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GE Exit Poll 10 pm

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    #3062
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,224 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Get off the roads Mary Mitchell O'Connor is on the way home for good!

    Who'll get jobs for the girls now...


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    #3063
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 40,057 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Does it matter? It was comfortable, it's not her fault that SF didn't field more candidates.

    I'm not a fan of SF or Looney Left but you can't rewrite results just because you don't like certain candidates.

    Im talking about an interview I saw about nine tonight and fair enough she got elected(that’s democracy) but she seems to believe it wasn’t SF who helped. I’m not advocating rewriting any results. The results are the results.


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    #3064
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,463 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    UsBus wrote: »
    Galway east count is completed for the last couple of hours. What the hell is wrong with the rest of them..??
    Kerry takes the biscuit, Michael Healy Rae elected on count 1 and then they've adjourned till the morning......!!!!

    Sunday night in the hotel, couple more meals paid for and another days wages for tomorrow.
    You'd be mad to finish the count on day 1, and if you can push it until late tomorrow night all the better.


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    #3065
    rockatansky
    Registered Users Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭rockatansky


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    To be fair, the two splits were over monumental happenings
    The Troubles - Official and Provisional
    The GFA - spawned Republican SF


    Also, Tobin left over a very, very large question - abortion rights.

    Republican SF were set up in 1986 when Ruairí Ó Brádaigh left over SF plan to repeal it's abstention policy in the south.


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    #3066
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Eric Cartman wrote: »

    its a good culling of the hard left.

    Don't you consider SF hard left?


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    #3067
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    gmisk wrote: »
    Richard Boyd Barrett will get in as well.
    If that's who you mean.
    As far as I can see
    RBB and Smith elected
    Murphy 2nd in the count but possibly running out of transfers?
    Collins in battle for last seat
    Barry in 4th spot
    Kenny still battling


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    #3068
    namloc1980
    Registered Users Posts: 18,313 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Josepha Madigan squeaked in by 400 votes. Pity.


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    #3069
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    Don't you consider SF hard left?

    No, I consider them terrorists in moderate left clothing. Like adams wearing joe costellos skin.


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    #3070
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Get off the roads Mary Mitchell O'Connor is on the way home for good!
    Yep, replaced by Hugo McNeil's wife.


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    #3071
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    retalivity wrote: »
    Mmoc misses out on the 4th seat in dun laoighre, great stuff!
    The DAil won't be losing any braincells with that result


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    #3072
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,224 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    Don't you consider SF hard left?

    I'd consider SF the right.


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    #3073
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,972 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    If we are talking of a culling of the Hard Left, where would you think the political party spectrum stands now?

    SF?
    FF?
    FG?
    SDs?
    Lab?
    Indo?

    I don't know. But I do think we might be a country of Centrists. Wanting all things for all men. May your god go with you.


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    #3074
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    No, I consider them terrorists in moderate left clothing. Like adams wearing joe costellos skin.

    So you consider SF's economic plans moderate left? Because even their followers would say they are fairly radical


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    #3075
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    But it is not paid by renters is it?

    It’s not. The UK has Council tax paid by everyone, we have property tax paid by owners. Generally the annual property tax is factored in with rents. There’s no way you could charge both Property Tax and Council Tax here, people wouldn’t stand for it. It would have to be one or the other IMO.


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    #3076
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    No, I consider them terrorists in moderate left clothing. Like adams wearing joe costellos skin.

    Have you tried mindfullnes?


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    #3077
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    So you consider SF's economic plans moderate left? Because even their followers would say they are fairly radical

    no , I consider them completely delusional and so devoid of reality that placing them on the political spectrum may irreversibly damage the spectrum itself.


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    #3078
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    gino kenny out, saoirse mchugh not elected, paul murphy is 50/50, coppinger is out. Rita harrold did worse than every far right candidate in the land.

    its a good culling of the hard left.
    Kenny isn't out yet.


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    #3079
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's really sad that SF supporters are gloating. Don't remember this happening in previous Irish elections. Guess it's part of the populist trump agenda they are adhering too.


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    #3080
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    5th according to the times.
    https://www.rte.ie/news/election-2020/results/#/national/dublin-south-west


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    #3081
    Underground
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Underground


    How is Alan Farrell even within an asses roar of getting back in? What is wrong with people?


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    #3082
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,972 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    It’s not. The UK has Council tax paid by everyone, we have property tax paid by owners. Generally the annual property tax is factored in with rents. There’s no way you could charge both Property Tax and Council Tax here, people wouldn’t stand for it. It would have to be one or the other IMO.

    I may have not articulated it well, but I meant that everyone should pay council tax whether owner or renter/occupier, not both.


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    #3083
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    I'd consider SF the right.

    You and no one else.


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    #3084
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Today has been a good day for Ireland, the electorate have finally discarded the shackles and stranglehold they (FF and FG) had on it.

    Ah would you ever give over.

    Shackles ffs, when there's people actively being locked away and made disappear in China and here's us living in one of the most developed and fairest societies in the world.

    People really don't realise just how good we have it here...and this is from a non FFG voter..


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    #3085
    beno619
    Registered Users Posts: 5,006 ✭✭✭beno619


    Ush1 wrote: »
    No it was housing I'm fairly sure.

    You're right, you can't green light housing projects wily nilly. Housing in a successful economy is not a simple problem and won't have a simple solution, if any solution. Be wary of anyone who tells you it is simple.

    Nobody is saying it's simple but FFG don't and havnt have the desire or the ambition to make any inroads on the problem.


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    #3086
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28,224 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Kenny isn't out yet.

    I want Kenny to stay....got to free the weed he's not finished yet...


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    #3087
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 33,175 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    gino kenny out, saoirse mchugh not elected, paul murphy is 50/50, coppinger is out. Rita harrold did worse than every far right candidate in the land.

    its a good culling of the hard left.
    I think Gino Kenny is still in with a shout?
    Paul Murphy defo more than 50/50.
    Coppinger out yes.
    Rita Harrold and Saorse McHugh (not far left I would say) have never been elected before.

    So far 1 person from the hard left as you put it gone I wouldn't classify that as a culling.

    Also Rita Harrold didn't do as badly as every far right candidate in the land, look at some of Gemmas mates or some of the NP...they totally flopped.


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    #3088
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    rockatansky wrote: »
    Republican SF were set up in 1986 when Ruairí Ó Brádaigh left over SF plan to repeal it's abstention policy in the south.
    correct, sorry!


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    #3089
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    Kenny isn't out yet.
    FG may have too many potential transfers which should push Higgins past him.


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    #3090
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users Posts: 19,664 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Get off the roads Mary Mitchell O'Connor is on the way home for good!

    Thats wonderful news, Mitchell OConnor is the definition of a politician who has been promoted way above their talents


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    #3091
    maebee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,710 ✭✭✭maebee


    I had never voted SF in my life but was almost swept up in their popularity yesterday before I went to my polling station. The 20s/30s kids in my life all gave them a number one and I was tempted to give them something but Gordon Wilson and his daughter Marie came into my head and I couldn't do it. But, fair play to Mary Lou, she has done what Adams could never do in the republic. I hope she uses her victory well.


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