I meant to upload this previously. Here are the 9 members of the Fine Gael group on the newly installed Kildare County Council.
From (l-r) you have:
Back Row: Cllrs. Tony O’Donnell, Micheál ‘Spike’ Nolan, Seamus Langan, Richard Daly and Tony Lawlor
Front Row: Cllrs. Martin Heydon, Brendan Weld (Deputy Mayor), Senan Griffin (Group Leader) and [...]
The Defence Forces can count on Fine Gael, says local election candidate Tony O’Donnell.
The Government have attacked the Defence Forces on a number of fronts in 2009.
Ordinary soldiers and families have seen savage income cuts
The Curragh Camp will not have a cadet class for the first time since 1926
Recruitment has ceased and promotions have been frozen
The [...]
Candidates Martin Heydon and Tony O'Donnell
A belated well done to FG candidate Martin Heydon on his excellent campaign launch last Friday.
Martin is running for Kildare County Council in the newly expanded Athy LEA, and I am sure everyone in Fine Gael wishes him all the best. Hopefully the party ticket of Cllr Billy Hillis, Cllr [...]
Minister Lenihan’s admission that he didn’t read the PwC report on Anglo raises serious questions about his fitness for office. As a Senior Counsel, would Mr Lenihan have failed to read his brief before entering the courtroom – especially if the case was the biggest of his career? Could an engineer watch a bridge collapse, and then [...]
Monasterevin could be facing the emergence of gangs according to local residents. The town of over 3,000 is served by a part-time Garda station, and residents are concerned that local youths are running amok in the absence of a visible Garda presence.
Recent years have seen an escalating record of vandalism including arson attacks on the local [...]
Great to hear today that former Uachtarán of the GAA, Séan Kelly, has declared his intention to run as Fine Gael candidate in next year’s Euro elections. Séan hopes to get a nomination in the Ireland South constituency, which broadly means Munster.
Best [...]
Addressing this weekend’s Fine Gael National Conference, local election candidate Tony O’Donnell stated that the Government’s attempts to withdraw the medical card for those over 70 amounted to a cruel act of social vandalism. He went on to state that the lack of any commitment to index-linking for the revised scheme means that more people will [...]
Tony with Leo Varadkar TD
Leo Varadkar TD joined Cllr Fionnuala Dukes, former councillor Michael McWey, party Vice President Alan Dukes and a large crowd of well-wishers at the official launch of Tony O’Donnell’s campaign for Kildare County Council last Friday, November 7. Deputy Varadkar is the Fine Gael spokesperson on Enterprise & Employment, and one [...]
Government TDs Michael Fitzpatrick and Sean Power were last night confronted by the anger and frustration of Kildare\West Wicklow IFA. The Deputies were attending a budget information meeting organised by local farmers, and comments from the floor sent them a strong message that the planned suspension of Installation Aid and the Early Retirement Scheme must be [...]
The Government’s announcement that they will increase the income limits for over-70 medical cards is an improvement, but will still lead to confusion according to Fine Gael’s Tony O’Donnell. The Department of Health & Children have published a set of questions and answers to accompany the revised scheme. This Q&A clearly states that universal access will [...]
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