Deletion of Daithí Doolan (2nd nomination)

Comment: municipal councillors in cities in Dublin's league are almost certainly notable, and evidence has been provided of meeting  with regards to coverage by reliable third party sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: per #G4 as recreation of deleted material, otherwise '''Strong delete''' because Doolan clearly fails .  The article makes two claims to notability: that Doolan is a member of Dublin City Council  and that he was an unsuccessful candidate at the Irish  general election, 2007.  says clearly that "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability", and those are the only claims made in the article for Doolan's notability.  The sentence in  continues "although such a person may be notable for other reasons besides their political careers alone", and notability on those ground would be assessed in the normal way by the test in #Basic_criteria, requiring that he be the ''subject'' of substantial coverage in independent sources. Several "keep" !voters above have made claims that Dolan is notable on these grounds, but the only references in the article are external links to http://sinnfein.ie/ Sinn Fein and to http://www.dublinsoutheast.com/ Sinn Fein's local organisation in Dublin South-East, and no further evidence has been offered at AfD of substantial coverage which could provide evidence of notability. So far as I can see, the "keep" arguments here have no basis at all in the notability guidelines, and amount to . I am surprised that experienced editors such as the keep !voters do not appear to be familiar with 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (WP:CSD||WP:BIO||WP:BIO||WP:BIO||WP:ILIKEIT||WP:BIO)