Election results: The candidates and constituencies to watch and what the main parties are hoping for The only certainty is uncertainty, but here are the key bellwethers and battlegrounds in the European and local elections Sat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00 ...
Dublin Rathdown election 2024 results: Sinéad Gibney elected for Soc Dems while Catherine Martin loses seat Green Party Minister eliminated while Fine Gael takes two seats and Fianna Fáil picks up one Sun Dec 01 2024 - 21:06 Alan Shatter and Kate O’Connell go it alone in south Dublin ...
A number of readers consider the election results, the likely shape of the next government, and the policies they might pursue Thu, 05 Dec, 2024Letters to the Editor: Adapt app algorithms to make them child friendly 'At the end of the day, restrictions on media and apps usually lead to ...
"So many of the candidates were too extreme, it made it difficult for someone concerned about immigration to vote on that basis," he said. The issue also dropped in importance for voters in the run-up to the election as the main parties pledged to tighten up migration policy. In an exit...
A by-election for the Seanad Éireann Dublin University constituency, arising from the election of Ivana Bacik to Dáil Éireann, is in progress. There are seventeen candidates, eight men and nine women. Examining the ballot paper, I immediately noticed an imbalance: the top three candidates,...
The General Election is on Saturday 2020 February 08. We have campaigned in the past decade about secular declarations for President, judges, and the Council of State; to remove references to god from the Constitution; and for secular State funded schools. In 2018 we were on the street in ...
Socio-politically, party vote at the previous General Election and party voting intent (“If a General Election was held now, how would you vote?”) shifted slightly over the year, with fewer declaring they would not vote and an increase in support for all parties. Trust in the state incre...
as the area designated as Southern Ireland was declared independent by the winning parties after a general election in Ireland in 1918. 'Southern Ireland' later became the Irish Free State in 1922, and introduced the Irish Pound in 1928 as a legal tender currency, linked at par with the poun...
The complexity of the Irish Unionist response to the New Ireland is well captured in contrasting reactions to the 1916 Rising. One Belfast Protestant businessman wrote to his wife: We are having a little rebellion here just by way of a c
Shortly before Britain's general election on June 7, Northern Ireland's first ministerDavid Trimble announced that he would resignon July 1 if the IRA did not start disarming. The announcement helped bolster his position among his constituents, and Trimble managed to hold on to his seat in the...