Ireland Election News

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 ArticleTHE main problem facing John Lyons is simply trying to convince people to turn up to vote.The Labour Party’s candidate is a genuine prospect for a second seat for the party with Roisin Shortall in Dublin North-West.He’s not complaining about it, but the carve-up of turf between the pair does appear to [...]

Link to Original ArticleKITTY HOLLAND About half of those interviewed in Ballymun D area last week said they did not plan to vote THERE IS no point in voting for any politician as none of them understands poverty or young people, says youth worker Paul O’Neill. Standing in a doorway outside Ballymun shopping centre, the [...]

Link to Original ArticleDEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent Sinn Féin staged a protest outside Fine Gael headquarters on Dublin’s Mount Street this morning over the party’s policy on the Irish language. Fine Gael has proposed that Irish become an optional subject for the Leaving Certificate but Sinn Fein believes the status quo should remain unchanged. [...]

Link to Original ArticleRONAN McGREEVY LEFT THE WORKERS’ Party has called for a wealth tax and a 50 per cent top rate of tax on those earning more than €100,000 a year. The party is fielding six candidates in the general election. Its party manifesto, launched yesterday, puts the emphasis heavily on job creation through the [...]

Link to Original ArticleSo the government is now run it’s time and it’s time to get campaigning, as a member of the building workers campaign and a future candidate in Dublin North West for the next electiion with the People Before Profit, I call on all construction workers and their friends and families to down [...]

Link to Original ArticleRONAN McGREEVY Some 75 would-be volunteers turned up this afternoon to a meeting organised by economist David McWilliams to help independents standing in the election. McWilliams has proposed that those with organisation skills and economic expertise should offer their services to independent candidates to counter the advice that candidates from the major [...]

Link to Original ArticleIrish voters go to the polls later this month in the Republic’s first election since last year’s 85bn euro bailout loan. BBC Northern Ireland’s Dublin Correspondent Shane Harrison has been sampling opinion in working class areas of the city. Finglas is far from the richest area of the Republic but like most [...]

Link to Original ArticleSenator Ivor Callely and his family have built up an extensive portfolio totalling at least 19 properties, an Irish Independent investigation reveals. The investments were mainly bankrolled by AIB, which provided finance for 15 residential properties owned or co-owned by Mr Callely, his wife and two of their children. The Callelys invested [...]

Link to Original ArticleMattie McGrath has become the latest person to jump ship from the Fianna Fail party. The TD for Tipperary-South has confirmed he will stand as an Independent on polling day which is widely expected to be named as February 25th. It comes after Galway-East TD Noel Treacy announced he will not be [...]