A New Ireland

The oracle that is our daughter, late 20s, votes and says she's been watching FG in power since she turned a teenager… represents a new generation who are fed up. Last time FG were in opposition, she was in primary school. Anyone not seeing this must be getting old and not noticing the years slip by.

Until the voting have nots outnumber the haves, not much is going to change.

Yep I'm very much so a part of that generation however that generation is not showing signs of voting for the newly formed parties of loons. They're still more likely to vote left than right. So they're more likely to be a SF vote than anything else.

https://www.thejournal.ie/young-voters-likely-to-vote-for-sinn-fein-european-elections-6294828-Feb2024/

I wish him well in his endeavours, I've seen some of his videos on social media and he speaks with passion and common sense. Whether he and this party will be the answer I don't know, but there is definitely need for a credible centre right or right wing party to counter the current parties sliding further and further to the left.

Ah so you think much the same in reality. Why do you say then that FG are likely to be re elected?

That's not answering the question, which parties are likely to be the next government? If SF end up in government, it will be a coalition. It won't be a coalition that includes these random new parties. And anyone your daughter's age is more likely to vote left rather than racist.

"Ireland has a very sophisticated electorate"

Knowing who will fill the potholes for them.

Yes it'll be a coalition almost certainly - between who, who knows.

All I can observe is the winds of change are about and those of our daughters age will vote and will vote ABF = anybody but the present f****s. FG are going to take the brunt of this as they are simply past their sell by date for the moment. Three terms and they still want more - no way………..

Yawn, you do realise that this is just another far right group that will fail to even be noticed in the general election?

I've seen that poster make that point a few times recently.

We're so sophisticated that people just voted for the same party their parents voted for rinse and repeat for generations.

If we're so sophisticated, why do we keep putting people in power who overwhelmingly act in a manner that's detrimental to the majority of people?

The first page of this thread had a lot of "what are his solutions"? Type posts, but in asking that question you're holding a new political entity to a standard that is never applied to any of the established parties because they have no bloody solutions either and typically just cause more problems.

The real issue here is that it's a black man who grew up in Ireland stepping out of the lane people feel he should be in because of his skin colour and espousing conservative ideals which cannot be tolerated.

You'd swear that these disparate right wing parties tare swimming in cash with flashy PR firms behind them the way people ask "where's the funding coming from?" about them.

They're all poorly funded organisations, I've yet to see a single one of them well funded or with any type of slick backing from savvy individuals or organisations.

One argument is that the far right in the UK are funding the far right in Ireland, but they're poorly funded themselves, none of this conspiracy makes any sense.

The left are awash in public money in Ireland, NGO's to beat the band, money getting thrown around like confetti. Talking abwthat means you're far right now though, the gatekeeping continues.

Ideally we'd put the more extreme flavours of politics in the rear view mirror and spend money on things that actually matter.

Poor governance leads to a breeding ground for extremism, that's the problem in Ireland. There are so many things wrong here that haven't been dealt with for generations and it only gets worse and never better. If the supposedly reasonable politicians continue to fail on these issues they grant more space to loons.

Kevin Sharkey never had the room. Or any room

Kevin Sharkey made the worst mistake a dumb person can make. Like John Waters, or Paddy Cosgrave, or Peter Casey, he believed his own publicity.

Kevin Sharkey is one of life's losers. And its a stain on any Councillor that nominated him for the Presidency on that failed occasion.

It's private contractors employed by the county councils. Right?

You're just jealous that she is a bigger whiskey expert and connoisseur than you.

Can you pis$ whiskey? No? I didn't think so. Whiskey galore my ar$e!

Over 65s have had access to medical cards for donkeys years now 

No they didn't, and it's a GP card not a medical card. Medical card is over 70.

The last couple of paragraphs of cut-and-paste rant are laughable. When did we last privatise anything in Ireland? We are pumping billions upon billions into the public health sector 'in order to destroy it' ? Covid payments - so businesses should have just been let go bust then? Foreign wars, really? Feckin' nonsense.