Tweetup

#UTVtrip: What are the issues in Foyle for #AE11?

Mick Fealty on April 18, 2011, 12:00 pm

| Readers 8

Tomorrow the UTV Twitter Road show rolls into the Foyle constituency. I should be on the ground from about 9, with a vo pop in the city centre, followed by a first political interview with Eamonn McCann. It culminates in our Tweetup at the Café Del Mondo in Shipquay Place. The idea is almost exactly the opposite of the traditional hustings event. There is no platform, just a circle. The subject of the conversation is what people who come bring …

UTVtrip North Antrim: Boundary change likely to be only source of change …

Mick Fealty on April 14, 2011, 3:15 pm

| Readers 7

We held the second UTV Twitter Road Trip in Ballymena last night. Again, of the folk who turned up all bar one said they would be voting. Out on the streets, in Portglenone and in Ballymena itself there were several, mostly older folk who had already sat out several elections and were not planning to return. We talked at length about the issues affecting life in North Antrim and there was a great deal of engagement, particularly around crime. There …