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RTÉ Coverage of the DUBLIN General Election is Outstanding!

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  • 26-02-2011 4:29pm
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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭


    I've been watching their count coverage for the last hour and a half since they came back on air and they're jumping from the counts in one DUBLIN constituency to another in all that time. Oh hang on they just went to Roscommon. Oh wait. It's over already. That was 20 Seconds literally. The dublin constituency's are the only one's they're even in conversation about.

    They're some joke!


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    #2
    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Look, I'm from Tipperary, but the Dublin story is far more interesting. When Fianna Fail are likely to retain only one seat in the capital, that's big news.

    Elsewhere the situation is less dramatic, but it is being covered.


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    Evolution Enter
    Registered Users Posts: 542 ✭✭✭Evolution Enter


    Well our constituency always takes forever dude, we'll get exclusive coverage shortly when everyone else is finished and we'll still be on a third count


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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    MaybeI wrote: »
    Dublin is the capital and therefore the most important county in Ireland in any situation. Hope this helps.

    actually no. It doesn't. Most constituency's has a similar population. Every single TD represents the same number of people.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,278 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Only Dublin West and Dublin Mid-West have had their first count, what do you expect them to concentrate on?


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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Evolution Enter wrote: »
    Well our constituency always takes forever dude, we'll get exclusive coverage shortly when everyone else is finished and we'll still be on a third count

    I don't live in Laois anymore


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    Laois_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    Victor wrote: »
    Only Dublin West and Dublin Mid-West have had their first count, what do you expect them to concentrate on?

    That would be a valid argument IF those were the only 2 Dublin constituency's they were concentrating on!


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    johngalway
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    Victor wrote: »
    Only Dublin West and Dublin Mid-West have had their first count, what do you expect them to concentrate on?

    Where he lives!

    And, more importantly, where I live!

    Duh! :P :pac: :D


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    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    there are a lot of seats in Dublin, you know:)

    they're down in Wexford now


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    Bucklesman
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Bucklesman


    I guess Dubs just count faster.


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    Lucifer_666
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    Laois_Man wrote: »
    I've been watching their count coverage for the last hour and a half since they came back on air and they're jumping from the counts in one DUBLIN constituency to another in all that time. Oh hang on they just went to Roscommon. Oh wait. It's over already. That was 20 Seconds literally. The dublin constituency's are the only one's they're even in conversation about.

    They're some joke!

    I always find this annoying it's not just on elections that this is done Dublin is always unfairly favoured with everything if there was a murder in Cork but somebody farted in Dublin the smell in O Connell st. Would get first billing on the news :rolleyes:


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    imme
    Registered Users Posts: 3,200 ✭✭✭imme


    Miriam referred to a candidate from the CSP as Christian Socialist Party, dumb blonde or wha:D


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    thebman
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    I wouldn't know following online where coverage is better than anywhere else ;)


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    Cavehill Red
    Registered Users Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Maybe if the lazy culchie returning officers took a leaf out of Dublin West's book and counted a bit quicker, then RTE Pravda could be covering those counts too, as they inevitably will when the backwoodsmen finally finish their first counts.


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    delta_bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    He who holds Dublin, holds Ireland.


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