Irish General Election - Friday, November 29th *Read OP for Mod Warnings*

This might interest some people here who seem to think there’s no point in voting. This unlike the generic ones is Ireland specific and you enter your constituency at the start.

The main interpretation seems to be that anything put after midnight on the day of the writ, becomes retrospectively legal once the writ is issued.

Do politicians get first dibs of street light and electricity poles?

This is completely hypothetical but if a village or estate decided in November to put up Christmas lights on these poles (wrapped or draped), can politicians put their posters over the lights?

are you high? Or just trolling?

I’ve heard it said that Michael Martin's ruling out of SF isn’t a party wide feeling. Yeah FG there isn’t a hope but I’d say it’s a two way street in that regard.

He's right. We have very little in common with the rest of the EU. We're closer aligned to the UK and US in that regard.

We're in it for the money and trade opportunities - that's fine, but that's also why it should have remained the EEC as that's the same reason that most countries joined originally. Unlike the US, there's no shared European identity or culture or values with national/local interests (especially those of Germany) winning out over any notion of "the greater good", and most of the history between the members is bad to awful. These are also the reasons why the "union" will ulimately fail or certainly never reach it's full potential.

Our politicians love the EU as it gives them an easy scapegoat when needed, and a cushy retirement/promotion option when domestic politics becomes unpallatable or they get turfed out, but the EU only benefits Ireland (and most of the other smaller nations) by happenstance, not design. Many of the citizens are increasingly unhappy with it and this is reflected in voting trends over the last few years and large-scale protests too.

In theory that would be ideal but who do you actually vote for?

1. Independents - yes some are good but a lot are just FF/FG in disguise. Even if enough got elected to form a government it would not last long, too many chiefs
2. Sinn Fein - MLMD totally and utterly dropped the ball. Showed their true colours while in "opposition". Should go into the history books and how to not shoot yourself in the foot. Have zero faith in them actually doing anything just different snouts in the trough.
3. The greens - with any luck , Roderick will lead them into oblivion.
4. SocDems/PFP/Labour - People are suggesting things could not get any worse, they would this lot. Iv will repeat - can you imagine the likes of Paul Murphy with even an iota of power?
5. Aontu - One man show - cant see them getting more than one or two seats.

Yep, Mehole on posters in Wicklow this morning. And he's from Cork !!! 😁Plus some soundbite out of the Bertie Aherne playbook underneath.

I think that's the difference now. Before you got everything via an RTE filter, now you can see them warts n all from loads of sources.

In my book FFG can not be forgiven for another housing crisis. The have been pretty much the only party in power here and they always act in the short term.

They simply have no interest in addressing the problem and will keep supply low enough so that it appears that things are being done but prices and rents will still go up.

The only thing that will "fix" this is an external shock like in 2008.

Dumping young Irish people/students/valid immigrants/single people/people on low wages ... out of affordable rentals to be replaced by refugees with very questionable refugee status, to be never deported again, is pure greed, selfishness and stupidity from the landlords in the Dail.

And their smug faces in the Dail is just sickening. Really, it's abhorrent.

People hate the greens, but they did stand up for their principles and means we got some stock of much better quality housing and renewable energy supply in this country.

Without them, FFG would have had 1994 quality houses with 2024 prices.

Unfortunately they stepped out of their remit and you've got people like Roderick O Gorman making an absolute disaster of immigration policy.

Housing and health and justice and and and.

Same party, different day. Get in on the property game or emigrate . That's Ireland. Oh, and Guinness.

Did you see the posters of Grainne that appeared overnight.

She has a lovely smile.

Michael Martin rules out coalition with Sinn Fein

Remember what he said before election 2020

"Election 2020: Micheál Martin rules out Fianna Fáil-Fine Gael ‘grand coalition"

Wouldn't believe a word he say

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/election-2020-micheal-martin-rules-out-fianna-fail-fine-gael-grand-coalition-1.4149063

Simply put, they can't do any of that without the votes from the electorate. This is how the system works, but again, if you don't vote you literally have no say in any of it.

If this is what gets voted in…then what grounds is there for complaint? The people will have spoken.

FF 60 seats 🤣🤣🤣

I like you’re deliberate typo.

Is this the first you’ve heard of it?

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