Directly Elected Mayor

Quinlivan and competent isn’t something I expected to see together..

Its quite a crowded field and difficult to get a real debate. It might have been an idea to have some sort of initial run off to narrow the field of candidates.

3-4 strong candidates from whatever party or independent and give them all the space to get their plans across.

wasted another 30 minutes of my life .

Butler is the man for me. I can sense the love he has for the city, He has the cut of a fella that would hide out in Costelloes so he has my vote on that alone. With 2 kids , he has skin in the game. Apart from Dee with 4 kids, the others are well past it and you'd wonder what is really motivating them.

Brian Leddin has decorum but that's it. Contrary to what he says he has delivered nawthin on the double. The Foynes freight line has been in planning since 2013 when Europeans biggest zinc deposit was discovered in Pallasgreen by Glencore. It has nothing to do with the Irish Government policy. Wont happen, cant happen.

Dee Ryan would find it difficult with proceedings in council and things could turn nasty very quickly. They don't like business people in city hall. Look at the evidence all around, things are unlikely to change.

Conor Sheehan sounds like a loose canon. You can't come to a public debate on your candidacy for mayor and say thing like civil servants are 'control freaks' freaks might be insulted. He also said he'd put a 'boot in the backside' of civil servants. He can put whatever he wants in there but it won't work without vaseline.

What is a city , but the people.

On Frankie, he is a grand Local Councilor, but mayor please no

He has not been seen in his electrocal area for a few years and put together a leaflet that a TY student would be chastised for.

This from someone who has previously voted for Frankie.

Odd on Oddschecker

Moran 5/6, Helen O'D 2/1 Frankie 3/1

Dee Ryan 4/1 Maurice 4/1 Butler 10/1 Leddin & Sheehan 66/1

Sheehan in my opinion is raising his visibility ahead of the next general election.

I felt D Butler was saying what he thought people wanted to hear. A lot of sound bites.

Yes he essentially promised everything to everyone during his opening pitch which lost him credibility immediately. I've noticed that he's started referencing "rural housing" a lot recently also. By that he clearly means one-off dwellings in an isolated field far from local services which is entirely at odds with the National Planning Framework. Obviously he believes this will be a vote winner with rural dwellers.

I thought Moran, Leddin and Sheehan cames across as the most coherent and convincing on the night.

Very interesting interview here with the last candidate to throw their hat in the ring

I had to laugh when my brothers MIL was talking about some thing she was going to for John Moran a few weeks ago. Said something like he's made his money outside of politics so you know he's not doing this just for the money. Had to laugh really. Pigs will fly before a lobbyist gets involved with something without the intentions of making money off it.

He has his finger on the pulse. Considering the off the shelf sleeveeen gombeens spinnning the same dreams for us , maybe it's time to cope on and listen to reason. I doubt anyone will and nothing will have changed in another 5 years and Bran Ledin will stillbe talking about a train to Shannon when he's in his lonely sixties . Id sooner vote for a true gael than a man that invited in the vulture funds that conditioned the Irish Government never to get involved in house building again. With the unbelieveable surpluses in finances , is it any wonder that people are scratching their heads cinfused, but we can thank Michel Hunans little Irsiih francophile from athe

Bringing in the vulture funds was bad enough but the nasty terms were set by peter pan, He advised / forced/ threatened the Irish Government , at the behest of the banks, to massively limit spending on water and wastewater Infrastructure . He advised and encouraged centralisation of water services in 2011/2012 prior to leaving the department of finance. The Northern Distributor cant go ahead because of a deal he weaseled for the Tunnel Company i.e No other crossing /bridge of the Shannon can be made until the tunnel and motorway bill is paid off entirely.

That's his most recent tweet 😂

Would love to know what his views on pedophilia have to do with being mayor of Limerick but not clicking onto that YouTube channel because I'd say there's some truth in your second sentence.

In the debate he tried putting himself in the same circle as Jim Kemmy! Kemmy was probably turning in his grave at that ultra capitalist mentioning his name. He went on about securing funding for Georgian revitalisation, but who is it who is benefiting from that? None other than Moran himself. I reckon he steals toilet paper from public toilets to get out of paying for it.

I still can't fully fathom why Maurice Quinlivan is going for this - either SF thought he would be a shoe-in , and the by-election it triggered ( depending on General Election timing) would be a further SF win if he won the mayor role.

Nor sure there is a readymade high quality SF general election candidate after him - Gavan possibly , but not on the same level.

On the other sitting TD, I reckon Leddin knows he's goosed next election so this was a way out for him. But he won't win the mayor either, ( nor was he likely to) .

So odd for both TD's in one sense, other than as 'visibility' campaigns.

I didn't get the impression he was too worried about winning on Tuesday.

I think he just saw it as some free pre election canvassing and a way to get his train plan into the conversation. I hope it works to an extent because I do think we should get an Adare/Well/Raheen I.E. train and more regular buses to the county but overall other candidates had green transport policy that was far more achievable.

How is she going to get people into the city in terms of transport/traffic ?

Where and how is she getting all the big retailers out of the retail parks and back into town ?

How is she going to get the street sweepers to fit around all the poles and into all the corners ?

She says the city isn't busy but yet the paths are filthy. Is it the footprints to ghosts are dirtying the streets ?

She is playing up to the stereotypes of the city created by people who never do and never will go to the city.