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to RTE in an interview. Make of it what you will.

Progressive Democrat Senator Kate Walsh passed away on April 24th.  This evening An Taoiseach announced the immediate appointment of Colm O’Gorman, PD candidate in Wexford to Seanad Eireann. Senator Walsh was a Taoiseach’s appointment so it is perfectly proper that another nomination be made and logical in the terms of a coalition that [...]

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 [...]

John Dwyer, the Sinn Féin candidate for Wexford, has an interesting election poster.
At the moment only Fine Gael and the PDs have put billboards up in the town, and both are calling for your no.1, reminding us how great they are as people and as public representatives. The Fine Gaelers all wear suits, while [...]

The front of today’s Irish Times makes for heartbreaking reading, with a picture of the now deceased Dunne family, not very oblique references from the Garda to their theory of the crime. but also a picture of a shocking breakdown in social services.  The Garda Press Office probably won’t be too happy with the way [...]

According to Sinn Fein local Canidate John Dwyer they spread it in fields across Wexford. I particularly liked this line.
“One of the main conditions of the nutrient plan was that the 2871 tonnes of waste would be treated with odour suppressant. Totally disregarding local people [...]

The Wexford Echo (more here)has commissioned a Red C poll for the Wexford constituency. The headline figure from the poll suggests that Fine Gael’s Liam Twomey will struggle to hold on to his seat. Out ahead by a country mile is Fianna Fail’s John Browne on 30%.

From Ireland.com
Mr O’Gorman said he would work for the establishment of a university for the south east region. He said he believed the upgrading of the Waterford Institute of Technology was a “vital component to the revitalisation of County Wexford.
“County Wexford has one of the lowest levels of uptake of third level education in [...]

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’s been an interesting trend in the recent TG4 polls conducted by TNS/MRBI compared to national figures being delivered by RedC and TNS/MRBI in the Sunday Business Post and The Irish Times respectively. Added to this can be the reporting in The Kerryman of two polls seen there.
There appears to be an increasing trend [...]

Sorry for the delay in bring this but I blame a certain team in red.
Donegal Democrat
Solicitor Makes Sensational Cash Payment Claim
A LETTERKENNY solicitor issued a strongly worded statement last night in which he claims an attempt was made to pass on a substantial cash payment to his client, Donegal T.D. Niall Blaney.

Fine Gael have jumped on the celebrity candidacy bandwagon by approaching outgoing GAA President Sean Kelly to stand in South Kerry next year. It follows the recent trend of high-profile individuals being offered places on party tickets. Only this week, Colm O’Gorman of One-in-Four announced that he will contest the next general election with the [...]

Wexford is not my area so someone else can probably give a better prediction then this. The biggest problem for Colm O’Gorman taking a seat in Wexford will be the lack of a political organisation in Wexford for the PD’s not since 1989 have they contested a Dail seat when William Willoughby gained 1.1% of [...]

Via Slugger(well done on the scoop!) comes the news that Colm O’Gorman of one in four is likely to be unveiled tomorrow as a PD candidate for Wexford. According to Slugger “Rumour also has it that he approached Labour, but that they were not interested.”