Farming Chitchat 10/10- Now VIRUS-FREE!

whelan2

So did ye vote? Brought eldest lad for his first vote was busy enough

Nekarsulm

Voted about 11am, never saw it busier.
However, as the chapel is next door , some seemed to be hitting the ballot box and 11 o'clock mass.

patsy_mccabe

I timed going voting just before the rugby match started. It was still busy. I always vote. We owe it to our forefathers, who fought for it.

DukeCaboom

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I timed going voting just before the rugby match started. It was still busy. I always vote. We owe it to our forefathers, who fought for it.

Growing up i didn't have any interest in politics but my father always stressed how important it is to vote because so many people in world cant vote.

whelan2

No point giving out about them if you don't get off your hole and vote

patsy_mccabe

Can candidates tweet today? I just saw 2 canvassing type tweets from our local FF candidates. Surely that's not allowed.

Say my name

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Can candidates tweet today? I just saw 2 canvassing type tweets from our local FF candidates. Surely that's not allowed.

On terrestrial media (radio and tv) it's not allowed since sometime yesterday.
On social media it's still anything goes.

Even years ago there was a rule that posters couldn't be put up within a certain distance of the polling station. It seems anything goes in that regard now too going by this year around here anyway.

I wouldn't put no meas on what's being posted on social media. There's an online world and different world called the real world and the elections in Britain showed how different they still are.

Nekarsulm

Say my name wrote: »

Even years ago there was a rule that posters couldn't be put up within a certain distance of the polling station. It seems anything goes in that regard now too going by this year around here anyway.

I wouldn't put no meas on what's being posted on social media. There's an online world and different world called the real world and the elections in Britain showed how different they still are.

Some posters were beside the school and church where the polling station is, and they were removed today.

Re. the online/twitter/social media thing, it really is an echo chamber.
If you are into it, you are less likely to follow those you disagree with, so all you see are congratulatory items about candidates/topics you already agree with.

whelan2

Was someone on another forum today saying someone called to her door and her son answered it. He told her he had voted already and she asked him who they voted for. Do people canvas on election day?

Say my name

whelan2 wrote: »

Was someone on another forum today saying someone called to her door and her son answered it. He told her he had voted already and she asked him who they voted for. Do people canvas on election day?

No but they can provide transport to the polling station.
Asking if they voted was fine.
Asking who they voted for was a bit cheeky.

It'd be worse for the householder if they actually told them how they voted. None of your business..

My timeline on Twitter is full of canvassing still atm from a certain zero choice party.

whelan2

Dublin being bet, jaysus there could be a divorce on the cards here. All teams lose sometime dearest. .

zetecescort

Is this their 2nd or 3rd team? won't matter a bit come high summer

ganmo

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Some posters were beside the school and church where the polling station is, and they were removed today.

Re. the online/twitter/social media thing, it really is an echo chamber.
If you are into it, you are less likely to follow those you disagree with, so all you see are congratulatory items about candidates/topics you already agree with.

Its gas I've seen plenty of candidate ads online...none of them I could vote for.
In fact the only posters for people I could vote for was on the drive to the polling station, the Joy's of living at the corner of a constituency

Ard_MC

whelan2 wrote: »

Dublin being bet, jaysus there could be a divorce on the cards here. All teams lose sometime dearest. .

Not over yet!

whelan2

whelan2 wrote: »

Do people canvas on election day?

They do. Candidate I voted for finished day 2 of a constituency tour today.

whelan2

Ard_MC wrote: »

Not over yet!

Feck

ganmo

That was some finish

whelan2

ganmo wrote: »

That was some finish

Best game ever apparently now....

wrangler

3 Way tie in the RTE election exit poll, wonder how accurate that'll be

patsy_mccabe

wrangler wrote: »

3 Way tie in the RTE election exit poll, wonder how accurate that'll be

That's not good. All sorts of permutations could form a government.

Bullocks

wrangler wrote: »

3 Way tie in the RTE election exit poll, wonder how accurate that'll be

It'll be interesting to see how the next govt is formed .
FG did'nt get thrashed too badly after all the talk before the election

I says

The champagne socialist now lecturing us on how to live, on tommy tiernan now.

kollegeknight

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I timed going voting just before the rugby match started. It was still busy. I always vote. We owe it to our forefathers, who fought for it.

I voted around 08:30 before breakfast. I brought my 5yo as she was wrecking my head with questions. Only 1 question since. Spent half the morning explaining proportional representation.

wrangler

Bullocks wrote: »

It'll be interesting to see how the next govt is formed .
FG did'nt get thrashed too badly after all the talk before the election

depends on the transfers now

Say my name

If the exit poles are to be believed.
It's a fg ff gr coalition.

Hope to God though that there's independents or anyone else brought in except the greens.

Reggie.

Voted a week ago. Stats say only a out a 20% turnout in places. That's mad

Depending on seat numbers we'll have a FF/FG FG/FF confidence and supply, possibly with some minor actors inside, or supplying also.

Or someone brave or foolish enough jumps into bed with SF.

The dilemma for the declining FF & FG is that excluding SF from government allows them to continue building and hurling from the ditch. It's the ultimate risk for one or other of them to put it up to SF and invite them to assist in the formation of a government.

Some very interesting days ahead.

Buford T. Justice XIX

One scuttery, miserable night out:(

patsy_mccabe

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

One scuttery, miserable night out:(

It was constant thunder and lightening through the night here. Fields flooded everywhere.

Buford T. Justice XIX

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

It was constant thunder and lightening through the night here. Fields flooded everywhere.

We had no lightening but constant rain getting heavy occasionally. No damage to our house or the yard but a window blown in in the old house:(