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Meet the Louth General Election candidates: Alison Comyn - Fianna Fáil

Investment in housing and infrastructure

Meet the Louth General Election candidates: Alison Comyn - Fianna Fáil

Alison Comyn

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27 Nov 2024 11:30 AM

Born and raised in Drogheda, Co Louth, mother of two Alison Comyn is an IFTA-winning journalist, news anchor and broadcaster.
Throughout her three-decade career, Alison has worked for the Drogheda Independent, Mid Louth Independent, Dundalk Argus, BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, RTÉ and UTV Ireland.
As a regional journalist over a 20-year period, she is very strong on the issues right across the county and is embedded with many of the community organisations, traders groups and voluntary agencies in the region, and is all too aware of their frustration at lack of improvements in many areas.
Alison is dedicated to helping the region thrive, promoting its potential, and working tirelessly to ensure it remains a great place to live for generations to come.
She places a priority on bringing a power base back to each town, and has lobbied for the restoration of town councils in Drogheda, Ardee and Dundalk, which is now included in the Fianna Fáil manifesto.
She is campaigning to bring increased investment in housing and infrastructure to the region, to combat vacancy and dereliction, and for city status for Drogheda, with a dedicated city manager, and to make our communities safer places to live, with enough facilities to match the population.
The problems we have are very severe; we have a young population but not enough jobs for them, a very limited investment in the higher education sector - with DkIT and DIFE both needing upgrading - and getting a home of your own is still a challenge.
With two children in university, Alison wants to see Louth as a place they can live, work, buy a house in and have a good standard of living.
And yet there are green shoots appearing; we have significant increases in housing delivery, we have investments like the Port Access Cross Route, the new trauma unit with staffing in the Lourdes Hospital and planning lodged for a 1 billion euro investment at the Premier Periclase site on the banks of the River Boyne.
Alison’s goal is to see Louth reach its full potential as a self-sufficient centre of industry, as it once was, and not a commuter county, with thousands of houses, schools and roads which lead to Dublin or Belfast, and no jobs for our burgeoning population.
With the announcement of the new CEO of Louth County Council David Conway, new local councillors and new TDs to come, this is a real opportunity to have a strong voice in government to represent the whole of the county.

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