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Independent
Councillor Bill Clear is an Independent candidate for the Kildare North constituency. A former Social Democrat who topped the poll in this year’s local election in the Naas Municipal District he had hoped to inherit the throne left by former Soc Dem co-leader and departing TD Catherine Murphy but lost out to Cllr Aidan Farrelly. He previously served as Mayor of the district.
The Irish People
Avril Corcoran is the Irish People’s candidate for the Kildare North constituency. As one of many emergent right-leaning candidates running across the country, she ran in the 2024 local elections but failed to win being eliminated on the 6th count with over 500 votes in total. Originally from Dublin she moved to Sallins with her husband and three children in 2009.
Sinn Féin
As the party’s spokesperson on defence, she sits on the Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs and defence. She is outspoken on a whole range of international issues including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She stoked controversy when it was reported after her 2020 victory that in 2002 she and her husband had built a home in the county without full planning permission, and sought help from a minister to keep it. They later sold it for €1m. Cronin was first elected as a TD in the last general election in 2020, securing 17pc of first preference votes and getting in on the 6th count. It was a long time coming for the former councillor who lost her seat in the 2019 local election and failed to get a seat in the 2016 general election, despite 3,000 first-preference votes.
Fine Gael
As the oldest TD in the Dail at the age of 80, he is the party’s spokesperson on Public Expenditure, NPD Delivery and Reform. His race will be watched closely given the constituency’s vast infrastructural networks. He has served as minister of state for social welfare, been part of the public accounts committee and the Eastern Health Board, and was vice chairman of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Joint Committee on European Affairs. He was first elected to the Dail in 1981 losing his seat in the subsequent election in 1982 but regained it that November during the power struggle between Fianna Fail’s Charles Haughey and Fine Gael’s Garret Fitzgerald. With a background in the agricultural sector, he first became county councillor in the area in 1976. In 2020 he received 10pc of FPVs and got in on the 6th count.
Social Democrats
As the potential successor to long-serving social democrats TD Catherine Murphy Cllr, Aidan Farrelly will have tough shoes electorally to fill. Having first got elected in the 2019 local elections. he has built a reputation for advocacy in youth affairs having served as a youth and community development worker for 16 years. Reducing childcare fees and ending/combatting child poverty is on his list of priorities. Murphy topped the poll in 2020 and got elected on the 3rd count and now Farrelly is promising to build on her legacy.
Labour
Councillor Angela Feeney is the Labour Party’s sole candidate for Kildare North constituency. She has served as a councillor in Kildare County Council since 2019 getting in on the 4th count with 1,100 votes. In this year’s election she got in on the 5th count with 1,124 votes. She has a background in education having been a former head of school in Technological University Dublin (TUD) and is a former lecturer in French.
Centre Party of Ireland
Sinn Féin
Fianna Fáil
Lawless is minister of state for transport with responsibility for international and road transport and logistics. He was first elected as a councillor on Kildare County Council in 2014 topping the poll and getting elected in the subsequent 2016 general election. He has previously been his party’s spokesperson on science, technology, research and development; and worked on several Oireachtas committees including energy and communications, business, enterprise and innovation, and the committee on justice. In 2020 he was elected with 13pc of FPVs and got in on the 6th count.
The Green Party
Serving as Senator since 2020 upon the nomination of the Taoiseach, he is the brother of Green Party deputy leader Catherine Martin. He has a background in law including serving as a senior counsel. He also has a background as a bankruptcy expert and has advocated for debtors and set up an advocacy group for those caught in debt traps called New Beginnings.
Fine Gael
As Mayor of County Kildare, he has the advantage of building up a reputation with people in the local area. Alongside his mayoral position he is involved with a range of community groups including the GAA, soccer, director of two community centres and on the board of a local secondary school. He has a background in finance having trained in PwC and worked as a Financial Controller. He has also worked as a consultant in Maynooth, which is included in the constituency, advising Irish companies.
Fianna Fáil
He was first elected in 2014 with 7pc share of the vote and has increased his vote share ever since. In June’s local elections he was the first councillor to get elected topping the poll with 1,880 votes exceeding the quota of 1,566. He has a background in teaching and finance. He served as Cathaoirleach of Kildare County Council in 2021.
Aontú
Una O Connor is Aontu’s candidate for the Kildare North constituency. She has a career spanning local organisations and the civil service. Her career began in the Department of Foreign Affairs and later served in An Garda Siochana and following retirement became a carer. She has served on the Tidy Towns Committee and other local committees including Prosperous Community Association in which she secured €20,000 in grants for the area.
Fine Gael
Sammon currently represents the Naas Municipal District on Kildare County Council. She was first elected in 2019 at the age of 25 coming second on the 9th count with 1,211 FPVs. She is heavily involved in local education including being a board member of the Kildare Wicklow Educational Training Board and County Kildare Leader Partnership.
Irish Freedom Party
Gerry Waters is the Irish Freedom Party's candidate for the Kildare North constituency in the general election. As a GP in the Celbridge area, with over 40 years of experience, he was suspended by the medical council for refusing to carry out vaccinations during the Covid-19 pandemic. He described himself as a "conscientious objector".
People Before Profit-Solidarity
At just 25 Whelan is one of the youngest candidates running in the constituency. Having served on Tallaght County Council, after being co-opted in 2021, she lost her seat in this year's local elections. A native of the constituency she has emerged as a voice for the youth with addressing youth emigration one of her key priorities.
