Limerick City Elected TD's

Denners

The vote count won't be official until later but his is the final tally for Limerick City:

Cahill, Sheila 1.1%
Kiely, Kevin 2.5%
Larkin, Matt 0.17%
Leddin, Joe 5.65%
Noonan, Michael 30.72%
O'Donoghue, Conor 0.44%
O'Dea, Willie 16.04%
O'Donnell, Kieran 12.57%
O'Sullivan, Jan 16.67%
Power, Peter 5.38%
Prendiville, Cian 1.61%
Quinlivan, Maurice 8.75%
Riordan, Denis 0.4%

I hope the mods won't move this to politics because it is relevant to this forum.

Glad to see Peter Power got shown up for the liability he is.

Insect Overlord

Where did you come up with those figures, Denners?

I've re-arranged your percentages from highest to lowest anyway.

Noonan, Michael 30.72%
O'Sullivan, Jan 16.67%
O'Dea, Willie 16.04%
O'Donnell, Kieran 12.57%
Quinlivan, Maurice 8.75%
Leddin, Joe 5.65%
Kiely, Kevin 2.5%
Power, Peter 5.38%
Prendiville, Cian 1.61%
Cahill, Sheila 1.1%
O'Donoghue, Conor 0.44%
Riordan, Denis 0.4%
Larkin, Matt 0.17%

Denners

Sorry here is the link.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/election/news/limerick-city-tally-494957.html

Insect Overlord

Denners wrote: »

Sorry here is the link.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/election/news/limerick-city-tally-494957.html

Ah, nice one. I was wondering where everyone was getting the numbers from!

What time should we expect to hear the results with transfers taken into account, does anybody know?

Kess73

First round results for Limerick. Only Michael Noonan is through on the first round as he is the only one who got the required number of number ones.


Quota 8638


Sheila Cahill, Green - 490
Kevin Kiely, FG - 1.129
Matt Larkin, Ind - 59
Joe Leddin Lab - 2411
Michael Noonan FG - 13291
Willie O'Dea FF - 6956
Kieran O'Donnell FG - 5405
Conor O'Donoghue CS - 186
Jan O'Sullivan Lab - 6353
Peter Power FF - 2303
Cian Prendiville Socialist - 721
Maurice Quinlivan SF - 3711
Denis Riordan Ind - 173


Second round results are due in 20 - 30 mins.

liammur

Good to see change, now let's just hope the new crowd will do more for Limerick, because FF let us down very very badly.

Berty

Ah wouldn't you feel sorry for Matt Larkin.

It's like only his and his wifes family voted for him.

Amazotheamazing

You'd have to think Power, Prendiville and Cahill have great chances in the next local elections, will hopefully really shake up the status quo in Limerick (particularly Cahill and Prendiville)

zig

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

liammur

zig wrote: »

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

Excellent, the man is dead wood.

zig

looks like im wrong , second count

LIMERICK CITY - SECOND COUNT (distribution of Noonan's surplus)
ELECTORATE 64909
TOTAL VOTES CAST 43617
SPOILED VOTES 429
TOTAL VALID POLL 43188
QUOTA 8638

Cahill, Sheila 30 (520)
Kiely, Kevin 71 (1200)
Larkin, Matt 3 (62)
Leddin, Joe 217 (2628)
O'Dea Willie 413 (7369)
O'Donnell, Kieran 2901 (8306)
O'Donoghue, Conor 11 (197)
O'Sullivan, Jan 769 (7122)
Power, Peter 96 (2399)
Prendiville, Cian 19 (740)
Quinlivan, Maurice 118 (3829)
Riordan, Denis 5 (178)

Amazotheamazing

zig wrote: »

O'dea may only scrape 4th as far as I know, live updates here..
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/general-election-2011/general-election-live

Possibly but he'll still be well clear of fifth place. Quinlivan won't be happy, still 5,000 off the quota, that's massive ground to make up in future general elections when presumably FF will be bouncing back.

liammur

I thought Leddin would have done far better

enfant terrible

Why are people voting for O' Dea, has he that many favors done for people?

Amazotheamazing

liammur wrote: »

I thought Leddin would have done far better

First time general election, it's not a great result but it's not awful either. He has to ask where he goes from here though.

L.T.P.

enfant terrible wrote: »

Why are people voting for O' Dea, has he that many favors done for people?

7369 traitors in Limerick City

guns4fun

L.T.P. wrote: »

7369 traitors in Limerick City

its a pit so many people look at willie for the speed ramps he got or the crossing he got etc etc,,,,should look at the broader picture,,,he is part of the government who screwed us up big time.. how many of his votes came from dell workers??????

RonMexico

His votes come from people based on local issues, because as we all know that is more important than any national issue like say...a default:rolleyes:

Well he will be even more ineffective now that he will be rotting his winter years away in opposition.

zuroph

O Donnell home in second

Berty

Ah Dell mentioned again. A tiny minority of workers in an electorate where 43,188 votes were valid. :rolleyes:

molard

congats to micheal and kieran.

Liam Byrne

The embarrassing thing is that that's both Limerick constituencies that have returned FF gob****es.

Limerick's reputation has been tarnished.

RonMexico

Well Liam, sometimes people are that stupid.

iguana

:mad::mad::mad:

Denners

To be perfectly honest there are too many ignorant people (for lack of a better word) within the Irish electorate. In any other democratic country there would have been nearly a clean wipe-out of FF, I think it happened in Canada a few years ago where the outgoing government only received 2 seats, and there place wasn't even as bad as here.

The laid back approach/sentimental value needs to leave our culture when it comes to political issues. I would have preferred if Labour don't go into a coalition as they would be the main opposition in 5 years, coupled with the fact we have a few tough years ahead it and baring a miraculous ignition in our economy than we may have the FF brigade back in in 5 years. A distressing thought to say the least.

yankinlk

Jesus are you never happy? FF obliterated and the poll topper in limerick reduced to the last seat. He had to phone people up on the day of the election begging for votes on voicemail.
Just cause people picked a party member you don't like don't call them ignorant. The people have spoken, all the people.

Denners

yankinlk wrote: »

Jesus are you never happy? FF obliterated and the poll topper in limerick reduced to the last seat. He had to phone people up on the day of the election begging for votes on voicemail.
Just cause people picked a party member you don't like don't call them ignorant. The people have spoken, all the people.

Well imo if someone votes for Fianna Fail they must be steeped in the wool FF followers, if they voted for any other reasons they are certainly ignorant of the misgivings which have been bestowed on us over recent years. Also there is people ignorant of all the party policies before voting, myself included as I didn't look into the SWP for example.

And not all the people have spoken, those who chose to spoke have. I wasn't denying that, I was suggesting that there is a fundamental problem in Irish culture when voting in relation to voting for members because they helped with roadworks in your estate etc, if you cannot acknowledge that his occurs than this debate has no further relevance to me.

EDIT: I actually have no dislike for Willie tbh and didn't state I had, it is his actions and party which I do not approve of and hence why he didn't garner my support. Those are the reasons which one should vote on imo and something which is evidently lacking in the Irish electorate.

zulutango

liammur wrote: »

I thought Leddin would have done far better

Noonan got a huge first preference, probably due to his recent popularity. If he wasn't there, or if he wasn't so visible and prominent in the media, a lot of people would have voted for a new fresh face. Leddin did well enough in the circumstances.

Kess73

RonMexico wrote: »

His votes come from people based on local issues, because as we all know that is more important than any national issue like say...a default:rolleyes:

Well he will be even more ineffective now that he will be rotting his winter years away in opposition.

What annoyed me was his speech/interview last night. He went about how 5,000 of "his" votes were taken from him by the change in the voting areas, and that he was a "victim" of the feeling against Finnia Fail.


He also went on about how FF needed a leadership change earlier and seemed to be painting himself as being one that brought that up publically long before it happened.

He then went on to lavish praise on Micheal Martin.


I seem to remember him coming out with similar guff when Cowen took over from Ahern, but I can clearly remember O'Dea as being one of the most vocal defenders of Cowen so where he is getting his revisionist tale of him being the one who was speaking out for leadership change is beyond me.


Just a shame he got in and is now able to continue the tradition of Limerick city having at least one totally ineffective FF Dail seat.

iguana

Kess73 wrote: »

Just a shame he got in and is now able to continue the tradition of Limerick city having at least one totally ineffective FF Dail seat.

Well at least you can now still be assured of him turning up at the funeral of your loved one and letting your shock at his bare-faced cheek momentarily distract you from your grief.:mad:

kilburn

For accuracy on his remarks playing Devils advocate here !

Here is a story of him calling for an election last October
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CB8QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstalk.ie%2F2010%2Fnews%2F512odeaelectionclipjol36%2F&ei=s0tqTYvKFcuXhQfEp_zsDg&usg=AFQjCNFeIRbAh6iNQ-_4l2kq9LQezZORnQ

Here is one of him hinting Cowen shoul go.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1122/politics1.html

And on the funny side here is one from a granny saying he told her to feck off.
http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/141538-granny-claims-willie-odea-told-her-feck-off-9.html

iguana

kilburn wrote: »

And on the funny side here is one from a granny saying he told her to feck off.
http://www.politics.ie/current-affairs/141538-granny-claims-willie-odea-told-her-feck-off-9.html

Tbf, he has form for that. I've heard quite a few accounts of his bad grace whenever he meets someone who doesn't fawn at him while he's canvassing. A few years back he called to my parents' door and my brother answered the door. My brother had died his hair green for some fancy dress party, Willie took one look at him and turned around and walked away.

He also yelled at one of my uncles a couple of weeks ago that if he was so smart why didn't he run the country.

zig

Despite everything that happened, the fact that Willie lied in court and had to be thrown off his ministry position, the fact that he was always going to blindly follow Fiannal Fail no matter what even they have destroyed the economy, the fact that he is the classic example of Parish pump politics at its best, he still ended up coming 2nd, getting more 20%. Im amashed to be from Limerick, it seemed to reverberate all around the more culchie parts of the country, because in Dublin the average was about 10% to 15% Fianna Fail.

kilburn

The 4 seats have shown no surprises really, we all expected Power to get the road. I wonder and her is the big one now folks are we going to have 2 FG Ministers from Limerick City or if Labour hop into bed with them will Jan give us 3 Ministers from the city?

RonMexico

Noonan might get Finance. O'Donnell a junior ministry. Jan nothing.

Liam Byrne

yankinlk wrote: »

Jesus are you never happy? FF obliterated and the poll topper in limerick reduced to the last seat. He had to phone people up on the day of the election begging for votes on voicemail.
Just cause people picked a party member you don't like don't call them ignorant. The people have spoken, all the people.

FF being obliterated is great news.

The fact that lots of our city believe that a useless lying double-standards perjurer is representative of us is sickening and saddening

kilburn

Can we all park our bitterness and look to the future and see what our new government will bring to our fine city

ninty9er

I think Noonan and Jan will be fine ministers if selected. Though the rumour in political circles for the alst number of months was that Noonan's price for taking Finance in Opposition was that he wants to be Ceann Comhairle, leaving just Jan, or if a minority government, nobody in the worst case scenario.

O'Donnell, just ask any civil servant that has had to deal with him, they wonder how (or if) he dresses himself in the morning.

TestTransmission

All I want to know is who I contact about some dope dropping off Willie O'Dea leaflets managed to break my letter box flap off :mad::mad:

Denners

ninty9er wrote: »

O'Donnell, just ask any civil servant that has had to deal with him, they wonder how (or if) he dresses himself in the morning.

I didn't even vote for him but you are doing no favours to Peter Power or yourself by showing such bitterness. If we are judging candidates than I will have no problem recalling the ineptitude of Peter Power while he was a seat holder.

All the best to the elected candidates.

RonMexico

zig wrote: »

Despite everything that happened, the fact that Willie lied in court and had to be thrown off his ministry position, the fact that he was always going to blindly follow Fiannal Fail no matter what even they have destroyed the economy, the fact that he is the classic example of Parish pump politics at its best, he still ended up coming 2nd, getting more 20%. Im amashed to be from Limerick, it seemed to reverberate all around the more culchie parts of the country, because in Dublin the average was about 10% to 15% Fianna Fail.

He came third. Still too high.

L.T.P.

iguana wrote: »

Well at least you can now still be assured of him turning up at the funeral of your loved one and letting your shock at his bare-faced cheek momentarily distract you from your grief.:mad:

Ah sure thats all he's good for anyway, turning up at funerals, God forbid he'd do anything worthwhile like bring some much needed IDA jobs here :eek:

tipptom

Kess73 wrote: »

What annoyed me was his speech/interview last night. He went about how 5,000 of "his" votes were taken from him by the change in the voting areas, and that he was a "victim" of the feeling against Finnia Fail.


He also went on about how FF needed a leadership change earlier and seemed to be painting himself as being one that brought that up publically long before it happened.

He then went on to lavish praise on Micheal Martin.


I seem to remember him coming out with similar guff when Cowen took over from Ahern, but I can clearly remember O'Dea as being one of the most vocal defenders of Cowen so where he is getting his revisionist tale of him being the one who was speaking out for leadership change is beyond me.


Just a shame he got in and is now able to continue the tradition of Limerick city having at least one totally ineffective FF Dail seat.

Willie only turned bitter against Cowen and FF when he was caught lying under oath and felt Cowen should have toughed it out against the greens so willie could keep his little bum in the merc for longer,if that hadnt happened he would be trotting out the same sh*t as the others,"we had to make hard decisions blah blah".

liammur

I'd like to see 1 of our new TD's get the enterprise & trade position. That's the key 1, the local economy needs jobs, let's forget about the past and apply pressure on the new guys to deliver.

Jigga

Perhaps Peter Power will take this as an opportunity to go back to education and skill up. There is always a place waiting for him in the UL Student Union.

liammur

Jigga wrote: »

Perhaps Peter Power will take this as an opportunity to go back to education and skill up. There is always a place waiting for him in the UL Student Union.

I'd be more sympathetic towards Power than O Dea. O Dea was a senior minister and still couldn't do anything. He may not even have got elected if that report came out before the election.

kilburn

apparently Fintan O'Toole is touting Jan for Health can not see this happening at all.

ninty9er

Denners wrote: »

I didn't even vote for him but you are doing no favours to Peter Power or yourself by showing such bitterness. If we are judging candidates than I will have no problem recalling the ineptitude of Peter Power while he was a seat holder.

All the best to the elected candidates.

It was a direct quote from a senior member of staff at County Hall to my mother. I don't see how that can be construed as bitterness.

I've lost elections before and more than likely will again at some point, but there's no credible way of knowing me (which, fair enough, you don't) and associating such a comment with bitterness.

Denners

ninty9er wrote: »

It was a direct quote from a senior member of staff at County Hall to my mother. I don't see how that can be construed as bitterness.

I've lost elections before and more than likely will again at some point, but there's no credible way of knowing me (which, fair enough, you don't) and associating such a comment with bitterness.

A campaigner for an outgoing TD makes a derogatory comment about a newly elected TD from a different party, I would classify such an act as one of bitterness.

I don't know you but please don't lower yourself to the levels that we were so accustomed to under Mr. Power.

I've said my piece anyway.

liammur

Denners wrote: »

A campaigner for an outgoing TD makes a derogatory comment about a newly elected TD from a different party, I would classify such an act as one of bitterness.

I don't know you but please don't lower yourself to the levels that we were so accustomed to under Mr. Power.

I've said my piece anyway.

Yes, I would agree, just because somebody in county hall says something to your mother, that doesn't necessarily make the statement true. I don't know either canditate, but Power like most canditates took his defeat well and I for one wish him well in whatever he does.

Clareman

I think we can leave the debate about what happened/was said, during the election campaigns now.