Joan Burtons Christmas Message to voters.
From the 1985 Local Elections a personal letter from Liam Kavanagh Minister for the Environment to the Voters of Bray.
In it he mentions money being provided for amongst other projects the Bray/Shankill By-Pass. Reading it reminded me of those horrendous tailbacks at Shankill and Little Bray.
For the Council the Labour candidates were John Byrne, Barbara Hyland (who later stood as an Independent) and Nancy Mahony running for Wicklow County Council and Paddy Mooney and Siobhan Turner joining them on the ticket for the elections to Bray UDC.
Many thanks to the Sender.
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 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 the 1991 Local elections a Labour Party Leaflet Attacking Lies told by Fianna Fail in its 1985 Local Elections Manifesto. The Leaflet is for the Labour candidates John McGinley, Colm Purcell and Emmet Stagg.
John McGinley didn’t win a seat although won a seat in 1999 and has held it since.
Former Workers Party Councillor and General Election candidate Colm Purcell held on to his seat. Whilst current TD, Emmet Stagg topped the poll and won a seat.
From the 2002 General Election a leaflet from Labour candidates Eamon Gilmore and Niamh Bhreathnach running in Dun Laoghaire. Gilmore polled 8,271 votes and was easily elected. Bhreathnach polled 3,893 votes and missed out.
It was Gilmores first General Election standing for Labour.
From the 1997 General Election a leaflet for Labour Party candidate Tim Collins running in Wicklow. Collins who had previously stood in the 1995 Wicklow By-Election polled 1,924 votes and failed to win a seat. His party colleague Liam Kavanagh also lost his seat.
From the 2010 Donegal South West By-election a leaflet for Labour candidate Frank McBrearty.
McBrearty, elected to the Council in 2009 is seen as having an outside chance of winning the seat.
From the 1991 Local Elections a leaflet from Labour candidate Niamh Bhreathnach running in the Blackrock Ward where she was elected.
The focus of the leaflet is on Environmental issues such as Booterstown Marsh.
It was at this time that ‘Environmental Issues started taking a bigger role in election leaflets , in part to do with the potential rise in the Green Party vote.
One of a series of policy leaflets from the Labour Party 1997 Election campaign. This Leaflet 6 focuses on “Regulation and The Economy”.
Needless to say the following paragraphs stand out.
“There is a special need for regulation for banks … The banking system is vital to the working of economic life in the country.
The Central Bank is the regulator for these businesses.
Any bank would have to close down if everyone who has a deposit with it asked for their money back at the same time. It is up to the Central Bank to make sure that banks and building societies are run carefully and prudently. It is the only way to make sure that people have confidence in the banking system and are happy to leave their money in the custody of the banks.
A modern economy cannot work with just paper money. It has to have a developed banking system. It is as important as electricity to a society like ours. Therefore the first task of the Central Bank is to make sure that the banking system never breaks down.”
“We have a social market economy in Ireland. History has shown us that a market economy is the way to provide employment and prosperity to a society.
But experience also tells us that it is essential that the market is accompanied by well-developed public services. it is also essential, not least tor the proper functioning of the market itself, that business is constrained by appropriate regulation.
Market forces acting on their own can be destructive and damage the interests of workers, commerce and society in general. That is why a well- regulated economy, which protects, by law, the interests of all the citizens is essential to our society. Economic justice and equality is not possible without it.”
From the 1992 General Election a leaflet from the then Democratic Left TD Eamon Gilmore running in Dun Laoghaire.
Some lovely slogans in ‘One of The Best‘ and ‘Make Sure Vote Gilmore‘.
We get details of how much Gilmore speaks in the Dail. The Leaflet also mentions that Gilmore ‘began the organisation of the first Peace Train‘.
(I had my doubts but here he is at the First Peace Train.)
We learn too that “He helped lead the campaign to reform his old party, and was one of the first to leave to form Democratic Left” (Should read to form New Agenda which became Democratic Left).
Gilmore was elected easily having polled 7,045 votes.
From the 1991 Local Elections a leaflet for Labour Party candidates John Byrne and Carmel McKenna. John Byrne was elected.
John Byrne has been on Bray Town Council since 1974 (and his father and grandfather before him back to 1912).
Carmel McKenna almost won a seat in 1994 on Bray Town Council. She then ran in the 1999 locals with Liz McManus and John Byrne as running mates. In 2004 she canvassed for the greens and then in 2007 she ran for People Before Profit Alliance .
From the 2009 Local Elections a leaflet from Labour candidate Dermot Looney running in Tallaght Central. St Pats fan Looney was elected polling 2,329 votes as Labour took three of the wards six seats.
From the 2007 General Election a leaflet from the now Labour Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton. Burton polled 5,799 votes and took the final seat.
From October 2005 a document issued by then Labour Party Health Spokesperson Liz McManus entitled “Another Year… Another Excuse -An Analysis of Mary Harney’s First Year as Health Minister”
A&E, Primary Care, MRSA, the HSE and the NTPF are amongst the issues covered. I’ve uploaded it in *.pdf HERE or else click on the imaage to launch it.
From the second Nice Treaty Referendum a document from the Labour Party entitled “A Different Type of Yes”.
Ive Uploaded it in *.pdf HERE, or else click on the image to open.
I see Labour have launched a site winningthewest.ie .
The site says …The most ambitious part of Eamon Gilmore’s election strategy is the bald ambition to conquer the West!
From the 1992 General Election in Dun Laoghaire a letter to voters from the Democratic Lefts Eamon Gilmore.
One line in particular stands out “….that substance and policy are more important than style and performance”.
Eamon Gilmore was elected, which was a decent performance considering the Spring Tide.
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