Sinn Fein’s Jonathan O’Brien on cusp of winning first seat
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011Link to Original ArticleA mere 268 votes went to Sinn Fein’s Jonathan O’Brien on his first political outing 10 years ago, but the proven poll-topper is now on the cusp of a major general election win. Since his failed political debut in 1999, the Sinn Fein councillor has won two local elections but fallen short [...]
Fine Gael banking on candidates in business world to deliver extra seats
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Link to Original Article‘Politics will make this economy work and if we put good people in, we will do that in a shorter period’ HE’S not elected yet, but Tom Barry reckons he has a decade in him as a Fine Gael TD before he burns out and passes on the mantle. “I’m not in [...]
Fine Gael banking on candidates in business world to deliver extra seats
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011Link to Original Article‘Politics will make this economy work and if we put good people in, we will do that in a shorter period’ HE’S not elected yet, but Tom Barry reckons he has a decade in him as a Fine Gael TD before he burns out and passes on the mantle. “I’m not in [...]
FG’s Bernard Allen not to contest general election
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011MARY MINIHAN and BARRY ROCHE, Irish Times FINE GAEL Cork North Central TD and chairman of the Dáil public accounts committee Bernard Allen has said he will not contest the next general election. Elected to the Dáil in 1981, Mr Allen served as a minister of state in the mid-1990s and was lord mayor of [...]
