What is top of your concerns when it comes to vote? I'm undecided myself atm
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Indeed, he's scared shitless, hence the new FAR RITE policies lol
The problem with Voting independent though is that they nearly always side with the "in power" party
I used to think voting independent might shift things a bit, but the reality is unless there's someone like Clare Daly going in, IE someone who's gonna hassle people, I feel I'm wasting my time voting independent.
I simply can't vote for SF, FF , FG or any of the others so it will need to be an independent.
Would you not vote for someone who aligns with your political beliefs and will deliver your choices rather than making the choice to not vote for A, B and C and will then looks at the policies of the remaining candidates?
Well according to some round here we would need the Nazi party or the KKK to be running candidates suitable for our beliefs.
I find it very interesting how these elections are being touted here and in some other places.
According to some one would swear all the current councillors and current EU MEPs of the major parties have feck all to do with the party, probably never even attended any party functions, have never any input into selection of TDs, never backed TDs and have never supported the party leadership.
According to some these candidates appear to have had shag all to do with their parties so we should vote for them on that basis.🙄
And the candidates for these parties it appears are in no way endorsing the policy of their parties in the Dail or in government when they sign up to run for them.
The party hacks really have to try harder, we aint buying the shyte anymore.
That's the issue.
I'm Pro EU, Pro Choice, Anti Immigration in current form and Anti Welfare as a lifestyle choice.
I do not support Housing Charities being funded like Vulture funds to buy up estates.
I won't get that with any party currently.
Ill be voting for independents, I'm not naive to think this is a long tern solution but I'm hoping it will be a big wake up call for the Government parties when they see alot of their candidates not getting picked and they may actually start listening to the people.
Whatever moron Niall Boylan has erecting posters for him thinks it’s a good idea to park his van in the N11 bus lane at Stillorgan whilst putting up posters. At rush hour.
Good way to have a few thousand people see first-hand what a selfish c*nt you are
Clare Daly you say.
Yes good old Clare who was shouting about property developers but now sits beside one who owes millions and she remains silent about that.
Does he still owe all those millions or has he come out of Bankruptcy?
He's not supposed to be on the boards of any companies, but I know for a fact he owns a big piece of a fashion outlet in Ballymount Industrial estate (among other things)
He fixed the road!
I had the same experience when I lived in an apartment. I'd imagine it's just the hassle of getting access to individual apartments. Typically there's going to be some kind of external gate or door that they won't be able to get beyond. Much easier to just be able to walk up to a house (and easier to flee if necessary)
I'm sorry but surely anyone running should be here for at least 5 years, clean record and vetted imho
I don't agree with the abuse
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/f-back-home-dublin-migrant-29223844
You've been pretty careful with that statement. A number of the Irish far right candidates have criminal records including domestic abuse etc. Another lost his job with An Post for kicking dogs in the head with a steel capped boot and he's been up on multiple charges going back to the 90s. There was another chap who was posted in the national party thread who posted up a video in relation to being arrested around arson and he's also a local election candidate for the freedom party by the looks of it. These are criminals you're okay with running though.
https://x.com/JAMESCONWAYIFP/status/1785241482217107870?t=r20SXBwfCiCD8swObsDBiQ&s=19
Clean record and vetted for what exactly? You should look at our history of some of the people we've voted into public office.
No matter their nationality even Irish, I think vetted and clean record to run
The rules are already in place and apply to all candidates.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/government-in-ireland/elections-and-referenda/types-of-elections-and-referendums/local-elections/
So far the only dodgy candidates appear to be the far right wing ones. You linked to an article about candidates from migrant backgrounds getting racial abuse and you started talking about their need to be vetted, all the ones mentioned in the article have been living here for decades...
Meanwhile Andy Heasman has a restraining order over domestic abuse and you're not complaining about people like him running or Philip Dwyer, the dog kicker. Instead you linked to racial abuse and implied that there was something untoward about those candidates because they were migrants.... That's a strange thing to bring up in relation to that article and probably says more about you than the candidates.
They are also shouldn't be allowed to run, anyone with a criminal background shouldn't be allowed run, no matter their nationality
You do not find it strange that FG are running a large number of candidates from migrant backgrounds
"16 of Fine Gael’s 339 candidates come from migrant backgrounds"
So about 5% of their candidates are migrants which is a pretty tiny number tbh.. You were just implying they were criminals so really your entire problem with them is being migrants, Thanks for clearing that up! A local domestic abuser who doesn't like migrants is much more preferable!
Would you have no issue with 16 travellers running for any party?
Given the current situation in Ireland, FG adding 16 candidates with migrant backgrounds is a bandwagon woke jump imho
FF have Brazilian Caio Benicio running
I think everyone with a criminal background should not be allowed run and should be a citizen for at least 5 years here to run and vote
That's the great thing about elections. If you don't like those candidates, don't vote for them. If enough other people like those candidates, they'll get elected.
'Vetted' is a classic far right dog whistle of course. Vetted for what? On what basis?
If you have a criminal record which can be seen by vetting then should not be allowed run, it is required for certain jobs, why not for politics even local
Vetting would decimate most of the right wing candidates and have them whining about censorship.
So any criminal record? Like a drunk driving conviction from thirty years ago, or a shoplifting for food conviction from twenty years ago?
Think you're saying more about yourself than anything else here. Not every traveler has a criminal record, now you're implying that candidates have criminal records solely cause they're migrants. Meanwhile all the criminal records I'm aware of are the Irish ones meanwhile some of the Irish ones definitely have criminal records and you're dodging it. You're far less concerned about the racism the migrants are facing though…
Well if it is there then no
I've already said anyone of any nationality running in the elections imho should have a clean criminal record and be a citizen here for at least 5 years
But you're just infatuated with the migrants that you're insinuating are criminals. 😊
Whoever is going on sorting immigration. They won't do anything anyway but at least might make the main parties take notice if they're seeing a lot of votes going that way
