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From The Meath Chronicle
“The party’s TD Shane McEntee is expected to be selected to contest the general election with two others bidding for the second nomination, Co Meath VEC parent representative Ellen Cogavin, Dunboyne, and business woman Regina Doherty, Ratoath, Meath East FG constituency treasurer.
\Candidates will be contesting for three Dail seats in Meath [...]

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 their [...]

Round up of the News from the Local papers. Not all the the unison Papers are online at the minute so I may have missed some inportant news. As always if there is a piece you have seen in your local paper. Tell us in the comments.
The Kingdom
Queen in terror plot:
In an alarming statement issued [...]

‘Good and accessible’ childcare to bind communities - Ahern - Meath Chronicle Bertie
Ahern attended a Fianna Fail Rally in the area this week. At the invite-only event held in the Europa Hotel the Taoiseach launched the FF campaign in Meath East vowing to win two out of three seats with newly promoted Junior Minister Mary [...]

Meath Cronicle reports that Bertie was in town for Mary Wallace and Thomas Byrne’s Meath East campaign launch. Unsurprisingly there was talk of childcare, the topic which every single poll done in the region suggested was the major swing issue. So Bertie talked up the Government’s credentials with their new budget provisions for childcare etc.

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 most [...]