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DeirdredeBurca (deirdredeburca) is now following your updates on Twitter.

That was what was in my inbox this morning when I opened my Gmail. Who’s Déirdre de Búrca? Well, I had the same thought myself. If you’ve ever used twitter to any great extent, you’ll know a lot of the time people just follow you for spamming reasons, so you’re best to check their profile before following back. Which I did. Turns out Déirdre is a politician standing for the Green Party in the upcoming European elections on June 5th. It also transpires she’s been tweeting since January and does it quite regularly. She has a YouTube channel which she uses as a platform to espouse her policies, and she does not appear to censor negative comments either. Oh, and Déirdre is on Facebook too, not to mention Flickr. She also has a website called ‘What I Stand For’, which she claims is used to encourage a two debate between her and the electorate in an attempt to bring back grass roots democracy.

Hey, you know what? I think I like Déirdre. She gets it. She seems to know how to engage with people in the modern era. And despite the enormous FF drag factor that the Greens must be experiencing at the moment, I think I believe her. It’s rare for a politician to capture my attention for too long, as I’m usually too busy giving out about them. But Déirdre managed it. What does that tell you?