Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 22nd March 2024, with updates as new candidate nominations announced, or when I come across these details – latest update – 6th May 2024.

Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages.

The groups/parties listed here are smaller parties that won very few, or no, seats at the 2019 Local Election and who had – at least by the middle of March 2024– selected only a relatively small number of Local Elections 2024 candidates. As such – and mainly due to the time pressures being experienced by the owner/creator of this website – candidate selections for all of these parties will be logged in this “all in” post.

In all, across the different parties, there are one hundred and seventeen candidates for the smaller/new political parties, which will be contesting the 2024 Local Elections, listed here – twenty seven (23.1%) are women and ninety (76.9%) are men.

The candidates listed as Independent Ireland candidates currently account for fifty six candidates (seven are female – 12.5%) and this list of candidates includes thirteen incumbents (23.2% of the total) and two other candidates who are former County Councillors (3.6%). One candidate (Paul Hogan) is contesting two electoral areas.

The candidates listed as 100% Redress Party candidates currently account for five candidates (one female – 20.0%)

The candidates listed as Workers Party candidates currently account for six candidates (two female – 33.3%)

The candidates listed as Farmers Alliance candidates currently account for four candidates (one female – 25.0%)

The candidates listed as Rabharta: The Party for Workers And Carers candidates currently account for two candidates (both male)

The candidates listed as Right to Change candidates currently account for two candidates (one is female – 50.0%) and both candidates are incumbents (100.0%).

The candidate listed as a Kerry Independent Alliance candidate currently account for one candidate (male).

The candidates listed as Irish Freedom Party candidates currently account for twenty three candidates (five are female – 21.7%)

The candidates listed as The Irish People candidates currently account for fifty six  candidates (thirteen are female – 23.2%)

The candidates listed as Ireland First candidates currently account for eight candidates (three are female –37.5%)

The candidates listed as National Party candidates currently account for ten candidates (one is female – 10.0%). One candidate (Daeln Murphy) is contesting two electoral areas.

As of now, I am pretty certain that the list of candidates here is not by any means complete – more candidates will undoubtedly emerge between now and May, whereas it can be hard to find candidate selection details for some of these parties and hence their numbers, as of now, are under-estimated.

While a number of the candidates in this grouping would appear likely to be first-time candidates, it does also include a number of more experienced candidates, as well as candidates who won Council seats in 2019 (or were subsequently co-opted on to the Council) as independents, or for other political parties, but then went on to later join new parties, with the most obvious example here being the incumbents who joined the new Independent Ireland political party in Spring 2024.

The candidates that have been officially selected across these different groupings include:

Further additions will be made to this candidate listing as, and when, further candidate selections take place and – naturally – when I become aware of these.