Talk:List of Irish by-elections

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[edit] List order

With the equivilant list for the UK: List of UK by-elections, we have now got it in reverse chronological order. Same here? Morwen - Talk 14:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Recent changes

I have reverted the recent changes by padraig3uk as they are not an improvement. The template looks really bad/amateurish. It needs alot of work before it can be acceptable, until then do not re-add it. Snappy56 18:26, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

That is your POV, the edit I did make's the table easier to navigate,--padraig3uk 02:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
And it is your POV that you have made it easier to navigate. In fact, you've made harder to use and really awful looking. There is no need to have a link to all the by-elections in each heading, which are already on the same page! Talk over needless redundancies! Look at List of United Kingdom by-elections for what other countries have, its quite similar. Snappy56 16:45, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
I have to say I agree with Snappy - the larger tables do make the page less readable. Number 57 17:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Republican Prisoners By-Elections

Hi, weren't there some Republican prisoners, who were elected to the Irish parliament during the hunger strikes in 1981? I couldn't find them on the list ??

I think they were elected in the general elections. I'm not sure if they were actual hunger strikers or sympathisers. Timrollpickering 17:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
They were elected in the Irish general election, 1981 and are listed here Members of the 22nd Dáil.--padraig3uk 14:48, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Kieran Doherty died six months before the next general election - was the lack of a by-election deliberate or did the Dail get dissolved before one could happen? Timrollpickering 00:18, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How many relatives?!

There are a lot of TDs succeeding someone with the same surname - anyone want to list how the new and old TDs are related? Timrollpickering 17:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TOC to Tables

I have added a TOC to the tables which saves having to scroll through the tables, clicking on the links will bring that table to the top.--padraig3uk 12:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jim Larkin

Jim Larkin was elected as a candidate of the Irish Worker League (and not as an Independent) in the September 1927. I've tried to change this but this seems to mess up the page.--Damac 11:11, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I didn't notice that, in the 1937 General Election he was elected as a Independent for Dublin North East, the first time in Sept 1927 for Dublin County was for the IWL, when he was disqualified as a Bankrupt.--padraig3uk 13:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Italics

Can we have an explanation for the rows in italics? It seems to be for by elections which were won by a different party to the outgoing TD. Might be helpful to inform readers of the article that this is what it means. Snappy56 (talk) 18:06, 19 January 2008 (UTC)