European Parliament Elections 2024 - Friday, June 7th

Lynn Boylan up against it?

100%, but I've seen some people suggest there is no guarantee SF can repeat the same feat twice. One big factor is that Mary Lou was seen to have had a great GE campaign in 2020.

Yeah. Not sure she will be able to carry another GE campaign in the same way she did in 2020. A lot of people are a bit tired of the Mary Lou rhetoric now.

Another element is that Micheál Martin and Simon Harris seem surprisingly popular. The FF and FG vote in these elections appears to have held up (as has the Greens) with no signs of a big anti-Govt backlash….presumably not a huge amount will have changed by the time of the GE.

Some really shocking SF tallies from long time heartland areas.

You would also destroy the security provided by the anonymous, secret ballot and enable vote selling and duress voting.

How would this help?

Why do Labour still get such a bad rap after 2011?

What errors are being addressed? Are there errors now?

By all accounts he was looking well earlier and on to be in the race for a seat with his 1st preferences, however it seems he's getting very few transfers so will not go the distance once they start moving down the preferences.

Sort of an expected type of thing these days with the geopolitical state of play. One would hope after HSE hack lessons were learned and people looking after such things are more clued in

A CYBER ATTACK attempted to take down a number of government websites overnight, The Journal understands. 

Four different groups have been identified by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) as having carried out what has been described by sources as a “simple” attack whereby government websites are continually reloaded until they crash. 

Labour down 1% in Dublin full tally. Very bad day for Labour again.

MLMcD hasn’t a clue:

Sinn Féin difficulties  

Sinn Féin Dublin hopeful Dáithi Doolan admitted this is a “very difficult” election for the party.
Mr Doolan is set to hold his own seat as a Councillor but party leader Mary Lou McDonald is being criticised for running too many candidates which have split the vote in many areas.
“I’m delighted in our own area that our vote is absolutely held up at a time that is very difficult election for us, nobody can doubt that,” he said.
He said he topped the poll and “held the vote” in “core areas”. Mr Doolan said people were “really, really angry and upset” on the doors while out canvassing.
The focus for the party now is to get Lynn Boylan elected in Dublin and to win a seat in Midlands North West and Ireland South, he said.
While he did not concede, he said Ms Boylan getting her Dublin seat is “absolutely” the party’s priority.
Mr Doolan said it was a “big blow” to the party when she lost the seat in 2019.
“We are very confident we’ll be taking three seats in total for the MEPs. Am I in with a shout? I hope so, but for me, it was working as a team with Lynn to make sure we ran the best campaign possible to take the two seats and it looks like she’ll be up there in taking a seat.
“If I can join her, I’ll be delighted.”

She got hammered last time for running too few candidates, & now the opposite.

I’d say her days are ( rightly ) numbered.

EDIT: I took the above from the Irish Independent site.

Not forgetting Rabbitte’s admission on TV that ‘sure politicians lie to get into power’.

That quote will never be forgotten.

SF had 2 candidates in each of the three constituencies, it doesn't seem excessive. Would they have done better if they ran 1 or 3 instead? I doubt it. Seems obvious that when there's 2 candidates one of them will get more votes. :)

So loss of votes by Sinn Fein is to do with what? I'm assuming their position on immigration? But then what sense is it to vote for the established parties instead who are actually implementing the disastrous policies?

Or are the Sinn Fein votes going to fringe candidates instead and FF/FG are just getting the usual party loyalty vote?

As well as Boylan one wonders how Wallace and Daly are doing?

See a tweet or two earlier saying they are struggling somewhat

looks like FFG are flying high the independents will never shake them unless they rapidly band together

Will it matter much? One will get knocked out first and transfer to the others.

Country is a full of people who think that supporting these Russian spies they are giving two fingers to the government.

Depressing times.

Labour going backwards again.

Why is voting by pencil? Why not pen. This is a genuine question official forms often have to be filled out in pen. Not that I am thinking for one second anyone could rub out answers just curious why pencil not pen.

Where are you seeing this about Daly and Wallace? Ive heard nothing about Wallace all day and Daly will be fighting with Brid Smith who is far more transfer favourable.

1. If you store election equipment between votes, pencils don't dry out.
2. Pencil marks don't tend to smudge or smear if you inadvertently rub across your vote, or if you inadvertently get the paper wet.