Dublin North
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Dublin North is a parliamentary constituency in the Republic of Ireland, located in the northern area of County Dublin. The constituency has an electorate of 72,908 and at present is served by 4 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election is the Single Transferable Vote.
The constituency is made up of the Balbriggan and Malahide electoral areas of Fingal County Council and the majority of the Swords electoral area. Recent boundary revisions have seen rural parts of the Swords area appended to the Dublin West constituency but the constituency will retain its four seats with the growth in new housing throughout the constituency largely in the Balbriggan area. In the 2007 general election three sitting TDs, Seán Ryan, G. V. Wright, and Jim Glennon will not be running. The leading candidates for 2007 are Trevor Sargent TD (Green Party), Cllr. Michael Kennedy (FF), Brendan Ryan (Labour), and Cllr. Clare Daly (Socialist Party).
Recent Developments:-
Due to the surprise announcement by Jim Glennon not to run in the forthcoming election, much media and indeed party speculation has arisen as to who should be the third Fianna Fail candidate to contest the 2007 election, The Fianna Fail party feel in a four seater then three candidates should contest, the Leading name that has arisen is Local Malahide Woman Aimee Ahern, a Sporty and Attractive 35 year old Auditor and niece of the Taoiseach and daughter of Fianna Fail politician and former Lord Mayor of Dublin Maurice Ahern. While some initially regarded Aimee Ahern as not having quite enough experience it was pointed out in various medium that Aimee Ahern had in fact sought to be a candidate in a previous election just missing out and had played a significant part in the 'Drumcondra Set' the most well-oiled political machine in the country. Aimee Ahern has yet to to officially throw her hat in the ring but is now widely tipped to do so many believing in the party that a young attractive and politcally connected woman would stand the best chance in the next election against the likely challenger Clare Daly. Royston Brady the former Councillor has also been mentioned but is not expected to seek a nomination.
see Irish Independent 3/11/06 and Morning Ireland RTE Radio 1 3/11/06
[edit] Recent Results
| 2002 General Election: Dublin North | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Trevor Sargent | Green | 7,294 | 16.60 | 1 | 6 | |
| Seán Ryan | Labour | 6,359 | 14.47 | 2 | 7 | |
| Jim Glennon | Fianna Fáil | 5,892 | 13.41 | 3 | 8 | |
| G.V. Wright | Fianna Fáil | 5,658 | 12.88 | 4 | 8 | |
| Clare Daly | Socialist | 5,501 | 12.52 | |||
| Michael Kennedy | Fianna Fáil | 5,253 | 11.95 | |||
| Nora Owen | Fine Gael | 4,012 | 9.13 | |||
| Mick Davis | Sinn Féin | 1,350 | 3.07 | |||
| Cathal Boland | Fine Gael | 1,177 | 2.68 | |||
| Ciarán Goulding | Independent | 914 | 2.08 | |||
| Eamon Quinn | Independent | 285 | 0.65 | |||
| David Walshe | Christian Solidarity | 247 | 0.56 | |||
[edit] See also
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in Ireland
