I think it will be FF/FG again with god knows who. Hopefully a left wing party
It will be November 15th
Bertie only needed Fianna Fail DNA independents though. The thing of independents being for a particular party isn't what it used to be and you also have a bunch of lunatic ones now too.
They should have walked when Gilmore did. Burton ended up being a Fine Gael stooge.
With small parties not being open to being a mudguard and suffering same fate as the greens, there will be more pressure for FF to coalesce with SF + 1 other party, for a stable govt.
It would also mean MM gets to be a 5 year Taoiseach
FG will not want to be junior partners for 5 years either, they may make negotiations quite difficult. Definitely wanting the rotating Taoiseach, but a 10 seat gap makes that unlikely
FF doing so well could be their undoing. It would suit them to be closer to FG.
There's no mandate for SFF.
The transfer pattern showed people voted for FG and FG.
That's what they want.
10 seats is nothing when you consider FF and FG got a very similar first preference.
They've got the largest mandate so the buck stops with them for the government that forms.
Jesus Sinn Fein and yere mandates.
You would swear McDonald gets money for every time she says it or something.
So if the gap is plus 10 between FF and FG would FG want to go in government if they can’t get rotating Taoiseach?
Hutch in trouble...only up on Sherlock by 124....Paschal Donohoe big surplus to come.
I doubt it.
FF have to pick either SF, FG or another election.
Maybe they give them the rotation but take the bulk of ministries. The Taoiseach doesn't really have executive powers like a directly elected president in other countries.
Maybe you'd prefer to listen to Micheál talk about it himself.
'We haven't completed our mandate': Tánaiste says there's work to finish which cannot be rushed
FFG + II at 92 on that prediction.
Paschal wondering why Hutch got such a high anti establishment vote: Probably because successive governments you are a part of have left parts of your Dublin central constituency deprived and ignored.
That northern bank money has to get spent somehow 😃
Brilliant news. Nothing worse to see the electorate voting in a criminal. Pathetic stuff.
exactly. Kelly did the labour cause no help either with his ramblings on the water charge.
Plenty of criminals have been re-elected
Correct, Calleary springs to mind.
Like who exactly?
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Gino Kenny has lost his seat and looking at it im not sure if Paul Murphy might also be in danger going off viable transfers that are left
Chances of FG voter's in Dublin Central transferring to Hutch is near zero, he's not going to make it
Dessie Ellis is a convicted criminal for one.
Great if Sherlock gets it ahead of Hutch. I cannot abide Labour but she does come across as a hard worker and true to what Labour should be about.
So RBB is the only one so far of that “group” to be in the dail.
And thats a good reason to put a criminal in is it?
Dessie Ellis topping the poll is one example. Doherty getting the highest vote in the country another.
Why bother with II, just go with regular indos like the self-righteous brothers in Kerry. II have the drawbacks of both small parties and indos…
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