Irish Election - Coverage of Irish Politics, News and Current Affairs

From Radio Dublin Central: Bertie Ahern 1 3/4 quota  Mary Lou 7.1%  Labour 15%  Tony Georgry 13%  Pascal Donohoe 10% Dubllin South: brennan 23% Tkitt 15% shatter 12% mithcel 9% ryan 9% O’Donnell 6%

Those of you interested in how them across the water are looking at the election/Northern Ireland shenanigans may be interested to know that Bertie is subject of BBC Radio 4′s profile programme Saturday night at 19:00 (you could listen online here, I think). For those of you with better things to do there is a [...]

Welcome to the final edition for Green Party Global Warming. This is Hot or Not but for Green Party candidates. It’s gender equality day today. Who will it be? Trevor Sargent, Green Party badass. Patricia McKenna, Green Party best suer. We’re all for gender equality here, so who will it be? Who’s hotter? The badass [...]

It would seem that all is not well in Bertie Ahern’s backyard of Drumcondra. Ben reports on school problems and another story breaking there in the last few days is the re-routing of the Metro and who knew what when. The Railway Procurement Agency have altered the route for Metro North. Originally due to go [...]

At the least it seems Sinn Fein are hoping to pick up 6 additional seats in this election. Mary Lou McDonald reckons they can pick up seats in Donegal (not sure if one or both), Sligo-North Leitrim, Cork North Central, Waterford and Wexford. She also suggests seats in Dublin (well she would) though not specifying [...]

Thanks to Damien for pointing up this take on the “Next Steps” campaign uploaded by MacBegins. Anyone else got contributions along this ilk, feel free to email them to the address in the side bar.

A bus shelter inside the borders of Dublin Central now displays a poster with a head-shot of FF Councillor Mary Fitzpatrick, with a message asking all to vote number one for her. Hmm, has the election been called yet? What’s most interesting about the poster is what’s not there.

Amidst the plethora of “2006-in-review” articles populating today’s papers, there is one very interesting piece in the Tribune. The way our electoral system works makes polls slightly unhelpful—ignoring particularity within constituencies and also the nature of transfers—but the Tribune have taken a look across the most contested constituencies to attempt to predict the likely election [...]

There has been an escalation in the row about the decision to locate the new national children’s hospital at the Mater. Crumlin Hospital has released a detailed report taking issue with the Mater’s suitability for the facility, amongst other things in terms of space, a pressing issue given the importance of parental presence for children [...]

Walk carefully lads, the women of Ireland are only putting away their tissues after that performance. Not a dry eye in the house and sure wasn’t he only great not having his own bank account for years, and I bet the knives come out for Miriam putting poor Bertie through the wringer. Ah C. Wright [...]

Deputy Lord Mayor of Dublin, Labour’s Cllr. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and vocal Anti-War campaigner. Who blogs here answers some questions for Irish Election. Just like to thank Aodhán for his replies. In your speech at the Jeb Bush protest you said that “Dublin is a major international capital and so its civic leaders have a [...]