Drimnagh is Good

As per the general election in 2007, 5 TDs were elected for Drimnagh which comes under the Dublin South Central constituency. Here’s a quick look at who the Drimnagh people gave their votes to on the day, courtesy of Elections Ireland website

Dublin South Central Dublin Area (Leinster) 5 Seats 16 Candidates 10 Counts Electorate: 86,710 Quota: 7,922

Candidate			Party		1st Pref		Share		Quota		Count		Status		Seat
*	Sean Ardagh				8,286		17.43%		1.05		1		Made Quota		1
*	Michael Mulcahy				7,439		15.65%		0.94		3		Made Quota		2
*	Mary Upton				5,987		12.60%		0.76		9		Made Quota		3
	Catherine Byrne2				4,713		9.92%		0.59		10		Elected		4
*	Aengus O Snodaigh				4,825		10.15%		0.61		10		Elected		5

Another great website for finding out what your TDs do on your behalf is Kildare Street.com It is a non-partisan website which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected representatives in the Houses of the Oireachtas. You can find more about the good people who run this site for free here.

So do you know your local TDs? Have you been to one of there clinics or contacted them in the last 6 months about a local/national issue you may have had. Do you find it easy to contact them? Do you prefer face to face meetings at their clinics? Or do you prefer on-line engagement?

Listed below are the contact details for your 5 TDs on-line & off-line. Very basic but going to work on getting it onto  a more user friendly PDF when I get the time & learn how. What do you think? Is this helpful? What other information would you like to see from your TDs? How would you like them to communicate with you? And how often?

It was difficult enough putting this information together as had to find each individual TDs website & details of clinics. Some were not easy to locate. Interesting only one TD is on Twitter & just two are on Facebook. Does that matter?

AENGUS Ó SNODAIGH – Sinn Fein Party

Tel: (01) 6184084

Email: aengus.osnodaigh@oireachtas.ie

Clinic: No details of Drimnagh clinic yet.

Website: Aengus has a page on the party website

Social Networks: Twitter @aosnodaigh & he’s on Facebook

CATHERINE BYRNE – Fine Gael

Tel: 01-6183083 Fax: 01-6184511

E-mail: catherine.byrne@finegael.ie

Clinic: Every Friday 10.30-11.30am: Crumlin Local Area Office. No details of Drimnagh clinic yet.

Website: Catherine has a page on the party websitehttp://www.catherinebyrne.finegael.ie

Social Networks: None

MICHAEL MULCAHY

Tel: 01 618 3000 / 01 676 1319
e-mail: mmulcahy@oireachtas.ie

Clinic: Every Monday 5.30pm. Our Lady’s Hall,Mourne Road, Drimnagh.

Website: Michael has his own www.michaelmulcahy.ie

Social Networks: Facebook & not on Twitter

SEAN ARDAGH

Tel: 01-456 8736/01-618 3597

E-mail: seanardagh@oireachtas.ie

Clinic: No details of Drimnagh clinic yet.

Website: Sean has a page on the party website

Social Networks: Sean is on Facebook &  Twitter @seanardaghtd

MARY UPTON – Labour Party

Tel: 01-6183756 (Dáil) Fax: 01-6184637

Email: mary.upton@oireachtas.ie

Clinic: Every Monday 12.30pm. Our Lady’s Hall, Mourne Road, Drimnagh

Website: Mary has a page on the Party website

Social Networks: None

p.s This contact information will be updated regulary & hopefully a better format in a more user friendly way will be designed soon.