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Final list of new Irish MEPs

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  • 08-06-2009 8:39pm
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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭


    In the tradition of Fox news, I'm calling it (and like Fox news, this will be the final result when they finish up in Castlebar and make the formal announcement in Cork)


    North-west:
    Pat The Cope Gallagher (FF)
    Marian Harkin (IND) *
    Jim Higgins (FG)

    South:
    Brian Crowley (FF) *
    Alan Kelly (LAB)
    Sean Kelly (FG)

    Dublin:
    Proinsias de Rossa (LAB) *
    Joe Higgins (SOC)
    Gay Mitchell (FG) *

    East:
    Liam Aylward (FF) *
    Nessa Childers (LAB)
    Mairead McGuinness (FG) *

    * re-elected
    They're all in alphabetical order btw.

    The party analysis is:
    Fine Gael - 4
    Fianna Fail - 3
    Labour - 3
    Socialist - 1
    Independent - 1


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    BlitzKrieg
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    impressed with labour, a candidate in every constituency except the north west. I mean Dublin was a given, and East a distinct possibility, but the South was a real surprise.

    who does Marian sit with in the european parliament or is she fully indo?


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    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    BlitzKrieg wrote: »
    impressed with labour, a candidate in every constituency except the north west. I mean Dublin was a given, and East a distinct possibility, but the South was a real surprise.

    who does Marian sit with in the european parliament or is she fully indo?

    She's ALDE, which is why I was very comfortable giving her a preference.


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    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    BlitzKrieg wrote: »
    impressed with labour, a candidate in every constituency except the north west. I mean Dublin was a given, and East a distinct possibility, but the South was a real surprise.

    who does Marian sit with in the european parliament or is she fully indo?
    One of the groups that make up ALDE I think


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    #5
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    TBH I was very happy with this election. Libertas defeated, Sinnott ousted, a Socialist MEP and Labour tripling their representation. A victory for the left, as well as for the pro-EU/pro-Lisbon camp.


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    ionix5891
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭ionix5891


    i am very happy with the results too, pitty about no labour in nw

    but oh well Harkin is a good mep and Ganley didnt make it

    time to celebrate me thinks


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    USE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭USE


    And what about Ganley, where's his seat? Wait... What?
    Mr Ganley, who earlier confidently predicted he would take a seat in Brussels <...>
    <...> Libertas, which earlier in the year claimed it could win up to 100 seats <...>

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIARJj9WajQ


    :D

    Edit: missed the thread, it's already given in another one. Still the video is cool ;)


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    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    pretty good, glad sinnot is gone but would preferr another independent down there, instead of mr nulabour alan kelly


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    Taxipete29
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    Fantastic result for Labour. 3 seats in Europe is a remarkable achievement


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    ejmaztec
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    USE wrote: »
    And what about Ganley, where's his seat? Wait... What?

    He's having a special seat made for one of his tanks, then he's off to Brussels to demonstrate selective democracy.


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    Lockstep
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    Extremely happy with Labour's MEP results, especially happy with Kelly (it was the rap that won it)


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    solice
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    Ganley wasnt elected, I wonder if anyone will say that we didnt vote properly and that we should have a second vote?


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    USE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭USE


    solice wrote: »
    I wonder if anyone will say that we didnt vote properly and that we should have a second vote?
    You are voting for the 2nd time because you are voting for the new conditions of the treaty.

    It's like a search for a compromise. If nothing would be changed and they would ask you to vote again, then it would be different, but now your question is inadequate.

    The same was said already in the thread called "Why are we voting again".

    Such inadequate questions/statements are misleading and oftenly gives wrong image of the situation for the people so I suggest avoiding those.

    ---
    A Eurosceptic right now exists that considers the EU “a dictatorship.” The cleverest, he argues, “cloak their supposedly commonsense credos in reasonableness.” During a recession, however, such groups show their true colours and “identify foreigners as part of our problem and suggest we should brand them with coloured cards.” No-one has been fooled, however, argues Murtagh, in what, to an Irish readership, is a clear allusion to anti-Lisbon treaty Libertas’ failure to win seats in Ireland.
    Source.


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    djpbarry
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    solice wrote: »
    Ganley wasnt elected, I wonder if anyone will say that we didnt vote properly and that we should have a second vote?
    I think you'll find that the make-up of the European Parliament has been voted on several times.


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