Cork East Constituency

[shammy feen]

How many chins has John Mulvihill?...answers on a postcard please...

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[jungle]

I'm orn between an answer of zero and an answer of an infinite number spread over a finite area creating the illusion of a continuous surface.

[farel']

He really piled on the kgs since he was first elected. He used to be pretty slim.

[storysham]

How many chins has John Mulvihill?...answers on a postcard please...

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or two postcards even.

[farel']

There are two independants in cork east. One lives in the same town as me.

Never heard of him, haven't a clue what he is standing for(or not).

[Langer Dan]

well, iv not had anyone call to the door. Not a soul.

[shammy feen]

David Stanton called to our door...seems like a nice chap.

[Langer Dan]

iv gotten all the crap in the post, but not a sinner has called to the door.

very poor canvessing really.

[shammy feen]

John Mulvihill's brother called to the door last night...also seemed like a decent chap.

[STEVIEG]

or two postcards even.

:)

[jungle]

Sorry to take the emphasis away from John Mulvihill's chins, but those of you who live there might like to read this.

FF feud descends into open warfare
By Conor Ryan and Sean O’Riordan

A BITTER feud between rival Fianna Fáil candidates has descended into open warfare just hours before the start of polling.

The outgoing candidates in Cork East, Ned O’Keefe and Michael Ahern, accused each other of failing constituents at their own doorstep.

Nostrils flared in recent days over an advert placed in the Avondhu newspaper.

The newspaper is based in Mr O’Keefe’s heartland of north Cork and the advert asked voters to forget about geography and vote for the southern candidate Michael Ahern.





Junior minister Ahern admitted his team had placed the ad and said traditional boundaries meant nothing in this election.

“Deputy O’Keefe, or should I say Mr O’Keefe because he is not elected yet, should worry about his own campaign.

“At the last election there was a boundary in place which he broke lock, stock and barrel right up to my doorstep. This time there is no boundary so it is open territory,” he said.

Councillor Frank O’Flynn, a loyal member of Mr Ahern’s campaign team, said the ad was in retaliation for Mr O’Keefe’s canvassing tactics.

“He is going around the place telling people to vote ‘One Ned O’Keefe, Two Sinn Féin’, that is not playing ball,” he said.

Mr O’Keefe denies this and said he has never advocated a vote for Sinn Féin.

He criticised Mr Ahern’s track record and said his promotion to junior minister should have been used to better effect.

“If I had five years as a minister, people working for me and a car given to me I would have this place buzzing. We would be fighting for three seats not trying to hold onto two.

“People are laughing that we now have a seat at risk. All he [Mr Ahern] can speak about is sports’ and lottery grants when there is jobs being lost in his own end of the constituency,” he said.

In recent days he wrote to constituents in Youghal saying he did not support the investment policy of the Department of Enterprise where Mr Ahern was serving as a junior minister.

He claims the Government had failed to bring adequate investment to the east of the constituency.

Mr Ahern said his party colleague is forgetting about the investment in his own patch and towns like Mitchelstown.

He feels some of the techniques used by the O’Keefe campaign at the doorstep amount to slander.

“I have heard some of the comments he has been saying and if I was different I would be bringing him to court.

“I won’t be taking any action but with what people have been ringing me with I would be within my rights,” he said.

The spat serves to highlight the bitter struggles between the north and the south of the constituency a week after Sean Sherlock and John Mulvihill clashed in the Labour Party.

[mrMousey]

Vote. Stanton no. 1 (nice guy -spent 2 mins with me at the door step) and about 40 mins with my Wife (poor guy), sound for taking her off my hands... get my no.1....

[Padraig Mor]

Sorry to take the emphasis away from John Mulvihill's chins, but those of you who live there might like to read this.

Also re Michael Ahern: his literature is promoting him on (among other things) the fact that he is the brother of Maurice Ahern, a Councillor. This is the same Maurice Ahern who helped force through rezoning of land for a housing estate in Midleton and was then appointed, in his profession as an estate agent, to sell the houses. He apparently reckons there is no conflict of interest there...

[shammy feen]

Back on topic to the Chins...

What was all that about a Mulvihill / Sherlock spat?
First I heard about it...

[jungle]

The conventional wisdom says that Cork East is really two two-seat constituencies, so the parties divide up between their candidates.

Every one of themajor parties has one candidate from the Mallow-Mitchelstown-Fermoy area and the other from the Cobh-Midleton-Youghal area.

Mulvihill was upset that Sherlock was campaigning in what he perceived as his part of the constituency.

It probably will go 2 seats north, 2 seats south again, which is a pity because O'Keeffe is the better of the two Fianna Fail candidates, while Sherlock is the better of the two Labour candidates. There's not much to call, between Bradford and Stanton. One way or the other though, there is likely to be at least one weak TD returned on the basis of geography. If it was on ability, it would be Stanton, Bradford, Sherlock and Ahern who got in.

[Langer Dan]

Stanton called to the door last night, my faith in democracy is restored.

[Beaty]

I'm voting Mulvihill because:

1) I love Star Wars
2) I want to upset the FF Apple Cart in East Cork

BM

[mirps]

The conventional wisdom says that Cork East is really two two-seat constituencies, so the parties divide up between their candidates.

Every one of themajor parties has one candidate from the Mallow-Mitchelstown-Fermoy area and the other from the Cobh-Midleton-Youghal area.

Mulvihill was upset that Sherlock was campaigning in what he perceived as his part of the constituency.

It probably will go 2 seats north, 2 seats south again, which is a pity because O'Keeffe is the better of the two Fianna Fail candidates, while Sherlock is the better of the two Labour candidates. There's not much to call, between Bradford and Stanton. One way or the other though, there is likely to be at least one weak TD returned on the basis of geography. If it was on ability, it would be Stanton, Bradford, Sherlock and Ahern who got in.

Can't remember a candidate from youghal ever running or getting in, was there one?

That mclellan one who's running is from youghal alright and i was tempted but in the end i couldn't bring myself to vote SF.... I bet she'll do alright though.

[mirps]

The conventional wisdom says that Cork East is really two two-seat constituencies, so the parties divide up between their candidates.

Every one of themajor parties has one candidate from the Mallow-Mitchelstown-Fermoy area and the other from the Cobh-Midleton-Youghal area.

Mulvihill was upset that Sherlock was campaigning in what he perceived as his part of the constituency.

It probably will go 2 seats north, 2 seats south again, which is a pity because O'Keeffe is the better of the two Fianna Fail candidates, while Sherlock is the better of the two Labour candidates. There's not much to call, between Bradford and Stanton. One way or the other though, there is likely to be at least one weak TD returned on the basis of geography. If it was on ability, it would be Stanton, Bradford, Sherlock and Ahern who got in.

Can't remember a candidate from youghal ever running or getting in, was there one?

That mclellan one who's running is from youghal alright and i was tempted but in the end i couldn't bring myself to vote SF.... I bet she'll do alright though.

[Glimmerman]

I'm voting Mulvihill because:

1) I love Star Wars
2) I want to upset the FF Apple Cart in East Cork

BM

The trouble is that Mulvihill might eat the apple cart before you get a chance to upset it. Don't stand around too long yourself either.

[Wumble]

He has one chin but it can only be explained in nine dimensions.

Stanton is indeed a nice fella and disarmingly smart. The idiots in north Cork have none of that going for them.

[farel']

Jim O Keefe was campaigning in Aherns home town on wednesday. The cheeky fecker.