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Press release titles of the day? For the chuckle factor anyway. Kenny’s appeal goes down the YouTubes in video views stakes – Ambrose. Councillor Siobhan Ambrose, Fianna Fáil candidate in Tipperary South thinks that because more people have seen her youtube video than a version of Enda Kenny’s party conference speech that Enda is becoming [...]

Taoiseach’s ‘hypocrisy’ on heritage – Meath Chronicle This is an excellent letter in the Meath Chronicle. It is word reading the whole thing (it’s free but you have to register). Despite the Taoiseach’s words the realities are far different and many of the social problems that the government is trying to fix are created by [...]

Some times the news can miss the stories from the local newspapers. So here is Irishelection’s top stories from the country. The Meath Chronicle Fraud Squad to probe purchase of Navan land The “investigation will be conducted by Chief Superintendent Austin McNally of the Fraud Squad. The purchase of the land was made by local [...]

FF election candidate for Meath East was savaged in this issue of Village Magazine. Dubbed the “Laziest TD in the Dail” by Village who analysed the sitting Meath TDs contribution to the Dail. She has spoken on only one occasion, welcoming Shane MacEntee to the Dail and has tabled less than ten questions for written [...]

First, a little history. Meath has just been converted from one 5 seat constituency into two 3 seat constituencies. The distribution used to be (eons ago) 2, 2, 1 (i.e 2 FF, 2 FG, 1 Labour). It then changed to 3, 2, (3 FF, 2 FG) and how Labour would love their seat back. The [...]

In his 2004 political biography of Bertie Ahern, author and journalist John Downing described a meeting a few years ago of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party. Downing reported that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told his party’s Oireachtas members that he’d ‘fuck up’ any of them who ‘undermined’ him. The Taoiseach is passionate about improving Ireland’s transport [...]

The surprise appointment of Mary Wallace to a junior ministry at the Department of Agriculture and Food will no doubt have tongues wagging in Leinster House and a few sore heads north of the Liffey. The East Meath TD and alleged refusnik Dail attendee following her demotement in 2002 was the jawdropper name in Bertie’s [...]