Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleIRISH TIMES REPORTERS Fine Gael has denied allegations that it tried to censor an interview with party leader Enda Kenny on Newstalk Radio. The interview, which was conducted yesterday and broadcast on this morning’s Breakfast Show , did not allude to the controversy surrounding Mr Kenny’s teacher’s pension. Newstalk’s Chris O’Donoghue revealed that [...]

Link to Original Article“Read more Gerry Adams faces McConville murder questions again A race that once looked like a shoo-in for Gerry Adams to win a seat in the Irish parliament now looks like a struggle after recent developments in the Co. Louth constituency where Adams is running. A campaign by anti-Adams figures, demanding he [...]

Link to Original ArticleDEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent CONSTITUENCY PROFILE THE BOUNDARIES of the Louth constituency have been significantly extended since the last general election to include the coastal area of Co Meath, south of Drogheda. The number of seats has increased, from four to five. However, only four seats are really in contention because Seamus [...]

Link to Original ArticleStumped Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams canvassing with Sinn Fein candidiate Mary Lou McDonald SINN F�in president Gerry Adams is renting his election campaign HQ from the family firm of a convicted crossborder fuel smuggler, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Festooned with posters of the D�il hopeful, and flying the [...]

Link to Original ArticleGerry Adams strolls past St Peter’s Church in the centre of Drogheda, home to a famous shrine to the martyr St Oliver Plunket. “This is where all the northern Catholics come to see Oliver Plunkett’s head” he tells a companion. “I can remember my granny bringing me years ago.” These days he’s [...]

Link to Original ArticleUNDAUNTED by his time in the Seanad propping up an unpopular government, Green Party senator Mark Dearey is desperately seeking to join the big political league of the Dail. With major players Dermot Ahern (FF) and Arthur Morgan (SF) bowing out and Ceann Comhairle Seamus Kirk automatically returned, there are 27,000 votes [...]

Link to Original ArticleOUTGOING Louth TD Dermot Ahern believes Cllr Declan Breathnach can succeed him as the next Fianna Fil TD in Dil ireann.Cllr Breathnach is currently canvassing in the area that Ahern has successfully held a seat for since 1987 but with the party’s popularity at an all-time low the Knockbridge man’s election is [...]

Link to Original ArticleLOUTH football manager Peter Fitzpatrick has set a target to help Fine Gael restore some respectability and decency to Irish politics after being confirmed as the party’s nominee to contest the upcoming General Election alongside sitting TD Fergus O’Dowd at the party’s convention in The Fairways Hotel on Thursday.While a relative newcomer [...]

Link to Original ArticleThe Fine Gael leader will spend the first full day campaigning in election 2011 as a poll shows a drop in support for the party. The satisfaction rate of Enda Kenny with voters is in 4th place despite his party still leading the poll. Enda Kenny is spending this morning meeting voters [...]

Link to Original ArticleMARY MINIHAN SINN FINSINN FIN Dil leader Caoimhghn Caolin has predicted his party will return to Leinster House after the general election with at least seven TDs. Mr Caolin said Sinn Fin had experienced difficulties in the 30th Dil, prior to the formation of the technical group with its five TDs and [...]