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TOO OFTEN WE’RE told that young people just don’t care when it comes to politics, but that’s not exactly the case.
In attempting to show that politics is not just for old, white, middle-class men (and the occasional woman) we’ve compiled a list of who we think will be the people to watch in the months and years ahead, particularly in the lead-up to the next general election.
Our by no means exhaustive list of the 30 hottest young politicos in Ireland right now includes councillors, candidates and those who’ve already made waves in youth politics. Almost all of them are under 30, from all over the country and from various diverse backgrounds.
In the coming months, we’ll be attempting to speak to all of these bright young things and discover just why they’re so passionate about a profession that is so often derided.
The list, in alphabetical order, has been compiled by our political editor Hugh O’Connell along with political writer Órla Ryan.
The 21-year-old Wicklow native got a taste for politics through his role as the LGBT coordinator at UCD. Sam recently told TheJournal.ie he wants to ”amplify the voices of marginalised communities and to represent young people and give them a voice“.
The Labour member began the transition from woman to male three years ago, and wants to be the first transgender candidate to run for election in Ireland – with his eye on becoming a councillor in the 2019 local elections.
Within months of joining the Green Party, this 23-year-old college graduate was elected chair of the Young Greens and is already minded to run for the Dáil, telling TheJournal.ie recently: “I’m just kind of tired of middle-aged men pissing away my future all the time.”
Though the Green party faces a long road back from its electoral wipeout in 2011, Bogue is part of the so-called ‘New Greens’, who will be contesting elections in the years to come.
Another ‘New Green’ is this Dublin city councillor who was elected for the first time in May of last year. Byrne has, amongst other things, produced these excellent animations of all the local election counts.
She would have been in contention to be a Dáil candidate for the party had Eamon Ryan not decided to run in Dublin Bay South, but she will certainly be among the contenders in years to come.
Oughterard native Niamh Byrne is Connemara councillor, who also popped up on the secret list of potential general election candidates receiving special training from Fine Gael.
The youngest councillor in her area to be elected last year, she could benefit from the gender quota rule and be on the general election ticket in Galway West next time out. Byrne is also the current deputy mayor of Galway County Council.
5. Jack Chambers (Fianna Fáil)
The Fingal Councillor made headlines recently when he was selected to represent Fianna Fáil in the general election in Dublin West – where the late finance minister Brian Lenihan held a seat.
He beat fellow councillor David McGuinness, who later quit the party. Chambers is based in Castleknock. He is currently studying medicine, having previously completed a degree in law and political science at Trinity College.
6. Lisa Chambers (Fianna Fáil)
This 28-year-old barrister is a Mayo county councillor based in Castlebar and was one the youngest female candidates in the country at the last general election in 2011. Held in high regard within the party, Chambers could yet be on the ticket with sitting TD Dara Calleary at the next election.
7. John Cummins (Fine Gael)
The 27-year-old Waterford councillor is the son of Fine Gael’s Seanad leader Maurice Cummins. But despite his youth he’s already in his second council term having served as mayor of Waterford city first time out.
The PE teacher’s family links and experience at such a young age would make him well-placed to be a future candidate for the party although he’s unlikely to be in the mix this time around. He made headlines last year after securing a court order directing Twitter to remove defamatory tweets.
8. Stephen Cunningham (Sinn Féin)
This student of government at UCC was elected to Cork city council at the tender age of 21 last year. He still has another two years to go in college, but Cunningham topped the poll in Cork city north east in the local election.
His youthful looks were the subject of some Twitter comment during the local elections last year. But there’s no doubt his early election success means he’s well-positioned to advance within Sinn Féin in the coming years.
Eustace helped to orchestrate a significant victory for the youth wing of the party at its recent conference where a motion calling for the reversal of dole cuts for under-26s was passed by delegates. As the current chair of Labour Youth, he will be one to watch in the coming years.
10. Mairead Farrell (Sinn Féin)
This 25-year-old Galway city councillor holds a degree in economics and history from NUIG and a masters in finance from Queen’s in Belfast. On her Twitter, she describes herself as a socialist, republican and feminist. One of Sinn Féin’s rising stars.
The Blackrock-based councillor came to national prominence last year in her high-profile battle with former minister Mary Hanafin. Feeney, the former chair of Ógra Fianna Fáil, has recently put her hat in the ring for the nomination to be the party’s Dáil candidate in Dún Laoghaire setting up another battle with Hanafin.
She is the daughter of former Fianna Fáil senator Geraldine Feeney and would herself be in contention for the Seanad if her Dáil bid doesn’t work out.
A 28-year-old councillor for north inner city Dublin, Gannon gave a widely-praised speech at the MacGill Summer School last year, arguing that young people are apathetic towards because the political culture that is “morally bankrupt”.
A strong activist on the ground, he previously helped early school leavers to get back into education and employment. Despite his obvious talent he’s never been tempted by parties, saying he would be “mortified being in the youth wing of a party”.
13. Jonathan Graham (Sinn Féin)
The Trinity student was running for South Dublin County Council when he was just 19 and has already had to contend with death threats since being elected. Well-regarded within the party, the Clondalkin-based councillor won’t be running in the general election this time around, but is definitely one to watch.
14. Sarah Jane Hennelly (Independent)
Hennelly stood as an independent candidate in the 2014 local election for Limerick City East. She is particularly focused on youth unemployment and plans to run in the general election. The 26-year-old, who is originally from Mayo, works as a researcher at the University of Limerick’s Medical School.
15. Jane Horgan Jones (Labour)
A Labour councillor since being co-opted onto minister Aodhan O Riordain’s seat in 2011, the Clontarf-based criminal barrister is the daughter of former Labour senator and press ombudsman John Horgan.
Though active on the ground and one of the few Labour councillors re-elected in 2014, she is not expected to be in the mix as a candidate at the next general election, but may come into contention in future elections.
16. Frank Kennedy (Fianna Fáil)
This Dublin city councillor is highly-rated in the party and could have been it’s general election candidate in Dublin Bay South were it not for the presence of Jim O’Callaghan.
Kennedy studied law at UCD, the University of Toulouse in France and Oxford and once interned for the late US senator Ted Kennedy. He looks well-placed to run for the party in future general elections – provided he holds onto his council seat.
17. Aoibhinn Kenny (Fine Gael)
Enda Kenny’s daughter recently got on the prestigious Washington Ireland Programme, which counts Leo Varadkar among its alumni. She previously ran for Irish langauge officer on UCD’s student’s union and although she didn’t elected she remains active in student politics as a member of Young Fine Gael. Were the Taoiseach to retire, she would be well-placed to run for his seat, just as Kenny ran for his father’s in 1975.
Martin currently represents the Balbriggan ward on Fingal County Council. The People Before Profit Alliance regularly uses social media to show the public the inner workings of council and party meetings. Of late, he’s been particularly vocal on the Dunnes Stores strike and, of course, water charges.
19. Dale McDermott (Fine Gael)
The former president of Young Fine Gael recently stepped down to focus on the final year of his studies. But the 22-year-old remains active in local politics having been recently elected as chairperson of the Fine Gael branch in Dublin South-West and he is a prominent in the Yes campaign for the marriage referendum. A future Dáil run cannot be ruled out.
A first-time councillor on Louth County Council, McGahon is also a parliamentary assistant in Leinster House. With two incumbent Fine Gael TDs likely to be seeking re-election in Louth, McGahon is unlikely to be in the mix at the next election but rumour has it that he might be in contention for the Seanad.
The Kilkenny councillor came to national prominence recently after defecting from Fianna Fáil – a party he had been with for 10 years – to join the newest party in the country, Renua.
McKee had been considering seeking the Fianna Fáil nomination for the Carlow-Kilkenny by-election, but after Bobby Aylward won that spot, he decided to join Renua and run as its candidate. His performance in May will indicated whether he stands a chance of getting elected to the Dáil in the general election.
22. Ciara McPhillips (Fine Gael)
McPhillips has been a Fine Gael councillor in Monaghan since 2011. She was co-opted onto the council after Heather Humphreys TD was elected to the Dáil. She studied law at UCD through the Access programme, and now works as an apprentice solicitor.
The 28-year-old recently told us she wants to see more people her age getting involved in politics as the absence of young people in any profession “can lead to inertia and a repetition of the same old ways”.
Murphy has one vital learning experience under her belt: losing an election. The 30-year-old unsuccessfully contested the local election in Rathfarnham, Dublin last year.
The former inter-county footballer is one of several young women that represents the ‘new face’ of Fianna Fáil, as the party tries to rebuild its image from its disastrous general election outing in 2011.
The current president of Ógra Fianna Fáil, the Clare native also sits on the party’s national executive. The 26-year-old has been involved with the party since his student days and is big on the grassroots being at the centre of Fianna Fáil’s renewal and revival. Definitely one to watch as a possible future election candidate.
O’Brien represents Killiney/Shankill on Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, but has bigger ambitions than that. The 29-year-old member plans to run for Sinn Fein in the general election to “help give young people a voice”.
“It is my aim to act as role model for other young people who may consider entering politics in Ireland. Young people are simply under-represented in Dáil Éireann,” he said.
26. Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Sinn Féin)
This 26-year-0ld Cork county councillor is the Sinn Féin general election candidate in Cork South Central where the party has a fighting chance of taking a seat.
He was just 20 when he stood for his first council election in 2009, narrowly missing out. A graduate of law at UCC, Ó Laoghaire was previously the national organiser of Sinn Féin’s Youth Wing and is highly-rated within the party.
27. Cian Prendiville (AAA/Socialist Party)
The Anti-Austerity Alliance unanimously selected Prendiville as their general election candidate for Limerick City earlier this month. As a founding member of the ‘We Won’t Pay’ campaign, he’s been behind several anti-water charge protests in Limerick.
During his time on Limerick Council, he’s been particularly vocal on issues such as housing, jobs and opposition to the property tax. A new Paul Murphy in the making.
This 27-year-old councillor, who works as a parliamentary assistant, was first elected to Dublin City Council last May and has been particularly savvy when it comes to getting his name in both local and national media. He’s all but certain to the party’s candidate in Dublin North West at the next election where Fine Gael does not currently have a seat.
Tallon replaced Aidan Culhane on Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in September 2011, representing the area she grew up in: Dundrum. She retained her seat in last year’s local election.
The 29-year-old music teacher was behind a campaign encouraging people to shop locally. From her experience on the council, she previously told us “it takes an awfully long time for things to happen”, adding: “We have little powers in the council but there are huge things you can do.”
This Trinity graduate came to prominence in 2012 as one of the leading members of the Campaign for Labour Policies, a group of disaffected Labour members unhappy with the party’s decisions in government.
But the 25-year-old remained with the party as others left. He was recently elected as a vice president of the Young European Socialists, Labour’s European grouping. It was the first time in over 25 years that a Labour Youth member has held such a position.
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Can I just throw it out there and say I got to number 1 and presumed it was a pisstake article
How many of these are regular contributors to the journal i wonder? 90%?
If I see one more mention of Lorna Bogue on the Journal, I’m calling shenanigans.
1 and 30 should quietly leave through the back door.
Claire Byrnes back door is all I’m sayin.
Sorry!!
Is this what Tinder looks like?
Ladies and gentlemen i give you. .. The treasonous filth of the future, soon to be korrupted by the money that is allowed into our democracy unrestricted. It disgusts me.
All of a sudden I’m very inspired to vote.
Anyone noticed the amount of 15 year olds Sinn Fein are grooming for an explosive political career?
Look at Kenny in the first photo- “Yeah!.”
I agree, and just to put some flesh on that, here in Limerick, set out below are the sums of money paid to some local TD’s since the March 2011 election up to about late 2014: Dan Neville €529,585; Patrick O’Donovan €518,891; Niall Collins €517,966; Willie O’Dea €516,510; Kieran O’Donnell €500,794; Jan O’Sullivan €390,248; Michael Noonan €354,738. Not included are the extra salaries paid to Ministers and Ministers of State which puts the takings for the 3 latter names above, much higher again. On top of this, add in the outrageous pensions that they have accumulated during the period (while Noonan was raiding struggling private pension funds). And this was through a period of the severest austerity this state has ever experienced!
The lingo run for her father’s seat is exactly whats wrong in Irish politics.Then the parish pumping sympathy voters elect people on sentiment and nepotism rather than potential and policy.Pathetic.
Wouldn’t it be more pathetic to vote for a party with a “Tax the rich” policy to apparently solve all our problems. If your too lazy to do a bit of community work and “Parish Pumping” as you call it why do you deserve to be elected.
And she’ll get to run for her father’s seat exactly because of her potential and policy? She has potential because she would have learned/work from her father perhaps through meeting and greeting voters at her fathers constituency offices and people voted for her father because of FG policies which will be pretty much the same under her candidacy anyway.
Did you see her on Vincent Brown? couldnt even be arsed to learn the policies you mention.
They all look like estate agents.
Looks like Lorraine Higgins is over the hill.
That could be deemed as online abuse….be careful
It doesn’t even have to be abusive. If hearing “Lorraine Higgins” causes you alarm, then it’s a violation of her bill.
Careful, Paul. The fascist censors will get the thought police after you.
She started at the bottom and never really managed to get much further .
I’m alarmed by this comment. /s
Was waiting and then number 17 pops up
Sad political dynasties are so common
Our future leader most likely. She looks like she knows how to make tough decisions. Much respect.
Blackensee is the head off Alan Hughes.
If you think the dynasty thing is bad you should hear some of the reasons I’ve heard out and about over the years for why they were voting for someone.
I’ve lost count of the number of canvasses I’ve been on and I’ve only been asked an actual policy question three times, talking to 100s and 100s of people. They seem to care if “he’s local” (does he live around the area and has he done so for a while), they get exited if they went to the same college or school. Some meet them for 30 seconds and make their decision based on “he seems all right”…it’s crazy
The yes men of tomorrow…today!
@yfg – would u please off. You are not YFG or indeed a FG supporter. Quit trolling
Baz you’re just jealous because Enda loves me more.
You all laugh at him – but sadly brazenly partisan hacks who literally think “my tribe can do no wrong” not only exist but they make up 90% of those involved in politics.
All you have to do is look around this site to see people complaining about something the people they support does and then defending it 5 minutes later Just yesterday there were posters on here saying it was a disgrace Islamist’s massacred Christians but when the reverse scenario was pointed out they said “ah they were just defending themselves”
The ‘my tribe can do no wrong’ mentality is about turning your brain off and reverting back to gorilla state, and sadly that makes up the vast majority of political animals
@YFG Jammin go get lost
Were Jammin: Stop trolling we know it’s you Baz
Baz: Stop trolling we know it’s you Jammin
I think you two need to sit down together
This complete eeeeeejit is having ANOTHER full on conversation with it’s self again. yfg/baz/ 60 other account’s. Are you answering yourself because people are starting to ignore you? Don’t worry I’ll still talk to you.
Thanks dave I can always rely on you. Where are the usual screenshots though?
Well well, Baz has been out-trolled.
I’ll admit to a little wry smile.
(made it to no.6 btw)
Aren’t they all lovely, girls… Aren’t they also very sensible to be thinking of their pensions, be the T.D or Ministerial, so early in life… Yes, lovely….
Yfg, you think she will bring tough decision making to your party? Something that has been absent while you’ve been in government, as you guys wilted and bowed before merkel and co. choosing to take the easy option and hit the tax paying people of this country at every opportunity. You will have a long road ahead to rebuild your party are the next general election. I will never vote FG again for as long I live!
I don’t want to single out Aoibhinn Kenny in particular as she might seems to be very capable but one sentence stood out to me in the article.
“Were the Taoiseach to retire, she(Kenny’s daughter) would be well-placed to run for his seat, just as Kenny ran for his father’s in 1975.
So nothing changes in Irish politics then. Amazing how people vote for candidates because of their family connections alone. Happens all over the country where your name is enough to get you elected.
Sad state of affairs Brian! When will it ever stop though!
I’d expect a headline like that from The Sun.
Never mix politics and “hottest”.
Grace Tallon is attractive.
but indeed, don’t they ALL have lovely bottoms.
Beauty and Politicians have one thing in common, both are capable to draw peoples attention from more important stuff to less important one…
100% agree, nothing new
The country is crying out for a new modern, direct democracy based, young party.
Sadly we only have 2 types of politician in this country.
1. The 50 year old conservative aul lad or aul one with that refuses to embrace any other attidude of “Ah sure look be grand”.
2.The 30 – 40 year old socialist who thinks the bankers murdered their dog.
Balls, that wasn’t for yerself Vaibhav.
You do know that the “50 year old conservative” was once a young person too? If all a person has going for them is their age, it really isn’t saying much.
“TOO OFTEN WE’RE told that young people just don’t care when it comes to politics, but that’s not exactly the case.”
I’d say many above are more interested in the gravy train….why else would you join parties that have stabbed the electorate in the back.
It’s not as bad as you think. Before I got involved thats what I thought. I found out it’s more mixed. Most do have good motivations – very very few have a kind of detailed vision of what they want to accomplish in 30 years time if they hit the top, some oddballs like me think that part out in a lot of detail but most just wanna generally make the country a better place.
What tends to happen is the system – not any one bad person – the way the system is rigged – attacks your idealism over the years RELENTLESSLY and politicos start to confuse selling out with ‘pragmatism’. If you are an idealist now in terms of wanting to accomplish anything really big (for the country as opposed to yourself) you gget a very patronizing verbal pat on the head as if to say ‘hell learn in time’ Many of them let the 80% of highly uninformed and disinterested voters, and the more unimpressive politicos they have to compete with, turn them off and they become sell outs just to beat them.
Ciara McPhillips is rather attractive.
FG politicians are always the most attractive. Beautiful people, inside and out.
For me no 3 Claire Byrne
Id give her one……but she wouldnt get a vote though
Since 99% of politicos are NOT remotely attractive (this group selected being a highly unusual set of examples) if we made our decisions on voting based on looks we’d have a lot of empty seats in the nexxt Dail.
if only that was really the case……labour would definitely be wiped out, and that little weasel Simon Harris would never be seen again
YFG how come youre mug isnt up there? oh let me guess pimply curly haired Daddys boy from D4 ha
Rooney how do you know it’s not?
The rake skinny politicos tend to be the Shinners actually, YFGers are invariably fat geeky types
I’d sooner go for Niamh @ no.4 she lurvly
The amount of blonds there
Yes it is a bit worrying.
extra likes for you my friend….u got a chuckle out of me
Very worrying. Although im not ff. I could probaly listen to that Lisa chambers for hours on end
True Brendan, and what’s more worrying some sons and daughters too.
One thing that still strikes me as funny. Democracy is supposed to be representative. If thats the case then going by this lot most people in Ireland are either lawyers or teachers. Funny that.
Agree 100% Just had a look at their jobs, solicitors, barristers, teachers, lecturers. Just the type of people who have of real life. No real jobs. Just move on to another thing telling people what’s good for them. God help us,,,
You might actually like Lorna Bogue then Paul. I used to know her through volunteer work with Irish Red Cross. Can’t speak for anyone else on the list but her at least I can say is down to earth and not afraid to get stuck in. People are too quick to write her off because of the green party link.
I know both Lorna Bogue and Sarah Jane Hennelly personally, and have to say that both are extremely down to earth, hard working people that aren’t afraid of rolling up their sleeves and getting stuck in with the rest of us. I think both of them will/would be great candidates for the general election (as would some of the others, I’m sure, but shur, I don’t know them :) )
The ancient Greeks understood that one should never elect to office anyone who wants the job.
Im sure all these young people are lovely. However their ambition to be elected before they have lived in the real world means that they are, by definition, absolutely unsuitable.
I’m 21. 4 years working after I left school early. I’ve attempted a business and have campaigned on issues for 2/3 years working with TDs and councillors. I don’t yet have any intention to run but if I did I don’t see how age would rule me out.
Expérience probaly
In what exactly?
Life!!!
Intelligent comments for a start
To say young people need life experience in order to be tds , is a stupid comment! Who else should represent , the demographic and the issues they unique face in the present day Ireland? The older generation , who don’t and can’t relate ? In the life experience version of the dail no one could be under 70 , absolute nonsense
TD’s are supposed to represent their Constituents, not their ‘demographic’.
Thats one of the problems with you guys . So full of yourselves
I found the number of goodlooking candidates that ran in the locals slightly worrying.
I hope we don’t end up with shallow social media style politics.
2nd this comment
I actually am genuinely depressed after reading this, Churchill’s quote on democracy comes to mind, worst form of government, except for all the others…. why are so many young people in these established parties…Without supprting them I can understand Greens, socialists and maybe even SinnFein to an extent as they all have ideals, but what possesses a person to join FG or FF other than their Dad or Mum being part of that party…. sad very sad :(
Surprised that Fintan Warfield wasn’t on the list. Youngest Mayor in the country and prominent on the SF Equality Ref. campaign.
One of the best politicians on SDCC, and the youngest
Any aspirations to become a politician should automatically ensure you never become one.
I don’t think anyone is amazed that there are young people interested in politics, the question is will they keep their ideals or will they turn into Micheal Noonans, Pat Rabbittes, Eamon Gilmores, Ruri Quinns and Padrig Flynns when they get older or will they keep the same passion to change things that (for some at least) motivated them to get involved.
Seeing Jack Eustace there made me wonder does he or those like him not feel resentment at the geriatrics who rejected the chance to lead the opposition and come back after leaving FG to hobble along with indos, two years later leading what, with SF, would have been Ireland’s first centre-left government, triggering a realignment that might have given us a real choice for the first time ever. Instead, they raced to get their pensions thinking only of the short term arses in seats. Joan and Gilmore have basically destroyed the prospects of people like him for a generation now and will leave them with a devastated party they’ll have to rebuild from scratch, it’s going to be a v hard job
Nepotism springs to mind with a lot of the Conservative party’s, seizmic shift my bum.
What makes them want a career in a position that is derided?? Em probably the best package any job in the country can offer. 90 large a year, same again in expenses, same again in pension, no accountability to anyone, leave when it suits with no consequence and no education required as you will be elected/hired based on who can tell the best lies. As The Notorious Conor McGregor says when derision comes his way – “there’s plenty of money in this job so I can use that to wipe my tears”
If you think it’s so great and easy, why not run yourself?
I don’t mean this as an Enda-bashing comment cos it’s not the right place. However, surely one of the major problems with Politics in this country is the assumption that the children of TDs have a god-given right to run for a deceased parents seat and the numties who fall for it time and again. And yes, I know this happens in other countries but that doesn’t make it ok. Finally, number 26 is a fine looking young man.
They can only stand for election. The power to elect them , or not, belongs to us alone.
SF is not a party, it is more of a cult.
A goodlooking cult says you!
Tap that’s not true. SF have had loads of leadership challenges over years like the one back in……..eh wait never mind
Would that be the father of the Dail saying that YFG?
Just confirms nepotism is confined to FF / FG & Lab,that Independent rapscallion is right,the utter embarrassment of being in the youth wing of a party.
In my opinion, anyone, young or old who hold a desire to be propelled into powerfull positions within this countries government are the very people we shouldnt be voting for.
Take away the generous salaries and expenses and offer the industrial wage instead. Then and only then will you get rid of the paracites who enter politics for their own benefit.
That’s exactly what SF currently do, to their credit.
Some of those birds are hot alrigh
Never trust anyone in a suit.
Especially twenty years old……really scary
only 2 independents… So sick of party politics!
I can never trust a young person who goes into politics, something just never seems right about them.
Bunch of Gowls.
I thought the collective noun for gowls was a shower.
The use of hottest as an adjective is deceptive in this instance. While there certainly are some attractive specimens of men and women in the bunch at least 1/3 of them are homely as a mules behind….
I was deeply disappointed, these weren’t hot at all!
The top 30 hot young politicos in Ireland right now.
The 0 faith I have in any of them.
running for labour in the next election would be like running for sinn fein on the shankill rd.
I didn’t know that people on the Shankill Rd were good at economics.
Would the term ‘bright’ not trump the word ‘hot’ in your headline wording, unless we are using both meanings of the word
I need to vomit.
Where’s the Warfield guy? The hot Shinner?
He’s off protecting rapists…but they were same sex rapists. You know how Shinners are about equality.
When will my choice b delivered to me
Scary….so young and so devoted…..go forth and multiply x
How many of the above are the offspring, or siblings or are in some way related to established or ex politicans, did anyone think to ask?
That is the pertinent question.
No 24, Chandler from Friends?
Hot? Seriously the journal??
I see they’ve given us a list of journal trolls
What a useless and ridiculous article!
Number 1 or number 29 lads?
Roll up roll up more of da youth .
Barry Martin could do with a new stylist.
I can name many airbrushed politicians who have crashed countries. No need for fashion politics
Feminists will be out in force due to this oppressing article! They will scream in pain when they see this!
When I see a member of the Green Religion I see a complete loony.
What’s the big deal about politicians children following in their footsteps? All professions and trades have children doing the same. Fine Gael girls stand out for me.
Agree with this 100%. They still have to get elected.
It isn’t like their parent just hands them a fail seat.
I don’t get the problem at all.
I don’t see any young independent candidates. Same old story push the failed party’s
I highly object to the heading”hottest young” because it is easliy misconstrued to mean something else. What the f is looks going to do for us? So leave the word ‘hottness’ out of it .
Serious question, how in the name of all that is holy am I not on this list?
Ridiculous.
152 of these on a scale of 1-filth are a 9. 1 is pure filth.
15*
Grace Warner # 1 for me..
Grace tallons election posters nearly made me crash my car a while back!!
Why so many FF/FG/Lab and not many others. Why no mention of Fintan Warfield?
Not a carpenter shop assitant bin collector etc. Easy to know who these people respresent.
I know one of the candidates and I’m pretty sure he worked as a barman during his student days. I changed jobs a few years ago and though I’m very proud of working since I was 12, I wasn’t going to list the shit jobs I did.
noel rock a bright star thats a joke ask the people of ballymun he has done nothing for the people there.fine gael will never get that seat as they do nothing for the area
I’d give my Number 1 to Number 22. She’s just drop dead gorgeous. (How shallow am I?)
Let’s be honest here. The FG women are tasty with an honourable mention to one FF and one Labour. The rest are also rans. Of the guys only one, John McGahon, is actually good looking. The rest look like they’ve just organised a student disco in a halting site.
I feel ill reading this list. A bunch of people who are out of touch with the rest of society. The majority at one end of the social spectrum.
We need an end to political dynasties and the majority of the listed associated parties need to be disbanded and smashed.
They look like staff photos from some useless recruiters website
Once they are in a party then anyone voting for them is really just voting for the party as these candidates do not think for themselves at all…
What about Karl Gill, PBP councillor in DLR?
Wheres Joan Burton on this list?
The circus performers of the future government!
Jaysus a lot of them lester piggot wouldn’t get up on to watch the hunt
Why do all the males look like dicks?
Where’s Joan Burton on this list? Woof!!
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