Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleAn independent candidate standing in the General Election on health and disability issues has hit out at the lack of wheelchair accessible polling stations in the Galway West constituency. Eamon Walsh, chairman of Hope4Disability, has described as “deplorable” the treatment of people with disability by Galway County Council, which is repsonsible for [...]

Link to Original ArticleBy Dara Bradley The Labour Party general election candidate in Galway West says that the next government, no matter what parties it contains, will have to legislate for abortion in certain circumstances where there is a threat to the life of the mother. City Councillor Derek Nolan says that the European Court [...]

Link to Original ArticleLUKE ‘Ming’ Flanagan famously got involved in politics to run against his landlord — Fianna Fail TD Frank Fahey. That was in the 1997 General Election in Galway, when he was at odds of a “million to one” to top the poll and was annoyed at Fianna Fail’s “zero tolerance” policy. But [...]

Link to Original ArticleBy Kernan Andrews Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames looks set to be the first woman to win a seat in Galway West since the retirement of Máire Geoghegan Quinn, according to a new poll carried out by the Galway Advertiser. Our poll shows Sen Healy Eames winning the final seat, albeit [...]

Link to Original ArticleFINE Gael’s controversial plan to drop Irish as a compulsory subject is now a “big issue” in Gaeltacht areas and will cost them votes, one senator admitted last night. Gaelscoileanna, mna na tithe with Irish summer colleges and Conradh na Gaeilge are intensifying pressure on Fine Gael election candidates to have the [...]

Link to Original ArticleBy Kernan Andrews One of the key battles in Galway West for Election 2011 will not be Fine Gael versus Fianna Fáil, or Labour versus Catherine Connolly, but the battle for a seat between Fine Gael’s two city candidates. The Recent Red C poll shows Fine Gael on 35 per cent, while [...]

Link to Original ArticleLORNA SIGGINS, Western Correspondent DEBATE WITH JUST days to go before the first election television debate in Irish, on Wednesday, between the three party leaders, language organisations have stepped up their campaign to defend Irish as a core subject for the Leaving Certificate. Conradh na Gaeilge says it is canvassing all candidates in [...]

Link to Original ArticleBy Kernan Andrews Sinn Fin looks certain to make gains in the next election, particularly in Donegal, and the polls show the party on level support with Fianna Fil at 14 per cent. It is a situation that was unthinkable two years ago, but these are extraordinary times, yet Galway West looks [...]

Link to Original ArticleBy Kernan Andrews Fianna Fils three Galway West candidates have overcome the first obstacle in their bids for Dil seats, as party leader Michel Martin last evening (Wednesday) insisted that none of them would be asked to drop out of the race. Despite this the partys candidates – amon Cuv, Frank Fahey, [...]

Link to Original ArticleWednesday, February 02, 2011 – 0102 PM Michel Martin is insisting that three Fianna Fil candidates will be on the party ticket in Galway West.Minister Eamon O’Cuiv, Deputy Frank Fahey and Councillor Michael Crowe are all contesting the election in the constituency. But with the party polling only in the late teens, [...]