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Did Willie O’Dea put his posters with the dodgy punctuation up to take advantage of the celebrations associated with the ancient pagan feast of Bealtain?

When things like this happen, isn’t it fortunate that Noreen Ryan left other people’s names off of her posters. With thanks to Dan for spotting it.

Election candidate Noreen Ryan is threatening to sue any member of her party who removes her posters because they do not meet guidlines set down by party headquarters. Election posters for Fianna Fail candidates are required to have the names of party running mates however Cllr Ryan’s posters do not carry the names of either [...]

It seems the election posters are going up before the election has been called, contrary to anti-litter legislation. Photos can be found here.

It has been ten years since a Labour candidate has put themselves forward for a Dail seat in West Limerick. But that is all about to change as 27 year old James Heffernan has been put forward to represent the party in the constituency, with hopes to win a seat there.

Nursing union, The Irish Nurses Organisation, is threatening to target incumbent politicians in the upcoming election, by voting against them in up to 18 key constituencies, one of which is Limerick East. At present, the junior minister for Health, Tim O’Malley (PD) and Deputy Peter Power (Fianna Fail) look to be the ones with most [...]

This is just a quick note to follow on from this post. The video of the press conference which took place yesterday is available here.

Green Party Education Spokesman Paul Gogerty TD with Limerick East candidate Patricia Forde Brennan at at the launch of the Green party’s policy on physical education, which was held at the Pery hotel in Limerick this morning. Picture: limerickblogger.org

When Labours Pat Rabbitte promised a cut of 2 percent to 18 percent for the lower bracket tax payer, he was being accused of getting involved in auction politics by those in government. It is ironic then that Bertie Ahern, in his Ard Feis speech, should not only offer the same, but add a 1 [...]

The internal feuding within Fianna Fail councillors in Limerick is demoralising party organisers. That is according to defence minister Willie O’Dea, who, in an article in the County Edition of the Limerick Leader, stated that he was sick of the squabbling that was going on over the past few weeks, and that it was damaging [...]

Thanks to Dan for the headsup on this one From the Irish Times j ohn Devane, a prominent Limerick solicitor, has announced that he is to run in this summer’s general election as an independent in Limerick East. [..] Mr Devane fears, however, that his illness may prevent him from going on the campaign trail. [...]

While our Limerick East Fianna Faillers spent last week calling each other names through the local media, one Limerick West Fianna Fail election candidate thought he was do a little childish behaviour of his own, by teasing some young children. Niall Collins was probably hoping people would remember his name come election time when he [...]

It’s like an episode of “Home and Away,” but without the family talk at the end. The insults continue to fly in the very public Fianna Fail bust-up which has erupted over the past few days.

An emergency meeting of Fianna Fail councillors from Limerick County Council has been described as heated following the decision of Councillor Kevin Sheehan to throw his rattler out of his pram and resign from the leadership of the council’s Fianna Fail group in the council. At the meeting which took place yesterday, there were desparate [...]

Fianna Fail councillor and election candidate Noreen Ryan may have put her head on the chopping block after she failed to turn up at a council meeting, resulting in fellow Fianna Failler, Kevin Sheehan, being booted out of his position on the board of the Shannon Foynes port company. He has subsequently resigned as leader [...]

I am not sure whether to be amused or nervous about this. One of the Republican Sinn Fein Limerick posse are considering standing as an “abstentionist” member of Dail Eireann. That is right, he would collect a TD’s salary, but not turn up for work. He would just be changing the place where he collects [...]