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ELECTION 2020 FINAL COUNT: Drama as Bobby Aylward loses last seat in battle royale with Green’s Malcolm Noonan

By Kilkenny Now 10th February 2020 0

After a long day and night, and a final push today, the results for Carlow-Kilkenny are now all in. The people have spoken, and the final verdict of the 2020 General Election sees two local TDs lose their seats to Dáil newcomers. After the eighth count, Jennifer Murnane (FF) and John Paul Phelan (FG) took […]

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ELECTION 2020: Count 9 – Bobby lives to fight another countdown

By Kilkenny Now 10th February 2020 0

Just when we thought it was all over, the battle for the fifth and final seat continues after sitting TD Bobby Aylward clung with with just enough transfers to force another count. Just 699 votes now seperate Deputy Aylward from the Green’s Malcolm Noonan after John Paul Phelan’s surplus wwas divided up. Some 458 of […]

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ELECTION 2020: Count 8 – Murnane O’Connor and Phelan take third and fourth seats in Carlow-Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 10th February 2020 0

Carlow-Kilkenny has a new female TD. Fianna Fáil’s Jennifer Murnane O’Connor (FF) has been elected to the 33rd Dáil after the eighth count in the constituency battle of the 2020 General Election. She is joined by sitting Fine Gael TD John Paul Phelan, who was also elected on the eighth count at the Lyrath Estate […]

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ELECTION 2020: Count 7 – Pat Deering loses his seat, Noonan leapfrogs Aylward

By Kilkenny Now 10th February 2020 0

The Carlow-Kilkenny constituency battle has claimed its first big victim after outgoing TD Pat Deering lost his seat following the seventh count this morning. No remaining candidate managed to reach the quota this time around. Deering’s 7,143 votes are now being distributed among the candidates still standing – and it’s expected his carlow-based rival

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ELECTION 2020: Count 5 – All to play for as the Green’s Malcom Noonan overtakes John Paul Phelan, Patrick O’Neill bows out

By Kilkenny Now 10th February 2020 3

Fine Gael candidate Patrick O’Neill has been eliminated from the race for the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency after the fifth count at the Lyrath Estate tonight. Fianna Fáil TD John McGuinness is now just 73 votes from reaching the 12,272 quota to be confirmed as the second TD to be returned in the constituency after Sinn Féin’s […]

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ELECTION 2020: Count 4 – McGuinness edges towards seat, Alan Hayes is eliminated

By Kilkenny Now 9th February 2020 0

Just one TD has still been elected to represent Carlow-Kilkenny in the 33rd Dáil after the fourth count in the local General Election 2020 poll. Traditional poll topper John McGuinness, now on 11,622 votes, is just a whisker short of the 12,274 quota to confirm his re-election to Dáil Éireann. Independent candidiate Alan Hayes, a […]

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ELECTION 2020 LATEST: Count 3 – Labour’s Denis Hynes is eliminated

By Kilkenny Now 9th February 2020 0

Labour Party candidate, local councillor and trade union activist Denis Hynes, has been eliminated on the third count of the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency battle. Cllr Hynes was the sole casualty of the third count at the Lyrath Estate Convention Centre tonight. So far only poll topper Kathleen Funchion has been elected to the 33rd Dáil. She […]

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ELECTION 2020: ‘We need to put aside all the differences’ – McGuinness lays down gauntlet to Martin, no candidate elected on second count

By Kilkenny Now 9th February 2020 0

Outspoken Kilkenny TD John McGuinness piled the pressure on Micheál Martin again after he challenged his party leader to speak to Fine Gael and Sinn Fein about forming a new Government. Speaking as he was looking set to claim the second seat in the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency at the count centre tonight, Deputy McGuinness urged Fianna […]

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ELECTION 2020 LATEST: ‘I can’t believe it, I never expected it’ – the first votes are in, Kathleen Funchion makes history

By Kilkenny Now 9th February 2020 0

Kathleen Funchion made history this evening after she became the first ever female TD representing the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency to be re-elected to Dáil Eireann. The Sinn Féin deputy topped the local poll in spectacular fashion after she secured just under 24% of the first preference vote, leaving her Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael rivals trailing […]

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REVEALED: Number of days Kilkenny TDs missed a vote while present in Dáil

By Kilkenny Now 31st October 2019 0

Kilkenny TDs did not cast a vote in the Dáil chamber for a combined 107 days over the last three years, despite their presence being recorded in Leinster House at the time. The analysis of Dáil voting was compiled by RTÉ Investigates. It reveals the total number of days each TD was marked present in […]