Gràinne Seoige in the Dàil?

They have plenty to worry about when it comes to getting 40% female candidates in the general election, FF especially. They need to hit that number to continue to get exchequer funding for the next Dail term.

They'll be sticking no-hopers in left, right and centre just to bulk the numbers up in certain constituencies.

I wonder how being in South Africa has shaped her political views. Isn't her husband a Boerstadt loon?

Which husband?

Like I said, the v is the distraction, the Ó should be before Cuív

The Labour Party parachuted Orla Guerin (an RTE journalist) in to the Dublin Euro Election back in 1994 against the wishes of the grass root members of the party and their sitting MEP Bernie Malone……it did not end well Malone was re elected. Perhaps there's a lesson there for FF

I read somewhere that there was some controversy about this years ago. It seems the returning officer was adamant that the the ballot paper would read O'Cuiv and Eamon would not accept this for obvious alphabetical reasons. Not sure if there was a full court case at the time but top barristers were involved from both sided. The returning officer had to eat humble pie, young de Valera won the case.

Name recognition is just one step to getting elected. One must also have other attributes. FF also had Cynthia Ni Murchu in the EU Munster constituency, another was Ciaran Mulllooly, Independent Ireland, Ireland North West Constituency. wouldn't vote for either. Cynthia didn't come across great in any debate and whilst Ciaran is affable, wouldn't support his politics. GS wouldn't be my cup of tea either.

She cant be any worse then the current clowns.

The fada is going the wrong way in the title: "Gràinne Seoige in the Dàil?" Should be going the other way.

Is it a far right or a far left fada ?

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Trump was well know for being Trump.

He used the tabloids to build a persona of wealthy brash playboy billionaire.

Howard Stern made him more famous nationally.

That's not how democracy works (fortunately or unfortunately I guess, depending on your viewpoint)

nah....shes definitely good but 7 - rising to 7.5 max is about right

There was a spectacular 10/10 one that used to do the weather on tg4 ..remember thinking she must be the lesser known but really good looking seoige (not sile) but I don't think she was related at all....a genuinely naturally spectacularly effortlessly good looking woman

It put grainne in perspective.

I'm ashamed to say I'd probably vote for her she was so good looking....that's how weak minded I am...she could have been a morally bankrupt Monsanto stooge out to poison the water in Galway and **** up the traffic situation even more and she would probably have got my number 1

Grainne would have to put in a bit more effort and convince me her policies were to my benefit!

Sure people just voted in an ex Rose of Tralee winner and a Dancing Jockey who didn't say more than 10 words in the election campaign. We deserve everything we get with people voting for these wasters, when there are many more hard working councilors who would do a better job and are more deserving of a vote than these "celebrity" wasters.

They are wasters both of them. Maria Walsh said nothing and did nothing in her previous 5 years there, somehow I don't think that is going to change and as for the dancing jockey, sure she could hardly compose a sentence to answer a question during the campaign I doubt we will see any of her over the next 5 years.

I am sure, now I could be wrong, there are more hardworking deserving people in political parties than those 2 wasters.

Hmmmm….cue Floppy scouring the Stygian records of the European Parliament for contributions from Ms Carberry and Ms Walsh for the next five years………eh…….good look with that bub.

The surname was originally spelled Ó Caoimh.

It was changed to Ó Cuiv by Cork journalist Shán Ó Cuív (Éamon's other grandfather), who invented his own simplification of Irish spelling in 1907, known as An Leitriú Shimplí. Under this scheme, the letter v would have been introduced into Irish, so he attempted to promote it via his own name.

There's no set rule, but it's very common for Irish language surnames to be indexed by the main part of the name, not the Ó, Mac, Ní, Nic, etc.

Here's the beginning of the alphabetical listings for surnames starting with the letter C in the Dúchas Project of the National Folklore Collection

https://www.duchas.ie/ga/sloinnte?SearchText=c

Well with Walsh we had an idea of what she was about but for most people the only thing known about Carberry was from Irelands Fittest Family.

She never appeared at all to do a debate and still got elected and i'll bet the house there won't be a peep out of her until the next European election rolls around.

As for Seoige it will be interesting to see how it plays out.

I honestly don't think many of these "hard working councillors" who would do a better job in the European Parliament. The job of a county councillor is nothing like the job of an MEP and they operate at different ends of the scale. It's like saying "Tommy has tarred hundreds of driveways, he's well able to build a motorway".

Classic post 😂

Is Daithi also considering a run? Diamond Grainne might do something for Galway, extend the races perhaps 😄

And Nina Carberry will what?

I'm not saying that Carberry or Seoige or anybody else is great, just the idea that somebody being reelected multiple times as a Councillor automatically means they'd be a better TD or MEP is seriously flawed. Local government in Ireland has no real power and is often about showing your face at many events and shouting about things they have no influence over in the local papers.

In fact, I think it is better to have people who have been successful in other fields and bring with them different experiences rather than just having people from the same political bubbles who have "served their time" and now it's their turn. Look no further than the current Taoiseach for an example of a career politician and a "served their time" appointment.

If it was Sile I'd vote for her, Grainne always gave off the impression she was an absolute fun sponge.

An election is different & unlike any job as you say you are taking a complete punt in the dark esp with celebrity candidates.

A successful candidate gets chosen for a job based on proven ability & past experience among other things.

I get what you are saying but this vote in the celeb shitshow has to stop

Case in point : Nina Carbery....so out of her depth her party wouldn't even let her give an interview.

She romped home...maybe the people deserve what they get

Anyone who is successfully nominated can put their name before the people.

What the people deserve is that the candidates who get the most votes get elected.

The party apparatchiks love celebrity candidates, a well known face to parrot off party policy from an autoque. Celebrity Democratic centralism!