Tag: Local Election Podcast

The most impressive breakthrough performance in this Local Election campaign in Laois was that of Independent candidate Tommy Mulligan. He took the third seat in...

There's always one area that throws up an election thriller. And this year it was in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District where Fine Gael candidates PJ...

Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick have returned the same six candidates to Laois County Council in this year's Local Elections. But there is still a lot to talk about....

John King from Rathdowney has been a Fine Gael councillor since 2009 when he was elected at the third time of asking having missed...

Pauline Flanagan missed out on a seat at her first attempt in 2019 when she was then a Fianna Fáil candidate and running under...

Dom Dunne came within just over 50 votes of winning the final seat in the Portlaoise Municipal District in 2019, then as a candidate...

Barry Walsh is an outgoing councillor in the Portlaoise Municipal District having replaced Mary Sweeney when she stepped down - but fights this election...

Bolaji Adeyanju is an Independent candidate running in the Portlaoise Municipal District. A Nigerian native, he chats about how he came to live in Ireland,...

Rosie Palmer is a first-time candidate, from Ballinakill, running for the Green Party in the Portlaoise Municipal District. Part of Minister Pippa Hackett's parliamentary team,...

Caroline Dwane-Stanley was first elected to Laois County Council in 2014 and is seeking a third term in the Portlaoise Municipal District. In this wide-ranging...

Maria McCormack is a new candidate for Sinn Féin in Portlaoise. Originally from Tipperary, she moved to Ballyroan at a young age and has...

Thomasina Connell was elected to the Portlaoise Municipal District in 2019, taking the last seat after a mammoth battle as a first-time Local Election...

The first time Willie Aird was eligible to vote, he voted for himself! That was way back in 1979 when he was elected to...

Marie Tuohy is no stranger to the election campaign trail - having been a key figure alongside her husband Noel when he was successfully...

The Graigucullen-Portarlington Municipal District does, as the name suggests, stretch from one side of the county to the other, from the Carlow border to...

Vivienne Phelan from Stradbally is running for Fine Gael in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District and is hoping to make up for the disappointment of...

From a family steeped in Fianna Fáil, locally and nationally, Padraig Fleming has been a Laois County Councillor since 2009 and is seeking a...

Aisling Moran is a sitting county councillor, running as an Independent on this occasion, having been elected for Fine Gael in 2019. She discusses...

Having first been elected in 2009 in the old Luggacurren area, Ben Brennan is now contesting his fourth Local Election. The independent councillor from...

Charlie Hackett from the Green Party is one of the youngest candidates in the country. A student in UL, he comes from a family...

Having grown up in Timahoe but lived in Stradbally for a lot of his adult life, Paschal McEvoy has had a strong based in...

Aaron Kelly from Graiguecullen is a first-time candidate, running for Sinn Féin, in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District. He explains how he came to join...

Having run as a candidate for the first time in 2019 and missed out on the last seat, Labour's Eoin Barry is back once...

PJ Kelly is a sitting Fine Gael councillor in the Graiguecullen-Portarlington Municipal District - but this is his first election to contest as he...

The Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District is a massive, sprawling, area that stretches from Clonaslee on one side to Cullohill on the other. Mountmellick is the largest...

The Green Party are running three candidates in this year's Local Elections in Laois - and Fiona Dunne is the representative in the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick...

Paddy Buggy is hoping it's a case of third time lucky in this year's Local Elections as runs as a Fine Gael candidate in...

Based in Castletown, Fintan Cuddy is running as Fianna Fáil candidate in the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District. He chats about his tough upbringing and how events...

James Kelly has been a Laois County Councillor since 2014 when he claimed the first seat in the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District. Re-elected in 2019, he...

There was no Labour candidate in the Borris-in-Ossory/Mountmellick Municipal District in 2019 - so in Bryan Corrigan, the party are represented once again on...