Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
After several requests from residents of Churchtown, Castlemitchell, Kilberry, Kildangan, Monastrevin and all surrounding Townlands the Labour Party Branch in Athy and Kildare South have decided to progress with a petition to revert our General Election area back to Kildare from Laois.
It makes no sense whatsoever to have people in Kildare voting for Laois Candidates in a General Election, especially as they are represented at Council level by Kildare County Council. We need to change this now.
We are running a two pronged petition, one on social media and the other is door to door calling over the coming days and weeks. We would dearly appreciate your support.
Thank You.
We the undersigned urgently request that our General Election Electoral area be reverted to the County of Kildare.
We did not agree to have our vote moved into the Laois constituency ,we were never consulted and feel that as Residents of Kildare that our interests are best served in this County .
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Reached 250 supporters
June 2, 2016
May 28, 2016
We just hit 100 signatures and the message to the Constituency Commission is getting loud. The bureaucrats in charge of these maps ignored us for too long but they cannot keep pretending these neighborhoods belong in Laois.
Reached 100 supporters
May 26, 2016
101 Comments
It makes no sense to move a sliver of about 2,000 voters into a county that doesn't represent them on a local level. There is no justification in silencing them unless there a policy that requires it.
Apsaloute joke that we in kilberry cannot vote for our local td in mark wall and aoife Breslin we haven't a clue about the others nor have they been around once after the elections bring back our local people who know us #joke
Further to continuous representations from neighbours and constituents , I ask the commission to restore this area into Kildare South as a 3 or 4 seater as a result of the census .
The new divide is exactly that a negative divide leaving an area of Kildare with no representation After years of decent and local representative , the only one to benefit is Laois it's off the wall and must be changed , Don't know what bright spark thought up this one maybe same As Irish water
A county is defined by its borders . Why are peoples voting rights being infringed upon ? Only in Ireland would you get this .... being basically forced to vote in Laois when you clearly live and are registered to vote in Kildare . Where is the logic ? .
Voting for mark wall . Goodluck mark.
From Monasterevin and most definetly want to vote in Kildare,no connection or feeling for Laois at all.Was sad day when moved
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
After several requests from residents of Churchtown, Castlemitchell, Kilberry, Kildangan, Monastrevin and all surrounding Townlands the Labour Party Branch in Athy and Kildare South have decided to progress with a petition to revert our General Election area back to Kildare from Laois.
It makes no sense whatsoever to have people in Kildare voting for Laois Candidates in a General Election, especially as they are represented at Council level by Kildare County Council. We need to change this now.
We are running a two pronged petition, one on social media and the other is door to door calling over the coming days and weeks. We would dearly appreciate your support.
Thank You.
We the undersigned urgently request that our General Election Electoral area be reverted to the County of Kildare.
We did not agree to have our vote moved into the Laois constituency ,we were never consulted and feel that as Residents of Kildare that our interests are best served in this County .
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
June 2, 2016
May 28, 2016
We just hit 100 signatures and the message to the Constituency Commission is getting loud. The bureaucrats in charge of these maps ignored us for too long but they cannot keep pretending these neighborhoods belong in Laois.
Reached 100 supporters
May 26, 2016
101 Comments
How could we be expected to vote for people that we don't know and who doesn't know us. We should be able to vote for a candidate who works on our behalf all year round
It makes no sense to move a sliver of about 2,000 voters into a county that doesn't represent them on a local level. There is no justification in silencing them unless there a policy that requires it.
Apsaloute joke that we in kilberry cannot vote for our local td in mark wall and aoife Breslin we haven't a clue about the others nor have they been around once after the elections bring back our local people who know us #joke
Further to continuous representations from neighbours and constituents , I ask the commission to restore this area into Kildare South as a 3 or 4 seater as a result of the census .
The new divide is exactly that a negative divide leaving an area of Kildare with no representation After years of decent and local representative , the only one to benefit is Laois it's off the wall and must be changed , Don't know what bright spark thought up this one maybe same As Irish water
A county is defined by its borders . Why are peoples voting rights being infringed upon ? Only in Ireland would you get this .... being basically forced to vote in Laois when you clearly live and are registered to vote in Kildare . Where is the logic ? .
Voting for mark wall . Goodluck mark.
From Monasterevin and most definetly want to vote in Kildare,no connection or feeling for Laois at all.Was sad day when moved
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How could we be expected to vote for people that we don't know and who doesn't know us. We should be able to vote for a candidate who works on our behalf all year round