Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleMARIE O’HALLORAN and KITTY HOLLAND EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION to welfare and spending cuts will come only from a strong left-wing presence in the Dáil, the United Left Alliance (ULA) has said. The grouping said the three largest parties – Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fáil – had all signed up to [...]

Link to Original Article Five days out from polling day, Sinn Fein leaders have reason to be in good cheer. The latest polls (Sunday Independent and Sunday Business Post)have the party sitting on 12%, a figure which would put the party in serious contention for a number of seats in the mid-teens. Even slippage from this [...]

Link to Original ArticleI must admit to being puzzled by Jody Corcoran’s musings on Sunday that Fine Gael could be set to take government on their own. Puzzled mostly because for most of the last year they seem to have a natural ceiling beyond which they seem unable to punch. Now the latest poll in [...]

Link to Original ArticleWhen Michael Noonan became leader of Fine Gael, he did away with corporate donations and then Enda Kenny brought them back. I am amazed at the spend of Fine Gael over the last number of years. During the last European election I received a booklet from Gay Mitchell and this was delivered [...]

Link to Original ArticleIn spite of public denials, top level Fine Gael strategists are secretly eyeing up the possibility of a single-party Fine Gael government which might be supported either by the Greens, independents or a heavily defeated Fianna Fail party. Up to three months ago Fine Gael was still engaged in a life and [...]

Link to Original ArticleGENEVIEVE CARBERY CANDIDATE AN IRISH emigrant based in London is to stand as an independent election candidate in Dublin Mid West. Giving Irish citizens abroad the right to vote is one of the central planks of Michael Ryan’s manifesto. The 40-year-old management consultant and accountant emigrated from Rathcoole, Co Dublin, 15 years ago [...]

Link to Original ArticleIN a constituency once dominated by three government representatives, with just one opposition voice, Fine Gael hopes Derek Keating can now take it from zero to two seats. The constituency announced the country’s first elected TD in 2007, with Fianna Fail’s John Curran elected to the 30th Dail at 2pm on the [...]

Link to Original ArticleELAINE EDWARDS SOCIALIST PARTY THE SOCIALIST Party published its election manifesto yesterday with a call for a vote for a “strong opposition” of candidates of the left to hold the mainstream parties to account in the Dáil. Socialist MEP Joe Higgins, who is standing in Dublin West, said Labour and Fine Gael were [...]

Link to Original ArticleOpening todays press conference Cllr. Brid Smith announced that People Before Profit is running nine candidates in Dublin, Cork and Wexford in the upcoming General Election The People Before Profit Alliance is a real alternative to the political establishment. We support a strategy of people power to bring change. We are part [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARIE O’HALLORAN PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Before Profit candidates in the general election will bring the war to the rich and will lead a huge struggle against major tax hikes, the party has said at its campaign launch. Cllr Gino Kenny, a candidate in Dublin Mid West said theres an unbelievable amount [...]