But has it been so terrible as to provoke this unprecedented think-in?

This past weekend yet another Liberal think-in met in Montreal.

I started think-in', is that the way I really look to Sam and the others?

Pensions think-in: Pensions are in the news, and not for the right reasons.

I think-in fact, I'm dead certain-the Vervani government doesn't know the first thing about her 'guest.'

The mood at the Fianna Fáil September think-in earlier this week in Galway was surprisingly good, given the economic uncertainty and rising unemployment.

Brian Cowen is attending his first Fianna Fail September think-in as taoiseach with a budget due next month and the economy in a far from healthy position.

The following day at the FF party think-in at Athlone, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan defended the move to top up Mr Molloy's pension saying it was politically imperative to see a change of DG.

Having seen off eurosceptic rebels attempting to derail his European Union bill on Tuesday, David Cameron will next week launch a different sort of push to win friends in Europe – by hosting nine Nordic and Baltic leaders for a two-day London think-in.

As usual, the combined jamboree and think-in that drew thousands of activists from the rightward end of the conservative spectrum to Washington, DC, on February 18th-20th ended with a straw poll in which participants were asked who they would vote for as the Republican nominee in 2012.

Last September, Bertie Ahern told a Fianna Fáil think-in that in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement and the return of devolution to Northern Ireland, the time was right for his party to examine the issue of organising in Northern Ireland.

RTÉ broadcast a controversial nine-minute radio interview with Taoiseach Brian Cowen from a Fianna Fáil think-in in Galway; the interview led to increased pressure for Cowen to resign in the days that followed after it was thought he had been drunk on the radio.

The growing geographical art of "urban olfaction" is to be part of a talk tomorrow by Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor at the Fragrance Forum, an annual think-in for the fragrance industry.