Friday’s Donegal Daily and Donegal News ran lead stories regarding an approach alleged to have been made to Thomas Pringle to run for the Labour Party in Donegal South West constituency in the General Election. Pringle polled well in the Donegal South West by-election and he beat the party candidate Cllr Frank McBrearty Jnr. in […]
Tags:Donegal South West·Frank McBrearty Jnr·Labour Party·Thomas Pringle
Regular readers know that I have lost my heart to Donegal. Wallace Media are keeping me more than entertained with their election coverage and today’s gem is this speech from Dinny McGinley TD to the Fine Gael selection convention of his county colleague Joe McHugh. I don’t know which bit to recommend to you most, […]
Tags:Dinny McGinley·Donegal North East·Donegal South West·Fine Gael·Joe McHugh·Olwyn Enright
We don’t get to see enough Mary Coughlan T.D. on our screens. Here she is after being nominated by F.F. Donegal South West last weekend to contest the next general election. The convention was rushed forward on the 9th with only 48hrs notice given to members. Little bit of a dig in it at John […]
But no this is Fianna Fáil, the weekend before a bye-election. Eamon O’Cuiv who is director of elections for the bye election and his party are exhorting members to phone and email their friends who live in Donegal South West. They also encourage the use of Facebook and twitter – ah FF finally using social […]
There’s Pearse Doherty on top of a pole, he’s also on top of the Paddy Power commissioned Red C Poll of how voters intend to vote in the by-election next week. The poll conducted amongst over 500 voters (+/- 4.4%) showed that Doherty would poll 40% of first preferences, with O’Domhnaill following in second with […]
Tags:#dsw10·Anne Sweeney·Barry O'Neill·Brian O'Domhnaill·Donegal South West·Frank McBrearty·Pearse Doherty