TCD Senatorial Candidates
I recently wrote a post about the last General Election. Well, the time is upon us for the Seanad elections. As a TCD grad, I am entitled to vote for the three Dublin University Seanad seats. There are 11 candidates for the three seats, so competition is likely to be hot. Here’s a brief list of the hopefuls, again, with the best web presence I could find for them.
- Ivana Bacik
- Shay Conway
- Stephen Douglas
- Ike Efobi (no site found)
- Maurice Guéret (no personal web site, but Guéret does write a column in Medicine Weekly)
- David Hutchison Edgar
- Rosaleen McDonagh
- David Martin (no site found)
- David Norris
- Seán O’Connor
- Shane Ross
Indymedia website has a brief run down of the candidates in this constituency, and their “genetic origins”.
My analysis:
- Three candidates have no personal web site (or at least not one that appears in the first page of Google search results, which is pretty much the same thing). This is particularly difficult to understand for Efobi, whose stated profession is IT analyst. You’d expect him to be more IT aware than any of the other candidates.
- The three most prominent of the candidates (Bacik, Norris and Ross) have high quality, professional sites.
- As per my Dublin South Central consitutency, only Shane Ross’s site has an RSS feed (blog to you & me).