Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleJohn Cleere “It is entirely up to the people of Carlow Kilkenny as to what they do with their votes but unless there are two seats in this constituency there may not be a senior minister position.” That’s the warning from incoming Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, in last week’s Kilkenny Advertiser. So what [...]

Link to Original ArticleOFTEN talked of as the real leader of Fine Gael and the ultimate spinmaster, ‘Big’ Phil Hogan was caught out badly yesterday at the party’s opening press conference. The Carlow-Kilkenny TD has long been Enda Kenny’s right-hand man and was instrumental in seeing off last summer’s heave. The 50-year-old was appointed director [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARIE O’HALLORAN EARLY BALLOTS ISLANDERS OFF the west coast may begin voting on Wednesday but thousands of older voters have already cast their ballots in the general election. Residents of nursing homes and some hospitals and hospices in the 43 constituencies have been casting their votes since Wednesday. Voting in a number of [...]

Link to Original ArticleThere are a total of 19 candidates standing in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency. Last time out 3 FF TDs were returned, one of whom (MJ Nolan) is the only one of the five sitting TDs not to stand again. In 2007, a certain amount of conservatism was evident as FF received nearly 48% of the first preference [...]

Link to Original ArticleCIAN NIHILL’S sideways look at Election 2011 Nunn shall evade the really big issues in Carlow-Kilkenny  WOULD YOU vote for a politician who cannot swim? How about one who prefers coffee to tea? These vital questions and many more like them are finally being answered thanks to hard-hitting interviews on a local radio [...]

Link to Original ArticleGeneral Election Blog by Newstalks Political Analyst Shane Coleman Blog Entry 3 If Fianna Fail strategists had any lingering doubt about the extent of the meltdown the party is facing, the two latest opinion polls will have firmly put paid to them. Up to yesterday, a consensus was forming that Fianna Fail [...]

Link to Original ArticleGreen Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny, Mary White, has said that although the Green’s are polling drastically in recent political opinion polls, she hopes that she will do well on election day and remain on as a TD for Carlow Kilkenny. She was speaking at the launch of her Kilkenny campaign for the [...]

Link to Original ArticleELAINE EDWARDS UNITED LEFT ALLIANCE THE UNITED Left Alliance has criticised Fine Gael’s health policy as a “cynical exercise in deception”. Conor Mac Liam, health campaigner and Socialist Party/ ULA candidate for Carlow-Kilkenny, said Fine Gael’s response to the “disaster of a hybrid healthcare system is to go the whole hog with privatisation”. [...]

Link to Original ArticleFine Gael Leader Enda Kenny, while on his constituency visit to Carlow Kilkenny this week, had a sharp message for voters in the constituency. He told voters that at the last election they had not stepped up to the mark and had not brought a second Fine Gael seat to Carlow Kilkenny [...]

Link to Original ArticleDr. Adrian Kavanagh is based in the Geography Department of the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Over the next few days and weeks I am going to briefly review each of the forty-three Dil constituencies and I will relate these to what the December 2010 Newstalk prediction survey says about the different [...]