Northern Irish quarter of Golden Dozen

Featured on Liberal Democrat VoiceEvery week Liberal Democrat Voice produces a Golden Dozen of the top Lib Dem blogs of the week.

The Golden Dozen features the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator, together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed.

This week a little bit of history was made as 3 of the twelve, indeed three of those most popular seven, were written here in Northern Ireland. Here is how they appeared on the list:

1. David Laws Doesn’t Want to Return to Government on Stephen’s Liberal Journal.
“It is a sad case when someone is forcibly outed and loses their va-va voom as appears to be the case with one of the sharpest minds in the Lib Dem parliamentary team.”

3. Outrage at action of liberal youth executive on Michael Carchrie Campbell’s Gyronny Herald.
Unimpressed by their endorsement of Tim Farron for President: “I am outraged by this usurpation of the members’ rights.”

5. Stephen Gilbert MP on Why He is Backing Tim Farron for President on Stephen’s Liberal Journal.
Tim Farron sets his record straight (so to speak).

Stephen has featured on the list many times in the past but this is Michael’s first appearance. It shows how on the pulse and how well crafted the blogs from the two bloggers who contribute to this blog are. We do hope to add more contributors soon.

For those of you who are aware of events over this last week this achievement is even more outstanding.

Number seven Scottish political blogger

Top 50 Scotland BlogYou may be wondering why the Liberal Democrats in Northern Ireland are mentioning the Total Politics Top 50 Scottish blogs for 2010. Well our first blog post was welcoming one of the top Scottish bloggers, Stephen Glenn, back to Northern Ireland.

Well earlier today Total Politics announced their annual poll results for the Scottish blogs and Stephen has risen from number 11, where he was in 2008 and 2009 to number 7.

The positions are based on votes from over 2,220 across the whole UK political readership not just Scotland. So to be in the top 10 on any of the various lists is a great acheivement. You can look forward to reading more from Stephen on Northern Irish matters here on this blog, or read more of his wider interests on Stephen’s Liberal Journal.

top Scottish LibDem blogger returns to NI

We welcome back to Northern Ireland one of the candidates that we supported financially during the 2010 General Election campaign.

Stephen Glenn, formerly LibDem candidate for Linlithgow and East Falkirk, is returning to Northern Ireland to work for at least six months. Stephen is a well-known LibDem blogger, so hopefully he will bring some life to this blog.

He also came third in the Scotblogs Awards in the Politician category and 2nd in the LibDem category.