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Final results! decisive YES vote!!

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  • 03-10-2009 4:33pm
    #1
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭


    so all the results are in!

    according to RTE

    YES: 67.13% 1,214,268 votes :eek:

    NO: 32.87% 594,606 votes


    Total Valid: 1,748,620
    Invalid: 7,224 votes

    58% polled & a 20.5% swing


    personally im shocked with the result! i was more negative and cynical, and delighted at the high turnout


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    #2
    Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinner


    I'm shocked by the massive swing to yes. I was pessimistic but I thought the yes vote might get it by 2-3% but nothing like 17%!

    Couldn't be happier.


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    #3
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I hope boards.ie is happy.
    I'm certainly not.


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    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    SV wrote: »
    I hope boards.ie is happy.

    i am happy :D


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    #5
    Fuhrer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,661 ✭✭✭Fuhrer


    Onwards and upwards


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    #6
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    I think I'll have a nice cool can of cheap Czech beer and celebrate :D

    Edit: forgot to mention, I'll be sure to make the first toast to Klaus.


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    d0gb0y
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭d0gb0y


    We need a rerun to be sure best out of 3 or 5 perhaps

    The sad thing is this is good for fianna fail:mad:


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    ei.sdraob wrote: »
    i am happy :D
    I'm sure you are.
    You were abusive (and scare mongering) enough throughout the whole campaign to have finally got what you want.


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    #9
    sink
    Registered Users Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    I am eating my words right now and doing so happily.
    sink wrote: »
    I want a yes vote but I'm apathetic about the whole thing now. The greatest motivators of the general public are hate, greed and fear in that order. They'll vote against the treaty because they hate the government and all politicians. They'll vote against the treaty because they believe sharing power is loosing power. They'll vote against the treaty because they fear what's not in it.

    "In a democracy the people get the government they deserve"


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    #10
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,372 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    Yay


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    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    The sad thing is this is good for fianna fail:mad:

    It's actually not though. :rolleyes:. Their time will come.


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    meglome
    Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    We need a rerun to be sure best out of 3 or 5 perhaps

    The sad thing is this is good for fianna fail:mad:

    No it not good for Fianna Fail, they are screwed no matter what. It is however good for the country and will still be good for the country when FF are gone.
    SV wrote: »
    I'm sure you are.
    You were abusive (and scare mongering) enough throughout the whole campaign to have finally got what you want.

    You're funny.


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    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    SV wrote: »
    I'm sure you are.
    You were abusive (and scare mongering) enough throughout the whole campaign to have finally got what you want.

    me? where??


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    phantom_lord
    Registered Users Posts: 10,894 ✭✭✭✭phantom_lord


    SV wrote: »
    I hope boards.ie is happy.
    I'm certainly not.

    yeah but the majority of people are happy.


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    d0gb0y
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭d0gb0y


    prinz wrote: »
    It's actually not though. :rolleyes:. Their time will come.

    After they lump us with NAMA


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    Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Dinner


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    After they lump us with NAMA

    We'll see if they get a chance. If the greens don't get a 2 thirds majority in favour of NAMA I believe that they said they'd pull out of government.


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    We need a rerun to be sure best out of 3 or 5 perhaps

    The sad thing is this is good for fianna fail:mad:

    Aggregate scores should suffice as a tie breaker.

    Yes: 1,966,719
    No: 1,482,077


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    #18
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    After they lump us with NAMA

    If you have anything to say about Lisbon please do.


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    #19
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    d0gb0y wrote: »
    After they lump us with NAMA

    after the ECB pays for NAMA...


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Regardless of the outcome, I'm saddened to see such an anti-Irish sentiment being portrayed by many

    sure we're just a backwards nation full of fools that can't possibly exist without Europe.. aren't we? =(

    Well no, we're not.. only those that believe they can't exist without Europe are the backward fools, imo


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    phantom_lord wrote: »
    yeah but the majority of people are happy.

    Yes, but the reason the majority of people are happy is because they think this is going to pull Ireland out of recession and make everything all nice again.
    They'll soon realise it won't do an ounce of good.

    *Yes to jobs* HA


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    #22
    d0gb0y
    Registered Users Posts: 287 ✭✭d0gb0y


    prinz wrote: »
    If you have anything to say about Lisbon please do.

    Its a nice city i've heard, never been though :D


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    #23
    prinz
    Registered Users Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Regardless of the outcome, I'm saddened to see such an anti-Irish sentiment being portrayed by many sure we're just a backwards nation full of fools

    The only group I can think of who'd subscribe to that kind of thinking is the UKIP :D


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    #24
    Agent J
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    Can we please pass a law preventing the words "Libson" and "treaty" from being in the same senetence EVER again?


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    #25
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    prinz wrote: »
    The only group I can think of who'd subscribe to that kind of thinking is the UKIP :D

    you should have heard him on RTE

    made me want to puke

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62377029&postcount=4


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    #26
    WhiskeyTangoFox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭WhiskeyTangoFox


    Thank god that is all over. Now I hope ei.sdraob and Rb disappear off the Politics section.

    Has to be some good aspect of a Yes win :)

    I <3 SV


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    #27
    unklerosco
    Registered Users Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭unklerosco


    Higher turnout is part of the answer for the swing - the Government and the main Opposition parties, who all campaigned for a Yes, will now argue about who did most to win the referendum.

    The sad thing is that they most likely will instead of getting down to work and trying to sort out this big bloody c*ck up of a mess we're in.. I'm glad it got a yes cause hopefully now we can leave it n get on with sorting this country out...


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    #28
    USE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭USE


    Dinner wrote: »
    I was pessimistic but I thought the yes vote might get it by 2-3% but nothing like 17%!
    They got it by 35% :D

    THANK YOU IRELAND VERY MUCH.

    This is a very important decision for the future of EU and for the future of Ireland. After some time we will all realize that today we have achieved something good for our own interest. I am a person living in another corner of EU, in even smaller country than Ireland is. But I was very into all this Lisbon matter in Ireland, because this will inevitably affect my, as EU citizen, future. And I honestly believe after the Treaty of Lisbon it will be only better (and the Treaty of Lisbon will provide us some positive results in a long perspective).

    So I appreciate your decision :) Let's celebrate this!


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    #29
    Agent J
    Registered Users Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    I would argue that it was the No side that won it for the Yes side.

    COIR are insane.


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    #30
    samson09
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    "Heute Europa, Morgen die Welt"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHw5n2iSRyQ


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    #31
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    Agent J wrote: »
    I would argue that it was the No side that won it for the Yes side.

    COIR are insane.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/features/lisbontreaty/tracker.html
    (5.05pm) Anti-Lisbon campaigner Richard Green of Cóir said the Government had only won a battle in the war and he said the war goes on.


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