Election to be called Fri - predict outcome

We seen hubris and chickens being counted here on foot of polling less than a few weeks ago.

I'll chat to you on Saturday when actual voting has taken place.

I can see FFG losing a lot of final seats on transfers.

We may end up with an SFFG coalition yet.

I see Coppinger winning the fourth seat fairly comfortably, picking up lost SF votes. If Troy is at the races at all she will be competing with ROG and Walsh for the last seat, but whichever of them is eliminated will elect the other.

The biggest amount of hubris and chickens being counted here was when one poster proclaimed eighteen months ago that a Sinn Fein-led government was "inevitable".

…based on the opinion poll being discussed.
This poster also said recently…'based on the then opinion poll there was no path to government for SF.

YOU let slip and got huffy when challenged that those opinion polls were votes. A classic example of giddiness, chicken counting and hubris.

*By the way, based on current polling I think a path to government is open to SF again.

SFFG may be the only viable option.

He seems to be going in with both feet against the shinners

So MM said he’d be careful of saying both sides when it comes to the troubles is an absolutely astounding take. It’s repugnant to the families of Bloody Sunday, ballymurphy, the Monaghan and Dublin bombings to name a few.

Michéal Martin speaking at a Liam Lynch commemoration, praising Lynch for putting 'pressure on the national leadership to allow volunteers to begin regular attacks on British forces... There are those who have tried to present Liam Lynch and those who stood with him as military fanatics marginal to the national victories of the time. This is a disgrace and complete misrepresentation of history “

Liam lynch the man responsible for killing tds, judges, senators, newspaper editors, murdered the 7 year old child of a TD in a house fire to name a few. Was also a commander in cork so gods knows how many disappeared had his influence over it. 64 disappeared in cork over a couple years, to put it in to context 17 disappeared during the entirety of the troubles.

My prediction is for independents to secure an overall majority and they’ll form a government based on a platform of being opposed to everything since it might upset their local constituents. 😀

That's where he is hoist by his own petard. FG can do what they did last time, say they are going into opposition and let FF come begging to them. That is how we got a rotating Taoiseach in the first place.

If FF had anything close to a 15 seat advantage over FG there isn't a hope in hell there would an an equal footing. FF would throw them the basket case minstries like Health and Environment