How to contact Paul Sommerville?

onekeano

Hi, I heard Paul on the radio yesterday - very impressed as usual and he asked for anyone who might be able to help in anyway. Problem is that I'm finding it incredibly difficult to find a website or even an email contact point for him.

If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.

Roy

mikemac

Ask the radio producer?

onekeano

thanks - mailed them yesterday but no response yet

Roy

Leiva

I'm really impressed with Paul .

Heard him on Today FM and he really has it spot on and sounds genuine in his intentions to help out.

Whatever party take him on board has my vote .

onekeano

he has declared that he is running as an independent

Roy

Lady Chatterton

onekeano wrote: »

he has declared that he is running as an independent

Roy

He announced on "Tonight with Vincent Browne" during the week that he was running for Fine Gael. Has there been a change of heart???

onekeano

I heard him on a few occasions (different interviews) saying he was going to run as an indpendent and giving all of the reasons why this would be the better option. The latest example was Thursday monring on Newstalk...

Lady Chatterton

onekeano wrote: »

I heard him on a few occasions (different interviews) saying he was going to run as an indpendent and giving all of the reasons why this would be the better option. The latest example was Thursday monring on Newstalk...

Apologies onekeano, you're 100% correct. I got Paul Sommerville and Peter Matthews mixed up. It is Peter who is running for FG. Paul has a huge amount to offer, I hope he gets elected, it is time we had someone with a few brain cells in the Dail.

onekeano

np - btw just got it from the horses mouth that the website will be up & running tomorrow www.paulsommerville.com so I'll be bookmarking that..... it'd be nice to think we could be swapping Paul Somerville for the likes of Martin Mansergh or Jackie Healy Rae:D

southernstar

onekeano wrote: »

it'd be nice to think we could be swapping Paul Somerville for the likes of Martin Mansergh or Jackie Healy Rae:D

Yeah its great news - am delighted he's running. Hopefully we'll get to hear a bit more of him - and he might be put to use in some capacity.

Leiva

Where is Paul running ?

If it was in my area he would get No.1 on my poll card.

onekeano

Hi MN, it's somehwere in Dublin South but not 100% at present - he said the website would be up today. To be honest it's the wrong side of town for me but I think this election is THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE so I'll be offering to help out. As a 50 year old who has never been involved in any party I think this is a vital time for our country and it's great to see guys like Sommerville put his neck on the line. A quick extract from the FT this morning sums it up....

Irish meltdown...the justifiable anger of Irish voters at being saddled with the debts of their reckless bankers cannot itself explain the extraordinary implosion of Fianna Fáil, the party that has long dominated Irish politics.... Mr Cowen tried to give an electoral leg-up to lesser-known Fianna Fáil MPs with scattergun offers of ministerial portfolios....These factional antics, ...could turn the expected Fianna Fáil rout at the polls into electoral annihilation.
That may be richly deserved. This is, after all, the party that through its cronyism and incompetence artificially prolonged the boom of the 1990s into the credit and property bubble of the past decade, and then gave a blanket guarantee to its banker friends that has ended in the humiliation of Ireland becoming a ward of the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Fianna Fáil .........will be vacating a lot of political space, some of which will be taken up by populists, including the Republicans of Sinn Féin, now poised for a breakthrough in the south.......it is now vitally important that the campaign now opening properly addresses the issues of governance and accountability raised by the crisis. Whether creditors of the banks should share the pain of the bail-out with taxpayers will – and should – be a dominant theme, and the mainstream parties must take ownership of this and not leave the field to the populists.
This should also be the occasion for the independent voices clamouring for a new politics in Ireland to come forward and lay out their stalls. Irish voters, and the future of the republic, need no less.


Roy

Poster King

He is running in Dublin South East. I have also heard him speak a few times and have been very impressed. There is some stiff competition here in DSE. 4 seats.
Ruari Quinn of Labour is sure to take a seat, as is Lucinda Creighton for FG. The other main contenders are:
Chris Andrew (FF), I think he will struggle to hold his seat.
John Gormley (Green), he will also struggle but might just hold on
Eoin Murphy (FG), He is doing well I hear and could take a 2nd FG seat.
Kevin Humphreys (Lab)
D Doolin (SF)

Paul Sommerville will take a lot of Michael McDowell's vote and I know of some former PD activists that are supporting him.

Here is the DSE thread on politics.ie http://www.politics.ie/elections/99759-dublin-south-east-11.html

geeky

Poster King wrote: »

He is running in Dublin South East. I have also heard him speak a few times and have been very impressed. There is some stiff competition here in DSE. 4 seats.
Ruari Quinn of Labour is sure to take a seat, as is Lucinda Creighton for FG. The other main contenders are:
Chris Andrew (FF), I think he will struggle to hold his seat.
John Gormley (Green), he will also struggle but might just hold on
Eoin Murphy (FG), He is doing well I hear and could take a 2nd FG seat.
Kevin Humphreys (Lab)
D Doolin (SF)

Paul Sommerville will take a lot of Michael McDowell's vote and I know of some former PD activists that are supporting him.

Here is the DSE thread on politics.ie http://www.politics.ie/elections/99759-dublin-south-east-11.html

I'd have to disagree with you on Andrews and Gormley - Gormley's never had the safest seat, and Chris Andrews has presented himself as an 'anti-govt' FF TD. Reckon it'll be Quinn, Creighton, Andrews and Murphy - though Sommerville may yet pull a surprise.

Leiva

Pauls site is now up and running ...

http://www.paulsommerville.com/

JTMan

mixednuts wrote: »

Pauls site is now up and running ...

http://www.paulsommerville.com/

His policies here: http://www.paulsommerville.com/policies.html are very impressive.

I will be giving him my number one vote.

Amtmann

I'd give him a first preference too, but he badly needs to get a proofreader in to fix his website.

bertaluchi

As long as his figures are in order, that'll do me

This guy is the straightest talker I've heard on any of these shows.

Also, he's the only person that I can follow with regards to the auld
Economics. And to explain something technical like that and put it
simply, you've got to really understand something.

Defo getting my #1 vote.

JTMan

Photo's of the canvas trail today:
http://yfrog.com/h219gwkj

Sponge Bob

That Lucinda wan will go buck mad when she sees that sea of blue