From the forthcoming election a leaflet for Independent Reform candidate David McCarthy running in Cork South-Central.
McCarthy was
“campaign manager for Kathy Sinnot’s 2002 General Election bid as well as stints as regional organiser for Fine Gael in Dublin and Munster. More recently .. was Séan Kelly’s campaign
manager in his successful European campaign and have most recently worked as regional director with Senator David Norris’s Presidential campaign.”
Amongst his polices are reduction in the number of TDs and “Cut numbers in the public service by 30,000”
His website
Irish Election Literature 
This looks a lot like what we need. But aside from helping others (many of them laudable) what has David actually achieved in public life to date? Has he been involved in any voluntary organizations for instance? If not, while that does not disqualify him, maybe his true calling is to help others get elected?
The circular logic of that view is that unless someone has been in public life already that they shoudn’t enter it.
He’s been heavily involved with at least one voluntary organisation that I know of, a campaign to de-stigmatise mental health issues.
I still work on behalf of both Mad Pride Ireland and the Delete59b campaign both of which are heavily involved in Mental Health Issues
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Independent?
Don’t be codding me.
About as Independent as Beverly Cooper-Flynn (FF) was.
Mc Carthy is Fine Gael through and through.
He should be wearing a blueshirt in his photo.
sorry to dissapoint you Tom but I have never been a member of any political party, I have worked for partys and Independents as well as a number of groups! My politics is that of a social democrat, and if you look at what I am saying it is far removed from the reforms (so called) espoused by any party in GE11
David, I never said that you were a member of the party.
Gerry Adams was never a member of the IRA either, but you’d hardly call him unbiased.
Proposing to cut 30,000 public service jobs is straight out of Enda’s Five Point Plan.
Next you’ll be saying 14 years, let’s get Ireland working and waving your fist.
[…] This was picked up by Cactus Flower on Political World five or six days ago… and indeed IELB has posted up the leaflet McCarthy is using on the Irish Election Literature Blog. […]