Meath West Decides: Interviews and profiles featuring all the candidates in the three-seat constituency
AISLING DEMPSEY
(FIANNA FAIL)
'Family supports and childcare are so very important today'
As Aisling Dempsey faces into a General Election as the sole Fianna Fail candidate in Meath West, her biggest task will be to break out of her home town of Trim (population 9,563) into Navan (33,886) where she is relatively unknown, she admitted this week. READ ON...
NOEL FRENCH
(Independent)
‘I’m not going in to talk. I'm going in to get things done’
riday's General Election is Trim councillor Noel French's second outing in Meath West but while he ran for the Fine Gael party in 2020, this time he is contesting the election as an independent.
He was one of three Fine Gael candidates in the three-seater constituency last time and polled around seven per cent with his transfers helping bring Damien English over the line. READ ON...
PEADAR TÓIBÍN
(AONTÚ)
'Meath West has been treated diastrously by this Government'
Peadar Tóibín might not use the term “make or break” as the General Election looms but if he is not joined by at least one Aontú Party TD in the Dail his critics are bound to say “this is a one-man band”. READ ON...
JOHNNY GUIRKE
(SINN FEIN)
‘I'm in politics to make a difference to those who are being left behind’
Even allowing for personal illness, illness of a family member and a bereavement, the harsh political reality may be that Mary Lou McDonald’s leadership of Sinn Fein has taken a “wobble” and that she may find it difficult to regain ground in the wake of the party’s handling of the Stanley and particularly O Donnghaile affairs. READ ON...
RONAN MOORE
(Social Democrats)
'It's heartbreaking to see people who need the most basic services having to fight for them'
Childcare and disability services are two of the issues Cllr Ronan Moore is most passionate about. The Social Democrat councillor for the Trim area says we have a dysfunctional childcare system where professionals are getting just over the minimum wage. READ ON...
LINDA NELSON MURRAY
(Fine Gael)
‘I love representing the people of Navan and to give back any way I can’
Linda Nelson Murray's first taste of politics was when she took on the insurance industry when she faced losing her business over massive insurance costs.
Determined to protect the business she had built with her husband, Finbarr Murray, she formed the Play Activity and Leisure Ireland (PALI) lobby group, spoke before a Dáil committee and her campaigning saw a reduction in insurance costs for those in the leisure industry. READ ON...
SANDY GALLAGHER
(Labour)
Gallagher wants united approach on climate change
The Labour Party is running Sandy Gallagher as their candidate in Meath West.
The Ballivor woman says she does not come from a political background but when the political parties visited IT Tallaght when she was a student there in 2002, Labour were the only party with Marriage Equality and the Repeal of the 8th Amendment on their agenda. READ ON...
FINBAR LYNCH
(People Before Profit)
Housing crisis the priority for PBP
Navan man, Finbar Lynch, is who is running as a People Before Profit candidate in Meath West says the housing crisis is central to his party's campaign.
Lynch, who works in the public sector, says he experienced the housing crisis himself while in college and living and working in Dublin when he lived in seven different places over a nine to ten year period.