Due to an editing error, the following independents were omitted from a list published in yesterday's editions:
GALWAY EAST
Paddy McHugh, an architect and councillor in Tuam, was in Fianna Fáil but decided to run as an independent when he failed to secure a party nomination.
GALWAY WEST
Eileen Manning, a nurse from Salthill, is running as an anti-corruption candidate and on family law issues. She believes she was a victim of corruption, and is standing as a campaigner for other victims.
Joseph Nulty, a businessman from Barna, calls himself the "ice man" after his proposal to establish a series of ice skating rinks, starting in Galway. He wants to remove political influence from the distribution of National Lottery funds.
Séamus Walsh (42) from Oughterard is one of three independents on Galway County Council. An engineer for Western Health Board, he is running on environmental and housing issues.
KERRY NORTH
Anthony O'Connor is a farmer from Dromin, Ballybunion, whose campaign manifesto includes a call for a community television station for Kerry.
KERRY SOUTH
Donal Barry (27) from Glenbeigh is a journalism graduate and part-time farmer. He is also a tourist office trainer in Killorglin. He has his own website and his manifesto states that people in Kerry South "are looking to a strong and bright new vision of itself in its politicians, not the image that is portrayed at the moment".
Donal Grady, a fire officer from Killarney, is married with eight children. He was elected as a councillor in 1999. He wants "equality" in the planning system and proposes the first five years of a young couple's mortgage should be tax-free, when they are buying their first home, up to € 120,000.
KILDARE SOUTH
Gerald Fitzgibbon (35) an auctioneer in Athy, is standing in his first election. His issues include "corruption, cartels and crime", health and roads.
LAOIS/OFFALY
Joe McCormack, an independent councillor in Portlaoise, has contested every general election since 1978. He is campaigning for a new general hospital in Portlaoise and a midland regional airport in Laois.
John Kelly, a farmer from Errill, near Portlaoise, is also standing.
LIMERICK EAST
Michael John Kelly (46) from Ballyneety runs a security company. A father of seven, he is an alderman on the city council. He is campaigning on the "disgraceful" health system.
Pat Kennedy is a former Fine Gael member who decided to run as an independent when he was excluded from the ticket. He favours the imposition of tougher sentencing for crime and is also campaigning on health and radiotherapy treatment in Limerick.
John Gilligan from Island Road in Limerick is a community worker.
Aidan Ryan, a hotel linen porter from Shannon, is campaigning for an adequate ambulance service for Co Limerick towns and industrial estates.
LIMERICK WEST
Mike Mac Domhnaill, a secondary school teacher from Newcastle West, also ran in the general election in 1997.
LONGFORD-ROSCOMMON
Tom Crosby, a former Fianna Fáil councillor, has been an independent since the 1999 local elections. He is a publican and undertaker. His issues include health, agriculture, education, insurance costs, natural gas and waste management.
Luke "Ming" Flanagan from Castlerea, Co Roscommon, is best known for his support for the legalisation of cannabis.
Vincent Killalea from Boyle is a househusband and community activist. He is involved in a men's group, Amen, and is campaigning for the reforms in family law.
Una Quinn from Roscommon town is a community and enterprise officer with Roscommon County Council who used to work for a rural development organisation called Irish Rural Link. She is campaigning for the upgrading of Roscommon county hospital, infrastructural investment and environmental issues.
LOUTH
Martin Bellew from Dundalk, is a councillor and member of the Hospital Action Group, established after the closure of Louth County hospital's maternity unit. He is a carpenter and woodwork teacher.
Frank Godfrey from Drogheda is a county councillor who believes that Drogheda is in the "second division" on inward investment, job-creation and health. He has campaigned against the introduction of road tolls and a full review of legislation on asylum-seekers.
Mary Grehan, a Dundalk doctor, stood for the Progressive Democrats in 1997. A consistent critic of the Department of Health and the local health board, she is a member of the hospital Action Group for Louth General.
Aidan Francis Mahon (39) from Dromiskin is campaigning for "refugee and asylum-seeker control".
Liam Ó Gogáin, a college lecturer in Dundalk, is founder and chairman of an organisation called Parental Equality. He was refused permission to put the word "father" on the ballot paper.
MAYO
Michael Holmes (50) from Mulranny is a farmer and contractor. This is his first election. Married with five children, he is chairman of the Western Roads Action Committee, an umbrella group of organizations. "
We feel that Mayo has been totally neglected for the past 20 years and particularly over the past five years of the boom."
Thomas "referendum" King, from Carrwholly, Westport, is a farmer and solicitor.
MEATH
Jane Colwell from Oristown, near Kells, is a lecturer.
Brian Fitzgerald is a former Labour TD who resigned from the party in 1998 after the merger with Democratic Left.
Tom Kelly from Laytown is a pharmacist and county councillor, who is campaigning on coastal protection, recreational and sports facilities and the promotion of employment opportunities.
Pat O'Brien from Duleek is a groundsman. He is an anti-incineration candidate.
SLIGO-LEITRIM
John McCrea in his mid-50s is married with one daughter and lives in Ballisodare outside Sligo. Self-employed, he is standing in "frustration caused by huge inadequacies and irregularities in Government in recent years".
Andrew Michael McSharry from Ballintrillick, Sligo is a farmer and labourer. He was convicted of assaulting hillwalkers who trespassed on his land and is campaigning for the right to private property "without intrusion".
Martin Ford is running as an independent in the constituency.
TIPPERARY SOUTH
Tom Wood is a former Fine Gael councillor who resigned from the party this year.
WATERFORD
Conor Halpin from Riverview, Waterford, is an entertainer. He is best known in the constituency as "spoof" politician Sonny Dunphy.
Eddie Walsh, a town councillor in Tramore, was disqualified from the council after he refused to pay water charges to Waterford County council. He campaigned vigorously against them.
Declan Waters from Waterford is a photographer and was a patient at Waterford Regional hospital. He is campaigning for radiotherapy services in the South East. He polled 855 first-preference votes in the last general election.
WESTMEATH
Veronica Lynam, a community and environment candidate, is a primary school teacher living in Coralstown, Mullingar. She is campaigning against a 'superdump' in Anniskannan.
WEXFORD
Seán Doyle from Enniscorthy, is a retired psychiatric nurse. He has described the manifestos of the main parties as "auction politics".
Miranda Ó Bolguidhir (35), a psychiatric nurse and teacher at Enniscorthy Vocational College, is standing as an independent Green. Her partner, Michael Cuthbert, dropped out as a Green Party candidate, because he is not Irish. Local party members objected to an attempt to nominate her as a replacement. She is campaigning for alternatives to superdumps and incinerators.
Liam Twomey (35), a Rosslare-based GP, is standing to highlight deficiencies in the health service. He has no previous political experience. Access to medical cards for the less well off, the lack of a radiotherapy unit for cancer patients in the south-east and the levels of services at Wexford General Hospital are among the issues on which he is campaigning.
WICKLOW
Robert Kearns, a carpenter from Wicklow is an independent councillor.
Charlie Keddy, a plumber from Kilcoole, is running for his second general election. In 1997 he polled just 316 votes. He is concerned about Wicklow's current development plan, which he says is "wrong and unnecessary".
Brian Kenny from Bray is a sales manager and member of Bray Urban District Council.
