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

Due for release tomorrow Irishelection.com has an ‘exclusive’ preview of a piece of political rap for a candidate. Don’t make the wrong choice was written by GMC (Garry McCarthy) featuring State of Jay.

Well he may have to, looking at todays poll numbers. Dr John Sheehan from Cork wants to be a Fianna Fail councillor. And he promises not to take any of the €16,000 salary in his first year. Instead he wants it diverted to fund a day care centre. Probably the best value you will get [...]

This is the Sixth in a series of posts looking at who would or would not keep their seats if an election was called now. With not much  local polling to go on this is entirely my opinion and probably wrong. If you have any ideas on it please drop a comment. Cork East 

This is the fifth in a series of posts looking at who would or would not keep their seats if an election was called now. With not much  local polling to go on this is entirely my opinion and probably wrong. If you have any ideas on it please drop a comment. Waterford

It’s that time again with the European election nominations just closed that you might actually be interested in what your MEP has been up to for the last term. Want to check how they voted or how often they were in Brussel ? Thanks to http://votewatch.eu you can.

Many of the polls have showen a big slump in Fianna Failure and rises for Labour and Fine Gael. But if an election was called tomorrow who would lose out and who would win? I am going to try and do a review of all the constiuencies. If people have Views on anyone please drop [...]

Many people wonder how to become a politican. What skills do you need. So in a more then likely a one  post series I hope to show you how to become a politican by examples of some of our leading politicans. From Senator Alan Kelly Just to get something off my chest. It is incredibly [...]

Naoise Nunn, former Libertas director during the Lisbon treaty campaign, has an interesting appearance today in the Irish Times. Despite the party polling at 2% in the latest Business Post poll, the Chairman appears to be hanging his hat on a few high-profile scuffles between his candidates and sitting MEPs to generate profile. Ganley has [...]

From Fianna Fail CORK TEXTERS TO BENEFIT AS EU CUTS MOBILE COSTS – MINISTER MICHEÁL MARTIN, TD “There will be significant reductions in the costs of text messaging and downloading data, such as pictures, home movies and audio following the decision of the European Parliament to reduce costs.” “The savings for Cork phone users will be [...]

The Oireachtas has today launched a detailed profile based on the 2006 Census of all the constituencies in the country. The information is quite interesting and comprehensive and details all 42 constituencies in the country.

Newswire is first to break the news that the Dell plant in Limerick is going to close in 2010. 1,900 job loses. I would guess around 10,000 jobs in the region could be gone as well. This is also Irelands biggest exporter so I guess our balance of payments is also taking a massive hit. [...]

Limerick Blogger brings us the background to a minor skirmish in Fianna Fáil in Limerick. The whole thing kicked off this week when Limerick County Councillor, Noreen Ryan, wrote to the Taoiseach Brian Cowan calling for him to sack Minister for Defence, Willie O’Dea. The call comes after it emerged this week after it emerged [...]

Barack Obama’s victory might not have been certain until late on, however his online victory was secured long before this. Anyone who attended the conference last month where Damian O Broin and Zack Exley gave an incredible breakdown of the online campaign would know that Obama’s superiority was borne of simplicity, ruthless organising and intelligent [...]

Dan Boyle was selected last night to run for the Green Party in the Euro-South constituency next summer. The senator’s work will be cut out for him getting into one of the three seats. The field is likely to have two sitting MEPs who won in 2004 and a third who was parachuted in for [...]

And the overall economy?  Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on what sounds like advanced deliberations inside Dell about shifting its manufacturing capacity from Limerick to Lodz in Poland.  Office jobs in Ireland would be retained.  But as the article explains, Dell is unusual among computer makers in its retention of substantial manufacturing capacity — most [...]

Update: Head office must have been worried for the press released the result this evening. It is a blow for any who may have wished to see a return of the Spring dynasty to this particular fold as Senator Alan Kelly took the nomination for Labour candidate for MEP in the South. It was widely [...]