Meath Councillor Jack Fitzsimons running on amongst other things an anti hunting and Hare Coursing ticket. He got 6,752 votes.
Leaflet from Barbara Hyland- NLJAG /Independent -1989 General Election
Barbara Hyland has stood multiple times in multiple elections, most notably in 1987 where she along with four other candidates stood for the National Legal Justice Action Group. NLJAG were campaigning against the Law Society, or rather the staus of the Law society as the ‘only avenue of complaint’ if you had ‘Suffered at the hands of the legal profession’.
They wanted an independent ombudsman.
She stood in 13 constituencies top vote of 217 in her home of Wicklow, lowest 33 in Dublin North West.
This is from 1989 where she stood in just Kerry South and Wicklow. She stood again in 1992, 1997 and 2002. She has various newspaper clips in the leaflet which may give you a better idea as to her motives.
She had stood previously in the Local Elections for Labour.
Flyer for the Labour Youth 1989 Summer Festival November 7, 2009
A Paul Newman lookalike on a surfboard advertises the 1989 Labour Youth Summer Festival. At the back the dilema of to stay in the hostel, sports hall or Tent is there as of course is the temptation to say you were under 26.
Kevin Fitzpatrick- Sinn Fein Dun Laoghaire -1989 November 6, 2009
Kevin Fitzpatrick who fought a number of elections for Sinn Fein in Dun Laoghaire in the 80s and early 90s. He was involved with the Concerned Parents Against Drugs and the Premier daries in Monkstown refered to is long gone.
Garret Fitzgerald letter of retirement to constituents 1992.
Garret writes thanking ‘all who have supported me in the eight general elections since 1969 in Dublin South East’.
He also asks for a number one vote for Frances Fitzgerald and number 2 for Joe Doyle.
In the end Frances Fitzgerald got in, but the second Fine Gael Seat was lost to Michael McDowell.
Senator David Norris Newsletter 2002
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.
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.
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