Fergal Crehan on the post-Obama party and what it means to Irish Politics. It’s a war cry, so who’ll take up the challenge?

Waiting around for an Obama is a terrible idea both in principle and in practice. In principle, because it’s undemocratic and lazy and contributes to a degraded civic life, where nobody is willing to take responsibility for the condition of their own country. In practice, because Barack Obama became the man he is through his involvement in politics. He was not beamed down into the US Senate a fully formed leader, but became one through years of hard, dull and often unrewarding political effort.

Draws happen.

This time two very worthy and different posts are the winners. (Sorry to Paul in O2 for picking two!) This narrative from Gimme stuns you and this description of the Medical Card potests from Red mum later in the month with fantastic photos shows we’re not all that apathetic at all and that the older generations can teach us a lot still.

Congratulations to Paul Tarpey from Cheebah who wrote an amazing guest post on the On The Record Blog about his project to chart the history of the Irish Dance Scene. This post is epic and the love and passion for the project is quite evident. Give us a bell on contact (at) Awards.ie for your piece of glass and phoney dodathingy.

The Secret Fire. Congratulations to K8 the Gr8 for an inspiring and uplifting blog post. One of the best ones I’ve read all year and I think most others would feel the same way too.