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Watch out for council co-option

  • 07-03-2011 11:58am
    #1
    simonj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭


    Keep an eye on your local councils. Lets see how many FG or Labour family members are appointed to council seats.

    In fairness in an earlier thread PatsytheNazi did point out that Labour want to avoid this - The Labour Party alledgedly are trying to stop nepotism in the party, but after the FG deal we will have to wait and see.

    " LABOUR FAMILY dynasties are at risk following an edict from head office that relatives of TDs will not be considered for vacated local authority seats. "

    Already the Michael Healy Rae seat on Kerry coco seems to be going to retired TD, and father, Jackie.
    Some of these are double whammys, in that the newly elected TD's sometimes have two seats, one at county and one in town

    LIST OF COUNCILLORS ELECTED TO DAIL EIREANN 2011

    Ann Phelan (LAB) - Carlow/Kilkenny
    Kilkenny County Council (Thomastown)

    Pat Deering (FG) - Carlow/Kilkenny
    Carlow County Council (Tullow)

    Sean Conlan (FG) - Cavan/Monaghan
    Ballybay Town Council, Co. Monaghan

    Heather Humphreys (FG) - Cavan/Monaghan
    Monaghan County Council (Clones)

    Tom Barry (FG) - Cork East
    Cork County Council (Mallow)

    Sandra McLellan (SF) - Cork East
    Cork County Council (Midleton)
    &
    Youghal Town Council, Co. Cork

    Jonathan O’Brien (SF) - Cork North Central
    Cork City Council (Cork North West)

    Dara Murphy (FG) - Cork North Central
    Cork City Council (Cork North East)

    Jim Daly (FG) – Cork South West
    Cork County Council (Skibbereen)

    Noel Harrington (FG) – Cork South West
    Cork County Council (Bantry)

    Padraig MacLochlainn (SF) – Donegal North East
    Donegal County Council (Inishowen)
    &
    Buncrana Town Council, Co. Donegal

    Charlie McConalogue (FF) – Donegal North East
    Donegal County Council (Inishowen)

    Thomas Pringle (IND) – Donegal South West
    Donegal County Council (Donegal)
    Pringle replacement: 31 year old teacher John Campbell, Glenties, Deputy Pringle’s Director of Elections.

    Robert Dowds (LAB) – Dublin Mid-West
    South Dublin County Council (Clondalkin)

    Derek Keating (FG) – Dublin Mid-West
    South Dublin County Council (Lucan)

    Clare Daly (SP) – Dublin North
    Fingal County Council (Swords)

    Alan Farrell (FG) – Dublin North
    Fingal County Council (Howth/Malahide)

    Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LAB) – Dublin North Central
    Dublin City Council (Clontarf)

    Sean Kenny (LAB) – Dublin North East
    Dublin City Council (Donaghmede)

    Dessie Ellis (SF) – Dublin North West
    Dublin City Council (Ballymun/Finglas)

    John Lyons (LAB) – Dublin North West
    Dublin City Council (Ballymun/Finglas)

    Michael Conaghan (LAB) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Ballyfermot/Drimnagh)

    Eric Byrne (LAB) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Crumlin/Kimmage)

    Joan Collins (PBP) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Crumlin/Kimmage)

    Eoghan Murphy (FG) – Dublin South East
    Dublin City Council (Pembroke/Rathmines)

    Kevin Humphreys (LAB) – Dublin South East
    Dublin City Council (South East Inner City)

    Sean Crowe (SF) – Dublin South West
    South Dublin County Council (Tallaght Central)

    Eamonn Maloney (LAB) – Dublin South West
    South Dublin County Council (Tallaght South)

    Mary Mitchell O’Connor (FG) – Dun Laoghaire
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (Dun Laoghaire)

    Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP) – Dun Laoghaire
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (Dun Laoghaire)

    Paul Connaughton (FG) – Galway East
    Galway County Council (Ballinasloe)

    Colm Keaveney (LAB) – Galway East
    Galway County Council (Tuam)

    Derek Nolan (LAB) – Galway West
    Galway City Council (Galway East)

    Brian Walsh (FG) – Galway West
    Galway City Council (Galway East)

    Sean Kyne (FG) – Galway West
    Galway County Council (Conamara)

    Arthur Spring (LAB) – Kerry North/West Limerick
    Kerry County Council (Tralee)
    &
    Tralee Town Council, Co. Kerry

    Brendan Griffin (FG) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Dingle)

    Tom Fleming (IND) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Killarney)

    Michael Healy Rae (IND) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Killorglin)

    Catherine Murphy (IND) – Kildare North
    Kildare County Council (Celbridge)

    Anthony Lawlor (FG) – Kildare North
    Kildare County Council (Naas)

    Martin Heydon (FG) – Kildare South
    Kildare County Council (Athy)

    Barry Cowen (FF) – Laois/Offaly
    Offaly County Council (Tullamore)

    Brian Stanley (SF) – Laois/Offaly
    Laois County Council (Portlaoise)
    &
    Portlaoise Town Council, Co. Laois

    Patrick O’Donovan (FG) – Limerick
    Limerick County Council (Newcastle)

    Robert Troy (FF) – Longford/Westmeath
    Westmeath County Council (Mullingar West)

    Gerald Nash (LAB) – Louth
    Louth County Council (Drogheda East)
    &
    Drogheda Borough Council, Co. Louth

    Michelle Mulherin (FG) – Mayo
    Mayo County Council (Ballina)
    &
    Ballina Town Council, Co. Mayo

    Regina Doherty (FG) – Meath East
    Meath County Council (Dunshaughlin)

    Peadar Tóibín (SF) – Meath West
    Navan Town Council, Co. Meath

    Ray Butler (FG) – Meath West
    Meath County Council (Trim)
    &
    Trim Town Council, Co. Meath

    Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan (IND) – Roscommon/South Leitrim
    Roscommon County Council (Castlerea)

    Tony McLoughlin (FG) – Sligo/North Leitrim
    Sligo County Council (Sligo Strandhill)
    &
    Sligo Borough Council

    Michael Colreavy (SF) – Sligo/North Leitrim
    Leitrim County Council (Manorhamilton)

    Seamus Healy (WUAG) – Tipperary South
    Tipperary South Riding County Council (Clonmel)
    &
    Clonmel Borough Council

    Ciara Conway (LAB) – Waterford
    Dungarvan Town Council, Co. Waterford

    John Halligan (IND) – Waterford
    Waterford City Council (Waterford South)

    Simon Harris (FG) – Wicklow
    Wicklow County Council (Greystones)
    &
    Greystones Town Council, Co. Wicklow

    There are also to MEP positions


Comments

  • #2
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,669 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    thomas pringle relced by his director of elections john campbell
    The new councillor to represent the Donegal Electoral Area will be 31 year old teacher John Campbell, a member of staff at St Columba’s Comprehensive School in Glenties, Deputy Pringle’s Director of Elections.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3
    simonj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 295 ✭✭simonj


    The Healy Raes, either daddy or the missus

    http://www.thejournal.ie/jackie-healy-rae-could-return-to-county-council-2011-03/


  • #4
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    simonj wrote: »
    There are also to MEP positions

    The MEPs had to submit replacement lists before the european elections
    Joe Higgins Socialist Party
    1. DALY, CLARE
    2. COPPINGER, RUTH
    3. MURPHY, MICK
    4. KEANE, DENIS
    5. MURPHY, PAUL
    Alan Kelly Labour Party
    1. SPRING, ARTHUR J
    2. PRENDERGAST, PHIL
    3. LEDDIN, JOE
    4. O'DOWD, VIRGINIA
    5. KHAN, MARK

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #5
    bijapos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭bijapos


    Johnnymcg wrote: »
    The MEPs had to submit replacement lists before the european elections

    Interestingly Phil Prendergast is next on that list seeing that Arthur Spring is now a TD. Shehas never been elected by the people to a position above county or town councillor, and even then she ran as an Independent. The three times she has decided to run for the Dail she has been rejected by the people. I wonder what the Labour hacks in Munster think of this.
    http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?id=4456


  • #6
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    The co-options so far that I can find are
    simonj wrote: »

    Ann Phelan (LAB) - Carlow/Kilkenny
    Kilkenny County Council (Thomastown)

    Pat Deering (FG) - Carlow/Kilkenny
    Carlow County Council (Tullow)

    Sean Conlan (FG) - Cavan/Monaghan
    Ballybay Town Council, Co. Monaghan

    Heather Humphreys (FG) - Cavan/Monaghan
    Monaghan County Council (Clones)

    Tom Barry (FG) - Cork East
    Cork County Council (Mallow)

    Sandra McLellan (SF) - Cork East
    Cork County Council (Midleton)
    &
    Youghal Town Council, Co. Cork

    Jonathan O’Brien (SF) - Cork North Central
    Cork City Council (Cork North West)

    Dara Murphy (FG) - Cork North Central
    Cork City Council (Cork North East)

    Jim Daly (FG) – Cork South West
    Cork County Council (Skibbereen)

    Noel Harrington (FG) – Cork South West
    Cork County Council (Bantry)

    Padraig MacLochlainn (SF) – Donegal North East
    Donegal County Council (Inishowen)
    &
    Buncrana Town Council, Co. Donegal

    Charlie McConalogue (FF) – Donegal North East
    Donegal County Council (Inishowen)

    Thomas Pringle (IND) – Donegal South West
    Donegal County Council (Donegal)
    Pringle replacement: 31 year old teacher John Campbell, Glenties, Deputy Pringle’s Director of Elections.


    Robert Dowds (LAB) – Dublin Mid-West
    South Dublin County Council (Clondalkin)
    Replaced by Breda Bonner

    Derek Keating (FG) – Dublin Mid-West
    South Dublin County Council (Lucan)
    Replaced by Emma Higgins

    Clare Daly (SP) – Dublin North
    Fingal County Council (Swords)

    Alan Farrell (FG) – Dublin North
    Fingal County Council (Howth/Malahide)
    Replaced by Anthony Lavin

    Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (LAB) – Dublin North Central
    Dublin City Council (Clontarf)
    Replaced by Jane Horgan Jones

    Sean Kenny (LAB) – Dublin North East
    Dublin City Council (Donaghmede)
    Replaced by Brian McDowell

    Dessie Ellis (SF) – Dublin North West
    Dublin City Council (Ballymun/Finglas)

    John Lyons (LAB) – Dublin North West
    Dublin City Council (Ballymun/Finglas)

    Michael Conaghan (LAB) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Ballyfermot/Drimnagh)
    Replaced by Sheila Howes

    Eric Byrne (LAB) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Crumlin/Kimmage)
    Replaced by Mick O Sullivan

    Joan Collins (PBP) – Dublin South Central
    Dublin City Council (Crumlin/Kimmage)

    Eoghan Murphy (FG) – Dublin South East
    Dublin City Council (Pembroke/Rathmines)
    Replaced by Paddy McCartan

    Kevin Humphreys (LAB) – Dublin South East
    Dublin City Council (South East Inner City)
    Replaced by Gerry Ashe

    Sean Crowe (SF) – Dublin South West
    South Dublin County Council (Tallaght Central)
    Replaced by Maire Devine

    Eamonn Maloney (LAB) – Dublin South West
    South Dublin County Council (Tallaght South)
    Replaced by Chris Bond


    Mary Mitchell O’Connor (FG) – Dun Laoghaire
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (Dun Laoghaire)
    Replaced by Patricia Stewart


    Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP) – Dun Laoghaire
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (Dun Laoghaire)

    Paul Connaughton (FG) – Galway East
    Galway County Council (Ballinasloe)

    Colm Keaveney (LAB) – Galway East
    Galway County Council (Tuam)
    Replaced by Sean Cunniffe

    Derek Nolan (LAB) – Galway West
    Galway City Council (Galway East)

    Brian Walsh (FG) – Galway West
    Galway City Council (Galway East)

    Sean Kyne (FG) – Galway West
    Galway County Council (Conamara)

    Arthur Spring (LAB) – Kerry North/West Limerick
    Kerry County Council (Tralee)
    &
    Tralee Town Council, Co. Kerry

    Brendan Griffin (FG) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Dingle)

    Tom Fleming (IND) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Killarney)

    Michael Healy Rae (IND) – Kerry South
    Kerry County Council (Killorglin)

    Catherine Murphy (IND) – Kildare North
    Kildare County Council (Celbridge)

    Anthony Lawlor (FG) – Kildare North
    Kildare County Council (Naas)

    Martin Heydon (FG) – Kildare South
    Kildare County Council (Athy)

    Barry Cowen (FF) – Laois/Offaly
    Offaly County Council (Tullamore)

    Brian Stanley (SF) – Laois/Offaly
    Laois County Council (Portlaoise)
    &
    Portlaoise Town Council, Co. Laois

    Patrick O’Donovan (FG) – Limerick
    Limerick County Council (Newcastle)

    Robert Troy (FF) – Longford/Westmeath
    Westmeath County Council (Mullingar West)

    Gerald Nash (LAB) – Louth
    Louth County Council (Drogheda East)
    &
    Drogheda Borough Council, Co. Louth
    Replaced by Pio Smith LCC and Linda Bell Woods DBC


    Michelle Mulherin (FG) – Mayo
    Mayo County Council (Ballina)
    &
    Ballina Town Council, Co. Mayo

    Regina Doherty (FG) – Meath East
    Meath County Council (Dunshaughlin)

    Peadar Tóibín (SF) – Meath West
    Navan Town Council, Co. Meath

    Ray Butler (FG) – Meath West
    Meath County Council (Trim)
    &
    Trim Town Council, Co. Meath

    Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan (IND) – Roscommon/South Leitrim
    Roscommon County Council (Castlerea)

    Tony McLoughlin (FG) – Sligo/North Leitrim
    Sligo County Council (Sligo Strandhill)
    &
    Sligo Borough Council

    Michael Colreavy (SF) – Sligo/North Leitrim
    Leitrim County Council (Manorhamilton)

    Seamus Healy (WUAG) – Tipperary South
    Tipperary South Riding County Council (Clonmel)
    &
    Clonmel Borough Council

    Ciara Conway (LAB) – Waterford
    Dungarvan Town Council, Co. Waterford

    John Halligan (IND) – Waterford
    Waterford City Council (Waterford South)

    Simon Harris (FG) – Wicklow
    Wicklow County Council (Greystones)
    &
    Greystones Town Council, Co. Wicklow

    There are also to MEP positions

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #7
    steelcityblues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,630 ✭✭✭steelcityblues


    I have no issue with Paddy Mccartan taking Eoghan Murphy's place in my area, given he narrowly missed out in 2009.

    Those who didn't contest the election should not be put into seats though.


  • #8
    europhile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭europhile


    Who's Sheila Howes?


  • #9
    Wayne22
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭Wayne22


    Just a quick question , when more than one person puts their name in the hat for County council co-opting, who then is entitled to vote for their choice. Branch or Constituency members?


  • #10
    Essexboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Essexboy


    Tony McLoughlin (FG) – Sligo/North Leitrim
    Sligo County Council (Sligo Strandhill)
    &
    Sligo Borough Council

    succeeded by his daughter Aoife. All other FG contestants stepped aside in her favour.


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