Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleAS Fianna Fail plummets in the polls, more than a dozen key constituencies will decide whether it can exist as a viable party after the next election. Astonishingly, having already lost its Taoiseach a week before the campaign began, Fianna Fail is now perilously close to losing the current Tanaiste’s Dail seat. [...]

Link to Original ArticleGIVEN it’s her first run out as a candidate, Aine Collins can’t compare how her campaign is going to previous occasions. But the new Fine Gael candidate for Cork North West said the only way to get elected is to hit the doorsteps and learn what people are feeling. “There’s a lot [...]

Link to Original ArticleGIVEN it’s her first run out as a candidate, Aine Collins can’t compare how her campaign is going to previous occasions. But the new Fine Gael candidate for Cork North West said the only way to get elected is to hit the doorsteps and learn what people are feeling. “There’s a lot [...]

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 Dáil constituencies and  I will relate these to what the December 2010 Newstalk prediction survey says about the different [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARY MINIHAN MEETINGTHE THREE defeated candidates in the Fianna Fil leadership contest pledged full support to new leader Michel Martin at the conclusion of the parliamentary party meeting yesterday. The only issue on the agenda was the election of a new leader, but Taoiseach Brian Cowen addressed the assembled TDs, Senators and [...]

Link to Original ArticleAnne Foley, a mother of one, is to run on a People Before Profit Alliance platform in the NW Constituency election. The party, according to Anne, is firmly against an introduction to student fees, the IMF/ECB bailout of the banks, the decrease in minimum wage and social welfare.Speaking to Munsters most visited [...]

Link to Original ArticleBARRY ROCHE CONSTITUENCY PROFILE CORK NORTH WESTIN 2007 Cork North West was dubbed the group of death when four sitting TDs and one former TD went head to head for three seats. It may not be quite as desperate a contest this time but it remains an intriguing constituency with potential for [...]

Link to Original ArticleA FINE Gael councillor has claimed his biggest political obstacle is that some people confuse him with Fianna Fail’s Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keeffe. Derry Canty is from the same town of Ballincollig, Co Cork, as Mr O’Keeffe. His home is located near the veteran Fianna Fail TD and they share a similar [...]

Link to Original ArticleSTEVEN CARROLL THE NEXT government must strengthen public accountability and ensure that the complacency of the Celtic Tiger years is replaced by a determination to get value for money, the outgoing chairman of the Public Accounts Committee said yesterday. Fine Gael TD for Cork North Central Bernard Allen said the committee should [...]

Newstalk It is understood that the Minister for Enterprise Batt O’Keeffe has tendered his resignation to the Taoiseach. The Cork North-West TD is also not to contest the general election. It will mean 6 vacancies at Cabinet but the Green Party are reluctant to support the positions being filled. Their Parliamentary Party is currently meeting [...]