FROM Limerick to Lubumbashi, from Ballyferriter to Beijing, the peoples of the planet will unite through the World Wide Web this weekend to listen to the Labour Party leader, Mr Spring. Well, that's the plan.
Labour is to be the first political party in Ireland or Britain to do a live "webcast" from its national conference.
Party leader Mr Spring's keynote speech from Limerick on Saturday evening and other elements of the party conference will be broadcast live on the Internet.
According to Mr Tom Duke, a Labour Party member acting as a consultant on this operation "We are trying to give people around the world a virtual experience of what the conference is like. They can hear, they can see, they can send feedback, Ministers will be going on live chat sessions and doing virtual interviews."
A camcorder will roam around the conference making "quicktime movies" of the conference and of people "in bars having a drink", says Mr Duke.
The five or 10 minute sequences will be accessible to Internet users throughout the weekend.
A "latest news" page will allow people view keynote speeches, ministerial statements, conference quotes and press statements on their screens.
For Mr Spring's speech, there will be a live audio feed with still pictures of him as he speaks, updated every minute or so.
The Minister for Finance, Mr Quinn, will tonight become the first senior Irish politician to conduct a "virtual interview" on the Internet.
Web users can put their questions to Mr Quinn at 10 p.m.
The Labour Party Conference web site address is www.labour.ie.