Ireland Election 2007

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I lost all respect for your Greens.

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I lost all respect for your Greens.

I'm sure they'lll be very disappointed.
Any particular reason why?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I had to rub my eyes when I saw "Eoghan Harris" on your list, I hadn't heard about the Seanad nominations yet so I didn't know.

I had to check RTE just to make sure it wasn't a joke.

It wasn't a Joke.

I then shouted "You son of a Bitch". Repeatedly.

God I'm beginning to really hate Eoghan Harris.

The rest of Bertie's list screams "Mediocrity" - that third rate councillor for down my estate whose entire advantage is that she's blond and pretty (not really) and not Liz O'Donnell (Corrigan), Ivor "Paintjobgate" Callely, that Gombeen from Leitrim and other failed Dail candidates.

But gives good ground to the Conspiracy theorists.

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I lost all respect for your Greens.

I'm sure they'lll be very disappointed.
Any particular reason why?

First of all accepting to be in an FF government.

[Јas]

I had to rub my eyes when I saw "Eoghan Harris" on your list, I hadn't heard about the Seanad nominations yet so I didn't know.

I had to check RTE just to make sure it wasn't a joke.

It wasn't a Joke.

I then shouted "You son of a Bitch". Repeatedly.

God I'm beginning to really hate Eoghan Harris.

It's quite the surprising appointment.

The rest of Bertie's list screams "Mediocrity" - that third rate councillor for down my estate whose entire advantage is that she's blond and pretty (not really) and not Liz O'Donnell (Corrigan), Ivor "Paintjobgate" Callely, that Gombeen from Leitrim and other failed Dail candidates.

But gives good ground to the Conspiracy theorists.

Brady, Callelly and Ellis will presumably all be running next time, obviously all electable so it makes sense to give them an office to work from.

Corrigan and McDonald - some gender balance. McDonald did respectably in Wexford - a definite prospect. Corrigan can only really take a seat with a FF retiree - so maybe there's something in that.

Finally, Ó Domhnaill - never heard of him. A little surprising going to Donegal, given there ample supply of TDs there.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I really doubt (read: hope) that Callely can get his seat back without redistricting or a retiree; Dublin North Central generally has a strong FF block and a strong Leftish block. But with Richard Bruton being there.. it's almost impossible to see it as anything other than 1FF 1FG 1OTH. And Callely did better than expected there last time.

The rumour mill has been suggesting that Seamus Brennan may retire, don't know much about that. We can only hope.

But God, Eoghan Harris was really put a crimp in my day.

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I really doubt (read: hope) that Callely can get his seat back without redistricting or a retiree; Dublin North Central generally has a strong FF block and a strong Leftish block. But with Richard Bruton being there.. it's almost impossible to see it as anything other than 1FF 1FG 1OTH. And Callely did better than expected there last time.

The rumour mill has been suggesting that Seamus Brennan may retire, don't know much about that. We can only hope.

But God, Eoghan Harris was really put a crimp in my day.

What's so bad about Eoghan Harris. Enlighten me!

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I really doubt (read: hope) that Callely can get his seat back without redistricting or a retiree; Dublin North Central generally has a strong FF block and a strong Leftish block. But with Richard Bruton being there.. it's almost impossible to see it as anything other than 1FF 1FG 1OTH. And Callely did better than expected there last time.

Well, I won't be running down to place a bet on Callelly to be back in the next Dáil - but you never know. He made it before; McGrath has hardly got the safest seat in the world (though I'll grant you a leftist of some desciption should get the seat); and you just never know what the results of the next constituency redrawing will be.

The rumour mill has been suggesting that Seamus Brennan may retire, don't know much about that. We can only hope.

Maybe, hard to say.

But God, Eoghan Harris was really put a crimp in my day.

Well now, don't worry to much about it. It's only a Seanad seat after all - heck this could drive him into complete obscurity.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

It's the Clientalism of the whole thing which sickens me, though perhaps it won't be so bad if it means less articles by him in the Sunday Independant (which I *shock* occasionally read, though we all know 95% is low-grade crap, which is an insult to low-grade crap)

[Democratic Hawk]

I only trust the Greens get a well-deserved drubbing at the next general election. FF doesn't seem to be the natural coalition partner for progressives (and no I'm not including the PD's in that category)

Along with SF, the PDs would be well down my preference vote

Dave

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I only trust the Greens get a well-deserved drubbing at the next general election. FF doesn't seem to be the natural coalition partner for progressives (and no I'm not including the PD's in that category)

Along with SF, the PDs would be well down my preference vote

Dave

I hope so. It's sad, but after joining an FF coalition, they must suffer the same fate as the French greens.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I only trust the Greens get a well-deserved drubbing at the next general election. FF doesn't seem to be the natural coalition partner for progressives (and no I'm not including the PD's in that category)

Along with SF, the PDs would be well down my preference vote

Dave

I hope so. It's sad, but after joining an FF coalition, they must suffer the same fate as the French greens.

You're probably right though, alot of their support comes from mainly upper-middle class constituencies which tend to have a very strong 'soft left' vote. Like Dublin south. And these people tend to be very strongly Anti-Fianna Fail if anything. The Greens though might be able to gain more transfers from FFers though.

After all many predicted it would be the end of the PDs after they went into coalition with FF in 1989.

[minionofmidas]

Speaks for itself, really...

How about this one:



That's for the recent Berlin city elections (in a seat in the eastern part of Friedrichshain). His poster for the Bundestag election was the same hare, plus his name (full name - this one actually just has the first name!) and web address but nothing else. And was in Din A 4 Format - I've seen one surviving a couple of days ago.

[Јas]

Yeah, that's a...mmm, unique one alright.

Actually, one of the most interesting posters during our election was one of Michael D. Higgins (Lab-Galway West) at this bus stop...


What's weird about it, is that the bus stop is in Brittany and nobody had (or AFAIK, has) any clue how it got there. Apparantly, it wasn;t alone either...quite a few sightings of Higgins's posters were spotted in the region. (Click on the picture to link to the related Irish Times piece.)

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Lol, in Quimper in the 29? How the hell did that get there?

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Lol, in Quimper in the 29? How the hell did that get there?

I don't think that problem has been solved.

Maybe Higgins's foreign policy pronouncements play particularly well in Brittany or maybe Quimper has been redrawn as inside Galway West - who knows?...

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OMG NO! IRELAND HAS INVADED FRANCE!

Seriously, probably a supporter of Higgins in Quimper.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, that's a...mmm, unique one alright.

He got 6.5%, almost pipping the CDU for fourth place! (It is that kind of district...)

There's two, ahem, campaign videos, up at www.linkerhund.de. Definitely worth checking out even if you don't speak German.