Ballot Beats: Cosying up in the Women’s Shed in Feakle & not daring to take on the teachers
CAMPAIGNS are in full flow across the county with such a short run-in till the November 29th General Election.
Hilary Tonge
The Electoral Chair: Friends & foes in politics | Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael tipped for Clare success | Political comebacks
Tony Killeen and Mike Taylor with Páraic McMahon. IT’S GAME on so far as the General Election is concerned with a record number of nineteen candidates in the field.
Clare to have record long ballot paper for General Election
*Photograph: John Mangan CLARE is to have its longest ever ballot paper for a General Election with a total of nineteen candidates already declared.
The Electoral Chair: Fine Gael scramble is a shambles | Fianna Fáil’s trio | Mná vote
*Eugene Drennan, Geraldine Gregan and Páraic McMahon. FINE GAEL’s scramble to find a second General Election candidate in Clare continues as the field begins to firm up across the county.
Emergency department at UHL records highest number of presentations
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK’s (UHL) emergency department recorded its highest ever level of presentations on Monday.
Hilary Tonge to get Social Democrats nomination for General Election
*Hilary Tonge. Photograph: Tom Micks HILARY TONGE (SD) is set to get the nomination from the Social Democrats to contest the General Election.
Fiona ‘bitten by political bug’ but ‘really disappointed’ no woman elected in East Clare
*Fiona Levie (SD) with Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns (SD). AN ATTEMPT to end a twenty five year wait for a female representative to be elected in East Clare came up short for Fiona Levie (SD).
Sinn Féin likely to gain seat in Ennis MD
*Tommy Guilfoyle. Photograph: John Mangan ENNIS’ five sitting councillors should be returned with Sinn Féin likely to take one of the two remaining seats in the Ennis Municipal District, a departing councillor has predicted.
Save Ennis Town issue rallying call to protect the town’s future
*John O’Connor addresses the crowd in Ennis. Photograph: John Mangan “TOGETHER WE can Save Ennis Town” was the rallying call issued at a demonstration in the heart of the county town on Saturday afternoon.
Save Ennis Town supporters ‘are bananas’ claims sitting Cllr Colleran Molloy
Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy. Photograph: Joe Buckley A SITTING COUNCILLOR has described candidates associated with Save Ennis Town as “bananas”.
