From the 2002 General Election a leaflet from Independent ‘Water for Life’ candidate Charlie Keddy running in Wicklow.
Aside from the water issue, the former Labour Councillor Keddy comments on The Mafia running the country, is in favour of a return of Capital punishment as well as much more.
He polled 383 votes and failed to win a seat.
From the 1997 Election a Transcript of Live Webchat with Ruairi Quinn.
It is also archived here
Possibly the first Live Web Chat with an Irish Minister.
The transcript….
From the 2009 Local Elections a leaflet for the Fianna Fail candidates for Tullamore Town Council complete with lovely pic of Brian Cowen. Sinead Dooley (Brian Cowens personal assistant), Declan Harvey, Tony McCormack and Paddy Rowland were all elected whilst Shane Murray failed to get in.
Also on the leaflet voters are urged to vote for Taoiseachs brother Barry Cowen as well as Sinead Dooley and Danny Owens for Offaly County Council. All three were elected.
Membership form for the recently launched
An Chomhdháil Phobail | The People’s Convention (CPPC). They hope to field candidates and be registered in time for the Next Election.
A link to their Website.
An Chomhdháil Phobail I The People’s Convention (CPPC) is a political party of the entire Irish electorate.
CPPC is a party of a new type. It is not a party with policies on all the issues of the day like all other parties heretofore.
The guiding principle of CPPC is that sovereignty in Ireland must rest with the people of Ireland and that all affairs of State must be subject to the will of and decision by the people without restriction.
The actual membership of CPPC is the electorate and through it we, as a people, will take power, exercise it and bring about the changes in the State administration and services that we deem necessary.
I had previously posted the first page of this leaflet unaware that there was more. So here we have from the Young Progressive Democrats the Full ‘Dail Wars – Attack of The Socialists’ leaflet. Unreal.
Their Pizza Delivery Leaflet is just as ‘Unusual’
Many thanks to the sender.
From 2007 a leaflet produced by the Communist Party of Ireland for May Day. It also mentions the centenary of the 1907 Belfast dockers and carters strike led by Connolly and Larkin.
A Leaflet for “No To The IMF/EU Bailout” Budget night protest on the 7th of December at 6pm.
From the 2009 Local Elections a series of Four Video Diaries from Fianna Fail candidate Garret Tubridy. Tubridy, younger Brother of RTE presenter Ryan Tubridy, polled 782 votes running in the Pembroke Rathmines Ward. He failed to win a seat.
Had previously posted the cover of this without realising that there was a Pizza Menu and Desert Menu with it also. A kind soul sent me the full leaflet and here it is.
From the Young Progressive Democrats “We Deliver”.
A Leaflet for “A Spectacle of Defiance and Hope” to be held at City Hall on December 10th 2010.
“On December 10th, a broad range of communities, community and youth organisations, trade unions, cultural groups, students and campaigning organisations from Dublin and beyond are coming together to participate in a Radical Spectacle. The heart is literally being ripped out of our communities and this affects the country as a whole. The Spectacle will be an act of Creative Resistance to the redundant policies of a redundant regime.
This day is United Nations International Day of Human Rights around the world and is an appropriate moment to mobilise. The Spectacle’s participative, imaginative and heartfelt approach will demonstrate that there is another way to a more equal and a more just Ireland. The Spectacle says STOP this madness of punishing ordinary people for the mistakes of others.”
more details HERE
From the first Lisbon Referendum in 2008 a Leaflet from Fianna Fail with the slogan “Good For Ireland, Good For Europe – Vote Yes”.
A series of links for more information are given, amongst them a link to an IBEC site.
Th Referendum was defeated before being passed in the re run.
A bit out of date this one……
From the Young Progressive Democrats a poster featuring a waving Pat Rabbitte over the message “Warning -A Socialist Europe Is An Unemployed Europe” .
Ireland had the lowest unemployment rate in Europe at the time….
Many thanks to the sender.
From the 2002 General Election a flyer for Sinn Fein candidate Larry O’Toole running in Dublin North East. O’Toole polled 3,003 votes and failed to win a seat.
From the 2009 Local Elections a leaflet for Labour Party candidate Pamela Kearns running in Tallaght Central. She polled 2,643 votes and was elected. Her colleagues Mick Duff and Dermot Looney were also elected as Labour took 3 of the seats in the six seater.
From 2008 a leaflet from the Communist Party of Ireland with the then woes of the country listed.
The first line is “Everything appears to be getting out of control” we’ve moved on since then….
From the 2007 General election a Green Party Leaflet with the Slogan “Trust The Greens: We Won’t Let You Down”. The leaflet was for, former MEP, Patricia McKenna who has since left the Green Party.
A “Free All Irish Political Prisoners” Poster with Karl Marx and (I presume) James Connolly. It was hiding in a friends uncles garage in Germany until recently.
A comment below gives a little history to the poster.
The poster was produced by the Prisoners Aid Committee in the early 70′s. The PAC was based in London and was originally set up in 1972 by Official Sinn Fein to campaign for IRA prisoners. The poster is a reminder that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had campaigned for Republican prisoners. The PAC designed and paid for the posters which were widely distibuted. By the end of 1974 all members of the PAC had been expelled from the British branch of the stickies, Clann na h’Eireann but the PAC continued to campaign for all Republican prisoners in English jails until the end of the 80′s.
From the 1957 General Election in the Limerick West constituency a poster for Fianna Fail candidates Michael Colbert, James Collins and Donnchadh O Briain with the slogan “Fianna Fail Faces Facts , Fianna Fail for Future Freedom”.
James Collins served was first elected in 1948 and served until his death in 1967. The subsequent by-election was won by his son Gerry Collins. Another son Michael Collins also served as a TD. His Grandson Niall Collins is currently a TD for Limerick West.
Michael Colbert served 3 terms as a TD.
Donnchadh O Briain was fist elected in 1933 and held his seat until his retirement in 1969.
in this 1957 Election, Collins and Ó Briain were elected. (Result at electionsireland.org)
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