Local/ EU elections who will you Vote for

Is there a full candidate list for each electoral area available ? I'm in Kildare and the county council site has information for candidates but not a list of who is on the ballot paper. Same question for upcoming EU elections.

Has there been any polls?

It is noticeable how at pains some, who no doubt have political affiliations to our old established parties, are to tell us how awful all these far right parties are, how they are just "a noisy little bunch within their own sad little echo chamber", how it is no use voting for them because polls are telling us it will be the same old same old parties in power, how they have "no impact on the voting intentions of middle Ireland".

Me thinks thou protest too much.

Would this be the same Middle Ireland that is seeing it harder and harder for their kids to go away to college because of cost and lack of rental accommodation?

Would this be the same Middle Ireland that now finds it harder to get GP appointments even though they are paying for them?

Would this be the same Middle Ireland that sees their adult offspring still living at home as it is too expensive to go rent whilst trying to save to buy a property?

Would this be the same Middle Ireland that sees their taxes being hovered up by hundreds of thousands of people that just arrived in the country, whilst they themselves, their kids or their elderly relatives get fook all?

Would this be the same Middle Ireland that tries and fails to get planning to build a home for themselves, but yet sees immediate planning to house hundreds of people that just arrived in the state?

Would this be the Middle Ireland that has sat in A&E with elderly relatives left sitting or if luckly left on a trolley for many hours?

I think a fair few here don't live in the same Middle Ireland as me and most of the my acquaintances and colleagues.

Each local council should have them listed somewhere on their webpage. Nominations period runds from Saturday 11th to Saturday 18th, so some councils may not publish until that is closed.

Dublin Councils pages are below: DLR and SDCC appear to be updating live lists as nominations come in.

https://www.dlrcoco.ie/elections-and-voting/local-elections-2024

https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/i-want/local-elections-2024

https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/our-council/elections-and-voting/local-elections-2024/

https://www.fingal.ie/LocalElections2024

A local Sinn Fein candidate (or someone canvassing for them) is going around in a bright orange Mini (with their name emblazoned all over it), complete with the Union Jack tail lights like the image below. Not really on-brand there lads 🙄

Quick related question who do I report posters that don't don't have the printers on the front of them? (Based in Dublin)

Is it customerservices@dublincity.ie

We had our local green candidate call yesterday. We we’d taken the bus into town for the afternoon, so both cars were outside. We’ve a Ring doorbell and when we answered she refused to believe we weren’t home 😂

Clare Daly was at Kilbarrack train station this morning.

The train was coming and I was late for work but defo would have stayed and talked to her for a bit, specifically her stance on Ukraine and why she has that stance. I don't get how she could be Pro-Palestine and Anti/Neutral-Ukraine.

I like the Social Democrats as a party. Holly Cairns seems to have made some positive statements and seems to have the right end of the stick on a National Government level. I dunno how good they will be in local government.

So in other words they are good for nothing and a waste of money.

Only if you think roads, housing and other issues are of zero importance.

Well the other poster said they have little influence on housing.

As for the roads maybe its different over in your neck of the woods but Galway County Council are beyond useless when it comes to road maintenance.

In general Councillors do a good job for a comparatively low rate of pay.

Do you have a source for this please?

So in other words you made a statement and now can't back it up.

I've already backed it up.

I 'm just not going to give you a list of names.

You want to know who in the Dáil is a "good" TD?

What's your yardstick?

Number of issues solved for constituents? Highest local and national profile? Became a Minister or a Committee Chair? Introduced the most successful private member's Bills? Sat on the most Committees? Sat on the most powerful Committees? Appeared on Morning Ireland/Prime Time/TWIP most often?

Its a reductive question, best answered with the retort, how long is a piece of string?

Many would envy you being able to avoid enthusiastic canvassers 🙂

But seriously allowing random groups of politically motivated people to access the common areas of an apartment building is probably not a good idea.

No, I won’t be voting for any Government parties.

Tell me what answers any of your far right political parties have? All they can do is blame the black man, they have ZERO answers.

Well according to some round here we would need the Nazi party or the KKK to be running candidates suitable for our beliefs.

I find it very interesting how these elections are being touted here and in some other places.

According to some one would swear all the current councillors and current EU MEPs of the major parties have feck all to do with the party, probably never even attended any party functions, have never any input into selection of TDs, never backed TDs and have never supported the party leadership.

According to some these candidates appear to have had shag all to do with their parties so we should vote for them on that basis.🙄

And the candidates for these parties it appears are in no way endorsing the policy of their parties in the Dail or in government when they sign up to run for them.

The party hacks really have to try harder, we aint buying the shyte anymore.

Ill be voting for independents, I'm not naive to think this is a long tern solution but I'm hoping it will be a big wake up call for the Government parties when they see alot of their candidates not getting picked and they may actually start listening to the people.