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Saturday December 13, 2008 19:59 by Mark C - Contact.ie
They Work for Us
Contact.ie, a website for contacting politicians in Ireland, went live today. Indymedia.ie caught up with Mark Conroy, the site's owner, to discuss the site with him. Related Links: Contact.ie
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Brilliant idea. It would be cool if you also included a media contact option. Heres a short list if you decide to: http://cannabisireland.net/index.php?id=act/npeab
Is it not already the case that Politicians can be contacted by looking up their contact details in the centre of the telephone book ; i.e. telephone number and e mail address and sometimes thier home number?
Your logo should contain something like this, since your site is limited to politicians in the twenty six counties of Ireland.
I think many politicians have a policy of getting their secretaries to write standard letters of reply to constituents and others who take the trouble to put pen to paper. The secretaries then shove a pile of reply letters on their bosses' desks for instant signature before mailing them off. Often the boss just glances at the topic at the top of letters before adding the magic signature. Secretaries do sort out the mail into categories like VIP (letters from Ministers), queries (why are there so many ESB outages in Ballymaglack?), and letters of comment. The public rep will look into queries by phoning the local authority or other body, and sometimes asking a Dail question. The comment letters get a standard two-sentence reply along the lines: Thank you for your letter dated --, the comments of which have been noted.
I got that kind of preprinted postcard from Ian Paisley MP many years ago when I sent him a letter to the House of Commons criticising his denominational antics in Liverpool during an ecumenical gathering. His secretary sent the postcard without any signature whatsoever.
Thanks, would love to see a theyworkforyou.co.uk for Ireland, but i can't code,I've tried and failed, :/
If you pay for the hosting, domain etc. I'll code it up for ye.
This is a brilliant tool.
Thanks for the comments above and the personal emails sent to wish the project well.
I was interviewed this morning on Inisowen Community Radio; the interview will be aired tomorrow between 9 and 11 and again tomorrow evening between 7 and 9.
I'll post it up if I can get it downloaded.
Thanks to Inishowen Community Radio for airing an interview with me today about contact.ie.
Interview contents:
Contact.ie in general
TDs and if they represent "us" or just try to get re-elected
The democratic deficit: with nods towards complicity in the Iraq war, the situation in Rossport, voting NO to Lisbon, Tara/M3
What about SPAM mail and contact.ie
Thanks for listening folks.
http://ia310813.us.archive.org/0/items/InishowenCommunityRadioInterviewWithMarkConroyOfContact.ie18-12-08/icrfm_markconroy_18_12_08.mp3
Embedded audio: http://ia310813.us.archive.org/0/items/InishowenCommunityRadioInterviewWithMarkConroyOfContact.ie18-12-08/icrfm_markconroy_18_12_08.mp3
At the request of some users (and an oversight on my part) a new category has been added to contact.ie.
You may now use contact.ie to email all Irish MEPs.
Mark.
Do you need a user login to use this?
If you do where do you go to get one?
Hi Z,
Thanks for the question. Presently you do not need to have a username to use contact.ie, but someone did bring an important issue to me during the week, so I think from sometime this weekend I'll have to change that.
You will be able to get one by clicking here:
http://contact.ie/user/register
Regards,
Mark Conroy.
I am about to embark on creating Contact.ie Part 2.
Part 2 of Contact.ie is going to be an area for contacting the media.
What I am looking for is people in each county that will be able to provide (or create) a list of all media in thier county. I can they create a mailing list for each county, add certain mailing lists together to create the provinces mailing lists, and then add the provinces mailing lists together to create the national mailing lists.
If this is something that you think you could help out with, please get in contact.
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I envisage (but am open to ANY suggestions) that the categories will be something like:
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Any time a person wants to contact an elected official via email they have to fill out a form with your whole history before you can give your thoughts or opinions. Then if you want to let more than one official to know where you stand you have to repeat the whole process again. Yours is a great idea, the official gets the idea where the voters stand, At this point politicians have no idea where the voters stand. Please develop a site for the USA. Thx.......Dave