Limerick City GE 2016 Candidate videos

Your man Desmond Hayes is running again as an Independent.

He was with Renua but then withdrew.

power101 wrote: »

He wasn't on Smartvote.ie/rte.ie so I presumed he had dropped out. Thanks for the correction, I've now added his personal website as a link.

It was only announced today I think.

Who does everyone think will be the four TD's elected from Limerick City and who from the current four could lose their seat?

I'd say only O'Dea and Noonan are safe. O'Sullivan and O'Donnell can't be too secure.

Quinlivan, Prendiville and maybe Hennelly are pushing up towards them.

I'll be voting for James Gaffney, the Green Party candidate, who is very good but most people won't be aware of him.

The second preference votes could be vital to O'Donnell, can be sure that a lot of people voting for Noonan will give him their second preference vote.

I think Noonan, O'Donnell, Quinlivan will get in but it's hard to call for the fourth seat.

zulutango wrote: »

You think O'Dea will struggle??

Hopefully he does but I can't see it happening unfortunately. I ain't the biggest follower when it comes to politics but what is the deal with O'Dea and how he always seems to get re-elected? Do people really love the tash that much haha

I used that smartvote.ie thingy and tbh was surprised with the outcome, but I do like the way they have entered the candidates answers so you can try and get an idea of who is thinking what .

I notice from the links above that M Noonan didn't bother with a video .

As for Willie, the one thing that I will give him credit for is that he is always there to face the public, I've seen him in my own estate on a few occasions in miserable weather, knocking on doors and talking to people . I haven't seen Noonan, O'Donnell or O'Sullivan since they were elected . Not that that is the be all and end all, and it won't be reflected in my voting, but it goes some way in explaining his popularity .

Smartvote says I should be voting Hennelly and the SD but I need to give that more thought as I hadn't even known of her before that .

I never once saw Willie O'Dea down around my way apart from when we flooded I think he might have shown up but every man and his dog whose involved in politics and from Limerick was there to get their faces on telly or in the paper and we only live five minutes over the bridge from his place in Farranshone.

Just did the smart vote questionnaire and it threw up some interesting results for me. A lot of the questions though had "the candidate has not answered this question yet", that was the only downfall I really saw. Other than that it's a great idea.

Question for those better informed then me about this voting malarkey, does everyone give all the candidates a preference or just a first and maybe a second preference plus does it make a difference whether you give a preference to all the candidates or not.

panda100 wrote: »

Same with me. I don't think smartvote is very smart. Many of the questions are misleading or open to interpretation.
For example, one of the questions for me was 'should abortion only be legalised in cases of rape and/or incest'. I said No because I believe in free, safe legal abortion in all circumstances. However,my response also could be interpreted that I was a vehement pro-lifer.

Surely you should have answered yes then as the question didn't say 'only' .

Anyway, I'm guessing Smartvote is only there to give you an idea and maybe open your mind a bit to alternatives . I had never heard of Hennelly before I used it and she came out first on my list, still haven't seen or heard anything from her bar that video on the RTE site .

jonski wrote: »

So if there was someone on there I really didn't want my transfer to go to I should leave them off completely ?

No, you're actually better off giving them your lowest preference. The reason is that if two candidates are neck and neck then that preference will determine which way your vote will go in the later counts.