Poll is anonymous since the actual vote on Friday is anonymous
Soc Dems & Aontu doing well so far.
Posting current results so as to create a snapshot
Wasnt going to vote but work colleague convinced me to vote for SF.
Voting FF and FG for years and they have us in ruins.
Sick of FG.
I will never vote FF.
Shinners seem to have lost their way.
Was going to vote Aontu, they have a few polished representatives they wheel out for interviews, but my local candidate is a head case.
I think I'll go Social Democrats.
fecking hell antou eh? who would have though racist old cathloics would be back
I wouldn’t worry.
They’ve only got 11 votes.
The quota is 16,427
I'll be giving it to me. Big steak dinner and a few movies while the wife and kids are gone away for the weekend. Then I might get up on Saturday at 3pm and do it all over again. Well holy god.
One thing is certain. This Boards poll will be as far out as every previous election poll on Boards.
You're choice but they aren't exactly similar ideologies. I'd say Aontu and SD are miles apart.
I wish I knew but hard to know. I will vote for whichever candidate will do the most for my town. Would love it to be someone from Labour ir the Social Demecraes but I think they are either Fianna Gail or Fianna Fail :(
Labour, even though i cant stand Bacik as a leader, the local candidate is a decent skin. Soc dems and shinners probaly get 2 and 3.
Ff & fg have laughably bad candidates in my constituency, a chance neither get elected (Dublin south-central)
I won't be voting for either of them but I think Aontu & Independent Ireland will have a good election
FF will be well under-represented here. who says we don't hold a grudge?
Yeah can't see Aontu doing so well in the real world, containing more than middle aged grumpy racist men! (Who I assume must be the ones voting for them on here)
More voting for the candidate than the party
Make Ireland Miserable Again
The 2020 GE poll and 2024 EE poll on here show that the userbase of this site leans vastly to the right of the voting public; so remember that when you see the results.
We are not a very big country… but the absolute state of it takes some miss management. That is a direct result of the same FF/FG governments over the last 100 years.
The housing, the waiting lists in hospitals, the childrens hospital and the location of it, the lack of transport infrastructure particularly in the west of the country, the forgotton people in Donegal over a number of matters, the security hut, the bike shed, the TD salaries increases over the last number of years….. how long can we go on here …….
I dont vote for any one party, i usually go with who I think maybe best for our area…. I cant vote for FF/FG in this election.
Actual first preference will be going to any of the national party, ireland freedom party etc etc.
But, since these candidates will be quickly eliminated, the first preference of mine that will matter will be for FG. Basically I'll ensure to vote tactically to avoid certain parties (green, sf, aontu, left, independent, etc, in that order.) rather than any preference for the current setup.
One of those two at one time built too many houses across the country
There’s food for thought for you there
This poll is saying much more about Boards than it is about the election.
To counter that:
Ireland is ranked 2nd highest in the world for quality of life by the UN.
There were 32,548 new homes built last year and we are heading to 40k houses this year so supply is increasing.
The 2020 Global Peace Index ranks Ireland as the 12th safest country in the world.
We have a budget surplus of €23.7 BILLION
On 10/10/24 a new planning act was passed to speed up the delivery of new major infrastructure.
There has never been a better time to live in Ireland.
Good points, tho see the US election
It turned out to be not
“It’s the economy stupid”
But
“It’s how the stupid perceive the economy”
Tho we have a more educated population than US on other hand
How about the price of houses? Is that coming down since we have so much supply?
FG all the way, baby.
I'll be voting SDs first preference, and in a shocking one for me, an ex-FGer in Noel French as my second preference due to personal experience with him. Peadar Tobin is standing here, so Aontu will do well but will be quite low on my transfers, essentially just above the assorted nutter types on the right and PBP on the left.
Quality of life for who?
Irish people? I can't see that being reflected in any community I have been to.
I would think we may have slipped down the rankings in safety in the last 4 years.
What are we spending that surplus on? Hows that hospital going? New security huts?
Housing waiting lists, the state of the hospitals, the lax control of our borders, prices of everything increasing much higher than wages are increasing, poor policing… perhaps with your headline statistics, you might be able to argue on paper that Ireland is booming. I don't live on paper though. I won't be gaslit into believing the emperor is wearing clothes.
There needs to be a change.
Houses are now 10-12% above previous peak of 2007
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/06/19/house-price-inflation-accelerates-to-almost-8/
In same 17 years inflation gone up 21%
As for stocks…
Last line made me laugh !! It should include (If one can afford it)………..
I didn’t say we had “so much supply”. I said we are increasing supply. What do you think the government can do about private builders making so much money or about CRH making so much profit on building materials?
Money is worth less than seventeen years ago.
It's going to take time to solve the housing shortage no matter who's in Government.
