Mystery Seanad Candidates

[DOD16]

I have been looking through the lists of Seanad panel candidates. It is possible to identify party affiliations for most of them, but some remain a mystery (to me anyway).

Does anybody know what (if any) party the following belong to:

Cultural and Educational Panel
Michael Merrigan - I think (from a Google search) that he has a Labour background but if (and it would seem to be a big if) he is elected will he be an Independent?

Labour Panel
Kieran Jack McGinley - He is a regional president of SIPTU but will he be taking the Labour whip if he manages to get elected?

Michael O'Reilly - Another union official (he was nominated by ICTU) - is he Labour?

Don Lydon - Many mysteries surround good auld Don one of which is, given that he was not an officially nominated FF candidate, will he be welcomed back into the FF fold if he makes it back to the Seanad?

Industrial and Commercial Panel
Thomas Collins - Auctioneer from Mayo. Any party?

Edwin Finnegan - Publican and LVA rep. Any party?

Gordon Stopford Millington - With a name like that I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say he's not a Shinner but does he have any party allegiance?

Seamus O'Donoghue - ?

Michael Smyth - ?

Can anybody help?

[dubsthcentralboy]

I have been looking through the lists of Seanad panel candidates. It is possible to identify party affiliations for most of them, but some remain a mystery (to me anyway).

Does anybody know what (if any) party the following belong to:

Cultural and Educational Panel
Michael Merrigan - I think (from a Google search) that he has a Labour background but if (and it would seem to be a big if) he is elected will he be an Independent?

Labour Panel
Kieran Jack McGinley - He is a regional president of SIPTU but will he be taking the Labour whip if he manages to get elected?

Michael O'Reilly - Another union official (he was nominated by ICTU) - is he Labour?

Don Lydon - Many mysteries surround good auld Don one of which is, given that he was not an officially nominated FF candidate, will he be welcomed back into the FF fold if he makes it back to the Seanad?

Industrial and Commercial Panel
Thomas Collins - Auctioneer from Mayo. Any party?

Edwin Finnegan - Publican and LVA rep. Any party?

Gordon Stopford Millington - With a name like that I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say he's not a Shinner but does he have any party allegiance?

Seamus O'Donoghue - ?

Michael Smyth - ?

Can anybody help?

Michael Smyth might be the Fianna Fáiler who ran for election to Fingal County Council in 2004 in Mulhuddart. He's a member of the Committee of Twenty of the Ard Chomairle and is originally from MOnaghan.

[DOD16]

I knew I recognised his name from somewhere!

[factual]

I knew I recognised his name from somewhere!

Hi..are you DOD?

[DOD16]

Hi..are you DOD?

Huh?

[roth ramach]

I have been looking through the lists of Seanad panel candidates. It is possible to identify party affiliations for most of them, but some remain a mystery (to me anyway).

Does anybody know what (if any) party the following belong to:

Cultural and Educational Panel
Michael Merrigan - I think (from a Google search) that he has a Labour background but if (and it would seem to be a big if) he is elected will he be an Independent?

Labour Panel
Kieran Jack McGinley - He is a regional president of SIPTU but will he be taking the Labour whip if he manages to get elected?

Michael O'Reilly - Another union official (he was nominated by ICTU) - is he Labour?

Don Lydon - Many mysteries surround good auld Don one of which is, given that he was not an officially nominated FF candidate, will he be welcomed back into the FF fold if he makes it back to the Seanad?

Industrial and Commercial Panel
Thomas Collins - Auctioneer from Mayo. Any party?

Edwin Finnegan - Publican and LVA rep. Any party?

Gordon Stopford Millington - With a name like that I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say he's not a Shinner but does he have any party allegiance?

Seamus O'Donoghue - ?

Michael Smyth - ?

Can anybody help?

jasus; mick reilly labour? - even the communists wouldn't have him

auctioneers and publicans - surely FF

don lydon remains a mystery even to himself

[aodh_rua]

Labour Panel
Kieran Jack McGinley - He is a regional president of SIPTU but will he be taking the Labour whip if he manages to get elected?

Jack might be known to anyone who was in Trinity in the late-90's and remembers the long running library strike he orchestrated. It rumbled on for at least 5 years and made getting books out of stacks in Santry a challenge on a regular basis.

[Barbarian]

Thomas Collins - Auctioneer from Mayo. Any party?

Can anybody help?

auctioneers and publicans - surely FF

Collins is a FG'er from Castlebar

[Dr Jimbo]

Edwin Finnegan - Publican and LVA rep. Any party?

I'm guessing FF - The Publican Party

[locke]

Today's Examiner had an advert for Ned O'Sullivan running on the Labour panel.

I thought it was slightly odd to take out an ad in a national newspaper when your electorate is so small and easily targetted by other means.