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Galway West Election results

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    #152
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    boardswalker wrote: »
    He is also a man of the highest integrity.;)
    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/o-cuiv-pledge-heads-off-pds-move-341774.html

    Éamon thinks this of your post:

    ocuivasleep.jpg

    :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:


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    #153
    nifheorais
    Registered Users Posts: 125 ✭✭nifheorais


    Ficheall wrote: »
    I didn't give him a high preference, but if I had it would have been for this incident:
    http://www.advertiser.ie/images/2008/12//6011_thumb.jpg
    Is that Ming??!!


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    #154
    boardswalker
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭boardswalker


    johngalway wrote: »
    Éamon thinks this of your post:

    ocuivasleep.jpg

    :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac: :pac:

    He should have been charged with Impersonating the Regulator!


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    #155
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Pádraig McCormack reportedly going to represent Kynes interests tonight.


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    #156
    johngalway
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Pádraig McCormack reportedly going to represent Kynes interests tonight.

    Good, safe pair of hands there :)


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    #157
    PomBear
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    Fingers crossed for Catherine Connolly, hoping she gets in


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    #158
    Iwannahurl
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    PomBear wrote: »
    Fingers crossed for Catherine Connolly, hoping she gets in


    I heard that her step-mother died today. Lot of stress at this time, especially after the recent death of her father.


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    #159
    loser2old4board
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭loser2old4board


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Why was O'Cuiv such a vote topper? QUOTE]

    Hard work on the ground out in Connemara. Speaking up for his constituent's
    interests. (Right or wrong.....that's how things get done in the country).
    Integrity. The perception that he doesn't have the same whiff of arrogance about him as some of his contemporaries.


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    #160
    Dunjohn
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    Looks like recounting is underway. RTE.ie has a nice red "recount in progress" flashing at the top of the screen. Very melodramatic. Needs a siren or something.


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    #161
    WesternNight
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    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Looks like recounting is underway. RTE.ie has a nice red "recount in progress" flashing at the top of the screen. Very melodramatic. Needs a siren or something.

    It's basically saying "don't ask us anything about this for at least 6 hours...we won't know anything!"


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    #162
    Iwannahurl
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    loser2old4board wrote: »
    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Why was O'Cuiv such a vote topper? QUOTE]

    Hard work on the ground out in Connemara. Speaking up for his constituent's
    interests. (Right or wrong.....that's how things get done in the country).
    Integrity. The perception that he doesn't have the same whiff of arrogance about him as some of his contemporaries.



    I've never voted for O Cuiv, but I am aware that he is regarded as a hard-working TD. Until there is some serious political reform in this country, clientelism and parish-pumpery is what were stuck with.

    There are those TDs who love it and use it to their advantage, and there are those who hate it but have to put up with it because otherwise they'll be dumped at the next election. It's not easy for one TD to try to buck the system on their own.

    Won't be long now before the new Galway West TDs are being pressured on local issues. Here's what one voter expects from Fidelma Healy Eames, for example: "Hope Fidelma gets in, Clarinbridge and Maree need her voice...."

    Now, who should I talk to about getting the grass cut more often in our estate?


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    #163
    johngalway
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    WesternNight wrote: »
    It's basically saying "don't ask us anything about this for at least 6 hours...we won't know anything!"

    Tomorrow evening I reckon.


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    #164
    Iwannahurl
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    johngalway wrote: »
    Tomorrow evening I reckon.



    Good. Now I might get some work done... :)


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    #165
    WesternNight
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    johngalway wrote: »
    Tomorrow evening I reckon.

    Heh, sounds about right. Twitter was estimating around 6-7...but that would be the absolute earliest. And if Galway West is anything, it's not early!


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    #166
    Fey!
    Registered Users Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭Fey!


    PomBear wrote: »
    Fingers crossed for Catherine Connolly, hoping she gets in

    Whatever about her current personal circumstances, let's hope that this sanctimonious psychologist cum barrister cum politician DOESN'T get in; another one of the "do as I say and not as I do" brigade, which was pointed out to her on the doorstep and which she refused to answer to.

    For the last couple of elections she has arrived on my doorstep, and rather than give a straight answer to several questions, she instead pointed to other candidates to say what they DIDN'T do. She couldn't even saw what she has done for the city.

    She flip-flopped and left labour, now she's flip-flopping again (along with a large number of others) and leaving the city council (and people of the city) she had already committed to to go to the Dail.

    All of those already elected to office should have been made to resign when they went to run in the general election, letting us save on time and money and have the by-election at the same time as the general election, and getting people in for whom "commitment" actually means sticking to what you've already promised to do.

    Hopefully the actions of her, Walsh, Naughton, Kyne et al, along with our two senators, will be remembered by the people and groups who voted them into their current positions when the next local election come, leaving them out on their arses in the cold where they belong.


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    #167
    johngalway
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Good. Now I might get some work done... :)

    Two days, two days I've lost watching GW !! Still, be worth it for the right result :D


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    #168
    padraig71
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    I hope that Catherine Connolly will get in and join forces with others on the left in the new Dáil. We will need a strong opposition to counter the more-of-the-same economic model put forward by FG.


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    #169
    galwayrush
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    I hope Catherine Connolly fails to make it, she is so bloody negative, always shocked and appaled at some trivial matter. Not the trpe of person who i'd like to see represent us in the Dail.


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    #170
    Unrealistic
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    WesternNight wrote: »
    Heh, sounds about right. Twitter was estimating around 6-7...but that would be the absolute earliest. And if Galway West is anything, it's not early!
    Galway Advertiser estimating 12 hours.


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    #171
    WesternNight
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    I hope Catherine Connolly fails to make it, she is so bloody negative, always shocked and appaled at some trivial matter. Not the trpe of person who i'd like to see represent us in the Dail.

    Boards must be an absolute delight for you then.. :p


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    #172
    galwayrush
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    WesternNight wrote: »
    Boards must be an absolute delight for you then.. :p

    LOL, If she makes it, good luck to her. Hope she does not try and make us all call each other comrade...:D


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    #173
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    MCH has announced about 20 mins ago that they are about to start the re-count of all votes for Galway West

    From the Galway Advertiser Facebook, MCH being the returning officer...

    What a long day!!


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    #174
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    LadyMayBelle wrote: »
    From the Galway Advertiser Facebook, MCH being the returning officer...

    What a long day!!

    I love their lipstick watch. :D


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    #175
    Dan_Solo
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,087 ✭✭✭✭Dan_Solo


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    There is an image of Michael D as Michael Twee the airy-fairy intellectual poet, but IMO he's as hard-headed and shrewd about the number crunching as any FF strategist.
    You're right. He's as much of a c**t as any Fianna Failer. Wasn't he in government with them and voted through loads of lovely cuts, including the student summer dole.
    Pr1ck.


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    #176
    Dunjohn
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Now, who should I talk to about getting the grass cut more often in our estate?

    Actually, what does happen to Nolan's seat on the Council, now that he's heading off to Dublin? I presume that Labour fill it themselves, rather than this triggering a by-election?


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    #177
    Raging_Ninja
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    Fey! wrote: »

    She flip-flopped and left labour,

    I think its more fair to say that she wasn't given the labour nomination so she decided to run as an independent.


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    #178
    Birroc
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    So how is this one going to play out? The tallymen must have an idea. Assuming (and hoping) FHE does not win her recount, will Kyne and Walsh get in or will Connolly and Walsh get it?


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    #179
    celty
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    galwayrush wrote: »
    I hope Catherine Connolly fails to make it, she is so bloody negative, always shocked and appaled at some trivial matter. Not the trpe of person who i'd like to see represent us in the Dail.

    Would you rather Frank Fahey? Or Brian Walsh? Or, God forbid, Michael Crowe? Lovely property investors rather than someone who actually has a brain and has something she believes in rather than lining her own pockets?


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    #180
    galwayrush
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    Birroc wrote: »
    So how is this one going to play out? The tallymen must have an idea. Assuming (and hoping) FHE does not win her recount, will Kyne and Walsh get in or will Connolly and Walsh get it?

    Too close to call i reckon, FHE's transfers will go all over the place, FG will obviously do well, NG will probably get a lot being from much the same area, CC might get quite a few possibly because of a woman's vote...


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    #181
    Dunjohn
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    Wait, so what exactly does this recount entail? The Advertiser's facebook is talking about transfers going to Nolan and O'Cuiv, why would that happen? Aren't they through? Are they counting every single ballot in the room, or just the transfers from the last count? I'm suddenly all confused.


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