Wearing of council chain ‘set back community relations’
Ex-MP Gildernew surprised at selection process
Former agriculture minister shocked at not being chosen by colleagues
Five Sinn Féin candidates to battle for just three nominations
Party will select three candidates this weekend
Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew ‘disgusted’ over effigy on Moygashel bonfire
Ms Gildernew, who lost her Westminster seat to the UUP’s Tom Elliott in May, said she was “absolutely disgusted” by the effigy, tweeting, “My children are 13, 10 and 6. Do they ever wonder what this does to them?”
Local SDLP divided over leader’s future
THERE are mixed views within SDLP members in Fermanagh with newly re-elected MP, Alasdair McDonnell insisting on holding on to the leadership despite the fact he will be giving up his seat in the Assembly and spending more time at Westminster.
Defeated Gildernew doesn’t rule out standing in 2016 Assembly elections
Defeated Westminster candidate Michelle Gildernew will remain a Sinn Fein activist and has no plans on saying goodbye to politics just yet.
SDLP voters are ‘asses’, says Sinn Fein councillor
The Facebook status posted by Sinn Fein councillor Barry Doherty in the aftermath of last week’s election, put the blame on the SDLP for Michelle Gildernew’s Westminster defeat, and has been described as a ‘disgrace’ by SDLP MLA Fearghal McKinney.
ANALYSIS: Gildernew loss part of bigger picture as parties struggle to ‘get the vote out’
Getting the vote out isn’t the dead cert that it used to be and Maurice Kennedy reckons the parties will need to shape up quickly if they’re to stay in touch with young people incresingly turned off tribal politics…
Updated: Tom Elliott unseats Michelle Gildernew
Agreed unionist Tom Elliott has succeeded in his bid to unseat Sinn Fein candidate Michelle Gildernew.
Gildernew dismisses Unionist rival as a ‘dinosaur’
MICHELLE Gildernew has labelled agreed unionist candidate Tom Elliott a “dinosaur” and “desperate” following comments he made during an unionist rally in which he accused the Sinn Fein MP of doing nothing for Fermanagh. The UUP candidate was speaking at the rally in Kesh which was attended by DUP Minster, Arlene Foster and chaired by […]