Category Archives: Candidates

People Before Profit Alliance candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 28th January 2014 with further updates as new candidate nominations announced  An updated version from the series of my rolling blog posts on local election candidate selections, in which I detail the latest information as to … Continue reading →

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Anti Austerity Alliance candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 28th January 2014 with further updates as new candidate nominations are announced  An updated version of  my rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political … Continue reading →

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Former TDs contesting the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 14th January 2014  As noted in the earlier post on the Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats at the 2002 General Election, former TDs can often decide to contest the following local elections after having lost their … Continue reading →

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New Irish (Non-Irish/UK nationals) candidates contesting the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd January 2014 This post will attempt to list all of the “New Irish”/Non-Irish/UK nationals candidates who have been officially selected to contest this year’s local elections, or else have declared their intentions to contest these elections as … Continue reading →

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How low can you go? The worst performing candidates at the 2009 Local Elections

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd November 2013 In a contest there has to be winners. And there has to be losers. Some election candidates can win big. Others can lose…badly. As the 2011 General Election results showed, for every Shane Ross or … Continue reading →

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Female candidates contesting the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th October 2013 – post updated as and when new female candidates are added/female candidates withdraw 314 female candidates contested the 2009 City and County Council elections, accounting for 17.2% of the total number of candidates. For the 2014 … Continue reading →

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The Younger Ones: Local Elections 2014 candidates aged between 18 and 35

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 29th October 2013 In a similar vein to an earlier post relating to 2011 General Election candidates, this page seeks to list the names, and party affiliations, of all the local elections candidates whose ages fall in the 18-35 years age … Continue reading →

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European Election candidates: An overview

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2014 Now that the new European Election constituency boundaries have been decided on, in this post, I will be detailing the names of the candidates for next year’s European Elections contests, by constituency. As new candidates … Continue reading →

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The Fate of Fine Gael’s Unsuccessful 2002 General Election candidates

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 4th September 2013 In a previous post, as a means of teasing out potential Fianna Fail 2014 Local Elections candidates, I listed the unsuccessful Fianna Fail candidates at the last (2011) general election and noted that there had … Continue reading →

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2014 Local Elections candidates for the “Other” political parties/groupings

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 15th July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The post focuses on the candidate selections for the different parties and groupings that were not running a sufficiently large enough number of candidates to warrant a separate … Continue reading →

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