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GE Exit Poll 10 pm

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    #2432
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 40,056 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    lmimmfn wrote: »
    Looks like FG are quite happy to be in opposition, i. e. It's a mess now you try.
    Happy or just facing the reality ?


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    #2433
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    ricero wrote: »
    Gone very under the radar today with the Sinn Fein surge but the greens and climate activists must be very dissapointed
    If they take 10 or so seats they'll be happy. But need a new leader to expand their reach outside the cities


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    #2434
    statesaver
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭statesaver


    lmimmfn wrote: »
    Looks like FG are quite happy to be in opposition, i. e. It's a mess now you try.

    Got that impression watching Leo's interview on RTE.


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    #2435
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Lining up nicely to be a hung dail one would think.


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    #2436
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    smelly sock wrote: »
    I think Irish Voters are selfish enough.

    Not much point me switching to an EV if a small chinese factorys emissions in one day are the eqiluivalent to one year in Ireland.

    Fixed


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    #2437
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 15,137 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    gmisk wrote: »
    Yep I think you are right he was bidding his time....not likeable at all...he would be a disaster as labour leader I think

    No love for him in the outgoing PP.
    Jan O'Sullivan proposed him last time and she's gone now.


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    #2438
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    SF topping the votes nationwide so far
    23.7%, FF second, FG third


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    #2439
    thequarefellow
    Registered Users Posts: 325 ✭✭thequarefellow


    lmimmfn wrote: »
    Looks like FG are quite happy to be in opposition, i. e. It's a mess now you try.

    At least they are not backtracking on a vehemently held stance of not going into government with SF.
    FF on the other hand....


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    #2440
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    ygolometsipe wrote: »
    I'd say wait for the transfers. SF are exceeding the quota in lots of constituencies and I think them extras will likely transfer to the Greens.
    In Dublin West a lot of them just died. Gino Kenny got very few in transfers. You'd expect that pattern to repeat.


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    #2441
    The Rape of Lucretia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    brendanwalsh wrote: »
    Grim enough day here.

    FG and FF have to make a deal now. Alternative option is re election and SF will run double the candidates and get a majority and run the country into the ground

    People are going way overboard on this. It would not happen. They might get more. Maybe 10. But majority is a different league altogether.


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    #2442
    tikkahunter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭tikkahunter


    Highly doubt SF want to be in this time around as they know the money is not there to pull off all the crap they promised.I think it was all meant to be a build up for the next one but the people now want “change”.


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    #2443
    lmimmfn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    I honestly can't understand the "shock" at how well SF have done.


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    #2444
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Happy or just facing the reality ?
    Waiting for the numbers was the impression I got and will deal with things then. They only have one very clear red line.


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    #2445
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Happy or just facing the reality ?

    Another worldwide recession on the way. They will wait and pick up the pieces from a FF SF populist government running the economy down the ****ter


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    #2446
    Idbatterim
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    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    People are going way overboard on this. It would not happen. They might get more. Maybe 10. But majority is a different league altogether.

    Absolutely. Majority is out of equation. But comfortably largest party. Ffg is absolutely unacceptable given the outcome and landslide sf vote when they only ran one candidate in every constituency?


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    #2447
    [Deleted User]
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    ricero wrote: »
    Gone very under the radar today with the Sinn Fein surge but the greens and climate activists must be very dissapointed

    I’m wondering did that remark by Eamon Ryan a while back that people in rural areas could share transport as a solution to cut emissions cause a backlash? I know it went down v badly at home (Mayo). Greens remaining a party of the idealistic city dwellers for now it seems.


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    #2448
    LeinsterDub
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    smelly sock wrote: »
    I think Irish Voters are sharp enough.

    Not much point me switching to an EV if a small chinese factorys emissions in one day are the eqiluivalent to one year in Ireland.

    No point except for the cheaper fuel bills and cleaner air of course


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    #2449
    The Rape of Lucretia
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    ricero wrote: »
    Gone very under the radar today with the Sinn Fein surge but the greens and climate activists must be very dissapointed

    Good point indeed. I was thinking they might get about another 5 than they will. But they have been swamped by the SF mania/nightmare.


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    #2450
    elperello
    Registered Users Posts: 15,137 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    smelly sock wrote: »
    I think Irish Voters are sharp enough.

    Not much point me switching to an EV if a small chinese factorys emissions in one day are the eqiluivalent to one year in Ireland.

    Maybe a bit of exaggeration there, no?


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    #2451
    is_that_so
    Registered Users Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    People are going way overboard on this. It would not happen. They might get more. Maybe 10. But majority is a different league altogether.
    Majority would have to be in all age groups and there is little hope they can shift the over 65s.


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    #2452
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Absolutely. Majority is out of equation. But comfortably largest party. Ffg is absolutely unacceptable given the outcome and landslide sf vote when they only ran one candidate in every constituency?

    Its the only option for safe government yet almost completely ensures destruction for one of them next time round, so we get a second election or SF now or SF later...


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    #2453
    easypazz
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    lmimmfn wrote: »
    I honestly can't understand the "shock" at how well SF have done.

    Is it normal for people to be unable to get elected in a local election then to top the poll in a national election shortly after?


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    #2454
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 8,231 ✭✭✭threeball


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    People are going way overboard on this. It would not happen. They might get more. Maybe 10. But majority is a different league altogether.

    I doubt they will ever have a day like this again. Reality will set in fairly quickly over the next few weeks. The reason they have got so many over the line so early is that they only have one candidate per constituency. Spit that vote and it opens a different can of worms that doesn't work out so well.


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    #2455
    jos28
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    Jim O'Callaghan just gone up in my estimation


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    #2456
    The Rape of Lucretia
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    klose wrote: »
    I've never met anyone in tipp with anything good to say about alan Kelly

    Yet oodles with goog things to say about Lowry. WTF is wrong with them down there. Lord, I despair for this country sometimes. As a free state, has it ever really gotten anything right ?


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    #2457
    is_that_so
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    Mr.S wrote: »
    Why did SF run so many single candidates with no running mates? Seems like such a wasted opportunity with all these transfer votes from the first preference winners.
    It was based on the local results of last year. They didn't see this coming, nobody did.


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    #2458
    Idbatterim
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    amadangomor wrote: »
    Another worldwide recession on the way. They will wait and pick up the pieces from a FF SF populist government running the economy down the ****ter

    Maybe the tax payer can benefit from a crash , in a way. They can buy it all up for afforablw housing for a pittance , instead of selling it for a pittance!


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    #2459
    jamesbere
    Registered Users Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Why did SF run so many single candidates with no running mates? Seems like such a wasted opportunity with all these transfer votes from the first preference winners.

    I'd say they didn't think they'd get so much support


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    #2460
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 33,175 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Lucinda Creighton...blast from the past! Wasn't she big pals with Leo at one stage?


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    #2461
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 21,057 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    No point except for the cheaper fuel bills and cleaner air of course

    It’s because of the greens the air is toxic due to every single car in the country being diesel


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