Mayo cannot afford to lose another generation – Conway- Walsh

Fri, Feb 11, 2011

Speaking after the launch of Sinn Féin’s Youth Jobs Campaign to highlight the 100,000 young people who will be forced to emigrate in the next two years, Sinn Féin election candidate Rose Conway-Walsh has said that a comprehensive youth jobs plan must be implemented by any incoming government as a priority.

Media circus hit Castlebar for Fine Gael nominations

Fri, Feb 11, 2011

Being the presumptive next toaiseach brings a lot of baggage with it and one of those bags landed in force in Castlebar on Wednesday morning. The normally low key affair of handing in your official nomination paper to the county register Fintan Murphy took place under the glare and scrutiny of the national media. It is a long way time when Kenny first handed in his nomination paper back in the autumn of 1975. At 11.10am after all the paperwork was checked and validated by returning officer Fintan Murphy it was done and dusted and Enda Kenny became the 11th nominee to be put on the ballot paper in Mayo. A little over six minutes later, he was joined by his three constituency colleagues, Michael Ring, John O’Mahony, and Michelle Mulherin as the party looks to claim an historic four seats in the county.

‘Thar am’ ag Enda Kenny athmhacnamh a dhéanamh ar a pholasaí don Ghaeilge - Calleary

Fri, Feb 11, 2011

Tá sé thar am ag Enda Kenny éisteacht le na saineolaithe agus an pobal agus athmhacnamh a dhéanamh ar a pholasaí míthuisceanach maidir le deireadh a chur le múineadh na Gaeilge mar chroí-ábhar don Ardteist, dar le urlabhraí Fiontraíochta, Fostaíochta agus Nuálaíochta Fhianna Fáil, Dara Calleary.

Questions every Fianna Fáil candidate in Mayo must answer

Fri, Feb 11, 2011

And they’re off! The 30th Dáil has reached the end of its troubled life and the starting gun was fired for the race for the 31st Dáil. The various candidates will be calling to your door in the next two weeks and you will be bombarded with literature, promises, and pledges.

Where’s the real Enda hiding?

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

GUBU. Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, and unprecedented. That’s how a period of turmoil involving Charlie Haughey was defined in the 1980s. It does not come close to describing events since Christmas.

Possibility still exists that Fianna Fáil will run only one candidate

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Since the foundation of the party in March 1926 and the subsequent election in June of 1927 when Patrick J Ruttledge, Michael Kilroy, and Eugene Mullen were returned to the fifth Dáil, the Fianna Fáil party have always had at least two members returned to Leinster House at general election time from Mayo. But as the spectre of the 2011 General Election looms ever larger on the horizon that proud record looks to be ready to fall in the county.

Kilcoyne still undecided about taking a crack at the Dáil

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Inependent Mayo county councillor Michael Kilcoyne will finally make his mind up whether he will contest the upcoming Dáil election this weekend. “Depending on what newspaper you read, I’m either in or I’m out of the running. But the reality is that I have not made my mind up yet. I’ve been talking to my people and I will make up my mind for once and for all this weekend.”

Sinn Féin put faith in female candidates

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Sinn Féin in Mayo has set out its stall to win at least one seat in the forthcoming general election by selecting two candidates to contest the election. At last weekend’s selection convention, Mayo county councillor Rose Conway Walsh and Castlebar town councillor Thérèse Ruane were the successful nominees to go forward and try to win a seat in the 31st Dáil.

O’Mahony disappointed that N26 not included in road funding

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has welcomed the near €19 million allocation from the National Roads Authority to Mayo County Council for the 2011 road and footpath programme but has expressed his disappointment at the absence of any major projects on the programme.

Check that you are registered to vote

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

With the election looming ensure you are registered to vote by checking www.checktheregister.ie

Fine Gael and Labour engaged in political fraud – Ruane

Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Sinn Féin general election candidate, Thérèse Ruane, has accused both Fine Gael and Labour of engaging in political fraud after they agreed to facilitate the passage of the Finance Bill through the Dáil this week despite claiming to be opposed to the Bill.