Author Archives: Adrian Kavanagh

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About Adrian Kavanagh

Lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Geography. Email: adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie

Labour Party candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The seventh of my rolling blog posts in which I detailed the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or … Continue reading

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Non Party/Independent candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The fifth of my rolling blog posts in which I details the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or … Continue reading

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Fianna Fail candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh; First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as and when new Fianna Fail candidate nominations were announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically/usually links to candidate webpages. This post will … Continue reading

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Fine Gael candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 1st July 2013 with updates made as new candidate nominations announced up until close of nominations on May 3rd 2014. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links … Continue reading

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Sinn Fein candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 1st July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links to candidate webpages. The second of my rolling blog posts in … Continue reading

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Green Party candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Adrian Kavanagh First posted 1st July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links to candidate webpages. The first of my rolling blog posts … Continue reading

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Fine Gael’s Local Area Representatives – and potential local election candidates?

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st July 2013 Just like Fianna Fail, Fine Gael has its own group of Local Area Representatives – mainly unelected party members that act as representatives of the party in their local area with such areas usually coinciding … Continue reading

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Female representation levels on City/County Councils and Borough/Town Councils in Ireland

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th June 2013 The aim of last year’s gender quota legislation is to increase female electoral participation levels in the Republic of Ireland relative to the current low levels observed at both the national and local levels. This … Continue reading

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Blood in the Water?: How patterns of local representation match up with new local election boundaries – an overview

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th June 2013 The previous series of posts have reviewed in details how the new local election boundaries, as drawn up in the 2013 Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report, relate to the home bases of the current array … Continue reading

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How do Borough and Town Councillors bases match up with new local election constituencies?

Adrian Kavanagh, 24 June 2013 The previous series of posts have looked at how the homes bases of sitting County and City match up against the new local election constituency boundaries, with this analysis finding that there are some local … Continue reading

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