Public-record lane. The hold page now has receipt depth for the election-and-resignation spine; the next missing source is a cleaner official or mainstream court-procedure endpoint.
Basics
Political/protest figure tracked through 2024 election records, the 2025 Ireland First resignation endpoint, and tightly bounded procedural watchpoints.
Boundary: Keep to election, party, court, and mainstream public-record facts. Do not use protest-feed sprawl as proof.
Details
- ElectionsIreland currently lists Derek Blighe as a 2024 European candidate in South and a 2024 Dail candidate in Cork North Central. The page records 25,071 first-preference votes in the South European contest and 2,475 first-preference votes in Cork North Central. It gives a clean official-style election spine without relying on campaign claims. [1]
- Irish Examiner reported on 13 April 2025 that Blighe quit Ireland First. The report says he had served as president of the party. It provides a bounded mainstream endpoint for the split between Blighe and the party he had been publicly tied to. [2]
- The same ElectionsIreland page records Blighe's 2024 general-election run in Cork North Central as not elected. It fixes the constituency, seat count, vote total, and vote share in one attributable table. This keeps the file on a failed-candidate public-record lane rather than a generic protest-profile lane. [3]
Receipts
- receipt packElectionsIreland candidate record Source What it proves: ElectionsIreland currently lists Derek Blighe as a 2024 European candidate in South and a 2024 Dail candidate in Cork North Central. The page records 25,071 first-preference votes in the South European contest and 2,475 first-preference votes in Cork North Central. It gives a clean official-style election spine without relying on campaign claims. What it does not prove: It does not prove any party office, protest role, or current legal status. It does not prove the meaning or scale of those vote totals beyond the recorded results. Stored at: gos.ie-research/candidates/derek-blighe/receipt-pack-2026-05-26.md
- receipt packIrish Examiner party-resignation report Source What it proves: Irish Examiner reported on 13 April 2025 that Blighe quit Ireland First. The report says he had served as president of the party. It provides a bounded mainstream endpoint for the split between Blighe and the party he had been publicly tied to. What it does not prove: It does not prove the full internal history of the party or every reason for the resignation. It does not prove any later court outcome or future candidacy by itself. Stored at: gos.ie-research/candidates/derek-blighe/receipt-pack-2026-05-26.md
- receipt packElectionsIreland general-election line Source What it proves: The same ElectionsIreland page records Blighe's 2024 general-election run in Cork North Central as not elected. It fixes the constituency, seat count, vote total, and vote share in one attributable table. This keeps the file on a failed-candidate public-record lane rather than a generic protest-profile lane. What it does not prove: It does not prove any wider movement strength outside that contest. It does not prove later procedural developments that keep the page on hold. Stored at: gos.ie-research/candidates/derek-blighe/receipt-pack-2026-05-26.md
Open questions
- Keep to election, party, court, and mainstream public-record facts. Do not use protest-feed sprawl as proof.
- The hold page now has receipt depth for the election-and-resignation spine; the next missing source is a cleaner official or mainstream court-procedure endpoint.
- Promotion requires current public-record proof or a clean mainstream endpoint.