Steve Flinter’s blog

I recently wrote a post about the last General Election. Well, the time is upon us for the Seanad elections. As a TCD grad, I am entitled to vote for the three Dublin University Seanad seats. There are 11 candidates for the three seats, so competition is likely to be hot. [...]

I mentioned earlier that only one of the candidates (Eric Byrne of Labour) standing in the Dublin South Central constituency in the recent General Election was an active blogger.
Well, it turns out that Byrne just missed out on the fifth seat by a whisker. The incumbent Aengus Ó Snodaigh pipped him by a mere [...]

In my recent post on the Dublin South Central election, I provided a URL for Tony McDermott’s website. A comment I received pointed out that the correct URL is http://www.tonymcdermott.ie/.
That makes a lot more sense. However, when one does a Google search for Tony McDermott this site doesn’t show up in the first [...]

The general election in Ireland has been called for May 24 – a little less than three weeks from now.
I live in the Dublin South Central constituency – a five seater. Four of the sitting TDs (MPs) are running again, with only Gay Mitchell bowing out.
Here’s the full list of candidates, linked with the [...]