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Local Elections 2019

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  • #52
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    road_high wrote: »
    Hard to find but I saw she got a whopping 81 votes there. So democracy does work !

    That'll do


  • #53
    Joe Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Joe Daly


    Good to see some of these gone they were a liability embarrassment to kilkenny.


  • #54
    Nokia6230i
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭Nokia6230i


    Duck me, the count is going to conclude tonight...probably. Imagine the turnout'd been higher????

    Carlow finished up round 6 or 7 O'Clock.

    Other places'll still be counting into a 3rd day.


  • #55
    Nokia6230i
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭Nokia6230i


    Eugene McGuinness elected......


  • #56
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    Your new look Kilkenny County Council

    Kilkenny City (7 seats)

    Andrew McGuinness, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    Joe Malone, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    Malcolm Noonan, Green Party – Count 1
    David Fitzgerald – Count 2
    John Coonan, Fianna Fáil – Count 11
    Eugene McGuinness, Independent – Count 11 (Elected without reaching quota)
    Martin Brett, Fine Gael – Count 11 (Elected without reaching quota)

    Castlecomer (6 seats)

    Pat Fitzpatrick, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    Mary Hilda Cavanagh, Fine Gael – Count 1
    Michael McCarthy, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    John Brennan, Fine Gael – Count 3
    Michael Delaney – Count 4 *first time candidate
    Denis Hynes – Count 5 (Elected without reaching quota, first time candidate)

    Callan Thomastown (6 seats)

    Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    Matt Doran, Fianna Fáil – Count 1
    Michael Doyle, Fine Gael – Count 6
    Patrick O’Neill, Fine Gael – Count 7
    Deirdre Cullen, Fianna Fáil – Count 7 (Elected without reaching quota, first time candidate)
    Joe Lyons, Fine Gael – Count 7 (Elected without reaching quota, first time candidate)

    Piltown (5 seats)

    Pat Dunphy, Fine Gael – Count 1
    Tomás Breathnach, Labour – Count 1
    Eamon Aylward, Fianna Fáil – Count 6
    Fidelis Doherty, Fine Gael – Count 6
    Ger Frisby, Fianna Fáil – Count 6 Elected without reaching quota)


  • #57
    Joe Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Joe Daly


    Nokia6230i wrote: »
    Eugene McGuinness elected......

    They are like the Healy Reas taking over the place that family.


  • #58
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    Joe Daly wrote: »
    They are like the Healy Reas taking over the place that family.

    Ah not really the Healy Rae's talk to each other


  • #59
    Joe Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Joe Daly


    robwen wrote: »
    Ah not really the Healy Rae's talk to each other

    They are still the one family, you would wonder about that not talking how will it work on the council.


  • #60
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    Joe Daly wrote: »
    They are still the one family, you would wonder about that not talking how will it work on the council.

    Looking at the make up of the new council Eugene is very much gonna be a lone wolf


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  • #61
    Joe Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Joe Daly


    robwen wrote: »
    Looking at the make up of the new council Eugene is very much gonna be a lone wolf


    He will find somebody to agitate its in the blood. That Denis Hynes did well working around Freshford, Ballyragget last week heard a few people were impressed with him when he called to canvas.


  • #62
    Nokia6230i
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭Nokia6230i


    So what now for Breda Gardner? The EP run would've increased her reach for a General Election in the CW-KK constituency.......but losing her seat @ local level now means that's dead in the water surely?


  • #63
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,475 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Nokia6230i wrote: »
    So what now for Breda Gardner? The EP run would've increased her reach for a General Election in the CW-KK constituency.......but losing her seat @ local level now means that's dead in the water surely?

    Hopefully. My take home message from this election is that people want sensible, solution led politics. Not populist whiners who point out the obvious but solve nothing. Hence the clear out of all SF co councilors also.
    She never once impressed me as a politician and I’ve heard her speak several times.


  • #64
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,475 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Joe Daly wrote: »
    He will find somebody to agitate its in the blood. That Denis Hynes did well working around Freshford, Ballyragget last week heard a few people were impressed with him when he called to canvas.

    I really liked Denis hynes. Seems like a down to earth, friendly guy. I was glad he got such a good vote with Labour retaking some of that SF vote


  • #65
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    Hynes is labours general election candidate so you'll be hearing plenty more from him, you also have Noonan for a resurgent Greens hard to see Funchion holding the seat for Sinn Fein as things stand given the strength of Fianna Fail & Fine Gael in the constituency also


  • #66
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,475 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    robwen wrote: »
    Hynes is labours general election candidate so you'll be hearing plenty more from him, you also have Noonan for a resurgent Greens hard to see Funchion holding the seat for Sinn Fein as things stand given the strength of Fianna Fail & Fine Gael in the constituency also

    She’s a non entity- the fact she was ever elected to be a TD is mind boggling. Easily one of the worst TDs in Dail eireann and comes across as genuinely dim.
    FF and even Labour should feast on her votes, especially with a welcome wipe out of SF council seats her chances of re election look grim


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  • #67
    Joe Daly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 499 ✭✭Joe Daly


    road_high wrote: »
    She’s a non entity- the fact she was ever elected to be a TD is mind boggling. Easily one of the worst TDs in Dail eireann and comes across as genuinely dim.
    FF and even Labour should feast on her votes, especially with a welcome wipe out of SF council seats her chances of re election look grim



    Her father was a union official he was a good organiser his name would have been well known in Carlow that's why she got a big vote down there, I think she has run the course to .


  • #68
    robwen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,371 ✭✭✭robwen


    road_high wrote: »
    She’s a non entity- the fact she was ever elected to be a TD is mind boggling. Easily one of the worst TDs in Dail eireann and comes across as genuinely dim.
    FF and even Labour should feast on her votes, especially with a welcome wipe out of SF council seats her chances of re election look grim

    Agreed, add to that the fast one she pulled of having her boyfriend co-opted to her council seat when she was elected to the Dail, serious delusions of grandeur


  • #69
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,475 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    robwen wrote: »
    Agreed, add to that the fast one she pulled of having her boyfriend co-opted to her council seat when she was elected to the Dail, serious delusions of grandeur

    Funcheon was riding the very brief fad of SF popularity but now the public knows the emperor has no clothes- it was certainly nothing to do with her ability or intelligence. She must be one opposition TD dreading an election as she is simply goosed. SF appear more transfer toxic than ever


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