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ELECTION 2020 GUIDE: Páidí Manning – How to make the most of your vote at the ballot box tomorrow

By Kilkenny Now 7th February 2020 0

Ireland’s system of voting is generally regarded as one of the fairest in the global democratic process. But it can be confusing for many people, especially those going to the polls for the first time. Ahead of the final countdown to General Election 2020, PAÍDÍ MANNING explains how our ‘PR’ voting system works and how […]

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ELECTION 2020 SPECIAL: Páidí Manning – Who will be your TDs in 33rd Dáil? We assess the runners and riders in Carlow-Kilkenny

By Kilkenny Now 4th February 2020 0

The Carlow-Kilkenny constituency is traditionally one of the most conservative in the country, and up until recently it was widely expected to return three Fianna Fáil TDs and two from Fine Gael, with Sinn Féin’s Kathleen losing out. Or so we thought… Now the tide appears to have turned fairly dramatically in Kathleen’s favour following […]

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PÁIDÍ MANNING: Battle stations! How Kilkenny’s General Election candidates are shaping up

By Kilkenny Now 5th November 2019 0

WITH the prospect of a General Election looming in the New Year, PÁIDÍ MANNING assesses the chances of the 11 candidates who have so far decalred their intention to contest the Kilkenny-Carlow constituency. John McGuinness TD – Fianna Fáil There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and John McGuinness topping the poll. Micheál Martin […]

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PÁIDÍ MANNING: Crunching the numbers – where Kilkenny local elections were won and lost

By Kilkenny Now 28th May 2019 0

By PÁIDÍ MANNING IN an election where Fine Gael was hammered by the opposition over rural broadband and the Children’s Hospital even before the Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy and Maria Bailey put their feet in it (and out of it in Maria’s case), remarkably it was Sinn Féin who fell off the swing. There are […]