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Or “five demands” voters can get behind.
Analysis
Put simply, the side that is less factional and more united around a leading candidate of their side has the better chance to win.
Galway by-election
Bye-elections are a curious beast, not least because with just one electoral area, and therefore a smallish number of candidates, the focus of politicos becomes hyper-intense. There’s gangs of them digging for gold, or even votes, in the leafy streets of Dublin Bay South at the moment. Ministers are pictured getting down with the party juniors […]
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WATCH: Anti-lockdown Aontú is the only party with elected Dáil representatives that has been denied access to the RTÉ election debate, and have launched a High Court case over the issue.
Aontú candidate in the upcoming Dublin Bay South by-election, Mairead Tóibín, has today released documentation which shows that the Minister for Children, Roderic O’Gorman, has been aware of the pandemic’s impact on domestic violence levels for months now. It comes as a report from Women’s Aid this week shows a 40% increase in the number […]
O’Connell said she would not be leaving the party because of “one person”, however.
Fianna Fáil by-election candidate, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee complained in 2011 that she had to sit beside a “black, Brazilian dwarf” on a Dublin Bus journey. Several tweets have emerged from Senator Clifford-Lee, dating to 2011 and 2012, and have been circulated on twitter by political opponents. Several of these tweets refer to travellers in particular, […]
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