The Official After Hours Presidential Election Thread **POLL RESET 23/10**

Fishooks12

Really think this poll needs to be revised, Norris is leading it and is 33/1 outsider now!

gigino

What did McGuinness ever do for this country ? Actions speak louder than words. Did he ever pay taxes here - or even recognise the state ?

Or was he the leader of the terrorist organisation which murdered the Irish Army father of the guy who quizzed him in Athlone yesterday ?

And he now wants to be commander in chief of this army ?

We already have done enough to be the laughing stock of the world....lets not make our embarassment worse.

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

Some people consider our country a 32 county country regardless of what law says, i am one and no i am not an ardent nationalist.

Excellent - does that mean I can see a diabetes specialist on the NHS so please as I could be waiting another 2 years under the HSE?

billybudd

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Excellent - does that mean I can see a diabetes specialist on the NHS so please as I could be waiting another 2 years under the HSE?

If your smart enough, yes

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

If your smart enough, yes

Define 'smart'.

billybudd

getting seen by the nhs soon rather than waiting 2 yrs for the hse.;)

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

getting seen by the nhs soon rather than waiting 2 yrs for the hse.;)

Ah - see the problem is that the NHS are not among the 'some people' who consider our that country has 32 counties. They have this crazy notion that our country has 26 counties and the HSE...and if we did have a 32 county country we wouldn't have the NHS - we'd still have the HSE. So maybe the 'smart' thing to do would be re-join the Union, then have devolution like Scotland, so we could all have the NHS and I could see a diabetes specialist....:p

billybudd

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Ah - see the problem is that the NHS are not among the 'some people' who consider our that country has 32 counties. They have this crazy notion that our country has 26 counties and the HSE...and if we did have a 32 county country we wouldn't have the NHS - we'd still have the HSE. So maybe the 'smart' thing to do would be re-join the Union, then have devolution like Scotland, so we could all have the NHS and I could see a diabetes specialist....:p

Or you could emirgrate and pay your taxes to your monarch :rolleyes::p

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

Or you could emirgrate and pay your taxes to your monarch :rolleyes::p

Seriously - is that really the very best you could do? Ohhhh- if you don't agree with me your not proper Irish. Seriously?!? :rolleyes:

Alternately

You could face up to political reality :eek:

If we have a referendum in the 26 counties on unification and the majority votes yes.

and

If there is a referendum in the 6 counties on unification and the majority votes yes.

Then we may indeed one day have a 32 county country. Right now, no matter what you 'consider' we don't. And right now there are still a lot of people in NI who don't want unification -possibly they are the majority - but you probably reckon we shouldn't 'consider' them.

billybudd

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Seriously - is that really the very best you could do? :rolleyes:

Alternately

You could face up to political reality :eek:

If we have a referendum in the 26 counties on unification and the majority votes yes.

and

If there is a referendum in the 6 counties on unification and the majority votes yes.

TheN we may indeed one day have a 32 county country. Right now, no matter what you 'consider' we don't. And right now there are still a lot of people in NI who don't want unification -possibly they are the majority - but you probably reckon we shouldn't 'consider' them.

ahh i was jesting!!

I never said there wasnt partition, of course there is, put it this way the majority of people who go abroad and when asked where they are from will respond Ireland, now as far as i know the island of Ireland has 32 counties, very rarely will people say im from the republic.

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

Or you could emirgrate and pay your taxes to your monarch :rolleyes::p

BTW - what is emirgrate? Would that mean moving to a Emirate so the monarch I paid my taxes to would be a Emir? If I went to the UK would I be Queengrating?

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

ahh i was jesting!!

I never said there wasnt partition, of course there is, put it this way the majority of people who go abroad and when asked where they are from will respond Ireland, now as far as i know the island of Ireland has 32 counties, very rarely will people say im from the republic.

Feck that ****e - I'm from CORK.

starbelgrade

Mountainlad wrote: »

One question, are we assigned polling slips to vote in the polling station in our consitituency? I'll probably be in college on the Thursday, so would it mean I'd have to travel home to vote? It would seem odd to me that that would be the system in place, as it would virtually rule out all third level students from voting, a significant proportion of registered voters.

The system doesn't rule out third level students from voting - third level students rule themselves out of voting by not changing their address to the address they are living at.

It's up to you to ensure that your current details are on the register & if you cannot vote due, then it's 100% your own fault.

billybudd

Bannasidhe wrote: »

BTW - what is emirgrate? Would that mean moving to a Emirate so the monarch I paid my taxes to would be a Emir? If I went to the UK would I be Queengrating?

your a free man, for now, so why not anyway whats emirgrate got to do with emirate? you should really emigrate.

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

your a free man, for now, so why not anyway whats emirgrate got to do with emirate? you should really emigrate.

I'm not a man at all - free or otherwise .

I did emigrate - twice. I didn't like it. They just weren't Cork like. AND they both expected me to pay taxes to support monarchies. I am very anti-monarchy. :mad: (Both countries had excellent health care systems tho...I do miss that )

billybudd

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I'm not a man at all - free or otherwise .

I did emigrate - twice. I didn't like it. They just weren't Cork like. AND they both expected me to pay taxes to support monarchies. I am very anti-monarchy. :mad: (Both countries had excellent health care systems tho...I do miss that )

in that case make the tea

Bannasidhe

billybudd wrote: »

in that case make the tea

I'll do that so while you paint the house the wrong colour then re-paint it the right colour, move the furniture, put it all back where it was in the first place and go catch a woolly mammoth for the sandwiches .

Deedsie

Primetime Presidential election special is on at 21:35 tonight on RTÉ 1.

squod

No point showing these things. They should film the whole thing and just show five minutes of the funny bits after the news.

Badgermonkey

Just received my first election literature from wee Martin McGuinness.

Oh God, he knows where I live. :eek::eek:

Mountainlad

starbelgrade wrote: »

The system doesn't rule out third level students from voting - third level students rule themselves out of voting by not changing their address to the address they are living at.

It's up to you to ensure that your current details are on the register & if you cannot vote due, then it's 100% your own fault.

I live in Limerick 5 days a week, not seven. When on holidays, I'll be at home. In the summer I'll be living back home. I dunno I think the system should accomodate for that.

My name is URL

Anyone hear Mitchell on Newstalk earlier? I'm actually starting to pity him.. he seems convinced that he's going to win.

"opinion polls are meaningless"

"I have 30% of the farmer vote"

"I'm innovative and I have vision"..

mongo-vision

mike kelly

Mountainlad wrote: »

I live in Limerick 5 days a week, not seven. When on holidays, I'll be at home. In the summer I'll be living back home. I dunno I think the system should accomodate for that.

the system assumes that mature adults don't need to return to their mammies to get the washing done every weekend

Deedsie

mike kelly wrote: »

the system assumes that mature adults don't need to return to their mammies to get the washing done every weekend

And what about people going home to care for their elderly parents? Maybe people who have to work at the weekends?

lastlaugh

My name is URL wrote: »

Anyone hear Mitchell on Newstalk earlier? I'm actually starting to pity him.. he seems convinced that he's going to win.

"opinion polls are meaningless"

"I have 30% of the farmer vote"

"I'm innovative and I have vision"..

mongo-vision

God bless him but the man hasn't an ounce of charisma at all.

Did anyone see him and Enda on the News the other night. Enda starts saying that people said Obama was a 'non-entity' when he ran for the senate. It came across like he was saying that people think Gay Mitchell is a non-entity also, cringe-worthy...

mike kelly

Deedsie wrote: »

And what about people going home to care for their elderly parents? Maybe people who have to work at the weekends?

surely home is where you live during the week?

Deedsie

mike kelly wrote: »

surely home is where you live during the week?

Absolutely not... Not everyones situation is as straight forward as we might all like. There should be consideration for students, workers who live away from home during the week!

Phill Ewinn

Can of worms. Putting every job in Dublin City is the reason the place is full of foreigners and boggers. Makes the place next to unbearable. Also the reason why boggers go home on the weekend .

seamus

Deedsie wrote: »

Absolutely not... Not everyones situation is as straight forward as we might all like. There should be consideration for students, workers who live away from home during the week!

"Home" is where you spend the majority of your time.

If you spend five days in Dublin and 2 days in Galway, then you live in Dublin, and Dublin is your home. If someone asked where you live, you wouldn't say "Galway".

I've no problem with people talking about "going home" when they're going back to their parents house, that's just a turn of phrase, but I'll never understand people claiming that the place they spend 70% of their time living in, isn't home.

Lord TSC

At the end of the day, there's ways and means of voting if you're a student or whatever. If you're going to let something like that stop you, then the blame is largely on your own feet. If voting is really important to you, you'll find the way to do it...