The Electoral Chair: Election Debate part two
PART TWO of The Electoral Chair: Election Debate put candidates in the spotlight on some of the central issues influencing Clare voters.
Leonora Carey
Ballot Beats: Floods and flash mobs in Co Clare
*Cllr Gabriel Keating’s (FF) car is pulled from the floods in Quilty. CANDIDATES battled the elements on day fifteen of the General Election campaign in Co Clare.
Hopes of carrying on the Carey family dynasty in the Dáil rest with Leonora
*Leonora Carey (FG). Photograph: John Mangan HOPES OF the Carey clan in continuing as Clare’s political dynasty rests on the shoulders of first-time candidate Leonora Carey (FG)
Ballot Beats: Calls for Trump style revolution & Fine Gael Cllrs back Cooney
TEMPERATURES are cold but the election campaign is only heating up in Co Clare.
Ballot Beats: Election debate sets the scene as polling day nears
CLARE’s election candidates were put through their paces in an entertaining debate held at Hotel Woodstock in the key moment of Thursday’s campaign.
Ballot Beats: Shannon Airport’s importance flies into the election discussion
SHANNON AIRPORT’s importance to the region has flown into the election discussion thanks to one Independent candidate’s appearance on RTÉ.
Taoiseach welcomes ‘healthy competition’ as disappointment voiced by Cooney & Nolan
*Cllr Joe Cooney, Pat Breen, Cllr Mary Howard, Dr Tom Nolan and Madeline Taylor-Quinn. Photograph: John Mangan COMPETITION among Fine Gael candidates in Clare has been welcomed by the Taoiseach with frustration bubbling beneath the surface over a map that is keeping certain parts of the county out of bounds.
Ballot Beats: Debates getting into full flow & last bin collection before polling day for West Clare hopeful
*Scariff Bay Community Radio recorded their election debate. PARENT TEACHER meetings were factored into canvassing time and the last bins before polling day were put out by a West Clare hopeful.
Ballot Beats: There’s something in the water & health activists hit out
WITH the first big debate of the General Election underway, Clare candidates are continuing their preparation for Thursday night’s Electoral Chair Election Debate in Hotel Woodstock while a local activist group took aim at a Clare Senator.
Ballot Beats: Horses for courses as Tánaiste tours Co Clare with Fianna Fáil trio
*Tánaiste Micheál Martin (FF) in Ennis. TÁNAISTE Micheál Martin (FF) visited Co Clare and canvassed with Fianna Fáil’s trio of candidates while it was horses for courses for the majority of runners in the field who flocked to the Ennistymon Horse Show.
