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By: Musical chairs in Donegal NE at Irish Election

Musical chairs in Donegal NE at Irish Election — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:11:24 +0000

[...] If today’s Irish Times (subs. req’d) is correct, we should get confirmation of Mick’s story from a few weeks ago: that the Donegal North East merger of Fianna Fail and Independent Fianna Fail is going ahead, but only with an understanding from the fabled “grassroots” that a Letterkenny candidate must be on the ticket. [...]

By: Musical chairs in Donegal North East? at Irish Election

Musical chairs in Donegal North East? at Irish Election — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:13:04 +0000

By: Musical chairs in Donegal North East? at Irish Election

Musical chairs in Donegal North East? at Irish Election — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:12:19 +0000

[...] Interesting developments, or rather non developments in the Fianna Fail Donegal North East story. According to Highland Radio there were ructions at a constituency meeting on Sunday night when the co-option of Niall Blaney, and the Independent Fianna Fail organisation into the mainstream party. A planned press conference for Blaney yesterday was cancelled, presumably because Sunday’s meeting could not arrive at a concrete decision.Behind the scenes the machinations continue. Alther there have been years of aninmosity between Independent Fianna Fail (a Donegal only organisation) set in train by Niall’s uncle Neil T Blaney in response to Jack Lynch’s censure over his role in the Arms Crisis and the local party machine, this is primary a question of bums on Dail seats. [...]

By: Cian

Cian — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:24:22 +0000

Damein Blake suggested that in the north location is everything and if FF make the mistake of not realising this then a seat in Letterkenny is for the taking from under their own noses. It looks possible that SF or FG would take a spare letterkenny seat so it seems unlikely that FF will leave it without a strong enough candidtate