Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleD’OH. An aspirant TD has had to withdraw from the election race — because he forgot to register himself as a candidate in time. Dr Marcus de Brun had his posters up all over the Dublin North constituency, pushing himself as a candidate to reform the health services. But the Rush-based doctor [...]

Link to Original ArticlePRISCILLA LYNCH talks to the medical candidates running in the general election THE QUESTION “is there a doctor in the house?” takes on a whole new meaning in the Oireachtas. Whether in local politics, the Seanad or the Dáil, there is a long tradition of medical doctors moonlighting as politicians. Four medical doctors [...]

Link to Original ArticleSINN Fein veteran Larry O’Toole spent 24 years working for Gateaux, where he developed a sweet tooth and met his wife. He lost his job after production was shut down in the famous Finglas cake factory in 1990 — and said he could recognise the frustration of those he saw queuing for [...]

Link to Original ArticleDr Marcus De Brun By Lloyd Mudiwa. North Dublin GP Dr Marcus De Brun is no longer contesting the forthcoming general election after he did not submit his nomination papers in time. Dr De Brun, who had planned to stand as an independent candidate for Dublin North, told Irish Medical Times last [...]

Link to Original ArticleTHE canvass was no primrose path of dalliance for Richard Bruton. Instead he heard a series of thorny stories about children emigrating, alcoholic sons whose mothers lived in fear of them, and unemployed people with little hope for the future. Typical of the encounters he had in his Dublin North-Central constituency yesterday [...]

Link to Original ArticleRODDY L’ESTRANGE AGAINST THE ODDS STEALING A glance from behind the curtain in the giant assembly hall in Coolock’s Chanel College, Vinny Fitzpatrick saw a sea of a thousand faces and felt a shiver of apprehension. It was almost show time and he was, putting it mildly, bricking himself. It was a night [...]

Link to Original ArticlePAUL CULLEN CONSTITUENCY PROFILE AS ANY schoolchild will tell you, two into one doesn’t go. But try telling that to Fianna Fáil in Dublin North where the party is virtually certain to lose one of its seats on polling day. Unusually, given the mass clear-out of figures from the 30th Dáil, all the [...]

Link to Original ArticleUnited Left Alliance Dublin North Central Election LaunchLocation Donnycarney Community & Youth Centre, Malahide RoadSpeakers John Lyons (Candidate), Cllr Clare Daly (SP), Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett (PBPA) Last December’s budget once again attacked the majority of working class people. We have had two years of austerity measures, with social welfare, health, education [...]

Link to Original ArticleColourful community activist Jimmy Guerin, right, has revealed that he is standing as an independent in Dublin North East to block the election of Sinn Fein’s Larry O’Toole. “I believe that I have to offer myself for election as an alternative to the left-type candidates who have grown in popularity by playing [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARIE O’HALLORAN CONSTITUENCY PROFILEIN A hotly contested three-seater the key question seems to be, who will win the last seat? No candidate likes to be told theyre a winner. However, according to the polls, indications are that Labour will keep the seat held by Tommy Broughan, spokesman on transport until he failed [...]