Tag: 2024 General Election

More than 45 years of experience as a local elected representative certainly paid off in style for Willie Aird in the Portlaoise area in...

Willie Aird's poll-topping success in the Laois constituency in the recent General Election was particularly evident in the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District according to the...

Willie Aird (Fine Gael) topped the poll overall in the Laois constituency in the recent General Election - but he had to play second...

Maria McCormack, the Sinn Féin candidate in the recent General Election in the Laois constituency, is to run for the Seanad as one of...

Conor Bergin, a Fine Gael councillor in Laois for the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District, has been confirmed as a candidate in the upcoming Seanad elections. Bergin,...

Cllr Caroline Dwane-Stanley has resigned from Sinn Féin in the latest chapter in the long-running saga with the party following on from husband Brian,...

The LaoisToday team of Paul Dargan and Steven Miller travelled to Dublin on Wednesday for the first day of the 34th Dáil. We caught up...

Now that it’s all over, we look back on this year’s General Election – and give out some very unofficial awards as well as...

‘Once deemed utterly predictable, the Laois constituency is boring no more’. That was the headline on a LaoisToday piece on November 11, the first...

The LaoisToday Friday Panel proved somewhat of a hit in the run-up to the General Election and it returns today for the postmortem. Previous guests...

As Government formation talks get under way, we reflect on some of the main Talking Points in this year's General Election campaign in Laois. 1...

The General Election has come and gone with all seats now filled both in Laois and nationally. Willie Aird (Fine Gael), Sean Fleming (Fianna Fail)...

Three TDs were elected for the constituency of Laois over the weekend and one of them will head to the Dail for the first...

Brian Stanley was re-elected to the Dail after Count 8 in the Laois Constituency at the General Election yesterday. The former Sinn Fein man, now...

Laois Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming - who was elected for the seventh successful time - says that he's happy to go back into...

And just like that - after months of speculation, debate and predictions, the General Election in Laois for 2024 is over. We went into the...

They may not have had a candidate in Laois for the first time in history, but there is a significant gain for Labour in...

Sinn Féin councillor Caroline Dwane-Stanley has launched a blistering attack on the party following the election of her husband Brian as an Independent TD. Brian...

Sean Fleming has been elected to the Dail for the seventh time following the conclusion of counting in the Laois constituency. The Fianna Fail TD...

Brian Stanley has been re-elected to the Dail after Count 8 in the Laois Constituency at the General Election. The former Sinn Fein man, now...

Running in her first election, Portarlington Independent Elaine Mullally was eliminated after the Sixth Count. She achieved 2,970 first preference votes and came sixth of...

The transferring of votes in the 2024 Laois General Election gets underway in Portlaoise this morning with two seats still remaining to be filled. Fine...

Below is a record of how Laois is voting in the 2024 General Election. Laois General Election – 1st Count Willie Aird (Fine Gael) –...

If you'd told Maria McCormack last June that she'd be Sinn Féin's candidate in the next General Election, would poll just under 5,000 first...

A General Election campaign isn't for the faint-hearted but you could certainly never accuse Aisling Moran of that.  The Independent candidate, who has been a...

The story of Day 1 at the Laois General Election count centre was the stunning success of first time Fine Gael candidate Willie Aird,...

Willie Aird has become the first TD from the Laois constituency to be elected at the 2024 General Election. The Fine Gael TD was elected...

The big day is finally here. After weeks (and years in some cases) of planning, campaigning, canvassing and finally voting - we can now...

It has been a hectic day in the Nano Nagle sports hall in Portlaoise for Day 1 of the 2024 Laois General Election count. In...

The final tally from the Laois General Election count centre shows that Fine Gael candidate Willie Aird will top the poll - and fall...