Tag: Progressive Democrats
2004 Election Memories: No TDs, some PDs, a Sinn Féin breakthrough...
This piece by John Whelan originally featured on LaoisToday on April 15 2019 ahead of last year's Local Elections.
While the country was still basking...
Election Memories from the 1990s – Gallagher rides the Labour wave...
The general elections of the 1990s were in sporting parlance, a game of two halves, with a major incident in the tunnel as the...
2002 & 2007 Election Memories: The rise and fall of Parlon...
In the spring of 2002 Mary Harney courted farm leader Tom Parlon and won him over.
She wiped the eye of Parlon’s other suitor, Michael...
1991 Election Memories: Liam Hyland champion of rural Ireland; Cathy Honan’s...
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‘Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose’, the more it changes, the more they...
2009 Election Memories: End of the Bertie era, end of the...
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When Bertie Ahern won his hat-trick of general elections and was installed for his third...
2004 Election Memories: No TDs, some PDs, a Sinn Féin breakthrough...
Brought to you in association with People First Credit Union
While the country was still basking in the warm afterglow of Bertie Ahern’s second term...
Council adjourned over PD joke to cathaoirleach
A joke about the Progressive Democrat (PD) past of Laois Cathaoirleach Cllr Tom Mulhall by his Fine Gael colleague Cllr Willie Aird resulted in...