General Election campaigns are not cheap to run and even more difficult for the candidates in Kilkenny who are not members of the big party machines. Because of this some of the candidates have turned to the public in an effort to level the funding playing field in an effort to get their faces into […]
Unless opinion polls have been getting it badly wrong, the result of this General Election is unlikely to be very different from the outcome of the last one. In 2016, Fine Gael got just over 25% of the first preference vote and Fianna Fáil a little over 24%. Support for the two big parties has […]
Minister John Paul Phelan didn’t mince his words when he outlined his views about the Green Party during an Irish Farmers’ Association dinner in his native Kilkenny over the weekend. Despite stating his words were misrepresented, Minister Phelan has not watered down his sentiments and reiterated his belief that some of the policies promoted by […]
A Kilkenny county councillor has been appointed to a European Union body which advises policy regarding how we develop cities and regions. Malcolm Noonan, the Green Party Councillor for Kilkenny, has been appointed to the European Union’s Committee of the Regions (CoR). Mr Noonan, who is the Green Party’s National spokesperson for Local Government, was […]
THE first item on an Irish political agenda is The Split, said Brendan Behan, and the Left has always done its best to prove him correct. Of late it has excelled itself and Paul Murphy’s establishment of a new party (group is the word the TD prefers) leaves Irish socialism more divided than at any […]
TOMORROW marks the biggest mobilisation of climate and environmental activism in history – and the Green Party is urging the people of Kilkenny to rise up and join the movement. History is being made, and we all need to decide which side of history we want to be on. Young people inspired by the actions […]
By SHANE DORAN LOCAL Green councillor Malcolm Noonan has urged Ireland’s EU Commissioner – the former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan – to scrap the controversial trade deal with South America as wildfires continue to rage across the Amazon rainforest. Councillor Noonan said the Mercosur deal between the EU and South American countries would encourage further […]
GREEN Party councillor Malcolm Noonan has challenged the newly elected Kilkenny County Council to show leadership in tacking the climate change crisis.with the support of the Labour Party, Cllr Noonan, with the support of the Labour Party, has tabled a motion for the June monthly meeting calling for the council to declare a climate and […]
THE final list of elected candidates for the Ireland South constituency will not be known until June 21 after Sinn triggered a full recount in the European Parliament election. The recount will begin at 9am next Tuesday morning in Cork and could cost the State up to €1m. The recount decision was made after it […]
THE Green wave was not quite the tsunami RTE’s exit poll had led us to expect. More of a spring tide, really. And that, for the party, could prove a blessing in disguise. It has not been given control of any council nor put in a position where it will have to implement its policies, […]