Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleVoting in the General Election is taking place on islands off the coasts of Co Mayo and Co Donegal today. Polling stations are open on five islands in the Donegal South West constituency, with a total electorate of over 750. The majority of voters live on Arranmore Island – over 130 are [...]

Link to Original ArticleGeneral Election Blog by Newstalks Political Analyst Shane Coleman Blog Entry 5 JUST four days to polling and still there is no sign of any lift in Fianna Fail’s support. At 16%, the party will be doing well to win twenty seats and even if it can get up to 20% on [...]

Link to Original ArticleIRISH TIMES REPORTERS Fine Gael has denied allegations that it tried to censor an interview with party leader Enda Kenny on Newstalk Radio. The interview, which was conducted yesterday and broadcast on this morning’s Breakfast Show , did not allude to the controversy surrounding Mr Kenny’s teacher’s pension. Newstalk’s Chris O’Donoghue revealed that [...]

Link to Original ArticleFIANNA Fail leader Micheal Martin was last night forced to deny he kept Tanaiste Mary Coughlan “hidden” during the general election campaign. Ms Coughlan made her first high-profile appearance in the election campaign yesterday to launch her party’s education manifesto. And she immediately prompted an angry reaction from one teacher union after [...]

Link to Original ArticleELAINE KEOGH SINN FÉIN THE PRESIDENT of Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams, launched his campaign to be elected as a TD for Louth last night with the claim that “Ireland is at a crossroads”. Speaking to a gathering of around 500 supporters at the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk, Mr Adams also said there has [...]

Link to Original ArticleAN ISLAND canvass in the wintertime is not for the faint-hearted, and it wasn’t just the weather that was being contrary as one veteran TD discovered yesterday. Fine Gael’s Dinny McGinley (65) is campaigning in his 10th general election in 28 years in Donegal South West. Despite the awful conditions, his mood [...]

Link to Original ArticleAn Irish and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister would be appointed under Sinn Fein’s plans to protect the native tongue. The party lashed out at Fine Gael over its proposal to abolish the compulsory teaching of the subject if put into power. Pearse Doherty TD said the right to education through Irish should be [...]

Link to Original ArticleOne of the most senior political figures in the Labour Party in Donegal says there is “dissatisfaction” within the Labour party locally with Cllr Frank McBrearty. This week Cllr McBrearty rubbished claims by independent Cllr Thomas Pringle that he had been approached by the Labour Party to run as their candidate in [...]

Link to Original ArticleSINN Fein’s new poster boy Pearse Doherty denies rivals’ charges he is a master of the populist soundbite who is simply opposed to everything. Since entering the Dail just nine weeks ago, he has partaken in just 14 full Dail sittings and enjoyed one of the shortest stints of any TD in [...]

Link to Original ArticlePearse Doherty, Sinn Fein’s candidate for Donegal South West in the Republic’s upcoming elections, has had to do a little website management on his profile on the party’s Donegal website. Mr Doherty’s biography said he was a civil engineer, but he didn’t complete his civil engineering course at Dublin Institute of Technology. [...]