Political blogging – may we see a real start in Kildare?

Irish politics hasn’t really taken to this blogging stuff to any great extent, with blogs being largely the preserve of on-line nerds and the mad left rather than those at the coal-face of mainstream political activism. One interesting place where it may change is Kildare, where two young bucks with political ambition on opposite sides of the political divide have taken to it with gusto in recent months. Keep on an eye on these two blogs; Achem’s Blunt One from FG aspirant Tony O’Donnell and the View from the Tracks from Fianna Fáil’s James Lawless.

Interestingly, both have broadly the same views on a variety of subjects – in particular the extension of the tax-saver system to car-parking at commuter train stations and the extension of the town councils.