Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleRichard is giving his second preference to Eamon Gilmore because he wants to build a left-wing alliance RICHARD Boyd Barrett doesn’t walk if he can trot and doesn’t trot if he can gallop. He charges through housing estates at breakneck speed, pausing to talk to potential voters before dashing off again — [...]

Link to Original ArticleIF you didn’t know who Eamon Ryan was, it’d be easy to mistake the figure ambling around a housing estate in Dublin South for one of the numerous Independent candidates running in this election. Clad in a venerable duffel-coat, which one suspects saw The Clash play in Dun Laoghaire’s Top Hat venue [...]

Link to Original ArticleLIFE is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to get. Especially if you stand for election, when voters can take against you as easily as take to you. Senator Ivana Bacik’s campaign took a favourable turn yesterday, however, when stallholder Gavin Roche of ‘The Truffle Fairy’ [...]

Link to Original ArticleIT’S all to play for in what has been dubbed the 2011 General Election “group of death”. School principal Mary Mitchell-O’Connor is canvassing feverishly in an effort to pull off a shock victory for Fine Gael in one of the most keenly contested constituencies in the country. Dun Laoghaire is set to [...]

Link to Original ArticleThe party said abolishing the upper house, as proposed by Fine Gael and Labour and supported by Fianna Fail, would not make politics work better. Under the Green proposals, corporate donations would be banned and the number of TDs would be slashed to 120 with changes to the way they are elected. [...]

Link to Original ArticleIn a statement, Cllr Richard Boyd Barrett said “the decision by councillors to impose new parking restrictions without consultation shows real contempt for local democracy. This will do real damage to small businesses when Dun Laoghaire is already on its knees”At the November meeting. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council voted to change parking [...]

Link to Original ArticleTHE chief executive officer of Dun Laoghaire VEC oversees an organisation with a staff of 500 that commands a multi-million euro annual budget and caters for more than 2,500 pupils. Search the media archives for the name ‘Carol Hanney’ and just one public comment dating to June 2007 will flash up. The [...]

Link to Original ArticleDARE we say out of the frying pan and into the fire? Former estate agent Nick Crawford, who has many years experience in the commercial property market behind him, is like many another agent, getting out of the faltering business in the hope of making a new career. His new direction? Politics. [...]

Link to Original ArticleA magnifying glass or a pair of binoculars might be in order if you were trying to pick out the words “Fianna Fáil” on the party’s election posters erected on lamp-posts in various Dublin constituencies. That’s because the name of Ireland’s dominant political movement since the 1930s has become microscopic beside those [...]

Link to Original ArticleAlmost 200 people attended Richard Boyd Barrett’s campaign launch in the Kingston Hotel in Dun Laoghaire. That massive launch was followed soon after by 150 people gathering to hear Joan Collins begin her campaign in Crumlin. Last night 85 people came to the launch of John Lyon’s campaign on Dublin’s Northside.With 200 [...]