Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticlePatrick Smyth SINCE 1921 Ireland has been using a voting system in elections to which, it appears, we have become strongly attached. Twice the Irish people in referendums have rejected attempts to replace it with the British system. We know it simply as “PR”, or proportional representation, but more correctly it is [...]

Link to Original ArticleVote in one of our three polls running during election week WITH just a few days to go before voters cast their votes in the next General Election, the Limerick Post has published the results of their online candidate polls that has run for the last three weeks.THE results of the Limerick [...]

Link to Original Article“We are getting a good bit on Joe Leddin on the door steps and if there is a surprise it could be here,” he said. Deputy O’Dea that it was “unlikely” that that Fianna Fail would hold their two seats in the city and also predicted that Michael Noonan would top the [...]

Link to Original ArticleThe tweet, posted this Friday morning, reads “Willie getting dirty again trying to stir it up for labour. Won’t work our campaign is goin(sic) very well maybe he has forgotten last years lesson already like he forgot what he said to the limerick leader”. The tweet is thought to be a response [...]

Link to Original ArticleFollow on Twitter RTE_Elections RTENews Live updates 2252 Watch Brian Lenihan, Leo Varadkar, Joan Burton and Caoimh�n � Caol�in discuss taxes and spending cuts in a rather heated fashion on tonight’s Prime Time here 2149 Read Joe Mag Raollaigh’s blog after he followed Miche�l Martin around Galway. 2139 Willie O’Dea has delivered [...]

Link to Original ArticleA LIMERICK man who alleged in court that Willie O’Dea grabbed him by the neck during a dispute over Shannon Airport three years ago has announced his intention to run in the general election.Matt Larkin, 38, from Thomondgate, is running on an “anti-corruption and anti-cronyism” basis, citing that years of Fianna Fail [...]

Link to Original ArticleI ARRIVED ahead of time for my appointment with Jan O’Sullivan, the Labour party candidate for Limerick city and spokeswoman on Health. I have known Jan for a number of years in her capacity as chairwoman of the Cara Housing Agency, but this was my first time on the political campaign trail [...]

Link to Original ArticleSTEPHEN COLLINS and DEAGLN DE BRADN FINE GAEL has pledged to ease the burden on hard-pressed home owners who bought houses in recent years by providing mortgage relief for the negative equity generation. The plan unveiled by finance spokesman Michael Noonan involves an increase in mortgage interest relief for people in negative [...]

Link to Original ArticleTHE final list of candidates who will contest the up coming general election in Limerick has been confirmed.A total of 13 candidates will contest the election in the “Limerick city” constituency and 10 are running in the “Limerick” constituency.The deadline for candidates to officially declare their intention to contest the general election [...]

Link to Original ArticleSTEPHEN COLLINS and DEAGLN DE BRADN Fine Gael has pledged to ease the burden on hard-pressed home owners who bought houses in recent years by providing mortgage relief for the negative equity generation. The plan unveiled by finance spokesman Michael Noonan involves an increase in mortgage interest relief for people in negative [...]