Peter Casey announces intention to stand for election in Taoiseach's constituency
The 62-year-old says he is standing in Dublin West to give people there a ‘protest vote’.
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The 62-year-old says he is standing in Dublin West to give people there a ‘protest vote’.
The Social Protection Minister could succeed Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael … and the country.
The Dublin West TD says she represents an “alternative to the failed policies of the 1%”.
The woman is being held at Ronanstown Garda Station.
It was not supposed to happen, but it did.
She faced some tough questions too.
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The letters were delivered in Oireachtas envelopes and headed paper.
The Health Minister was challenged to a debate by a Sinn Féin constituency rival.
Catherine Noone’s fundraising dinner will hear from Finance Minister Michael Noonan.
Bernadette Rynne claims she was passed over for a council seat, but AAA members in Dublin West dispute her account.
No word on whether silly walks will be introduced at Leinster House.
Fingal councillor David McGuinness has quit the party after failing to be selected as its candidate for the general election.
David McGuinness says there’s even talk of spurned Fianna Fáil candidates forming a breakaway group.
Jack Chambers says he won’t engage ‘in a tit for tat’ with David McGuinness.
A close battle was predicted between the pair.
Councillors Jack Chambers and David McGuinness are vying to be the Fianna Fáil general election candidate in Dublin West.
Its members spent the most in the Dublin West and Longford Westmeath by-elections, the Standards in Public Office Commission said.
The Socialist TD was elected to represent Dublin West last month.
Ruth Coppinger joins Joe Higgins in the Dáil as the strong left vote in Dublin West paid dividends for the Socialists.
Coughlan said he’s not really disappointed and he may even run in the general election in a couple of years.
If the two female candidates tipped for the top are successful there will be 27 female TDs.
The party’s vote has been halved since 2009.
It’s not all about water charges, you know.
This wasn’t the former World Champion runner’s finest performance…
David Hall, best known as a mortgage debt campaigner, says he was asked for €10,000 for a video which appears to show him making race-based remarks.
Who is going to win the Dublin west by-election? It’s anyone’s game.
The junior coalition partner is unlikely to win the Dáil seat that became vacant following the resignation of its former TD Patrick Nulty in March.
Hall, a former member of Fianna Fáil, launched his bid for the Dáil seat in Dublin West in the capital today.
Voters in Dublin West and Longford-Westmeath will have an extra ballot paper later this month.
Paul Murphy, the party’s Dublin MEP candidate, said that water charges were “the straw that breaks the camel’s back” for voters.
The prominent mortgage arrears campaigner confirmed early this morning that he will run in the 23 May by-election.
The government looks set to move to writ for elections in Dublin West and Longford-Westmeath next month catching many of the possible candidates on the hop as they focus on the local and, in some cases, European elections.
The independent TD has formally resigned his Dáil seat.
Hall says that he feels an independent voice should fill the seat vacated by Patrick Nulty.
Meanwhile, there are likely to be more revelations about Nulty sending inappropriate messages in the coming hours and days.
These are the runners and riders after the shock resignation of Patrick Nulty at the weekend.
Everyone’s been talking about the shock resignation of Patrick Nulty, Phil Hogan’s spat with Micheál Martin, and the grisly ‘House of Horror’ discovery in Nigeria.
He’s stepping down with immediate effect, hours before the revelations were expected to appear in a Sunday newspaper.