Tag: 2020 General Election

Sinn Féin are on course for their greatest ever General Election performance - both in terms of percentage vote and overall seats won -...

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...

Over the last week, we have went 'On the Canvass' with a number of the candidates contesting Saturday's General Election. Brian Stanley (Sinn Fein), Sean...

Brought to you in association with Midlands Park Hotel And we're nearly there!! The 2020 General Election takes place this Saturday, February 8, in the 39...

There has been so much election coverage over the last couple of weeks that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by it all. Here we attempt...

Sean Fleming, from the Swan in Laois, has been a TD since 1997. Educated in the Swan NS and Heywood College in Ballinakill, he did...

The clock is ticking. General Election 2020 is now just 3 days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates...

The Laois-Offaly constituency will be centre stage on the main RTE 9 O’ Clock news bulletin tonight, Wednesday, February 5. The hotly contested 5-seat marginal...

Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we’ll be bringing you a daily bulletin from the campaign trail – from...

Pauline Flanagan, one of Fianna Fáil’s general election candidates in Laois/Offaly today and the only female candidate in Laois, has taken time out to...

Disability matters to me. Let’s hope whoever represents Kildare South after February 8 feels the same. Obviously we are all fighting a similar battle. A battle for...

The clock is ticking. General Election 2020 is now just 4 days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates...

General Election 2020 is just four days away and one ongoing issue in the Laois-Offaly Constituency is the Midlands Regional Hospital Portlaoise. The Portlaoise Hospital...

Down the road in Carlow-Kilkenny, it's a five-seat, two-county constituency just like it is here in Laois-Offaly. They weren't separated four years ago as they...

Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we’ll be bringing you a daily bulletin from the campaign trail – from...

General Election 2020 is just five days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates who are running in Laois-Offaly...

"I'm sickened at the minute - because between extreme veganist campaigns and talk about the environment, we farmers are being treated like criminals." That was...

Saturday afternoon in Portlaoise. A week to election day. It's pleasantly mild for January as Minister Charlie Flanagan parks in the Market Square in the...

Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we’ll be bringing you a daily bulletin from the campaign trail – from...

The clock is ticking. General Election 2020 is now just six days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates...

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...

Local need planning rules are absurd, discriminatory and anti-rural, according to Labour's General Election candidate in Laois-Offaly Noel Tuohy. The Portlaoise-based Cllr Noel Tuohy has...

The clock is ticking. General Election 2020 is now just seven days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates...

The Green Party have never won a seat in the Laois-Offaly constituency - and Pippa Hackett is trying to create history next weekend by...

Brought to you in association with Midlands Park Hotel With just a week to go to the 2020 General Election we return with our latest...

Every day between now and Election Day on Saturday, February 8, we’ll be bringing you a daily bulletin from the campaign trail – from...

The clock is ticking. General Election 2020 is now just eight days away. And here at LaoisToday, we have surveyed all of the 26 candidates...