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Friday April 23, 2004 20:07

by Website watcher

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The SWp initially announced that they would be standing fifteen local election candidates. Now a revised list has appeared on their website. Three of them have disappeared.

The three missing candidates are

Deirdre Cronin (Dundrum)
Kieran McNulty (Tralee)
Dick Roche (Waterford)

McNulty was an odd choice to stand in the first place. As the only active member of the SWP in the area he lacked any kind of support infrastructure. The other two removals from the list are harder to explain.

Roche was widely considered to be one of the few SWP candidates who might get a respectable vote. Cronin was going to do poorly, but probably no worse than most of the twelve remaining. The generously inclined might think that the SWP are making a non-sectarian gesture in standing here aside for a much stronger SP candidate in the same ward. The generously inclined would be wrong - the SWP are still standing a weak candidate against a stronger SP one in the Liberties.

The remaining candidates are just as weak with the exceptions of Richard Boyd Barrett and Brid Smith.

So what's going on? The SWP are now standing only in Dublin or the East coast. (with Gorey representing their furthest outlying candidate). The general weakness of the organisation outside of Dublin is all too plain, with their inability to find a candidate in any of the other major population centres.

The revised list of SWP candidates can be found below:

Brid Smith (Ballyfermot)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dun Laoghaire)
Catherine Kennedy (Bray West)
Joyce Power (Bray North)
Christy Moore (Ballybrack)
Gino Kenny (Clondalkin)
Terry Connolly (Rathmines)
Kevin Wingfield (Ballymun/Whitehall)
John Carthy (Gorey)
Ritchie Browne (Artane/Coolock)
Shay Ryan (Dublin South East Inner City)
Brendan Donohoe (Dublin South West Inner City)

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Comments (53 of 53)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	The Tralee change is no surprise	Kerry maid	Fri Apr 23, 2004 21:19
2	Right	Not exactly inconsolable	Fri Apr 23, 2004 21:38
3	Too true	John	Fri Apr 23, 2004 21:54
4	Q	Kev	Fri Apr 23, 2004 22:01
5	Answers	Answergirl	Fri Apr 23, 2004 22:21
6	Get a life	Dub SWP	Sat Apr 24, 2004 01:05
7	LOL	observer	Sat Apr 24, 2004 02:20
8	Dub SWP	Got a life	Sat Apr 24, 2004 02:22
9	Why???	observer	Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:25
10	Surprise??	Naithi	Sat Apr 24, 2004 13:02
11	Why all the paper candidates	Whywhy!!	Sat Apr 24, 2004 14:04
12	We have a right to know!	SWPwatcher	Sat Apr 24, 2004 23:31
13	SWD: Socialist Workers Dublin	Watching you	Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:50
14	Hear Hear	SWPwatcher	Sun Apr 25, 2004 13:34
15	Don't forget your shovel if you wanna get elected....	SWatcher	Sun Apr 25, 2004 21:43
16	The Clonakilty Pudding?	In Stitches	Sun Apr 25, 2004 23:12
17	yes, christie is gone	just looked	Mon Apr 26, 2004 14:27
18	Next prediction	Major Woody	Mon Apr 26, 2004 14:37
19	I'm Astonished that an Indymedia rumour proved to be correct.	Astonished	Mon Apr 26, 2004 15:10
20	SWPs election is a disaster so far	Dodo	Mon Apr 26, 2004 20:39
21	So interesting.	John Fitz	Tue Apr 27, 2004 01:03
22	South West Inner City	Dubliner	Tue Apr 27, 2004 12:44
23	???	Pedant	Tue Apr 27, 2004 13:18
24	Socialist Worker	Commentator	Tue Apr 27, 2004 14:34
25	Leadership purge in SWP??	Krony	Tue Apr 27, 2004 14:36
26	Ignore "Krony", but answer the questions	Dubliner	Tue Apr 27, 2004 14:45
27	Eh?	Curious	Tue Apr 27, 2004 14:56
28	Naesens is the stronger candidate	Stonger	Tue Apr 27, 2004 15:23
29	Socialist Big Brother, another to go this week?	SWatcher	Tue Apr 27, 2004 15:39
30	How About The SP List Of Candidates	Glass House	Tue Apr 27, 2004 15:49
31	Copy right	Copycat	Tue Apr 27, 2004 17:11
32	On the word "Socialist"	Legal Eagle	Tue Apr 27, 2004 17:32
33	Legal Eagle - Fuck off	Amused socialist	Tue Apr 27, 2004 17:38
34	read what I say	Legal Eagle	Tue Apr 27, 2004 18:17
35	rubbish	pat c	Tue Apr 27, 2004 18:20
36	I read what you said	Amused Socialist (TM)	Tue Apr 27, 2004 18:24
37	yes	Legal Eagle	Tue Apr 27, 2004 18:25
38	Join Together...Forget the Semantics	Jim Mackintosh	Tue Apr 27, 2004 20:12
39	Answer	Jonno	Tue Apr 27, 2004 20:41
40	Re Jonno sp	Dub swp	Tue Apr 27, 2004 23:33
41	Dub SWP	Jonno	Wed Apr 28, 2004 01:10
42	Now, now Jonno	Anti-War Activist	Wed Apr 28, 2004 11:01
43	SP are less than honest	Realist	Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:20
44	SPGB	Paul O'Hara	Wed Apr 28, 2004 15:26
45	Very Simple	Copycat	Wed Apr 28, 2004 15:55
46	Paul	Jonno	Wed Apr 28, 2004 15:58
47	SWP's election strategy	Terance	Wed Apr 28, 2004 16:35
48	hmmm	Ordinary Person	Wed Apr 28, 2004 18:09
49	Nothing in Latest Socialist Worker	Pat Paterson	Wed Apr 28, 2004 18:22
50	Nothing in Latest Socialist Worker	Pat Paterson	Wed Apr 28, 2004 18:26
51	At least...	tandy	Thu Apr 29, 2004 11:34
52	On a Wingfield and a prayer	Michael Gallagher	Sat May 15, 2004 21:33
53	Michael	Paul O'Hara	Sun May 16, 2004 14:53

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