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

They be coming from college on Friday. On the move they be more likely to stop to vote then have time get up and out on a Saturday. We tried it once and it was a disaster if I remember

A fresh man for 47 despite a health scare last year.

When he first arrived in Leinster House at the age of 34 he looked so young that he was like a straggler from a school tour 🙂

Interesting observation and there is some truth in it; it must be great for one's ego in shouting and arm waving about social issues without ever solving anything and making a career out of constant opposition. My instinct is that the overwhelming majority of Irish people are not engaged by Palestine and would rather our representatives solved our own problems. How multiple thousands vote for RBB and Paul M genuinely makes me wonder. They never have to take responsibly for anything

Lmao. The dog kicker and creche creeper comment by Murphy was a classic. Seems to have had the desired effect :)

Theres a "woman" in Galway west who's going to top the poll comfortably, who I know from personal experience got ~circa 200 points in the leaving cert, has no degree and is by and large very intellectually challenged. This is one of that parties brightest prospects and is being considered for minister for finance if they get elected in future years

Seriously, how on earth can we take this party seriously? This is one of the best candidates the party has, is under consideration for a serious finance role and struggled to get a pass in pass maths in the leaving cert. That's an aside from all the rest of the very glaring drawbacks that most should be aware of

I'm surprised Donnelly was able to have a career after that owning by Vincent browne

Looking through the results it seems like the boundary review didn't do the greatest job, there are a lot of anomalies in there. E.g. Tipperary North with an electorate of over 70,000 gets three TDs while Dublin Central with 63,000 gets four TDs. Dun Laoghaire gets 4 TDs for an electorate of over 95,000 while Dublin West gets 5 TDs for 78,000.

Combined with turnout differences it means someone like Gerry Hutch only needs to hit a quota of 6,500 votes to get in, while there will be candidates in some other constituencies who could possibly get nearly double that vote and lose out because their quota is 12-13k.

Why is woman in quotes?

Who cares if someone has a degree ffs. It sounds like she's achieving more than you!

Your post comes accross as a bit jealous. Just saying.

Caught a Sky News segment and they called our voting system convoluted. The neck of them.

Always suspected it was deliberate. Young folk are still away in college they definitely want as few as possible voting.

It's the best and fairest system.

The first past the post in the UK is ridiculous.

Late to the party but a few observations;

It’s comical that the left are coming out now and starting to blame each other for not forming a pact before the election. RBB and Brid Smith calling out McDonald saying she should have told SF supporters to transfer left sooner.

Why didn’t RBB or Smith approach SF / SD and maybe Labour months ago? Why wait for someone else to do it? If your really that desperate to get a left leaning Government in, surely you show leadership here and go and do it.

The amount of people I know who have done nothing but moan about this FF / FG Government yet when chatting to them over the weekend, a lot of them couldn’t be bothered to vote!

Whether you like him or not, Gerard Hutch clearly was eligible to run as much as anyone else. The way some people are talking him down, and in particular the way they’re speaking about the people who voted for him, is annoying and has a massive bang of arrogance from it!

Merely ihaving a job is not the be all end all of everything. You can have a job and still have no future, as is the case for far too many people in this country. In fact you can have a couple with two jobs and still have no future here, which is the reality for a lot of folk who I know that are of a certain age.