Sinn Féin TD for Carlow-Kilkenny TD Kathleen Funchion has welcomed the publication of the report by the Child Maintenance Review Group which was established in 2020. The report concluded that child maintenance is in need of immediate and radical reform, urgency the local Sinn Féin TD says she has repeatedly sought from Government on this issue. These reforms will […]
A Kilkenny TD has called for people to be given a ‘cost of living’ cash payment to combat rampant inflation. Deputy Kathleen Funchion said that while the Government’s €100 energy credit “is better than nothing”, it does not go far enough. Her party is instead calling for people earning up to €30,000 to be given […]
Older people and those on lower incomes in Kilkenny are facing a double whammy of increased fuel prices amid a backlog of householders who have been left waiting for energy upgrades to be made to their homes, a local TD has said. Deputy Kathleen Funchion warned some of the most vulnerable in our society are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Kilkenny’s traditional poll topper John McGuinness has been re-elected to Dáil Éireann at the sixth count in the Carlow Kilkenny constituency battle of the 2020 General Election. The outspoken Fianna Fáil TD has to settle for second place this time around after Kathleen Funchion polled 17,493 first preference votes on the back of a strong […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]