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Soviet Joe wins an EU seat ?

  • 07-06-2009 6:47pm
    #1
    MrMatisse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭


    Looks like Joe higgins is gona take a seat.


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  • #2
    O'TOOLE79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭O'TOOLE79


    Happy for him, a man I have great respect for.


  • #3
    Dr. Baltar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Dr. Baltar


    Would honestly prefer Mary Lou McDonald.


  • #4
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Green have demanded a full recount.


  • #5
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    Bond-007 wrote: »
    Green have demanded a full recount.

    For the sake of the election expenses... I'd say Ryan, MLM and Higgins are delighted with them.


  • #6
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Announcing count for Dublin now on RTE radio.


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  • #7
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    For the sake of the election expenses..
    Says it all for the Greens.


  • #8
    Old Gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭Old Gill


    Eoin ryan has 55k more than the other 3, hes currently 2.2 on betfair (meaning they think he only has a 40% chance of getting in). Is this a good bet do you think? Posting here as its more politics than gambling (want thoughts on if you think he'll win or not)


  • #9
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Bad bet Old Gill, I would say Ryan will get a boast from Eibhlin Byrnes vote when it gets redistributed but looking at the last few candidates that will be eliminated I can see most of their 2nd preferences going to Higgins or McDonald. I would hope that Higgins will get in based on this.


  • #10
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    RTE suggesting that Ryan can't get in and it's a question of which of the other two will get the seat.


  • #11
    Old Gill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭Old Gill


    thanks.. he has just risen to 2.32 but I think i'll leave it


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  • #12
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Looks like Ryan can't take it. Only on 66,000 after Eibhlin Byrne elimination. De Burca next to go. Joe Higgins should get in.


  • #13
    Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,007 ✭✭✭Moriarty


    Eoin Ryan is pretty much gone. He's not going to pick up significant transfers from anyone left. Bye bye fianna fail in Europe-Dublin.


  • #14
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    I'd prefer Eoin Ryan to the other 2, tbh. Sends out the wrong message.


  • #15
    Chardee MacDennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,225 ✭✭✭Chardee MacDennis


    what happens to Higgin's Fingal seat? Can he keep both?


  • #16
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    BastardPrince wrote: »
    what happens to Higgin's Fingal seat? Can he keep both?
    No. He will send a sub instead.


  • #17
    BlitzKrieg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    Did Joe Higgens spend a chunk of his younger years in the soviet union?

    everytime I see his election posters I am reminded of a crazy guy I met on a train home to tipp when I was much younger who went on and on and on on how wonderful the soviet union was...


    just wondering.


  • #18
    fcussen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭fcussen


    Given that Trotskyists were generally exiled or killed in the Soviet Union I doubt he's too keen on it.


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