Fianna Fáil to abandon Oranmore in hunt for two seats at next election?

Wed, Mar 23, 2016

Will we have another election in a few months' time, or will Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael drop the posturing, realise there is more important work to be done than paying defference to their Civil War legacies, and come to some kind of governmental arrangement?

Election 2016 promises an eventful 32nd Dáil

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

Seismic! Earthquake! Meltdown! Some of the words being used to describe the outcome of last week’s General Election. With the results still being digested, it is too early to go into a detailed analysis – Insider hopes to return to that once the various tallies, results, and exit polls have been parsed – but the headline outcomes are quite stark.

Mná na Gaillimhe - three Galway seats now held by women

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

Election 2016 saw Galway West do two things it never did before - elect two Independents and, more significantly, elect two women, meaning Independent Catherine Connolly and FG's Hildegarde Naughton, join FF's Máire Geoghegan Quinn, as the only women to ever be returned for the constituency.

General Election 2016 – transfers show old ideologies and allegiances are eroding

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

While it will not surprise Galway readers that an Independent-Left candidate made the final cut in Donegal - due to the county’s continual ‘No’ line on almost everything governmental - the election results in Galway West told a similar story. In fact, while the establishment parties are working to claim a majority, the detail in the transfers tells a different, and quite revealing, story.

'Independents will put the needs of the country before local politics'

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

He was elected without reaching the quota in 2002, 2007 and 2011. There were no scraping in at the very end for Noel Grealish in Election 2016 though. This time the result was emphatic.

'Maybe this Dáil will have control over the government'

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

As sure as the sun rises in the morning, Eamon Ó Cuív will be re-elected. However the Dáil he faces will enjoy no such certainty, as an angry electorate rejects the Government, and no single party holds enough seats to lead a majority, Government. For Dep Ó Cuív though, this could be the makings of a much stronger, more effective parliament.

Sunday morning, counting down.

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

Well I woke up Sunday morning,
With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt.

Galway’s beaten candidates may find that politics follows them around

Sun, Feb 28, 2016

For many candidates, tomorrow (Monday) brings a new reality. They will wake up facing new challenges in their lives. On Friday, they had a future in politics. Now that has all changed. But changing career and adjusting to life after politics is never easy, especially if youv’e made a name for yourself in the old profession.

GALWAY WEST - Count by Count

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

From the long Saturday night, and into the long Sunday of in the Galway West count, in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway, here are the results, count by count.

Latest news from the Galway East count

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Update 7.50pm
Ciaran Cannon has taken the last of the three seats in Galway East in the seventh count. 

Galway West - what the tallies tell us now

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Eamon Ó Cuív will top the poll in Galway West; Derek Nolan has lost his seat, Fidelma Healy Eames fourth attempt to enter the Dáil has failed, and Galway might be about to elect it's first woman in more than 20 years, and it's first Sinn Féin TD in almost a century.

'I'm not in favour of Labour becoming a Trotskyite party'

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Bloody but unbowed, down but not out, former Galway West TD Derek Nolan conceded defeat this afternoon ahead of the first count in Galway West, but the 33-year-old is not ruling out a possible return to politics at some stage.

GALWAY WEST - the latest tallies

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

Éamon Ó Cuív (FF) 15.2%
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (SF) 11.35%

The loss though expected still hurts

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

You can see it in their eyes, the sadness, the disappointment. There are candidates who came here to NUI Galway today knowing in their hearts of hearts that they were not going to make it. That the field was too crowded, that their chances were slim against a field packed with heavyweights.

Yet it still hurts when your name is called out with a number after it.

Brand Hildegarde - cometh the hour?

Sat, Feb 27, 2016

The best footballers operate with a single name.
Pele, Ronaldo, Neymar.

Dramatic count ahead as election promises to be most exciting in decades

Thu, Feb 25, 2016

Galway West stands on the brink of electing its first female TD in almost 20 years, but while the omens are good for Independent Left councillor Catherine Connolly, her route to the Dáil is by no means certain, as Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats are also eyeing that same seat.

Election fever hits The Kenny Gallery

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

AS ELECTION placards leer at us from every lamp-post, and vote-wheedling leaflets are daily stuffed through our letterboxes, The Kenny Gallery’s new exhibition of Irish political posters, flyers, and assorted ephemera from down the years, could hardly be more topical.

Galway West - who are the potential winners, losers, and dark horses?

Tue, Feb 16, 2016

WITH 10 days to polling day, Galway West has become something it has never been before - unpredictable. For years it returned two FF and one each for FG, Labour, and a PD/Independent. Even the electoral upheaval of 2011 almost bypassed the constituency, with FG the party to take two, as opposed to FF.

Sinn Féin - tiocfaidh ár lá?

Thu, Jan 28, 2016

Sen Trevor Ó Clochartaigh stands on the brink of becoming the first Sinn Féin TD returned in Galway since 1922. If he pulls this off, it will be an achievement in a constituency long considered very hostile to Republicans and republicanism.

Fine Gael - short of winning two seats?

Thu, Jan 28, 2016

National opinion poll figures over the last month have seen Fine Gael come in between 28 to 32 per cent, which, if replicated on polling day in Galway West would ensure two seats.

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