Local Elections 2014: What issues will you be raising with candidates on the door?

Kiwi_knock

11th Count. Disaster Martin goes ahead of Murray, we need MacManus votes to go to Murray.

Loftus, Eithne (FG) 1451
Leddy, Ted (FG) 1376
Kavanagh, Sandra (AAA) 1242
Martin, Mary (Ind) 1140
Murray, Mags (FF) 1055
Walsh, John (Lab) 996
Mac Manus, Edward (FF) 870

Kiwi_knock

9th Count Mulhuddart. Cooper eliminated.

Hughes, Annette (AAA) 1216
Dennison, Kieran (FG) 1062
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 749
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 655
O'Callaghan, Philip (FG) 610
Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 578
Rynne, Bernadette (AAA) 479
Bayliss, Louise (PBPA) 439
Cooper, Frederick (Ind) 408

Kiwi_knock

12th Count Castleknock. Walsh is eliminated, Murray goes back ahead of Martin. Down to Kavanagh and Martin for the last seat. Last count coming up.

Loftus, Eithne (FG) 1498
Murray, Mags (FF) 1473
Leddy, Ted (FG) 1439
Kavanagh, Sandra (AAA) 1265
Martin, Mary (Ind) 1215
Walsh, John (Lab) 997

Kiwi_knock

10th Count Mulhuddart. Rynne eliminated. Nolan will depend on the votes of Rynne and Bayliss to get her elected, it looks likely.

Hughes, Annette (AAA) 1258
Dennison, Kieran (FG) 1080
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 768
Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 677
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 667
O'Callaghan, Philip (FG) 619
Bayliss, Louise (PBPA) 502
Rynne, Bernadette (AAA) 490

Kiwi_knock

11th Count Mulhuddart. Hughes has finally been elected.

Hughes, Annette (AAA) 1490
Dennison, Kieran (FG) 1083
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 777
Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 733
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 678
O'Callaghan, Philip (FG) 625
Bayliss, Louise (PBPA) 567

Kiwi_knock

13th Count Castleknock. That should be that. I presume there will be a recount due to the closeness between Kavanagh and Martin.

Loftus, Eithne (FG) 1713
Leddy, Ted (FG) 1613
Murray, Mags (FF) 1593
Kavanagh, Sandra (AAA) 1344
Martin, Mary (Ind) 1336

Kiwi_knock

12th Count Mulhuddart. Hughes votes transferred. O'Callaghan eliminated.

Dennison, Kieran (FG) 1088
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 782
Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 762
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 683
Bayliss, Louise (PBPA) 638
O'Callaghan, Philip (FG) 629

Kiwi_knock

14th and final Count in Castleknock. O'Gorman's votes distributed.

Loftus, Eithne (FG) 1719
Leddy, Ted (FG) 1624
Murray, Mags (FF) 1595
Kavanagh, Sandra (AAA) 1344
Martin, Mary (Ind) 1338

So the Castleknock Councillors are*:

Jack Chambers (FF)
Sandra Kavanagh (AAA)
Ted Leddy (FG)
Eithne Loftus (FG)
Mags Murray (FF)
Roderic O'Gorman (Greens)
Natalie Treacy (SF)

*Subject to any recounts

Kiwi_knock

13th Count. Dennison elected. Nolan would still have to be favourite for the last spot even though her lead is two votes.

Dennison, Kieran (FG) 1358
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 839
Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 779
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 777
Bayliss, Louise (PBPA) 657

Kiwi_knock

14th Count. Nolan and McCamley elected.

Nolan, Lorna (Ind) 1038
Mc Camley, Mary (Lab) 932
O'Donovan, Michael (Lab) 802

That is me done for the night. Castleknock will be recounted tomorrow, not sure about Mulhuddart yet.

Zaph

Thanks for all the updates Kiwi_knock.

Hilly Bill

Michael O'Donavan lost his seat?

ThisRegard

So with AAA councillors in the various councils are we are going to get an agreed budget ever again, these guys said they won't agree on a budget that involves property tax. They have no say on property tax other than how a council spends money garnered from it, which means this is the only area in which they'll have any input. Fools.

Godge

ThisRegard wrote: »

So with AAA councillors in the various councils are we are going to get an agreed budget ever again, these guys said they won't agree on a budget that involves property tax. They have no say on property tax other than how a council spends money garnered from it, which means this is the only area in which they'll have any input. Fools.

They can fire all the workers and shut down the services paid with the money from the property tax and send the money back to central Government. In doing so, at least they would stick with their principles.

More likely, they will adopt a budget at the last minute and do a u-turn on their election promises.

Pepe LeFrits

Happy to see Roderic O'Gorman elected.

Toto Wolfcastle

So how long do they have to take down the posters? A week? Driving around this morning I noticed that David McGuinness has taken his posters down. Given the gaps I'm sure others have too but I couldn't figure out who.

Larbre34

^^ Yep, 7 days from polling day. Good luck with that.

folan

if they are still up in your area after 7 days, please make sure to contact the local council to complain and ensure the offending parties are properly fined.

jack presley

How so we make sure they take the ties as well?

folan

unless you catch them littering, there is little to be done afaik.

athtrasna

Realistically the councils won't act until next Tuesday as the posters should be down by 10pm on Friday and it's a bank holiday weekend.

Interesting to see the figures and transfers in Castleknock. Mary Martin only lost to Kavanagh by six votes, we were that close to not having an AAA councillor in the area. Fascinating graphics on clairebyrne.ie/count

jack presley

While most of the posters are still up in Mulhuddart, a few have come down. Unfortunately I can't tell which ones are gone for definite as if i could i'd be able to tell who has left all their ties on the ground. The place is littered with them already and most of the posters haven't even begun to come down yet.

quickbeam

I wonder will Paul Murphy be as quick to take them down as he was to put them up (sure the electorate don't mind really).

(I know he was running for MEP not Local, but wasn't this thread originally about both).

ThisRegard

He'll blame People before Profit, as that's who he blames for his loss of his seat.

Cable ties everywhere yesterday morning. With the notable absence of one or two candidates posters. Saw them cutting the posters off the fence Sunday night so obviously just left them there.

MammaZita

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Cable ties everywhere yesterday morning. With the notable absence of one or two candidates posters. Saw them cutting the posters off the fence Sunday night so obviously just left them there.

David McGuinness' posters down, with cable ties all over Ongar Road.

jack presley

MammaZita wrote: »

David McGuinness' posters down, with cable ties all over Ongar Road.

Didn't chuck post a while back that McGuinness was using some sort of magic posters that had the ties built into them that wouldn't end up on the ground when the posters were taken down?

I was driving along the roads this morning that I saw all the ties on the ground yesterday and his posters do seem to be gone alright.

Hopefully someone working for the other candidates will do the decent thing and sweep up his when they're picking up their own.

MammaZita

Ruth Coppinger posters all over the ground in Ongar/Clonee along with cable ties. I assume these will be collected this morning?

chucknorris

We didn't take the posters down, but someone did. I live up that way so i'll head up the Ongar road this evening and sweep up any cable ties in to the trailer.

What I said was, when we cable them in a certain way, we cut them at a place where they don't fall out of the posters, however those posters were gonee by yesterday morn - we didn't take them down ourselves so i'll take a scoot by the roads where they were taken down and pick up any and all plastic strips.

MammaZita

MammaZita wrote: »

David McGuinness' posters down, with cable ties all over Ongar Road.

Didn't want to say who but yeah they're the ones I saw being taken down on Sunday night.