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« on: May 24, 2019, 05:02:34 PM »

All local authorities in Ireland are fully up today, as well as plebiscites in Cork, Limerick and Waterford on creating diretly elected Mayors and a national referendum to loosen the laws around divrce (and of course the EU elections).

Here's the exit poll:

Fine Gael - 23%
Fianna Fail - 23%
Sinn Fein  - 12%
Greens - 9%
Labour - 6%
Social Dem - 3%
Ind4Change - 2%
Anti Austerity Alliance etc - 2%
Independent Alliance - 2%
Aontu - 1%

Given the very good numbers for the Greens in the EU Dublin constituency, they are probably doing well in Dublin (perhaps winning?), although Ireland has slow counting so it will take a while to have the numbers.

With 87% voting in favour of loosening the divorce laws.
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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2019, 05:13:25 PM »

Some EU results:

Dublin



4 seats here. Greens guaranteed a seat, but the battle will be between FF, FG, I4C and SF for the remaining 3.

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5 seats

Midlands



4 seats. Ming Flanagan may lose his seat. Casey won't get in on what I gather was an attempt at right-populist agitation.
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« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2019, 02:01:02 AM »

Some EU results:

Dublin



4 seats here. Greens guaranteed a seat, but the battle will be between FF, FG, I4C and SF for the remaining 3.

Durkan should have stayed north of the border.  They can't even spell his name right.
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« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2019, 08:58:35 AM »

Some EU results:

Dublin



4 seats here. Greens guaranteed a seat, but the battle will be between FF, FG, I4C and SF for the remaining 3.

Durkan should have stayed north of the border.  They can't even spell his name right.

How on earth did he end up down there, and for Fine Gael as well?
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2019, 12:39:08 PM »

Durkan probably ran as a favour for Leo over supporting him and the SDLP in the dispute over the border. Whatever chance his campaign had ended when the UK postponed leaving the EU until October.

Very bad results for the Shinners is the main take from this election btw.
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2019, 01:26:56 AM »

Well SF are collapsing relative to 2014, but they were due a comeuppance.
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« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2019, 03:26:25 AM »

Something I have been wondering about for a while - does Ireland really need quite so many minor left wing parties? They make the French look almost sensible by comparison
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« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2019, 03:20:52 AM »

Something I have been wondering about for a while - does Ireland really need quite so many minor left wing parties? They make the French look almost sensible by comparison

I have yet to work out what purpose the Social Democrats have.
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« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2019, 06:16:42 PM »

Well one thing Ireland could arguably do with is a proper social democratic party - especially with Irish Labour seemingly lost to electorally toxic "woke" neoliberalism - but admittedly the SD's might not be it.
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2019, 03:23:10 PM »

Something I have been wondering about for a while - does Ireland really need quite so many minor left wing parties? They make the French look almost sensible by comparison

I have yet to work out what purpose the Social Democrats have.

Started off as a less compromised version of Labour but has been colonized by the terminally woke. Terminally woke has a constituency albeit not a very large one.
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« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2019, 04:27:22 PM »

  So what exactly does terminally woke mean politically?
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