Ireland Election News

Link to Original ArticleEvery morning, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you really, really need to know with your bowl of cornflakes. 1. GE11 Fianna Fail and Fine Gael will both be putting forward their proposals today on how to deal with the economic crisis and their initiatives on education. Sinn Fein is also publishing its [...]

Link to Original ArticleCatherine Yore, who is standing to be a Fine Gael TD in Meath West, has been voted the best looking candidate in the forthcoming general election. In the run up to the big poll on 25 February, there have been plenty of polls that have involved rating parties and party leaders. But [...]

Link to Original Articleby Joan Duignan Comments (0) Print Email Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny TD on the campaign trail with Meath West candidate Cathering Yore. �The new politics� is a topic Meath West Fine Gael candidate Catherine Yore is passionate about and the 26 years-old Meath County Councillor from Carnaross seems to personify the [...]

Link to Original ArticleFine Gael councillor sees ‘hurt, anger and uncertainty at every door� Dail hopeful Catherine Yore wastes no time in putting up her posters during the launch of her election campaign in Carnaross last week. The Fine Gael general election campaign in Meath West got underway on Friday night with the launch of [...]

Link to Original ArticleAN OUTGOING FIANNA FÁIL TD has been criticised after claiming that his current wage – of over €100,000 a year – leaves him no better off financially than his 1974 salary of £6. Johnny Brady, a Meath West TD with main offices in Athboy, told a Trim Chamber of Commerce meeting that [...]

Link to Original ArticleMeath West constituency map. Having taken almost 52 per cent of the vote last time out in 2007, Fianna Fail has held something of an iron grip on this constituency since Meath West came into being. This time around, it will be very different. The departure of the dominant political figure, former [...]

Link to Original ArticleA Fianna Fail TD is defending comments he made at a public meeting that his 100,000 salary is hard to live on. Meath-West TD Johnny Brady says his comments at a Trim Chamber of Commerce event were taken out of context. The Meath News and Sport reported Deputy Brady told the event [...]

Link to Original ArticleCllr Shane Cassells congratulates the new Fianna Fail leader, Michael Martin, at last weeks meeting of the partys national executive. Fianna Fail Meath West candidate Shane Cassells has claimed there is now a sense of renewal among the membership of the party following the election of Michel Martin as leader of FF [...]

Link to Original Articleby John Donohoe Comments (1) Print Email Taoiseach Brian Cowen with Meath West candidates Johnny Brady TD, and Cllr Shane Cassells. Two members of Meath County Council have been selected to join sitting TDs Thomas Byrne and Johnny Brady on the Fianna Fail tickets in the Meath constituencies in the 2011 general [...]

Link to Original Articleby John Donohoe Comments The chairman of Trim Town Council, Cllr Trevor Golden, looks likely to announce his candidature in the general election in the coming days, as politicians and parties prepare for an anticipated March polling date. Cllr Golden will stand as an independent candidate in the election in the Meath [...]