Deletion of Matt Carthy

Comment: His position on the Border Regional Authority is a "sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office" (the Authority is one of the eight sub-national divisions of Ireland) satisfying  criterion #1. A https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Matt+Carthy%22&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers Google News archive search for his name turns up 50 results. Some of them are outlets outside the Republic of Ireland: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/breakingnews_ukandireland/town-council-condemned-over-snub-28520817.html the Belfast Telegraph, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/doc/319710800.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb%205,%202010&author=HERB%20KEINON&pub=Jerusalem%20Post&edition=&startpage=&desc=Israel%27s%20envoy%20to%20Ireland%20demands%20Sinn%20Fein%20condemn%20demo%20against%20him the Jerusalem Post (paywalled), http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8544493.stm the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/502290.stm twice, http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=62519 Al Jazeera, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/02/northernireland the Guardian, http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2010&dt=0303&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Luar_Negara&pg=lu_10.htm Utusan Online in Malaysia, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB32FDD53BB1877&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM the Philadelphia Inquirer (paywalled), http://world.people.com.cn/GB/11058208.html people.com.cn and http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/utenriks/rev-israelsk-ambassadoer-ut-av-gjesteboka-3149020.html TV 2 in Norway. The coverage may meet  criterion #2. The apparently self-promotional article has been rewritten by Nikkimaria. I didn't look at the Irish stories but some are entirely about Carthy, perhaps enough to meet . &mdash
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG)

Comment: The first two conditions of  are
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: Ireland does not have any sub-national legislatures as claimed above. Regional authorities are only at Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS-3 level (lower than county council level in Britain and nowhere near the American state-level that "sub-national" means in this sense). So he certainly does not pass 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: As mentioned above the Regional Authorities (RA) are not sub-national, and are actually being abolished next year as part of local government reforms. Also none of the other 37 members of the RA are notable enough to merit an article. Also the sources cites mostly relate to an incident with the Israeli envoy, which falls under 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP1E)

Comment: I'd be inclined to go with Delete. As mentioned above it fails olitician. However there might be an argument for keeping it for the moment. Little point in deleting an article, then having to recreate it if he winds up becoming an MEP
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)