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    #3812
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    It happens to the best of us...


    https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1226453396279963649?s=20


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    #3813
    Murang
    Registered Users Posts: 100 ✭✭Murang


    Very sad here just found out it looks like Shane Ross will loose his seat so sad for rural Ireland


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    #3814
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Murang wrote: »
    Very sad here just found out it looks like Shane Ross will loose his seat so sad for rural Ireland

    Shinners got a seat in westmeath now too it seems


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    #3815
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    SF have a seat in Clare too, it seems.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #3816
    Odelay
    Registered Users Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Murang wrote: »
    Very sad here just found out it looks like Shane Ross will loose his seat so sad for rural Ireland


    ****er has already done the damage.


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    #3817
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Murang wrote: »
    Very sad here just found out it looks like Shane Ross will loose his seat so sad for rural Ireland

    And a green in first. yay! I'm so happy!


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    #3818
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,444 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    SF have a seat in Clare too, it seems.

    Got one in meath aswell


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    #3819
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Got one in meath aswell

    Ah shur they have one in wexford too.
    Topping the poll. It'll be the first sf td elected here in over 100 years. If they had of ran two candidates they probably would have got the two in.


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    #3820
    kk.man
    Registered Users Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭kk.man


    Murang wrote: »
    Very sad here just found out it looks like Shane Ross will loose his seat so sad for rural Ireland

    Will he get his old job back with the Sindo.

    None political news media my eye.


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    #3821
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    SF have a seat in Clare too, it seems.

    You'd wonder do people even know what they were voting for.


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    #3822
    Tileman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭Tileman


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    You'd wonder do people even know what they were voting for.

    The magic money tree that sf promised


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    #3823
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Was out Fri night, opinion was fianna fail, fine Gael aren't a change, and that voting elsewhere may change things up, if not even just to light a fire under the centre parties. Mid 30's group.


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    #3824
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,773 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    You'd wonder do people even know what they were voting for.

    I think SF candidates themselves don't know what their party is about. Really bugs me the cunning way they choose candidates. Usually the least offensive, harmless types they can get. :mad:

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #3825
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,514 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    People only voted sinn fein as they wanted to protest against fine gael and fianna fail.


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    #3826
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    You'd wonder do people even know what they were voting for.

    Bit of Mary cash job 5 children not paying rent to landlord either by all accounts - not bad going to top the poll in clare !
    I’m seriously ashamed this is what my lively hood is depending on !


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    #3827
    Millionaire only not
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭Millionaire only not


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I think SF candidates themselves don't know what their party is about. Really bugs me the cunning way they choose candidates. Usually the least offensive, harmless types they can get. :mad:

    I know paddy Hoolihan type !


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    #3828
    Mac Taylor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭Mac Taylor


    whelan2 wrote: »
    People only voted sinn fein as they wanted to protest against fine gael and fianna fail.

    Your probably right but as the saying goes “be careful what you wish for”.

    My real pet hate is political parties using the Irish flag like as if they own it, they don’t it’s all of our flags regardless of politics, religion, orientation or colour.

    Dessie Ellis singing comon you Black and Tans..........class


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    #3829
    Limestone Cowboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭Limestone Cowboy


    Millionaire only not wrote: »
    Bit of Mary cash job 5 children not paying rent to landlord either by all accounts - not bad going to top the poll in clare !
    I’m seriously ashamed this is what my lively hood is depending on !

    Likewise. I was talking to a young farmer my own go the other day that was going voting for them for no other reason than for a change. No idea what they were about... I talked him out of it anyway for all the good it did. Its unreal considering nobody had heard of her a fortnight ago.


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    #3830
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,218 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    whelan2 wrote: »
    People only voted sinn fein as they wanted to protest against fine gael and fianna fail.

    I don't think that excuse will wash.
    Younger voters have voted massively for them, and their "anti-establishment" image.
    Be interesting to see how many seats they end up with, and it looks like Michael Martin will go into coalition with them.
    It really feels like his last chance to be Taoiseach, so I think he'll go for it and give Mary Lou the Thainiste.
    Try and get them to accept Housing, Health and Social Welfare, and keep Finance and Foreign affairs as FF portfolios.


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    #3831
    ganmo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    I don't think that excuse will wash.
    Younger voters have voted massively for them, and their "anti-establishment" image.
    Be interesting to see how many seats they end up with, and it looks like Michael Martin will go into coalition with them.
    It really feels like his last chance to be Taoiseach, so I think he'll go for it and give Mary Lou the Thainiste.
    Try and get them to accept Housing, Health and Social Welfare, and keep Finance and Foreign affairs as FF portfolios.

    Tbh I think I'd prefer that option to one with greens in coalition


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    #3832
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Limestone Cowboy wrote: »
    You'd wonder do people even know what they were voting for.

    They should know now - the singing of choice IRA songs by Sein Fein supporters at the count station in Dublin should give them a small hint tbh ....


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    #3833
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    ganmo wrote: »
    Tbh I think I'd prefer that option to one with greens in coalition

    FF and SF if it is a thing could still bring the Greens in with them.

    There's a vote against massive overspending in capital projects, homelessness, immigration, even homophobic elements, housing and that's caused by Dublin IT doing well, and then the lure of the gun and tough chaugh image that SF might get things done by any means necessary.

    Definitely agree with you Ganmo. FF and SF maybe might be ok for farming. There could be land rates brought in who knows but if the Greens were added to the mix the only farming would be by retired hobby farmers on a pension or disability welfare allowance.

    The multinationals have this country ruined in with the give me's expecting that it's a bottomless pit.
    And that's another thing will they hang around with SF potentially deciding policy? Then we'll surely be looking for the taxes from farmers.


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    #3834
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,722 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    whelan2 wrote: »
    People only voted sinn fein as they wanted to protest against fine gael and fianna fail.

    Probably says more about the latter 2 failing to deal with many of the critical issues facing younger people in particular in terms of housing, cost of living etc.. I also know more than a few smaller farmers not happy with the current government too and voted outside of the big 2 parties


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    #3835
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,514 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Probably says more about the latter 2 failing to deal with many of the critical issues facing younger people in particular in terms of housing, cost of living etc.. I also know more than a few smaller farmers not happy with the current government too and voted outside of the big 2 parties

    I voted labour. Local labour candidate secured new local school


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    #3836
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I voted labour. Local labour candidate secured new local school

    Kerry had 2 Labour seats 30 years ago. They couldn't even find a candidate to run this time.


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    #3837
    Jjameson
    Registered Users Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Jjameson


    Say my name wrote: »
    Ah shur they have one in wexford too.
    Topping the poll. It'll be the first sf td elected here in over 100 years. If they had of ran two candidates they probably would have got the two in.

    Not the same party at all. Sinn Fein 100 years ago is the mother of ff/fg. The current sf are the political wing of the northern terrorist group the IRA.


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    #3838
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    SF have a seat in Clare too, it seems.

    And she only got 385votes in the local election. Mad altogether.


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    #3839
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    kollegeknight wrote: »
    And she only got 385votes in the local election. Mad altogether.

    An old teacher of mine failed to get elected on the town council. He's now an Mep


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    #3840
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,485 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Jjameson wrote: »
    Not the same party at all. Sinn Fein 100 years ago is the mother of ff/fg. The current sf are the political wing of the northern terrorist group the IRA.

    Yep you're right on all that.

    Matt Carthy has been elected in Cavan Monaghan. Topping the poll. His running mate Pauline Tully looks like she will get in too. Pauline is lucky to be alive. She was stabbed 13 times on Christmas eve 2014 by her husband Pearse McCauley.
    Pearse was one of the IRA gang that killed Garda Jerry McCabe as he was on protective duty of an Post van in Adare. She met the bould Pearse on a Sinn Fein delegation to Castle Rea prison and married six months later.


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    #3841
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,514 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Sf got the first 2 seats in my area


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