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THE GOVERNMENT HAS moved the writs for the Dublin South-West and Roscommon-South Leitrim by-elections.
It made the move on the first day back after the summer break, meaning that the by-elections will officially take place on Friday 10 October.
The vacancies arose in May after Fine Gael’s Brian Hayes (Dublin South-West) and the independent Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim) were elected to the European Parliament.
This meant that they automatically and immediately vacated their seats in Leinster House.
By law, both by-elections must be held within six months of the seats becoming vacant. This means that November is the last possible month that they could take place.
It was speculated that the Government would want the elections to take place before the Budget on 14 October – meaning that the writs would need to be moved as soon as the Dáil returned today.
By law, polling day must be between the 18th and 25th day (excluding public holidays, Good Friday and Sundays) after the writ has been issued.
The candidates are:
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he’s still not really good at football though
@John Duggan: You must have played in the World Cup given your vast experience.
@John Duggan: you’re not very good at writing in English either. Not really good at football . Sweet jesus .
@John Killeen: He’s right…
@Oweke 68: taking it a bit to heart aren’t you…Hojlund a friend of yours!?
@damien leen: ha! Because Liverpool fans never lose their collective sh!t on here when someone dares criticise their team or players!
@John Duggan: A pro not good at football?….Nice 1 john
@John Killeen: ah John do you need a hug ?
You should be well used to your favourite club lashing out multiple of millions now on complete duds !
But fear not Mr Ratcliffe sacking of the tea lady is bound to be the turning point to kickstart the 90′s glory once again
Good end to a good week for united, hasn’t been too many of them this season. Big improvement in performance the last few games. Shame about heaven, let’s hope it’s not as bad as it looked.
@J B: shouldn’t you be off making jokes about people dying you melt?
He does have talent but has been dropped in as the main goal scoring hope in a dysfunctional club/team at a very young age. Hopefully getting on the score sheet will give him some confidence back and he can score a lot more. They do need another striker to act as yhe main goal scorer though.
Pity they don’t play teams like Leicester every week
3* Promoted Championship teams to be relegated for the second year in a row and seeing the standard in this year’s championship it’s going to be 3 in a row
Leicester muck nothing to see here
Yawn
@offside again: zzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!
@J B: half or hand????
They bet the second worst team in the league ha ha
@John Kenny: so who do you follow in the English league?
@Stephen Foster: Cornwall
“One step never climbed a mountain”… he needs to be consistent and to go out and do that again and again. 72M is nowhere near justified yet!!
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