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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 2:44:00 GMT
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YL
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2024 22:42:10 GMT
Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
Matthew Bell (UUP)
Tom Buchanan (DUP)
Stephen Donnelly (Alliance)
Leza Houston (Aontú)
Stephen Lynch (Con)
Daniel McCrossan (SDLP)
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Post by YL on Jun 8, 2024 11:24:31 GMT
I wonder what motivates someone who lives in Chesterfield to stand in a constituency like this as a Conservative candidate. I assume he has some connection to Northern Ireland, but even so it seems a weird thing to do.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 8, 2024 11:59:54 GMT
I wonder what motivates someone who lives in Chesterfield to stand in a constituency like this as a Conservative candidate. I assume he has some connection to Northern Ireland, but even so it seems a weird thing to do. The Conservatives often nominate people from Britain to stand as paper candidates in Northern Ireland seats. They didn't bother in the 2019 election, but in 2017 three of the Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland lived in Battersea, Bristol and Hammersmith. Current Lord Mayor of Westminster Robert Rigby, who has no connection with Northern Ireland which I know of, was Conservative candidate for Newry and Armagh in 2015. |
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Post by stb12 on Jun 8, 2024 17:38:08 GMT
I wonder what motivates someone who lives in Chesterfield to stand in a constituency like this as a Conservative candidate. I assume he has some connection to Northern Ireland, but even so it seems a weird thing to do. The Conservatives often nominate people from Britain to stand as paper candidates in Northern Ireland seats. They didn't bother in the 2019 election, but in 2017 three of the Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland lived in Battersea, Bristol and Hammersmith. Current Lord Mayor of Westminster Robert Rigby, who has no connection with Northern Ireland which I know of, was Conservative candidate for Newry and Armagh in 2015. Felicity Buchan was a 2015 candidate in Northern Ireland and a couple of other future MPs have been as well if I recall correctly. So it seems to be an option as part of moving up the candidate ranks |
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Post by batman on Jun 8, 2024 17:53:50 GMT
I wonder what motivates someone who lives in Chesterfield to stand in a constituency like this as a Conservative candidate. I assume he has some connection to Northern Ireland, but even so it seems a weird thing to do. The Conservatives often nominate people from Britain to stand as paper candidates in Northern Ireland seats. They didn't bother in the 2019 election, but in 2017 three of the Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland lived in Battersea, Bristol and Hammersmith. Current Lord Mayor of Westminster Robert Rigby, who has no connection with Northern Ireland which I know of, was Conservative candidate for Newry and Armagh in 2015. Rigby is an Irish name though, even though it sounds English. (The name Rigsby as in the sitcom is I think non-existent in real life.) |
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 8, 2024 18:40:48 GMT
The Conservatives often nominate people from Britain to stand as paper candidates in Northern Ireland seats. They didn't bother in the 2019 election, but in 2017 three of the Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland lived in Battersea, Bristol and Hammersmith. Current Lord Mayor of Westminster Robert Rigby, who has no connection with Northern Ireland which I know of, was Conservative candidate for Newry and Armagh in 2015. Rigby is an Irish name though, even though it sounds English. (The name Rigsby as in the sitcom is I think non-existent in real life.) I think it's very rare, but not non existent.
Rigsby is a village in Lincolnshire, so it is probably a place name surname. I've found someone in Canada with the name in the 1870s and a Southport footballer in the 1920s.
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Post by obsie on Jun 12, 2024 12:58:12 GMT
The Conservatives often nominate people from Britain to stand as paper candidates in Northern Ireland seats. They didn't bother in the 2019 election, but in 2017 three of the Conservative candidates in Northern Ireland lived in Battersea, Bristol and Hammersmith. Current Lord Mayor of Westminster Robert Rigby, who has no connection with Northern Ireland which I know of, was Conservative candidate for Newry and Armagh in 2015. Rigby is an Irish name though, even though it sounds English. (The name Rigsby as in the sitcom is I think non-existent in real life.)
"Rigby fairly rare: Dublin, Belfast. English toponymic."
It's not a name that I've ever come across here (or anywhere except the Beatles song).
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Post by batman on Jun 12, 2024 13:30:11 GMT
There was a Rigby family in Liverpool of which Eleanor (died 1938) was a member. The payroll lady at my former employer was an Irishwoman called Rigby. McCartney got the idea for the name Eleanor Rigby when he was in Bristol and noticed a wine merchant called Rigby and Evens.
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Post by johnloony on Jun 12, 2024 14:56:28 GMT
There was a Rigby family in Liverpool of which Eleanor (died 1938) was a member. The payroll lady at my former employer was an Irishwoman called Rigby. McCartney got the idea for the name Eleanor Rigby when he was in Bristol and noticed a wine merchant called Rigby and Evens. Expert opinion is divided about where the name "Eleanor Rigby" came from. It is reasonably possible that the Beatles saw the grave of Eleanor Rigby (1895-1939), and subconsciously remembered her name, without having a conscious memory of having done so. One slightly unusual thing is that she is named on her gravestone by her maiden name, not her married name (Woods). Edit: born 29th August 1895 married Thomas Woods 26th December 1930 died 10th October 1939 (brain haemorrhage) Edit: Eleanor Rigby was trending on Twitter on 1st October 2020: Eleanor Rigby Trending on Twitter but nobody seems to know why Why did she die? Tenth of October Just when the war had begun in the month before Aged forty-four  |
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Post by johnloony on Jun 12, 2024 15:19:16 GMT
Rigby is an Irish name though, even though it sounds English. (The name Rigsby as in the sitcom is I think non-existent in real life.) "Rigby fairly rare: Dublin, Belfast. English toponymic." It's not a name that I've ever come across here (or anywhere except the Beatles song). Lee Rigby was the soldier who was murdered by terrorists. Terence Rigby (1937-2008) was an actor in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (the 1979 version) |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 12, 2024 21:45:14 GMT
"Rigby fairly rare: Dublin, Belfast. English toponymic." It's not a name that I've ever come across here (or anywhere except the Beatles song). Lee Rigby was the soldier who was murdered by terrorists. Terence Rigby (1937-2008) was an actor in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (the 1979 version) And Rupert Rigsby was a man plagued by electrically attractive capillary activity; once much discussed but in fact rarely if ever encountered. |
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Post by john07 on Jun 12, 2024 22:18:41 GMT
"Rigby fairly rare: Dublin, Belfast. English toponymic." It's not a name that I've ever come across here (or anywhere except the Beatles song). Terence Rigby (1937-2008) was an actor in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (the 1979 version) I remember Terence Rigby best from playing the role of PC Snow in Softly Softly. I did also see he in a one-man play, The Man Himself, at the Library Theatre in Manchester. It was a one-hour lunchtime play about a gullible individual being groomed to join the National Front. |
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Post by irish observer on Jun 18, 2024 13:34:05 GMT
Begley is an extremely good-looking if hardly seen MP, in Britain anyway, easily re-elected!
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Post by finsobruce on Jun 18, 2024 13:45:20 GMT
Begley is an extremely good-looking if hardly seen MP, in Britain anyway, easily re-elected! I see that Órfhlaith means princess. Hadn't associated it with Orla, but obvious once you think about it. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Jul 1, 2024 22:35:28 GMT
So, having read the above none elucidatory posts, this will be an obvious hold for SF. Órfhlaith Begley has no worries.
It is a sat where the SDLP has ruined its campaign due to splits, impositions, independent candidacies, etc. Daniel McCrossan has slowly rebuilt the vote in General Elections.
On the Unionist side, the DUP's Thomas Buchanan continues to poll well and will likely poll around 20%, even with UUP and TUV intervention.
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