Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleO’Keeffe’s team is primed to try and steal every last vote from under Michael Ahern’s nose ‘THERE’S no rogue like an old rogue,” says Fianna Fail canvasser Jim Hogan as Ned O’Keeffe immediately starts gossiping as he enters Pat Shortt’s bar in Castlemartyr, Co Cork. Ned talks in a thick, machine gun [...]

Link to Original ArticleHE’S dropped his full name for this election campaign — but he’s hoping people will still recognise him on the ballot paper. One of Fine Gael’s candidates in Cork East, Patrick O’Driscoll, is using the name he says most people know him by for his first general election campaign. During the local [...]

Link to Original ArticleGeneral Election Blog by Newstalks Political Analyst Shane Coleman Blog Entry 4 ANOTHER day in the election campaign, another free-for-all between Fine Gael and Labour. The intensity of the exchanges between the two parties is quite extraordinary. Fianna Fail is effectively irrelevant as the would-be coalition partners relentlessly go at each other. [...]

Link to Original ArticleFIANNA Fail will pursue a Tallaght-type strategy in opposition to support policies rather than the political parties that may be in power. Party leader Micheal Martin last night said his party would support the policies that it believes will restore Ireland to economic prosperity irrespective of which party is in power. But [...]

Link to Original ArticleON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL In politics, as in life, what you wear can send the strongest message of all – so how do today’s politicians decide what they want to say to the sharp-eyed electorate? DEIRDRE MCQUILLAN hits the campaign trail to find out IT’S A TOUGH interface, dress and politics. The challenge of [...]

Link to Original ArticleMICHAEL MARSH ANALYSISClose examination of the first Irish Timesopinion poll of the election campaign does not make for happy reading for Fianna Fil The IPSAS-MRBI Irish Timespoll last week putting Fianna Fil at 17 per cent, Fine Gael at 33 per cent and Labour at 24 per cent confirmed the picture of [...]

Link to Original ArticleFine Gael’s hopes of winning an overall majority have been dealt a significant blow, the first opinion poll of the 2011 General Election campaign reveals. Support for the party has slipped by four points in a matter of days to 30pc, according to the latest Irish Independent/ Millward Brown Lansdowne poll. But [...]

Link to Original ArticleHARRY McGEE ELECTORAL STRATEGY Even if they all won, the party does not have enough candidates to secure a Dil majority FOR THE first time since its foundation in 1926, Fianna Fil is not fielding enough candidates to win an overall majority. As of last night, 74 candidates had been selected though [...]

Link to Original Article‘Politics will make this economy work and if we put good people in, we will do that in a shorter period’ HE’S not elected yet, but Tom Barry reckons he has a decade in him as a Fine Gael TD before he burns out and passes on the mantle. “I’m not in [...]

Link to Original ArticleBARRY ROCHE, Southern Correspondent, in Mitchelstown HE MAY have been an almost an hour late but given that it has been over three decades since Fianna Fil last had a Cork leader, no one was complaining too much when Michel Martin returned to the county last night. Stopping first at Mitchelstown, he [...]