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Who will have the guts to replace Joe McHugh?

Fine Gael party strategists are now left with a major headache - who will replace Joe McHugh? Tánaiste Varadkar hasn't suddenly decided to come to Donegal because of this week's news. His visit has been months in the planning and will include visits ...

04 May 2022 at 23:11

National News

Four extra Dail seats recommended for Dublin area

The creation of four additional seats in the Irish Parliament have been recommended following a major review of existing constituency boundaries. The Electoral Commission review follows an 8% increase in the Irish population since 2016. Just seven ...

30 Aug 2023 at 10:29

National News

Boundary redraw not an easy task, says Electoral Commission chairwoman

Redrawing Ireland’s electoral constituencies was “not an easy task”, with changes sparking a “domino effect” on neighbouring areas, the chairwoman of the Electoral Commission said. Supreme Court judge Ms Justice Marie Baker described a “big ...

30 Aug 2023 at 11:31

National News

Constituency review allows room to breathe for some high-profile TDs

A starting gun for the next Irish general election has been fired with the redrawing of new electoral boundaries. The changes, ushered in by constitutional rules about the country’s growing population, are part of Electoral Commission ...

30 Aug 2023 at 16:56

National News

Harris calls for national debate about adding TDs ‘ad nauseum’

Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris has called for a national debate on whether it is appropriate to continue tying the number of TDs in the Dail to the population. Speaking to reporters at Government Buildings in Dublin, Mr ...

30 Aug 2023 at 18:09

South Donegal

Donegal’s future Dáil constituency make up to be announced next week

Whether parts of south Donegal will remain excluded from their natural Dáil constituency and hinterland of Donegal will be announced on Wednesday next, August 30. It may be reconfigured into two constituencies with a total of six ...

24 Aug 2023 at 13:27

South Donegal

South Donegal voters should be returned to ‘natural’ constituency

Former Fianna Fáil and now Independent TD, Marc MacSharry has told the Electoral Commission that south Donegal, which forms part of his current Dáil constituency of Sligo Leitrim should be amalgamated back into its natural ...

21 Feb 2023 at 02:16

Former Presidential candidate Peter Casey to contest EU Elections in Midlands-North West

National News

Peter Casey contesting European Parliament Elections in the Midlands North West

Peter Casey is contesting a seat in the upcoming European Elections and is looking forward to representing the people of the Midlands North West Constituency as "a strong Independent voice". The businessman will run as an ...

30 Apr 2024 at 11:58

McHugh's Miscellany: Time to stop the Donegal constituency claptrap

Local News

McHugh's Miscellany: Time to stop the Donegal constituency c;aptrap

People living in the current five seater Donegal Dáil constituency may not be too perturbed about their brothers and sisters in the very south of the county, but what has been happening there over recent years is nothing ...

23 Feb 2023 at 10:03

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Reunite Donegal - what's your view?

Residents of south Donegal have started a petition calling for the county to be made into one constituency. Valerie McNulty of Ballyshannon, a member Reunite Donegal, wrote up the petition after the group met about ...

07 Jan 2017 at 12:54

Local News

Poll-toppers Micheál Naughton and Donal 'Mandy' Kelly confirm Dáil bids

Fianna Fáil Councillors Micheál Naughton and Donal 'Mandy' Kelly will both seek a nomination from the party to run in the Donegal constituency at the next General Election. Naughton and Kelly topped the poll in ...

10 Jul 2024 at 17:07

Local News

'We in Donegal want to be in Donegal': Former Tánaiste Mary Coughlan

Former Tánaiste Mary Coughlan says the people of south Donegal showed their political discontent by their absence from the polling booths for the local elections. Ms Coughlan says the turnout figures in the ...

25 Jul 2024 at 08:31

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