The senators newsletter from the 2002 Seanad election campaign. (I’ve presented it in grayscale as the images were, rather aptly, too colourful). Views expressed on East Timor and a host of other interesting topics.
From 2002 “Do you want to swap this man for a Sinn Fein or second Fianna Fail TD?” Pat Rabbitte -Labour -Dublin South West
Pat Rabbitte plays the I’m in trouble card with his “Do you want to swap this man for a Sinn Fein or second Fianna Fail TD?” leaflet from the 2002 General Election Campaign. As it happens Both Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail won seats and it was Brian Hayes that lost out.
John A. Murphy – Seanad 1989 November 5, 2009
Noted historian Professor John A. Murphy from the 1989 Seanad Campaign. He was elected and it was his last Seanad election. The “issues he addressed in the outgoing Seanad” were very forward thinking.
Dino Cregan – Fine Gael -Cork South Central 1992
Denis ‘Dino’ Cregan from the 1992 General Election in Cork South Central. Dino is another ‘Man of the people’, this time though ‘a man of the people for the people’. Dino evidently did a great job as Lord Mayor (and possibly has friends in the Evening Echo) and according to himself did a great job in the Seanad. Still he failed to win the seat.
He is also associated with ‘Dinos’ chipper in Cork.
‘We buy our homes and developers buy the big parties’-Eamon Gilmore -Workers Party-1989 Dun Laoghaire
How apt was this, If all of the below propositions had been in place at the time, we may not be in as bad a state as we are now.
Its this 1989 election where Gilmore was first elected to the Dail.
Mary Mooney- Fianna Fail- Dublin SE 1992
Liberties based Mary Mooney had been elected to the Dail in 1987 for Dublin South Central and was seen as a bright young star of Fianna Fail. However she lost her seat in the 1989 General election. Boundary changes led to her having to change to Dublin South East in 1992 , where she failed to be elected.
I wonder does the ‘Liberties around the houses race’ still take place?
Tony Gregory- 1999 local elections
The last local elections that the late Tony Gregory stood in. Gives a good illustration of his work since being initially elected in 1979.
‘Important Message For West Wicklow’- Billy Timmins 2002 Fine Gael
Geography plays a major part in Irish elections, especially in larger rural constituencies. Often transfers are done locally rather than party wise. The nature of things is that more appears to be done in an area or town which has a TD than not.
John Bracken -‘Man of the People’ – Laois-Offaly 2007
John Bracken from 2007, where he got a lot of media coverage due to his posters, literature and a campaign song but mainly because of his looks.
His policies were sensible enough but he didn’t get a huge vote. He failed again to win a seat in the 2009 local elections.
1987 Leaflet concerning the closure of Sir Patrick Dunns Hospital from Tom Crilly and Andy Smith – Workers Party Dublin South East
Letter from Tom Crilly and Andy Smith during the 1987 election campaign about the closure of Sir Patrick Dunns Hospital.
Andy Smith was a councillor at the time and a longstanding member of the Workers Party. Both candidates stayed with the Workers Party after the 1992 split and Crilly stood a number of times in Dublin South East and Local elections.
In this 1987 Election Crilly polled 660 votes and Smith polled 1250 votes.
Colm Callanan – Christian Solidarity Party 2007 November 4, 2009
Colm Callanan who stood in Laois-Offaly and Longford-Westmeath in the 2007 GE and also in 10 different LEAs in the 2009 local elections….
His electoral record at Elections.org
Its nice to put a face to a name.
Colm only wants your Number 1 votes (“…a No 2 vote, regrettably, is of little use to me”).
Colm promises “…to take action on … homosexual adoption, increasing levels of porn in newsagents, sexual innuendo in TV ads, etc”
Phil Kearney -Green- 1985 LE Ballybrack
This is from the 1985 Local election, Ballybrack ward. Apologies that the scan is so poor. I’ll try and redo it in due course.
Looking back a quarter of a century on, a number of things stand out, amongst them,
‘Stop and Reverse the Growth of Dublin’
A sign of the times too that Acid Rain was seen as the big threat as Global Warming wasn’t known about.
‘Energy Efficient homes- major insulation scheme needed to stop hypothermia, ‘
‘An end to Land Rezoning / Speculation scandal. Tax unused property.’
‘Double Jobbing- Councillors should not also be T.Ds or Euro M.P.s’.
Sellafield still known as Windscale.
Also the reference to Bishopscourt peace camp, which was a camp beside bishopscourt radar base in Co Down that ran from 1983 to 1986.
Theres a pamphlet from Bishopscourt here
Pat Upton- Labour- Dublin South Central 1997
The late Pat Uptons last election campaign. This leaflet gives the mark of the man , his experience, his attitude to fairness in Society and you can see that his politics is in the mould of the late Frank Cluskeys. His early passing at just 54 years of age deprived the public of an excellent representative.
Alan Dukes Led Fine Gael- Dun Laoghaire 1989 November 3, 2009
An Alan Dukes led Fine Gael in the 1989 General election. “Putting the Country First” was the Slogan. The Tallaght strategy is not mentioned by name but refered to as ‘The revolution of Consensus Politics’. The ‘Alan’ of his signature looks as if it may have a letter or two too many.
The familiar Barnes , Barrett, Cosgrave ticket was running for Fine Gael. Both Barnes and Barrett held their seats.
Irish Socialist Network -‘Resistance’ November/December 2007 -pt 1
This is the first four pages of the Newsletter ‘Resistance’ November/December 2007 issueproduced by the Irish Socialist Network. (I’ll put the inner fold up at a later date)
The ‘What we Stand For’ section explains the groups policys. To date John O’Neill has (to my knowledge) been their only candidate, running in the last two local elections and also in the last General Election.
Paula Desmond – Labour -1999 Euro Elections Munster.
Paula Desmond – Labour -1999 Euro Elections Munster.
A stylish Paula Desmond from the 1999 Euro Elections Munster constituency.
Paula was daughter of the late Eileen Desmond and the late Dan Desmond.
Eileen Desmond had served for many years as a TD and had also been elected to the European Parliament in 1979. Eileen Desmond initially won a Dail seat at the 1965 Cork Mid By-election caused by the death of her husband Dan Desmond. Dan Desmond had been a TD for over 16 years.
Diarmuid Naessens – Socialist Party 2004 South West Inner City
Diarmuid Naessens wasn’t elected although did outpoll one of the Fianna Fail candidates.
Another thing from that count was that of the SWPs Martin Donohoes 308 tranfers, he got just 84.
Naessens was a very active member of the anti bin tax campaign.
Dick Roche -Fianna Fail – Wicklow 1987
Dick Roches first attempt at a Dail seat in 1987. He won a seat. Nothing much to it only a lovely picture of Dick and a few other bibs and bobs.
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