From the 2011 General Election a poster for Independent candidate Mark Harold running in Dublin North. In 2002 he stood as a member of the Independents Health Alliance in Dublin North East polling a respectable 2,116 votes.
The sender notes “Dr Mark Harrold, a clinical psychologist from Malahide – best known for blowing the whistle on abuse at Leas Cross – is running as an Independent in Dublin North.”
His website is www.markharrold.ie
From the 2011 General Election campaign a flyer for Louth Independent candidate Gerry Crilly.
His Website
From the 2011 General Election campaign a leaflet for former Fianna Fail councillor Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran running as an Independent in Longford Westmeath. Moran was prominent during the flooding in Athlone.
From the 2011 General Election a flyer for Independent candidate Shane Ross who is running in Dublin South. Ross is expected to be elected easily.
many thanks to the sender.
From the 2011 General Election a poster for Independent candidate John Halligan who is running in Waterford. Halligan is seen as an outside bet of a seat and was rumoured to have been courted by the Labour Party.
Halligan is a former Workers Party councillor and was recently Lord Mayor of Waterford.
His Website
First off many thanks to the sender. A flyer for Independent candidate Dylan Haskins running in Dublin South East in the 2011 General Election. Having made an impact in the media since he launched his campaign it will be interesting to see how he fares at the ballot box.
His Website
From the 2011 General Election campaign a leaflet from Independent candidate Tim Broderick running in Galway East. Broderick polled almost 2000 votes in the 2009 Local Elections so may well be in with a shout of a seat.
Many thanks to the sender.
Two Election posters from the 2011 General Election Campaign from New Island Party / Independent candidate Ann Sweeney running in Donegal South West.
Sweeney withdrew from the 2010 Donegal South West By-Election yet polled 133 votes as she was still on the ballot paper.
Her website.
Manty thanks to the sender.
Flyer for Independent candidate for Cavan-Monaghan John McGuirk running in the 2011 General Election. McGuirk is aligned with Shane Ross and other Independents.
His Website
many thanks to the sender
A video for Independent candidate Dylan Haskins who is running in Dublin South East.
First off many thanks to the sender.
From the 2011 General Election campaign a leaflet from Independent candidate Eric Doyle-Higgins running in Kildare North. He is a former member of Fianna Fail.
Amongst other things…He promises
NEVER
• To accept so much as a single cent in “travel expenses”;
• To hold “clinics”;
• To attend a funeral save where the deceased was personally known to me;
His website
A flyer taken from the Website of Independent candidate Gabriel McSharry running in Sligo North Leitrim. A former Labour candidate, the Leitrim based McSharry is an outside chance of a seat.
The Manifesto of Paul Sommerville who is running as an Independent in Dublin South East in the 2011 General Election. He ends it nicely with “I’m No George Lee”.
Oddly enough hes asking voters to put an ‘x’ beside his name rather than a 1, 2 or 3 etc
His Website
From the 2011 General Election a leaflet for Independent Candidate Ryan Stewart running in Donegal North East.
He is a member of the “Independent Alliance For Change”.
His Website
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
From the 2004 Local Election a letter from Independent candidate Derek Keating running in Lucan. On the reverse are some images of Newspaper clippings about rezoning in the area.
Keating polled 3,680 votes topping the poll and being elected on the first count. He has since joined Fine Gael and again topped the poll in the 2009 local Elections with 4,146 votes.
He is standing in Dublin Mid West in the 2011 Election for Fine Gael.
I stumbled across this recently, ‘Dole Éireann’ a documentary on Luke ‘Ming’ Flanaghan’s 1997 Election Campaign in Galway West. Its quite entertaining.
Flanaghan, the current Mayor of Roscommon, is tipped by many to make the leap into the Dail in 2011
his website
This is the cover of a 52 page booklet produced by Jim Connolly an Independent candidate for the forthcoming General Election in Clare.
The full booklet can be downloaded from HERE
His website
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