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

RTE have no business cutting to it live.

One of the remarkable things about the Green implosion is that they didn’t enact any seriously unpopular policies. They did things like reduce public transport fares, expand the cycling network, introduce the bottle return scheme that was largely welcomed. The airport passenger cap was lifted before it inflated airfares, and the ban on non-EVs from 2035 is too far away to have influenced voters.

Somehow they managed to annoy the electorate, including in leafy Dun Laoghaire, without broaching any of the hard measures that would meaningfully curb Ireland’s emissions.

Nearly the entire international cohort I'd say, sniffing a huge sensation amid what would otherwise be a dull and abstruse election report for their consumers

inviting the Third World in 8 languages?

Its mostly the small party in govt gets the knife again but the greens had a lot of infighting during this govt and people losing the whip.

O Gorman i think also like Leo Varadker jumps into answers a lot of the time with the your wrong heres why your wrong i have the facts. Where as the political cute hooers always use the i hear you i understand and play into peoples desire to be heard first.

Cant enlighten the very dim people we have in abundance.

One of the remarkable things about the Green implosion is that they didn’t enact any seriously unpopular policies.

😂

Totally and basically telling us to get out of our cars and to get using the worst public transportation network of any country in the EU…. not anecdotal btw numerous organisations deem that and greenpeace do also….and then proceeded tax the fûck out of us into the bargain.

Hutch is out of the race according to RTE.

Inviting half the world to come here promising them the sun moon and stars while having no plan to house them, shoving hundred of millions, if not billions of euro into hotel owners (or anyone with an empty factory which had been earmarked for much needed apartments) pockets, whilst being part of a govt responsible for a monumental housing and rental crisis would do it.

The 100-150 quid a year the 90 min leap card saving I make ain't enough.

I now have to make additional trips to get rid of plastic bottles I was putting in my green bin to get money back otherwise I'm being taxed. And now my bin provider is threatening to increase the charges because they dont get the plastic bottles anymore.

Treating people with utter disdain when dumping hundreds of young male African or middle Eastern men on their doorstep and accusing them of being racist or far right when these people have no right to reply.

Is that enough???

You are also over paying for the Re-turn items, because the cost of the deposit is added onto the original price of the product, not incorporated in to.

Well that was almost like the Line of Duty storyarc in DubC what with an OCG gaining an insider into one of the country's institutions except over here, it was the alleged head of an OCG sitting in the parliament!

+100%, thanks !

Greens should have stuck to their raison detre which is green policies (and more imaginative ones than mostly taxes at that), instead of getting wrapped up in all the identity politics BS

"they are actually an incredibly effective party , get into government get some of their policies in that not many like, get destroyed and then rebuild. Done it twice recently."

Like the PD's during the 1990s and early 2000s in a way.

Id hope all the lunatics blaming the greens for the immigration crisis in Ireland didn't vote ffg because if that's the case you'd want yer head examined.

Blaming the very minority party is fairly hilarious