Tag: Laois-Offaly

Laois will be a three-seater constituency for the next General Election, following the recommendations of the Electoral Commission which have been made public this...

It might be pushing it a bit far to call it a miracle, but the re-election of one local TD last weekend was against...

Charlie Flanagan has been elected on the 10th count in the Laois-Offaly constituency having been put over the quota by his running mate Marcella...

A Sinn Fein surge, they say. Scratch that. This was a tsunami. A tsunami of support that swept away everything in its political path. Laois,...

Today, Saturday, February 8 is polling day. Polling stations will remain open from 7am until 10pm tonight. Voters will elect 160 TDs across the country in...

The two General Elections of the 1970s were the first to be really contested in the full glare of the then relatively new-fangled gadget,...

So you think the political landscape is fragile, fractured and fragmented – well you clearly weren’t around in the 1980s. The 80s, the decade that...

Some people will do anything to get elected. Pauline Madigan even changed her name. Pauline, as we all call her anyway, is now Pauline Flanagan. It’s...

The general elections of the 1990s were in sporting parlance, a game of two halves, with a major incident in the tunnel as the...

In the spring of 2002 Mary Harney courted farm leader Tom Parlon and won him over. She wiped the eye of Parlon’s other suitor, Michael...

We’re in Clogh. Clogh, Ballacolla. This is farming country. Fields, cows and sheds everywhere you look. Seán is biding his time. A man in a big...

Pulling no punches and certainly not hedging his bets the former bookie and Fine Gael TD and Minister Ivan Yates has  predicted that his...

There's something so classicly timeless about election count photos. And even though it's only nine years ago, the photos from the 2011 Laois-Offaly General Election...

Kilcormac based councillor, John Leahy is on the ballot for Laois-Offaly for the third time. He hopes he can make the breakthrough and get...

Have you seen the 1917 World War 1 movie? Well the 2011 General Election was something similar … for Fianna Fáil. They got slaughtered. The unprecedented...

In 2016 the big issues on the doors, in the media and the hustings were unemployment, emigration, pay cuts, austerity cutbacks and the most...

The counting of votes for the Laois-Offaly Constituency in General Election 2020 will take place in Portlaoise. The premises being used for the count is...

In a dramatic late intervention the Labour Party will have a candidate running in Laois-Offaly after all. Cllr Noel Tuohy has confirmed that he has...

Can the momentum in favour of the Greens reach the midlands and get behind their Laois-Offaly candidate, Senator Pippa Hackett? It’s a big ask in...

General Election 2020 in Laois-Offaly is a whole new ball game and like no general election ever held before in this constituency. It is certainly...

There’s not a sign of a poster, or the hint of a date, much less a vote cast, but the drama surrounding the build-up...

A local candidate is in pole position to win the upcoming Seánad bye-election. Cllr Pippa Hackett from Geashill and an Offaly County County Councillor having...

Over a month has passed since this year’s Local Elections and with county councils around the country now back to the business, attention will...

A snap election could put the reunification of the Laois/Offaly electoral constituency on hold. A spokesperson for the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government...

Charlie Flanagan says it is "cackhanded", "inexplicable" and "wholly unsatisfactory". Sean Fleming says it is "most unfair" and "unjustified". Brian Stanley says they've "made...