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In our audit of the Dublin European election candidates, we asked candidates to answer questions on nine of the most pressing issues facing Ireland and Europe in the coming years.
Yes.
Lynn Boylan
It is my intention to but nobody can set out exactly what the future holds. I am privileged to have represented the people of Dublin for the last five years and hope that you will re-elect me so that I can continue to fight for you.
Barry Andrews
If elected, I will serve the full five-year term.
Alice Mary Higgins
Yes, I believe the next five years are crucial for Europe and its future direction and anyone who is elected should be fully committed to representing the people of Dublin in the important debates and decisions ahead.
Ciarán Cuffe
That’s my intention. I love Europe. I love the discussion goes on in Europe. I’ve been a councillor, I’ve been a TD and I would certainly like to be a parliamentarian and I would like to stay for the full five years.
Mark Durkan
Yes.
Clare Daly
Of course.
Mark Mullen
Yes. I also want to introduce a manifesto tracker which would allow the public follow real-time progress on promises I have made during this campaign.
Gary Gannon
It is my sincere intention to sit for the entire five-year term, if elected.
This is a question which has arisen a lot, as people ask if I would return to run in Dublin Central if a general election is called, and the answer to this is no.
The European Parliament will be the most important assembly in the world over the next decade, and I believe we need to send people who are committed to serving their electoral term there and impacting transformative social change for all in Dublin.
Rita Harrold
I plan to sit for the full term if elected, and to use the MEP position in every way I can to forward the interests and the rights of workers, women and the planet and the fight for socialist change.
I have been a socialist activist for ten years having gotten active against college fees increasing when I was a teenager.
I will remain a committed socialist feminist fighter and a seat in the European parliament would be a platform to fight for these ideas in Ireland and across Europe in solidarity with the movement we need to build on the streets for workers, women and the planet.
Frances Fitzgerald
Yes.
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Hooping for a bright future.
@Big Beats: fantastic news,we have tons of potential…now with these premier standard facilities….no reason why basketball shouldn’t be massive in Ireland
That’s the equivalent of 113 Bike Shelters
What a waste. They need to pump that money into grass-roots football and make Ireland competitive again. Who the hell plays basketball, waste.
@Basildon Joe: brilliant idea, let’s continue funding the largesse, wastage& incompetence in the FAI to the detriment of other sports that we may ( hopefully) thrive & succeed at
@Buster Lawless: now delaney is gone surely they can progress and not squander the funding, in my honest opinion buster.
@Basildon Joe: the Fai was given €30 million in 2020. That’s €8 million less than this project. Look at what that €38 million is being used for. 4 sports will get to use the building/facility which are all Olympic sports as squash is starting in 2028. Where has the €30 million gone. Since the Fai were given that money Ireland has had their worst run internationally is living memory. What facilities have the Fai used to make grassroots better since given that money. Should we just give them another €30 million. Never heard of coaches going into schools. Havnt seen any pitches being built. Clubhouses or changing rooms being built. National lottery won’t give them money cause it will just disappear. The Fai needs to make a little effort around the country before they get another penny.
@Basildon Joe: 200 clubs and 30000 players, so no, not a waste of money. Unlike the finacial sinkhole that domestic football is in Ireland…
@Sea Point: yeah but come on its pretty much a national sport for Ireland behind GAa. I just want to see Ireland improve as they are shocking right now and need all the help they can get.
@Basildon Joe: they got €30 million help 4 years ago. Government can’t keep throwing money at the Fai with zero return. No facilities, pitch upgrades. Nothing.
@Orban Orban: it makes me sick, and the kids suffer now watching that dire rubbish.
Sure they had to jump through a few hoops to net that permission
No basketball court in my town. There would be nothing wrong with spreading the wealth a little to encourage more communities across the country to take up the sport, or even a place a few teenagers could hang out, shoot a few hoops.
@Aidan Conlon: You should contact your local coco. SDCC have put up quite a few over the years.
Waste of money, we’re not a basketball country and never will be.
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: Well, seeing as we are s**te at football, we may as well try funding something else. Worked out fairly well for rugby.
How about pumping this kind of money into grass roots football instead of squandering money on a minority American sport!?
@Tezmond McVicar: my point exactly Tez. Disgusting waste of money on this toilet.
So they can perfect their, ahem, gaelic fooballing (haha) skills.
@offside again: ah kevvy, take a breather, a day off …. Go away down beach with dogs, juvenile trolling ISN’T the he all & end all
@Buster Lawless: take your own advice and stop stalking whilst you’re at it.
@offside again: kevvy, you probably know this with your weirdo stalking but I go down strand 1st thing every morning with the best doggies in Ireland…. lately cause of your delusional ramblings I DO make sure I have phone with me though
@Buster Lawless: Kevin Kerr is the Zodiac Killer
@Vince Cable: baby reindeer, lol
@Buster Lawless : you actually get up in the morning ? Ok fair enough. It’s good of the dogs to bring you for a walk I suppose.
I hope you pick up their poo after them.
Any hence they will sort out the entrance ??
Great facilities in Dublin to be fair …….
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