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Limerick Local Elections

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    #452
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    I'm not to blame, went for Soc Dem, Green and Daly (seems to do good stuff locally from my experience)


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    #453
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    I'm not to blame, went for Soc Dem, Green and Daly (seems to do good stuff locally from my experience)

    Daly and Leddin are looking looking good
    in City North I thought? Didn't see the final tallies.


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    #454
    c.p.w.g.w
    Registered Users Posts: 4,994 ✭✭✭c.p.w.g.w


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    Daly and Leddin are looking looking good
    in City North I thought? Didn't see the final tallies.

    Daly looks to have topped the pole, I was replying to somebody talking about how we re-elected FF &FG


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    #455
    johnnyryan89
    Registered Users Posts: 8,878 ✭✭✭johnnyryan89


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    Daly and Leddin are looking looking good
    in City North I thought? Didn't see the final tallies.

    https://twitter.com/Limerick_Leader/status/1132337198752313347


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    #456
    TheDiceMan2020
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭TheDiceMan2020


    Frankie Daly...how long oh lord, how long...


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    #457
    Cookiemunster
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,074 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cookiemunster


    johnnyryan89 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Limerick_Leader/status/1132337198752313347

    Doing very well!


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    #458
    johnnyryan89
    Registered Users Posts: 8,878 ✭✭✭johnnyryan89


    Cookiemunster wrote: »
    Doing very well!

    Surprised Brain Leddin has done so well on the first count, isn't this his first election? Frankie Daly out in front isn't surprising and think John Costello might do very well on the second count as he'd be battling with Daly for the number one in Moyross, Balla, Kileely and Thomondgate areas and might pick up quite a few number twos from Frankie and Sharon Benson whose two votes behind Conor Sheehan in eight.


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    #459
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    The council have tweeted the final tallies for all constituencies


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    #460
    bigpink
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭bigpink


    johnnyryan89 wrote: »
    Surprised Brain Leddin has done so well on the first count, isn't this his first election? Frankie Daly out in front isn't surprising and think John Costello might do very well on the second count as he'd be battling with Daly for the number one in Moyross, Balla, Kileely and Thomondgate areas and might pick up quite a few number twos from Frankie and Sharon Benson whose two votes behind Conor Sheehan in eight.

    He talks about if sense on transportation and planning


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    #461
    iguana
    Registered Users Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    johnnyryan89 wrote: »
    Surprised Brain Leddin has done so well on the first count, isn't this his first election?

    Are you really? The Greens have swept up across the country. It has very, very little to do with them as individuals and everything to do with the current wave of climate anxiety and it's current newsworthiness. And if that makes me sound like a climate change denier, I'm not one, I've campaigned on environmental issues for over 25 years. It's just that in the last 3 years or so there has been a very, very marked change in the way the media has reported on the environment and the public's engagement with the issue. And the Greens cleaning up off the back of that was inevitable, even in spite of their pretty dodgy history in Irish government.


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    #462
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Well done to every muppet who voted for the greens,Leo already has the euro signs flashing in his eyes. Well done each and everyone one of you...morons :mad:

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2019/european/a-new-green-agenda-taoiseach-to-fasttrack-radical-climate-change-policies-after-voters-send-clear-message-38148923.html


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    #463
    Mad_maxx
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    Corinne Limited Page wrote: »
    Early tallies look bad for social Democrats and good for the Greens. Elisa O'Donovan the only SD who looks to be in the running. Otherwise it's the usual suspects I think.

    I thought SJ hennelly was already a sitting councellor?


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    #464
    Insect Overlord
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    The Specialist wrote: »
    Well done to every muppet who voted for the greens,Leo already has the euro signs flashing in his eyes. Well done each and everyone one of you...morons :mad:

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/elections-2019/european/a-new-green-agenda-taoiseach-to-fasttrack-radical-climate-change-policies-after-voters-send-clear-message-38148923.html

    Go in then, tell the world who they should have voted for instead.


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    #465
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    banie01 wrote: »
    The SDs are a party with serious issues at National Level.
    The happy clappy populism and new politics are at odds with how they've handled "internal" matters.
    The resignations over Kisyombe are I think only the tip of the iceberg for them.

    They receive very substantial and overwhelmingly supportive media coverage yet cannot make real gains, they need to sit down with their twin ( Labour) very quickly for the sake of both of them, after that, the two of them should join the greens


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    #466
    s7ryf3925pivug
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    I thought SJ hennelly was already a sitting councellor?
    No there are no sitting SD councillors. SJH ran for election at a national level and did well enough but didn't get in. 10k votes or something if I remember correctly.

    She was expected to do better because of her decent result at a national level. Fewer younger people vote at local elections though. Also I understand the boundary of the constituency changed since the national elections, so I guess that did her no favours.


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    #467
    katiek102010
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    Corinne Limited Page wrote: »
    No there are no sitting SD councillors. SJH ran for election at a national level and did well enough but didn't get in. 10k votes or something if I remember correctly.

    She was expected to do better than it looks like she is because of her decent result at a national level. Fewer younger people vote at local elections though. Also I understand the boundary of the constituency changed since the national elections, so I guess that did her no favours.


    Lack of young people voting needs to change. Younger people need to realise that to make a difference in their lives they need to make change at a local level. If they want to make a change on housing, local facilities etc I. Their area, they need to vote the people that will make that difference I.


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    #468
    kilburn
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    Any idea what the % turnout is in some of the areas of the city with high unemployment?


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    #469
    Mad_maxx
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    Corinne Limited Page wrote: »
    No there are no sitting SD councillors. SJH ran for election at a national level and did well enough but didn't get in. 10k votes or something if I remember correctly.

    She was expected to do better because of her decent result at a national level. Fewer younger people vote at local elections though. Also I understand the boundary of the constituency changed since the national elections, so I guess that did her no favours.

    I knew she ran for the Dail but thought she was a councellor

    Her profile seems strong


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    #470
    The Specialist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,539 ✭✭✭The Specialist


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Go in then, tell the world who they should have voted for instead.

    I’m not going to tell anyone who to vote for but people have very short memories to be voting for these **** in any election. Hope they are still Green fans when they are paying through the eyeballs for fuel and home heating under the guise of “climate action” - oh and I’m pretty sure they will now go back and review water charges now that the the public is sooo behind the greens. Well done again lads.


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    #471
    Johnny_BravoIII
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭Johnny_BravoIII


    The Specialist wrote: »
    I’m not going to tell anyone who to vote for but people have very short memories to be voting for these **** in any election. Hope they are still Green fans when they are paying through the eyeballs for fuel and home heating under the guise of “climate action” - oh and I’m pretty sure they will now go back and review water charges now that the the public is sooo behind the greens. Well done again lads.

    Do you believe climate change is real?


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    #472
    homingbird
    Registered Users Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭homingbird


    The Specialist wrote: »
    I’m not going to tell anyone who to vote for but people have very short memories to be voting for these **** in any election. Hope they are still Green fans when they are paying through the eyeballs for fuel and home heating under the guise of “climate action” - oh and I’m pretty sure they will now go back and review water charges now that the the public is sooo behind the greens. Well done again lads.


    I am with you all the way its the student vote that is getting the green party in . how do the parents of these students feel now impossing more taxes on them If we have a general election soon it needs to be on a week day to stop them voting,


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    #473
    Johnny_BravoIII
    Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭Johnny_BravoIII


    homingbird wrote: »
    I am with you all the way its the student vote that is getting the green party in . how do the parents of these students feel now impossing more taxes on them If we have a general election soon it needs to be on a week day to stop them voting,

    Maybe given the fact it's students and their grandkids who will have to deal with the effects of climate change, their vote is most important?

    Do you believe man-made climate change is real?


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    #474
    redved
    Registered Users Posts: 296 ✭✭redved


    homingbird wrote: »
    I am with you all the way its the student vote that is getting the green party in . how do the parents of these students feel now impossing more taxes on them If we have a general election soon it needs to be on a week day to stop them voting,

    I hope this is a joke. Anyone over 18s vote is as valid as anyone else's.


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    #475
    damowill
    Registered Users Posts: 768 ✭✭✭damowill


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    I knew she ran for the Dail but thought she was a councellor

    Her profile seems strong

    I'm a little surprised myself that she polled so poorly as did Walsh in Limerick City North. Elisa O.Donovan is still in the running for a seat in Limerick City West albeit only a slim chance.


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    #476
    c.p.w.g.w
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    damowill wrote: »
    I'm a little surprised myself that she polled so poorly as did Walsh in Limerick City North. Elisa O.Donovan is still in the running for a seat in Limerick City West albeit only a slim chance.

    It's strange considering they were the ones who uncovered the council spending in Bobby Byrne's and the uproar it caused


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    #477
    TheDiceMan2020
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭TheDiceMan2020


    c.p.w.g.w wrote: »
    It's strange considering they were the ones who uncovered the council spending in Bobby Byrne's and the uproar it caused

    They won't exist as a party in due course. They're incompetent and can't even outline coherent policies. That recent political compass thing doing the rounds spoke volumes - they had no stance on about 3/4 of the questions asked.


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    #478
    chicorytip
    Registered Users Posts: 4,132 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    kilburn wrote:
    Any idea what the % turnout is in some of the areas of the city with high unemployment?


    During the late and unlamented (Ald.) Mikey Kelly's highly successful campaign it was 100% in O'Malley Park.


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    #479
    s7ryf3925pivug
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    damowill wrote: »
    I'm a little surprised myself that she polled so poorly as did Walsh in Limerick City North. Elisa O.Donovan is still in the running for a seat in Limerick City West albeit only a slim chance.
    She did better as an independent in 2014.

    I think a seat will go to O'Donovan or MacGabhann. I reckon there would be enough preferences from one to the other to push one in. MacGabhann is a bit ahead at the moment but I think O'Donovan will get more transfers, unless she ends up being one of the next to go... I'd like to see both get in but I doubt they will.


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    #480
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    TheDiceMan2020 wrote: »
    They won't exist as a party in due course. They're incompetent and can't even outline coherent policies. That recent political compass thing doing the rounds spoke volumes - they had no stance on about 3/4 of the questions asked.

    Their biggest problem is that they are completely indistinguishable from labour

    They are a temporary place of refuge for disillusioned labour party voters


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    #481
    brendanwalsh
    Registered Users Posts: 988 ✭✭✭brendanwalsh


    SJH is a shill and nothing else.
    Sd party is a farce and anyone with a bit of self respect would have left it.

    The food expenses 'scandal' was ridiculous. All these things go out to tender and the cheapest supplier gets picked.
    She didn't offer to make the teas and coffees herself either I might add.

    Sheehan in trouble. Surprised to see the people of monaleen dessert him. The sphincter will be tight for him heading into the final round.


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