local elections

Steve and Richie have talked an awful lot about politicians and what they do for a living on What Am Politics; yelling, lawing, voting etc. But they've yet to get into the nitty gritty of how someone goes from being a "Normal Person" to the…

The National Women’s Council of Ireland recently called for the introduction of gender quotas in Irish local elections due to the fact that only 21% of the country’s 949 local councillors are female. In this argument, they pointed out that…