Dublin 15 Local Election. D15.

rameire

The last Election Thread from 2019 https://tinyurl.com/bdfpnj4v

Local Authority Website with details https://www.fingal.ie/LocalElections2024

Last Date to Register is 20/05/2024 - Check are you Registered https://www.voter.ie/

Election Date 07/06/2024 - Polls are open from 7am to 10pm

Last Election Results below and details in link https://www.fingal.ie/2019-local-election-count-results

Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart LEA - 5 Seats

* Mary McCamley - Labour
* Breda Hanaphy - Sinn Féin
* John Burtchaell - Solidarity
* Punam Rane - Fine Gael
* Freddie Cooper - Fianna Fáil

Castleknock LEA - 6 Seats

* Roderic O'Gorman - Green
* Emer Currie - Fine Gael
* Ted Leddy - Fine Gael
* John Walsh - Labour
* Howard Mahony - Fianna Fáil
* Natalie Treacy - Sinn Féin

Ongar LEA - 5 Seats

* Paul Donnelly - Sinn Féin
* Tania Doyle - Non Affiliated
* Tom Kitt - Fianna Fáil
* Daniel Whooley - Green Party
* Kieran Dennison Fine Gael

rameire

People who will be Standing this time around for June 2024.

Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart LEA - 5 Seats

Mary McCamley - Labour
Oisín Ó hAlmhain - Green
Robbie Loughlin - Aontú
Neil Dowling - Social Democrats
Breda Hanaphy - Sinn Féin
Louise Kavanagh - Sinn Féin
Damien Bissett - Sinn Féin
Patrick Quinlan  - National Party
Susanne Delaney - No Party
John Burtchaell - People Before Profit & Solidarity
Steve O’Reilly - Fine Gael
JK Onwumereh - Fianna Fáil
Lorna Nolan - Fianna Fáil

Castleknock LEA - 6 Seats

John Walsh - Labour
Pamela Conroy - Green
Ellen Troy - Aontú
Luke Daly - Social Democrats
Philip Lynam - Sinn Féin
Ruth Coppinger - People Before Profit & Solidarity
Siobhan Shovlin - Fine Gael
Ted Leddy - Fine Gael
Howard Mahony - Fianna Fáil
Eimear Carbone Mangan - Fianna Fáil

Ongar LEA - 5 Seats

Tanya Doyle - Independent
Nekesa Nancy Khisa - Labour
Michelle Griffin - Green
Gerard Sheehan - Aontú
Ellen Murphy - Social Democrats
Angela Donnelly - Sinn Féin
Declan Cairns - Sinn Féin
Niall O’Donoghue - Sinn Féin
Kate Relihan - People Before Profit & Solidarity
Paul Fitzsimons - Irish Freedom Party
Kieran Dennison - Fine Gael
Tom Kitt - Fianna Fáil
Ali Asad - Fianna Fáil

daymobrew

Phoenix FM will be hosting three Town Hall meetings, one for each LEA. They will be on Wednesday evenings in St Brigid's Community Centre in Blanchardstown (beside the St Brigid's church) between 7:30pm and 9:30pm. The candidates will be in attendance.

Blanchardstown/Mulhuddart LEA - Wednesday 15th May
Castleknock LEA - Wednesday 22nd May
Ongar LEA - Wednesday 29th May

Full info at: https://www.phoenixfm.ie/election-2024-town-halls/

Caranica

Just a note that it's Fianna Fáil not Fine 😉

Where did you get the Green Party candidate for Blanchardstown Mulhuddart? None listed on the Green Party website?

rameire

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122112142#Comment_122112142

Cheers, my dictionary updated the items.

the Green I got from https://adriankavanaghelections.org/2023/07/27/green-party-comhaontas-glas-candidates-for-the-2024-county-and-city-council-elections/

ultraviolence

seems like the green party once again struggled to find someone local in the blanch/mulhuddart LEA and had to move a candidate from another area.(The last green to run in that area was in 2004). According to his blog he is a 'green activist' in Dublin South Central and has contested elections in that area 3 times..

Also its not listed but Cllr Tania Doyle( ONGAR LEA) has stated she is running for election.. just saying as her name isnt there.

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122112249#Comment_122112249

I selected local election candidates and Dublin West and got 3, Castleknock, Ongar and Cabra but none for Blanchardstown Mulhuddart

A Knight of Ireland

I can't believe Ruth Coppinger is throwing her hat in the ring. She has been MIA (missing in action) since losing her seat in the elections and yet she thinks that she has something to offer now?? And what do People before profit even offer? I think we have seen recently that they just turn whatever way the wind is blowing these days anyway

Former Former Former

Mildly dispiriting to see that the National Party are running a candidate in Mulhuddart, I hope he gets absolutely humiliated.

Zaph

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114819#Comment_122114819

Same for the Irish Freedom Party in Ongar. Interesting that these people don't feel it's worth running a candidate in Castleknock. Who's Aoife Coppinger in Ongar? Presumably related to Ruth?

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114778#Comment_122114778

She has no role, no longer a TD or councillor so not sure what you expected her to be doing in the last few years.

But even then to describe her as MIA is a bit of an exaggeration. She has still been campaigning on various issues, is moderately active locally, still talks to people and is approachable to 'help' as she can generally point people in the right direction even if her own influence is limited. All in all she seems a perfectly normal candidate for a local council.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114961#Comment_122114961

I had missed that, and had never heard of the Irish Freedom Party - a quick google shows me that their most prominent member is Hermann Kelly, and that's all I need to know. Again, I hope the people of Ongar aren't the hate-filled racist idiots that the IFP think they are.

Aoife is Ruth's niece and cut from the same cloth by the looks of it.

And Paul Donnelly's wife running for SF. I thought they were against cronyism and such?

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114778#Comment_122114778

She has to stand, they are thin on the ground for candidates and in terms of Castleknock she's more likely to win a seat than anyone else they'll stand. It'll be a bit embarrassing for her if she doesn't win akin to Nora Owen back in the day, she'll be hoping to win in the next GE and hand over the council seat.

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115151#Comment_122115151

I think Aoife Coppinger has been replaced by lKate Relihan, not sure why.

Angela Donnelly is a along time SF activist in her own right nothing crony about it.

Former Former Former

https://twitter.com/AndyHeasman2/status/1788262826588459262?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Another absolute looper to add into the mix in Mulhuddart.

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115553#Comment_122115553

Those posters are just creepy and no mention of him. A load of them up in a row in Blanchardstown village.

Zaph

I had to Google them yesterday when someone put those posters up on Twitter. It's not clear that The Irish People are actually a political party, which is probably intentional to disguise their far right leanings.

AlanG

Ruth Coppinger will be an interesgting one to watch. Hard to see her taking a seat in Castleknock LEA. John Walsh, Siobhan Shovalan and Ted Leddy are all very active in the area. SF are likely to get one and while Walsh may be under threat it is hard to see where Coppinger will get support. SF obviously felt there wasn't enough left votes to run 2 candidates in the area.

A Knight of Ireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115791#Comment_122115791

She wont get support in Castleknock. The people of Castleknock are too set in their ways for change and if they do have an appetite for change, her type of political agenda is not suited to the area

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122114778#Comment_122114778

From her posters she wants to sort Health and Education even though councils have no powers in relation to these.

A Knight of Ireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116434#Comment_122116434

🤮 She'd want to set her sights a little bit lower. Get out and do something for your area Ruth

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116434#Comment_122116434

All politicians do that, there's anger on issues in society and politicians will seek to reflect that. Most voters will not vote based on specifically how a candidate may or may not affect local government & governance. I'm no fan of RC while broadly on the same side politically but she isn't doing anything others will do and say.

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116434#Comment_122116434

They're reused posters from the general election?

Caranica

Angela is a great local councillor, very hard working. Wouldn't be my politics and not in my LEA but at local election time my vote always goes to the councillors that actually work for the community, regardless of Party.

I still feel cheated being in the new Blanchardstown Mulhuddart LEA as there aren't many who tick the hard working box even now on our second local election round. Special shout out to the sitting councillor whose leaflet didn't spell Snugborough Road properly 🙄

hotmail.com

Coppinger can't stand in Mulhuddart presumably because of her vocal support of refugees.

So she's chancing her arm in the affluent part of Dublin 15 hoping her brand of Marxist economics goes down well in the large houses of Castleknock.

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116968#Comment_122116968

Tiresome, uninformed nonsense. She's standing in Castleknock because she is the highest profile candidate they have and as a former TD has the best chance of being elected in the area where traditionally their base is weakest. None of their other candidates stand a chance of being elected there.

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116681#Comment_122116681

Not all politicians are doing that. Ruth is promising stuff she can never deliver.

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117181#Comment_122117181

What did she promise?

hotmail.com

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117061#Comment_122117061

So she's not a Marxist?

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117321#Comment_122117321

She wears it lightly but yes I suspect that's how she would describe herself - what's your point?

A Knight of Ireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117944#Comment_122117944

Ruth?? Is that you? :-)

She hasn't a pups chance in Castleknock. Her "bang the drums" and "shout people down" politics would not entice anyone in big houses to vote for her. There is also a massive shift to the right recently and her stance on transgenderism is now a step to far. Whether people speak out about it or not, this idea of identifying as "whatever your having yourself" is slowly turning people away.

Just as an FYI, I am not transphobic. I'm quite happy to let people identify as whatever they want but they don't have to ram it down other peoples throats as the NEW norm.

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116056#Comment_122116056

Coppinger won't get support in Castleknock, (and I would really question a vote for her is really a vote for change…) but the Castleknock LEA also contains Fortlawn, Sheepmoor, Whitestown and the Blanch centre.

There are plenty of people to elect at least one hard-left candidate, Coppinger's problem will be if SF hoover up all those votes.

donaghs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115553#Comment_122115553

if any of the major political parties got serious about the growing influx of economic migrants claiming asylum (like the Social Democrats in Denmark), then these extremes would be out of business overnight.

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122115151#Comment_122115151

When Paul won his Dail seat, Sinn Fein appointed his wife as a councillor to replace him, it looks like straight-forward nepotism.

blanch152

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122117276#Comment_122117276

So all the stuff on her posters about a rich country and funding health and education (which councillors have nothing to do with) are not promises but just empty talk?

Which is it? Empty talk or promises she can't keep? Or a mixture of both?

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122119350#Comment_122119350

It's quite common that a family member would replace them in that situation. I have had to deal with Angela, and all of the local councillors, in my work and she blew me away. Beyond helpful and committed to getting the problem sorted. There's only about two others I'd put in that boat and none of them in my LEA 😢

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122119252#Comment_122119252

They absolutely wouldn’t, they’d just find some other “cause” to rally around. They don’t really give a shyte about immigration, they just need something to be angry about

MFPM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122119350#Comment_122119350

Perhaps because she was a long time SF activist. I remember her as far back as 1996/7 Are you suggesting she shouldn't be in the frame because or her relationship to PD?

Danzy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122116968#Comment_122116968

It will have a more receptive audience there anyway.

donaghs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122120270#Comment_122120270

Yes, but they wouldn't have any electoral appeal niche which all the major parties are ignoring?

Combined with the fact that successive governments have refused to even carry out policies/laws, like deportations: https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/0423/1445065-cabinet-latest/

Not applying the law making it illegal to arrive without documents:

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2024-01-18/30/

And the main opposition in recent years, Sinn Fein, have even more critical of any attempts at enforcement (they're making different noises now, but nothing concrete).

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/varadkar-s-comments-on-illegal-immigration-dangerous-says-rights-group-1.4070902

Re: Ruth Coppinger being a Marxist. That certainly her background, and there's plenty of references to "socialism" on her social media. But its hard to find many references to any such socialist economic policies on her socials. Apart from the understandable local community items, it looks in order of preference that these are her main topics:

1. Gaza, 2. BLM - "anti-racism" (as opposed to being against racism), 3. Trans , 4. misogyny/feminism

https://www.facebook.com/RuthCoppingerSP/

Polar101

Did they change the LEA boundaries? Seems like every road has a different set of posters on the lamp posts.

Polar101

https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/i-feared-lives-dublin-councillor-29152121

Hartstown on Wednesday night.

Caranica

That's horrific! Tania is one of the others I've been incredibly impressed with during my work dealings with the Councillors

rameire

There are some scum out and about these days, they prefer to act with their fists and phones and Intimidate.

suvigirl

should we expect to see callers to the door for these elections, or do they not bother?

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122123152#Comment_122123152

you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself making excuses for these scumbags

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122129685#Comment_122129685

I had FF canvassers before Christmas

donaghs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130968#Comment_122130968

Its disgusting to try and link me to that disgusting attack.

I simply made a point about any mainstream political party should address the concerns of the vast majority of people over illegal immigration.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/02/10/majority-favour-more-closed-immigration-policy-to-reduce-number-of-people-coming-to-ireland/#:~:text=Almost%20six%20in%2010%20voters,it%20has%20been%20a%20negative.

(No need for tighter rules, just enforce the rules)

Then this would remove the electoral niche appeal of the extremists.

Unless you consider the vast majority of Irish people who always poll the same as “making excuses for the scumbags”?

Former Former Former

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122132070#Comment_122132070

I'm sure you don't agree with attacking public reps, but when you blame anyone else other than these c**ts for their actions, then yes, it is making excuses for them.

If we all start engaging in arson, violence and intimidation every time there's a difficult political issue that we don't like, where does that leave us?

Caranica

Ruth Coppinger posted that two Social Democrats were also attacked putting up posters in the area

A Knight of Ireland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122132290#Comment_122132290

Of course she did - as she take a massive jump onto the Bandwagon 🙈