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IN LESS THAN six weeks Irish voters will go to the polls to have their say in European Parliament elections.
The deadline for candidates who wanted to run in the elections closed at noon yesterday and there are now 59 candidates vying for the 13 Irish seats in three constituencies.
There were some last minute additions to the list such as Independents4Change TDs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, as well as campaigner Gemma O’Doherty.
Here’s the full list of candidates in each constituency:
This area covers Dublin city and county and there are four seats available.
In this consituency there are four seats available and it comprises Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo and Westmeath.
There are five seats in this constituency which covers Carlow, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Offaly, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow.
If any of the seven TDs are elected to the European Parliament, there will have to be a Dáil by-election within six months to fill their seats.
Two of the elected MEPs will not take up their seats immediately if Britain participates in the elections. Voting takes place on 24 May and the register can be checked here.
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Looking for a handy number that’s well paid and out of sight and nearly forgotten about
@FlopFlipU: can’t blame them to be honest. Hard work seems to get you nowhere in this place
@FlopFlipU: All aboard the Gravy Train folks.
@Mick Andrews:
Poorly written article – the candidates should be listed in alphabetical order, how they will be listed on the ballot paper.
@Groucho: a good point – why put the mainstream parties up first?
If you vote FG it will be another step towards Ireland losing it’s neutrality via the back door and a step towards a European army. No to FG/FF cabal.
@Mornin’ Snoke: absolute nonsense. We would need a referendum before joining an EU army. No to fg/ff, I agree but there are plenty of real reasons without making up others.
@Mornin’ Snoke: Ireland isn’t a neutral country, our willingness to allow American military aircraft access to Shannon precludes us from describing ourselves as neutral.
We are however non aligned.
I wonder will the Usual Suspects on here be backing the anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist candidate again this election?
Or has her recent and very public racist declarations finally made her unbackable ?
Time will tell.
@Brinster: indeed. Though she’ll blame her failure to get elected on Soros/globalists/unicorns (delete as appropriate). It will also be interesting to see how the yellow vest and irexit candidates do as well.
@Brinster: they might be gone blind from all the tin foil, I fear.
@Brinster: Silly woman! Corruption in Ireland? She must be mad.
Some descriptions just list political party. Others contain additional information. Was this at the request of the individual running or was it added by the Journal?
@Rathminder: independents have a profession listed, elected officials have an office listed and unelected party members, have the party listed seems to be the way of it
@Rathminder: This goes all the way to the top. If there’s an ounce of integrity in this organization, the entire staff of the Journal should resign and website shut down.
We should probably cancel the election too.
@Dave O’Keeffe: Dolores Cahill is listed as an independent when she’s a member of the Irish Freedom (irexit) party
@Anne Marie Devlin: similarly Gemma o’Doberty is listed as an independent campaigner, when she represents ACI and is a professional conspiracy theorist.
@Renton Burke: Neither of those two groupings are official political parties, so the two people concerned can be members until their blue in the face, they still have to run as independents until such time as their movements have enough people prepared to publicly admit their membership ( and pay for the privilege!).
@Anne Marie Devlin: They couldn’t figure out how to fill in the application form to register as a political party and made a hames of it. True story.
Anyone but FFG….
It’s no easy task representing Ireland in the vast and complicated EU parliament. Of course some take the easy and lazy route by only being a party representative. Fortunately, there are excellent MEPs who take their job very seriously, pull on the irish jersey and root for the best interests of this country. None of the hacks commentating here are putting their names forward, I notice. The quality of the people we select is extremely important for us all especially now with the British, our nearest neighbours gone.
Please Please Please will people vote for Daly and Wallace so Europe can suffer them and we can all have a break from their continual ranting.
@davey boy: Yeah lets get them out we cant have TD’s calling out the FFG filth…
@davey boy:
I’m surprised there is no Healy-Rae running in Ireland south.
Snouts and gravy
Wish I lived in the big smoke, my vote would go to anti corruption candidates Gemma O Doherty St Patrick got the snakes out of Ireland in the 5th century, Gemma will do it in the 21st century
I think you may have missed some counties off the Midlands North West Constituency! Sligo & Mayo at least and there is probably others.
With only 13 seats available, 78% of those standing will be disappointed so there will be a lot of bruised egos on the 25th May.
I wonder if I started a go fund me to cover their traveling expenses I’m will check out the cheapest flights out would some country just keep all of them, give them minimun paid jobs for a few yrs. At least we would be rid of a few of them.
And it should be noted that although Matt Carthy is running in Midlands North West, he will be passing the seat on to O’Rourke in a few months time.
The GAA fans are all getting ready to vote for Sean Kelly again, so that he can do something or other, or whatever he does.
All a bunch of chancers who care more about the EU than they do Ireland.
A vote for any of them is a vote of compliance that their parties have done since the last elections and a vote for some of them is just a vote for Property Tax and Water Charges…
Walter Ryan Purcell tour guide operator last time.I saw him was on dragons den got 100k.His food business was shut down by food authority because it was filthy and then his business went. He leaves a trail of debt and is a complete gangster. So I guess he’s qualified for the job
Does anyone have a link to information about the candidates and their policies?
It seems dictating to the people, and extracting money from them, is first and foremost, there are no saviours in this game, there is no SPECIAL PERSON, who is going to push the boat out to help change anything for the better for the ordinary everyday people, there is no great incentatives to do what really needs to be done, no one to stop over charges of tax, or steps to eradicate online scammers, phone charges, over charging on electricity and gas bills, food prices and shrinkflation, stepping up sentances for crimes against elderly, young babies and children and defenceless animals, and the list goes on …
I think i am gonna go into politics so just vote for me, I will see yas right. ;)
a ridiculous number of independents that no one has heard of
I see the pharma trolls have arrived to protect their masters with their usual pro-vax nonsense. Gemma O’Doherty recently interviewed respected US attorney Robert F Kennedy Jr who had this to say about one of the vaccines the government are trying to mandate:
“Do not take the Gardasil vaccine, there’s no evidence that it prevents cervical cancers, there’s zero. There’s a lot of evidence from Merck’s own pre licensing clinical studies that it actually causes cervical cancer in a majority of women. It raises the risk of cervical cancer.
If you’ve been exposed to HPV before you take the vaccine, your chances of getting precancerous lesions go up by 46%. It’s called negative efficacy and it was revealed, and by the way you do not need to have had sex in order to have been exposed to HPV. As many as 30% of children are exposed in the birth canal. The vaccine raises the risk of cervical cancer rather than reducing it.
Not only that, but 50% of the girls who participated in that study became ill and developed serious illnesses within 6 months. 2.3%, that’s one in forty girls, got autoimmune disease. Nobody ever would ever take that risk.
This is an illness, cervical cancer is an illness that kills 2.3 out of every 100,000 people in our country. The vaccine kills or gives autoimmune disease to 1,000 times that many.
What I’ve said is, that this is a hoax, it is a canard, it is a boondoggle for this company. It is an easy sell them, ’cause they say we’re going to give it to you when you’re 9 and when you’re 58, usually cervical cancer kills at age 58, so 50 years from now you won’t have cervical cancer. And of course Merck knows that the executives that are making $billions in shares on this are not going to be around in 50 years to answer the questions when all those girls do get cervical cancer.
I’m representing a girl, Jennifer Robi, who’s been in a wheelchair since age 15, she has seizures every 90 seconds or so. I’ve met girls who’ve been blinded at age 15 by this terrible, terrible vaccine. There’s good indication also that this vaccine is causing infertility across the board, across women we’re seeing the fertility levels in people who got Gardasil vaccine drop dramatically.
We’re seeing depression and suicide levels increase dramatically. Those were all things that happened during the clinical trials, they saw that this was happening during the clinical trials. There were suicides among the girls and there were deaths among the girls, that were 4 or 5 times the background rate.
This is a dangerous, dangerous vaccine, it is loaded with aluminium, do not let your little girl ever take this vaccine, no matter what happens, don’t let her take this vaccine.”
- Robert F Kennedy Jr, April 5 2019
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Anyone who would vote for FF,FG, Labour, SF, People before profit are but morans
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