Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleMICHAEL O’REGAN CONSTITUENCY PROFILE DUBLIN SOUTH IF FIANNA Fáil fails to win a seat in Dublin South, as widely predicted, it would be a dramatic reversal compared to the 2007 election. Back then, Tom Kitt and the late Séamus Brennan took two seats for the party. Eamon Ryan retained his seat for the [...]

Link to Original ArticleHE’s a magnet for a certain type of mutt. County Limerick Fianna Fail TD Niall Collins was bitten by a sheepdog while out on his canvass rounds over the last few days. It must be the aftershave he wears, since a sheepdog also took a lump out of him during the 2007 [...]

Link to Original ArticleELAINE EDWARDS and STEPHEN COLLINS DUBLIN SOUTH EAST FINE GAEL’s director of elections in Dublin South East, Paddy Hayes, has told party activists not to encourage voters to give their preferences to Labour or Fianna Fáil. Instead he has advised canvassers that if asked for guidance they should tell voters “to give their [...]

Link to Original ArticleCÍAN NIHILL DUBLIN SOUTH EAST JOBS AND the planned Poolbeg incinerator were top of the agenda at the “fair election fair” in Ringsend in Dublin yesterday. Despite Independent candidate Dylan Haskins saying he was standing on national issues, for the attending public it was very much about local issues, with most predicting a [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARIA Corrigan laughs heartily when she’s asked how she gets on with the Fianna Fail hierarchy — before delivering a tongue-in-cheek diplomatic answer. “We have a wonderfully supportive headquarters,” the senator told the Irish Independent. Fianna Fail HQ did its best to make Ms Corrigan feel unwanted in the immensely competitive and [...]

Link to Original ArticleThe Green Party would change the television licence fee if it becomes part of the next government, Dublin South TD Eamon Ryan has said. Mr Ryan said the licence fee was an outdated and ineffective method of funding for public sector broadcasting. The internet had rendered it “close to obsolete, overly bureaucratised [...]

Link to Original ArticleEOIN McVEY CONSTITUENCY PROFILE DUBLIN SOUTH EAST SINCE THE constituency of Dublin South East came into being in 1948 it has never failed to elect Fianna Fáil TDs. In the 1960s, Seán MacEntee’s surplus brought Seán Moore into the Dáil, giving the party two out of the three seats. Moore then brought in [...]

Link to Original ArticleTHE debate at Tallaght Stadium on Sunday night was whether Hooperman, the Shamrock Rovers mascot, or Charlie O’Connor was better known among the fans from the area. The Fianna Fail TD for Dublin South-West has mentioned his political base so often, he’s branded in Leinster House as ‘Charlie O’Connor from Tallaght’. But [...]

Link to Original ArticleSTEVEN CARROLL VIEW FROM THE CAMPUS Emigration, jobs and increasing college fees are core issues among student voters IRISH POLITICAL parties have struggled consistently to tap into the youth vote, which has long been regarded as apathetic. But ahead of this general election it appears students have concerns they are planning to take [...]

Link to Original ArticleThe first step to defusing the ticking mortgage time-bomb is to stop bailing out the banks with home-owners money, says People Before Profit candidate for Dublin South East Annette Mooney.Annette Mooney, who is standing in Dublin South East as part of the United Left Alliance today criticised Fine Gaels pledge to hand [...]