Election Thread - Dublin West - SEE MOD NOTE IN POST 1

A Knight of Ireland wrote: »

This should not happen no matter what side of the fence you are on

https://twitter.com/BrophyTomas/status/1219593302032470016/photo/1

Agreed.

A lot of posters were pulled down around Roselawn and Delwood on Friday night/Saturday morning.

asteroids over berlin wrote: »

how is Coppinger, always somewhat ignored her but kudos to her for being at the FAI hearing and asking the questions. Is it Curry too, is she decent? Competitive area and indeed as a former FF, i find it difficult to consideer them now, will probably go Leo, i think his fairly decent, not sure of 2nd and 3rd though

You slag Chambers for looking like ‘he is having great craic’ in the Dail and then say you will vote for Leo. Logical.

Posters do seem worse this time than previous elections. Perhaps Leo's team getting caught putting up his illegally before the election writ was passed gave others the green light to ignore the rules.

Roderic O´Gorman is a top guy and very active locally. I hope he gets in

antimatterx wrote: »

Quick question. Would you not have expected catherine noone to do much better last time out getting Leo's transfers

During that campaign Catherine Noone never once bothered to update her website. Some stories about what she did around Dun Laoighre and not a single thing about Dublin West.

She pitched herself to the local FG organisers partly as FG had to hit a gender quota and shure select me, why not

I did see her and her team around Navan Rd many nights but I don't know about other areas.

She herself was shocked at her low vote and later put on twitter that Dublin West was very left leaning and she never had a chance sob. Was kinda of a bitter signoff, well goodbye so No thanks to the 1,000 plus who gave you a vote

Weepsie wrote: »

Chambers or Leo. You're voting for the same nonsense. Neither seem to have an original thought in their head and are very, very managed.

Very managed would not be a phrase used for Varadkar, he never was, tends to be a more off the cuff than most others.

asteroids over berlin wrote: »

his like a big kid, even watching him in the dail and he looksas if he thinks its great craic, not a chance i'd vote for him

He’s like something from the 1950s, and is proudly against the right to choose. I politely called him out on it at his last canvass and he’s handler said ‘we’re not here to discuss that and off they went. Well they can f right off the next time to ring the bell

Rosser wrote: »

He’s like something from the 1950s, and is proudly against the right to choose. I politely called him out on it at his last canvass and he’s handler said ‘we’re not here to discuss that and off they went. Well they can f right off the next time to ring the bell

Did he not quite publicly say he supported Repeal in the end?

Caranica wrote: »

Doesn't matter, he voted against having a referendum in the first place. He only voted for the legislation when he realised that 74% of his constituents voted to repeal. One ass saving vote does not cancel out the heartlessness of aiming to deny people the right to vote in the first place.

I agree, on that matter I think all TD’s should have been in favour of holding the referendum and then they can vote how they want but there should have been no objection to holding it.

AlanG wrote: »

Posters do seem worse this time than previous elections. Perhaps Leo's team getting caught putting up his illegally before the election writ was passed gave others the green light to ignore the rules.

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I'd say an awful lot of the posters are put up without any regard to the rules. According to Dublin City Council (http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-your-council-register-vote/election-postering), the rules are:


- Posters should be erected at a minimum height of 2.3 metres above footpaths, cycle tracks or any area to which pedestrians have access

- Posters should not be erected on lamp standards with overhead line electricity feed, traffic signal poles, bridge parapets, overpasses, pedestrian bridges, or roadside traffic barriers

- Posters should not obscure statutory road signs or traffic/pedestrian signals in any way

- Posters should be securely fixed to poles with cable ties or similar material to facilitate removal without damage to the poles

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But now you get posters that are pretty much at head height or even ground level. There is also way too many of them, some kind of limit where you can only have 2 Chambers or 3 Coppingers every 20 metres wouldn't be too bad..

I hope it is disastrous for him

A Knight of Ireland wrote: »

I'm delighted Peter Casey is running in Dublin 15. It'll definitely shake things up and our chance for some real change. I would rather he consentrated on D15 instead of both D15 and Donegal. It may be something that goes against him.

It will make no difference to Dublin West because he still wants to represent Donegal if elected in both.

He is exactly type of politician I hope does not start emerging on the national stage.