POLL: Which candidate will you be voting for in the upcoming General Election
With the candidate list for next year’s General Election starting to take shape, The Clare People is hosting it’s first in a series of online candidates poll. While just five candidates are officially...
View ArticleThe Clare People’s General Election Candidates Poll – The Results
The first shots the 2016 General Election were fired over the weekend in Clare with a massive response to the first candidate based survey so far of this election campaign. The Clare People online...
View ArticleClare: Green Party without a candidate for the General Election after Róisín...
The Green Party in Clare is in turmoil following the shock decision by candidate, Róisín Garvey, to pull out of the upcoming general election. Ms Garvey, who is the daughter of former Mayor of Clare,...
View ArticleFine Gael Candidate Poll
The Fine Gael selection convention will take place in Ennis on September 11 with two candidates likely to be chosen on the night and a third added by the party head office at a later date. Poll is now...
View ArticleGE 2016: Councillor Joe Cooney won’t seek Fine Gael nomination
Councillor Joe Cooney (FG) will not seek the Fine Gael nomination at this months party convention, The Clare People can exclusively reveal. The East Clare councillor, who has been the party’s top...
View ArticleClare GE 16: Candidates want clarity from HQ as parties dither on final tickets
FINE Gael are the latest of the big two to delay finalising their election ticket in Clare for the upcoming election. Following last Friday night’s convention in Treacy’s West County Hotel, which saw...
View ArticleClare GE 16: Johnny says no to spot on Fine Gael ticket
FINE Gael’s search for a third general election candidate in Clare continues after Ennis councillor Johnny Flynn became the latest party member to say no. In a statement today, Cllr Flynn says the...
View ArticleClare General Election Poll
With the identity of most of the key Clare general election candidates now known, the countdown to next years vote can begin in earnest. The election looks set to be the hottest contested in a...
View ArticleJames Breen backs Dr.Harty
The last independent to be elected to Dáil Éireann for the Clare constituency has hailed the performance of his impending successor as what he calls “an independent voice for the people of Clare”...
View ArticleThe rebirth of Fianna Fáil has begun – Timmy Dooley
The rebirth of Fianna Fáil in Clare from an historic low of just 22 per cent of the first preference vote in Clare in 2011 has begun in earnest, the party’s standardbearer in Clare Deputy Timmy Dooley...
View ArticleMcNamara can come back from the brink
The chairman of the Clare Labour Party has backed sitting TD Michael McNamara to come back from the brink and retain his Dáil seat. Speaking to The Clare People, Dermot Hayes, said that the party was...
View ArticleMary Howard: Dr Harty threw up huge puzzle for Fine Gael campaign
Fine Gael’s Mary Howard has said that Independent candidate Dr Michael Harty’s election campaign threw a spanner in the works for her party’s General Election campaign in Clare. Ms Howard looks to be...
View ArticleFrom Daniel O’Connell to Dr Harty
Clare’s newest political sensation Dr Michael Harty has hailed the ‘Rural Revolution’ movement and what he called “the lateral thinkers” of the electorate in every part of county Clare that has him on...
View ArticleHurling selector hails ‘Rural Revolution’
The ‘Rural Revolution’ campaign of Dr Michael Harty struck a chord with people throughout County Clare who wouldn’t have been interested in politics before this General Election, but with rural Ireland...
View ArticleMcDonagh still fighting, but admits he’s losing the battle
Fianna Fáil candidate in Clare Michael ‘Malty’ McDonagh has all but conceded defeat in his bid to win a seat in Dáil Éireann, telling The Clare People that his first preference vote just wasn’t high...
View ArticleDooley tops the poll for second time in three elections
Clare poll topper Timmy Dooley has hailed the team behind that ensured he enjoyed his third successive General Election victory in the Banner County — the Mountshannon man having been elected on the...
View ArticleZero to hero in five weeks for Dr Michael Harty
TO chants of Óle, Óle, Dr Michael Harty was returned to Dáil Éireann after an election campaign that he described to The Clare People as going from ‘zero to a seat in five weeks’. The Kilmihil-based...
View ArticleMarathon count draws to a close as four seats are filled.
A marathon Clare General Election count drew to a close in Falls Hotel just after 12.30pm this Sunday with two Fine Gael and government TDs in Deputy Pat Breen and Deputy Joe Carey being deemed elected...
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