidential Election last year.

If it is to be a success and not become just another political blog, contributors must steer clear of using it as an arena where infighting skews honest political debate. What I personally would like to see is more 'hard news' as Dick O'Brien suggested over at Backseat Drivers. Ideally, it would be nice if contributors addressed election issues and not get sidetracked by peripherals. Let's talk health, Fianna Fail, white papers, manifestos, social housing and the like.

Cian was kind enough to invite me to contribute so expect some waffle from me in the near future.

UPDATE: irishcorruption.com actually made it into a Ciarán Cuffe speech in the Dáil, and not irishelection.com. But I did whisper it to someone while in the Dáil bar. Does that count? Anyway, you can understand how someone could mix up irishcorruption.com and irishelection.com on so many different levels.

Published by Colm.