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No idea.
First time voting In. Kerry. Whose worth voting for.
The HR's are out. Robbing the tax payer and claiming attendance for a funeral ruined it for me.

Who else isn't so blatantly dishonest?

The Healy Rae's are safe....love them, or loathe them... they listen to their constituents...get potholes fixed, try to get council houses for people on the waiting list for a long time , and provide buses to the north for cataract ops that will take 2-3 years for the HSE to provide ...the amount of goodwill that alone provides is insane

Sinn Fein could be in trouble... Martin Ferris not running...his daughter not running .. there's more to this story than were being told I believe.. Pa Daly is a good guy, I like him... he'll get the hardcore nationalist vote... but may lose the "floating voter" a little.

John Brassil could be in trouble...a lot of his supporters are annoyed that he's not fixing local roads and looking after local issues...he's being berated for not doing the things we berate the Healy Rae's for doing!
Still looking at Tralee, I think Norma Foley has a massive chance of being elected...she's been to the forefront of lots of local issues and has a bit of support building...I'd expect her to take Brassils seat...

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Just had my first caller from FF. New to the county so know no one.

Asked him why I'd vote FF and he couldn't tell me.
Told him I'd lost all hope of fg who I've voted for the last 30 years.
Am old enough to remember what FF did to the country and when he told me it would be a FF/Greens coalition...well I lost all hope.
Not to mention propping up FG the last 8 years.

Anyway he went away without giving any answers.

Looks like I'm not voting for Foley!

No idea who to vote for this year but always have done with the belief we get the government we deserve and can't complain if we don't vote.

Anyway, must be careful not to upset the neighbours

Edited to fix typo..though I did have to apply for residency of the kingdom and get a visa

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

If you've voted for FG for 30 years, presumably you've just moved to Kerry, rather than Ireland? Welcome, either way! As for voting advice, I'd worry less about electability than whoever is closest to your own political opinions.

Unfortunately you can't separate the individual from the party due to the whip system.
Looking forward to MHR calling to my door. I want to know about his powers of bi-location

Adiboo wrote: »

Ask him about his ridiculous raffle too.

Why is it ridiculous?


The only reason I'm asking is because;
https://www.finegael.ie/donate/
https://www.fiannafail.ie/donate/
https://www.labour.ie/donate/
https://www.sinnfein.ie/donate-to-sinn-fein
https://riar.aontu.ie/crm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=5

[Deleted User] wrote: »

He could not point to the crises in health, crime and housing, in a week when a child was dismembered in the gangland war, an elderly woman photographed eating her dinner off a window sill and a homeless man hospitalised when being dumped like trash, and say FF is the only realistic alternative when it comes to leading a Government?

I appreciate that, as a former long term FG voter, you may validly object to pinning all these on that party, the reasons are far more complex and historic.

I'm just saying...he must have been an awful canvasser.

Unfortunately we can't blame it all health's problems on FG.
FF were in government longer. Talking to colleagues in the dept of health whove been there decades, they were all useless. Martin, Harney,( she at least tried) and of course Mr soundbite himself Leo.
Harris works hard but is in over his head. It's too big a job for 1 man. I often met him in the lift. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders. He's dealing with the failure of every government before him to sort out health. It would take the dedicated resources of a team of ministers and a willingness to overlook the results of the next election to deal with the problems whatever the next poll.

uchimata83 wrote: »

That's nonsense re Simon Harris. The guy wouldn't know an honest day's work if it came up and bit him on the backside. If you're in any doubt head over to the farcically name uhk and spend a few hours in a&e.

The 8th amendment referendum had 75% approval before it was ever even decided to be put before the people.

This crack of blaming everything on your predecessors doesn't fly when you've been in government for 8 years.

I take it you've worked in the DoH since you know what he does every day!


By comparison, the Slovak health system works well with everyone over 18 paying insurance which is managed by private companies. The money follows the patient and the system works.
Under 18 are free.My youngest had 4 opportunities of heart surgery while waiting on the list in Crumlin. We eventually took an appointment and got a call from Crumlin 12 months after he had been done.

Of course it was attempted to bring it in here with universal insurance and the people/doctors etc didn't want it.

It looks as though the newest opinion poll seems to be a little more accurate (in my opinion, of course). FF up to 32% and FG down to 20% - although these seem too high and low respectively. FG will lose a massive amount of the farmers vote after the last three months and its difficult to see any of them voting for the greens.


I like to keep an eye on the odds as the bookies tend to be right most of the time, and it looks like Norma Foley is going to pick up that fifth seat at the expense of Sinn Fein.

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

I see an American called John Bowler is standing as the Irexit candidate in Kerry - his Twitter a/c is "colourful" to say the least!

https://twitter.com/beachbuminkerry/status/1218594886162751488

He's wearing a flat cap. He'll be mixed up with the other eejits wearing flat caps and win the seat

JonathonS wrote: »

At least it is being built. FF wasted tens of millions trying to shoehorn it into Bertie's constituency. And at the end of that debacle nothing was achieved, and children were still left untreated. Anyone who thinks that the solution to the problems of the health service lies in voting for Mícheál M is very naive.

At what cost though? You can give anyone a blank cheque book and they'll build you a hospital. If FF are reckless with government money, FG are incompetent. And I would say that FF are as bad, if not worse, to keep that government in power despite the children's hospital, cervical scandal, NBP costs etc.

Is anyone working at the polling stations?

FG were hoping to win 2 seats in Kerry, is there a danger they might win none according to a local poll?
2 Healy Raes, 1 SF and 2 FF could be the outcome.

uchimata83 wrote: »

More likely that FF's seat goes from Brassil to Foley. Griffin will still get a lot of transfers from Kennelly from the historic FG vote, it should be enough to see him in.


I don't believe this massive SF jump in the polls, nationally I think they are still behind FG by 3/4 points.



Huge movement from the bookies, particularly in favour of Normal Foley.



Michael Healy-Rae (Ind) 1/50 now 1/25
Danny Healy-Rae (Ind) 1/20 now 1/25
Brendan Griffin (Fine Gael) 1/6 now 1/5
John Brassil (Fianna Fail) 1/5 now 2/9
Pa Daly (Sinn Fein) 8/11 now 3/10
Norma Foley (Fianna Fail) 5/4 now 2/9
Mike Kennelly (Fine Gael) 2/1 now 7/1
Norma Moriarty (Fianna Fail) 7/1 now 8/1
Cleo Murphy (Green Party) 14/1 now 20/1
Sonny Foran (Aontu) 33/1 no change
Brian Finucane (PBP) 100/1 no change
Ted Cronan 25/1
John Bowler 66/1

Looking at those odds, the 2 healy raes are home and hosed but theres 3 out of the other 4 and Fine Gael havent done much for Kerry bar a few sports grants. The tide nationally is really against them and they are becoming more and more a Dublin party or the party of the rich. Wanting to have a march for the Black and tans wouldnt go down well either in Kerry of all places.
Still theres probably enough rich voters in Killarney and Dairy farmers out there to get one Fine Gael seat.

lottpaul wrote: »

They only drop teasers during the day - full result in the Nuacht at 7pm. Bookies still have him odds on to keep his seat - though the last time I checked they had 6 people backed to win..... That might change now. Big interview with them all on Radio Kerry this morning. Nothing too shocking or startling, just a reminder from the Chair of Tralee Chamber of Commerce at the end that no matter who wins, they'd better look after Kerry!
(Danny was asked if he'd serve as Minister of Agriculture -- he didn't say "No")

I missed it this morning, but will catch up with it this evening. I still think Danny Healy Rae will get enough transfers to get in. From the looks of things, Pa Daly is after making huge gains but I think a lot of this will be down to the opinion polls.

I've watched the other three debates on Radio Kerry with the candidates, Kennelly was brutal, Sonny Foran talked a lot of sense, Bowler is a lunatic, Foley and Cleo Murphy were very impressive.