European Parliament Elections 2024 - Friday, June 7th

Clowns like Mick Wallace and Clare Daly will get replaced by some other clowns. Probably a bizarre shift from left wing Independents to right wing Independents.

Daly and Wallace are two others who huff and puff a lot but achieved nothing.

I'm sure Daly and Wallace have had worse insults thrown at them.

Indeed they have, much of it from the Rugby bros in FG a party that campaigns against social media abuse ironically!

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John Waters at 2/1, surely that's mad?

Lower odds that Maria Walsh or Lisa Chambers?

John Waters at 2/1 is mad. I would lay that all day.

Not surprised that Nina is a shorter price then Maria for FG seat

The odds on SF on face of it I think are too short. I would imagine their is at least 1 SF seat and they should be in battle for last seat. But hard to separate into a stronger and weaker candidate so pricing both as the strong candidate.

Received Nina's leaflet in my door today. North Kildare. What's goin on, N.Kildare isn't, midlands,north or west

Thanks, anyway, she tells me how great her sporting achievements were and she was on dancing with the stars.

As much as i loved her as a jokcey, she won't be getting my vote for the leaflet alone (and that she is FG)

Only a few days to go until nominations close, over 50 candidates declared -interesting to see if any more declare. Hard to see anyone of note, there might be a few more anti migrant types but even that is perhaps at saturation point.

Saoirse McHugh running as an Independent.

I'm going to have to fold the sodding ballot paper in five at this rate

seen that - becoming ridiculous at this stage.

Poll out tonight, not sure how relevant it is for the Euros, alot is being made on FF down 2, their lowest polling in 2 years apparently but the drop is still within the margin of error. Independent's third-biggest political force, just 1 behind FG.

POLL: Business Post/Red C
(Apr 19-25, MoE 3%)

Sinn Féin 27 (+2 in a month)
Fine Gael 20 (+1)
Fianna Fáil 14 (-2)
Social Democrats 6
Aontú 4 (-1)
Greens 3 (-1)
Labour 3
PBP-Solidarity 2 (-1)
Independents/others 19 (+2)

I would say Daly & Wallace are most prominently known for their anti-USA stance in the many forms that takes. That might not have played well with the electorate a couple of years ago with their views on the US arming Ukraine but it's playing extremely well in recent times with people seeing the atrocities committed by the US backed Israeli's.

There's probably never been a time when Ireland had as much anti-US sentiment as the present so I think the election is coming at a very good time for both of them.

The actions of Ursula von der Leyen to repeatedly align with Netanyahu on behalf of the EU has offended a lot of people and I think there's a demand for MEP's who'll push back against such sentiment.

I doubt positions on Assad, Iran or China are high on the voting agenda for anyone tbh. The people who care about such things and would like Ireland to be more NATO aligned were never voting for either of them anyway.

You're right it would be a massive embarrassment for FF if Andrews were to lose but it would be hilarious to see him lose.

Kelleher will be ok in South I think, hard to see them getting 2 though on those figures.

MNW is hard to call but Cowen should get in - think there's a seat for Flanagan, FG/FF/SF..the 5th is up for grabs.

I've no time for him, utterly disingenuous.

He attended the Lockheed Martin conference in Dublin, 2 years ago as an invited speaker and made no critique of them serving the Saudi Arabia bombings in Yemen financed of course by the 'good' imperial powers - the US and Britain. This came a year after he was singing his own praises for a debate on Yemen in the Parliament. Funny enough he's been very quiet on Yemen since, and furthermore LM's contribution to the Israeli assault on Gaza seems to have escaped his attention too, maybe the lads in the arms industry had an impact on him!!