NAME THAT GOON
A Twitter thread by Irish election literature expert, @electionlit Alan Kinsella, who is the current curator of the @Motherfoclóir Twitter account and who has been collecting referendum leaflets since 1983, has given a great laugh and given us a great idea.
Wouldn't it make the election posters much easier to bear if every candidate HAD TO include a campaign middle name to give us a sense of their identity?
If you were running for election what would your campaign middle name be?
What if there was one of those name generator websites where election candidates could enter their name and it would produce the perfect middle name for their campaign?
Check out the thread compiled by Alan of some of the legendary campaign names from over the years...
One of the things with Local Elections is that there are many more candidates with nicknames.
So starting off a thread of them with John "Texas" Byrne who is running in Enniscorthy pic.twitter.com/Qtt42lRrJJ— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
A fairly famous one now in John "Porridge" O'Connor pic.twitter.com/GmK9Jnf1sC
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
The late Michael "Stroke" Fahy pic.twitter.com/criVfRMqDY
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Peter "The Egg" McLaughlin pic.twitter.com/VLmXoFdCTC
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Marie "The Shamrock" Murphy . pic.twitter.com/xUvkmykaw3
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Tom Farrell (The Bullockstown Boy) ‘King of the Shannon’ running in Ballymahon in 1985 pic.twitter.com/SQM6aRAzI3
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Michael "Pixie" Gorman running in Kerry pic.twitter.com/52F6TPcPTw
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
"Spike" Nolan in Newbridge pic.twitter.com/0aRdycxMhc
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
John "Rocky" McGrath pic.twitter.com/d3gSg8sejP
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Kevin "Boxer" Moran who now he is a TD has a "Boxer's Independent Team" running in the Local Elections. pic.twitter.com/fY1qZAg896
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Another pugilist this time Michael "Boxer" Conlon from Sligo in 1974. pic.twitter.com/QbQ9vX6WrN
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Not forgetting Pat The Cope Gallagher pic.twitter.com/0pv5c1alKU
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
How could I forget Luke "Ming" Flanagan pic.twitter.com/xmpyoZzkua
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
An article on Noel "Flukey" Gorman who ran in Sligo Leitrim for The "Sligo Leitrim Society for the prevention of cruelty to constituents by lying and cheating politicians" pic.twitter.com/HcSbYno1YA
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Manus "Mandy" Kelly who is running in Donegal... pic.twitter.com/qfgxjhlxMw
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
Peter 'Chap' Cleere running in Kilkenny pic.twitter.com/LuawW5JiO0
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 24, 2019
I'm told the Rae bit is to distinguish them from other Healy's. pic.twitter.com/QEGnLcaGFH
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 25, 2019
Michael 'Malty' McDonagh from Clare. pic.twitter.com/ygsgQtXAQH
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 25, 2019
Tim "Chub" O'Connor another Kerry politician with a nickname pic.twitter.com/ksubanhbnC
— Motherfoclóir - Alan (@Motherfocloir) April 25, 2019
