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TOMORROW MORNING, MILLIONS of people will cast their votes and decide the next government.
But there are still hands to shake and minds to change before the polls open…
Here’s what party leaders, candidates and canvassers were up to earlier – during the last few intensive hours of campaigning before the 2pm TV and radio moratorium.
Morning folks. Paul Hosford here taking you through the morning of this last day of campaigning.
Right now, we’re waiting on Enda Kenny to be interviewed on TV3′s Ireland AM.
Is Lucinda is throwing shade at her former party leader this morning? It feels like it.
So, what’s on the slate for today?
While Enda Kenny is on TV3, the AAA-PBP will have a stall at Londis on Westmoreland Street in Dublin.
Kenny will then move to Dublin city to campaign, before a joint press event with Labour leader Joan Burton.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin will be in Cork all day, shoring up support in his own constituency, while it’s back to Moore Street for Gerry Adams.
It’s almost as if he has this tattooed on his hand:
Commuters will probably be pleased when the election is over. Thinking about it, the candidates probably will as well.
Social Democrats co-leader Stephen Donnelly looks freezing.
Some people have told some fibs in this campaign. Luckily, our FactCheck has been there to pull them up on it.
Our newsroom gathered around to watch Enda Kenny take part in TV3′s Steady Hand Challenge.
One staffer remarked that this was “our moon landing”.
Enda didn’t make it all the way around.
Are the coalition getting their message across? Here’s what radio host and communications expert Anton Savage thinks:
Our colleagues over on DailyEdge.ie have shown Enda no sympathy for his failure on the Steady Hand Challenge. In fairness, he did “do very well during the ad break”.
Our political editor Hugh O’Connell is on location with Eoghan Murphy this morning. His team took “be safe, be seen” very seriously.
Eoghan Murphy has brought his brothers along. You may recognise the guy on the right. Yes, that’s Love/Hate’s Tommy.
UCD Students’ Union are organising a huge carpool to match students driving home to vote this Friday with students who’re stuck for a lift. Anyone can apply to be a part here.
The Union of Students Ireland have also teamed up with Irish Rail to encourage students to get home for the vote.
For some people, count day is the best day.
Personally, I love it. It’s like a political nerd’s Christmas.
Adrian Shanahan agrees.
As Snow Patrol once said: when it’s all over, we still have to clear up. Posters have been up a couple of weeks, but after tomorrow they have to come down again.
Candidates have a week to take theirs down. Beyond that, you can complain to your local litter warden or council.
After the question wasn’t asked in the Prime Time leaders’ debate earlier this week, Enda Kenny was asked about the Eighth Amendment on TV3 today.
Some of the experiences of women who have come forward here, who’ve been very courageous… It is a profound issue and it’s not one to be sort of spoken of glibly in politics to say ‘let’s have a referendum’.
With less than 24 hours to go, is your vote even up for grabs?
Our poll today wants to know: do you know who you’re voting for?
I’ve been on this liveblog for nearly two hours and haven’t posted this.
Just hoping I haven’t been fired already:
Unbelievable scones as Joan and Enda sit for tea.
Will it be the last time?
Today’s Irish Independent quotes Leo Varadkar as saying that a grand coalition of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael wouldn’t work.
That hasn’t stopped Paddy Power making it the most likely government next time around. The betting reflects the idea that nobody really knows what’s going to happen.
Undoubtedly, some of the analysis over the weekend will focus on social media.
Here’s a comprehensive analysis of the tweets from the campaign by analyst Barry James.
It shows that some candidates are very active on Twitter and Gerry Adams gets a lot of retweets.
Lorraine Higgins’ leaflet asks not for votes because she’s a woman, but because of her merits.
One of which is being a woman.
“We’ll still see each other after this, won’t we?”
“Yeah, of course we will.”
“I’m just afraid it will all change.”
“It won’t. Trust me.”
*Both stare awkwardly into the distance*
Our writers are from all over the country.
In preparation for the election, some went home to see if “the recovery” was being felt outside of Dublin city.
While trying to win two seats in Kerry, Michael Healy-Rae is also watching his follower count.
I know we talk about politicians getting into bed with each other, but this is ridiculous.
Listen, this is nothing to do with politics, but that Fianna Fáil clip put this song in my head.
If you’re anything like me, you have to listen to it before you can be a functioning member of society.
It wasn’t just Enda who did the Steady Hand Challenge, all the party leaders had a go.
Only Lucinda Creighton got through it.
Apparently Let’s Get It On is something of a Fianna Fáil anthem.
A vision of a new, and sexy, Ireland.
That’s it from me, I’m handing over to Orla Ryan now. Enjoy the rest of your polling day eve!
Manchán Magan, the broadcaster and Green Party candidate for Longford-Westmeath, is targeting an often-overlooked section of the electorate.
Fianna Fáil’s health spokesperson Billy Kelleher had this observation about Enda and Joan’s tea date:
Meanwhile, there’s a protest taking place at Leinster House about a topic that hasn’t been talked about a huge amount during the election campaign: climate change.
They might not be able to vote yet, but these kids are big fans of Gerry Adams…
Some people are REALLY looking forward to the end of pre-election coverage.
Still unsure about who to vote for tomorrow? Let our constituency database and its candidate profiles help you out.
The big question is, what’s the next Arnold Schwarzenegger film Leo Varadkar will reference when criticising Micheál Martin?
Earlier this month it was Total Recall, today True Lies.
Our money’s on Kindergarten Cop.
No comment.
That is a big chandelier.
Party leaders have gained Twitter followers in the course of the election campaign, but who got the most?
Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams gained 4,822 new followers, while the Social Democrats’ Stephen Donnelly had a 14.9% increase in followers over the course of #GE16.
In other news, Joanne O’Riordan has been confirmed as the Dublin St Patrick’s Day parade Grand Marshall.
We all need some inspiration at times.
We imagine a few undecided voters are having similar emotions today…
“I am the best” – a quality slogan from Mattress Mick, to be fair.
Schoolchildren at Craggagh NS in Mayo are getting a headstart on their election knowledge.
Nice work, guys!
That’s it from me (Órla Ryan) for now. I’ll leave you and the liveblog in the capable hands of Sinéad O’Carroll.
Enjoy the rest of your Thursday!
Are you excited for the Count Day?
Here’s a little something Hugh prepared earlier – the 10 most exciting constituencies to keep an eye on.
On his way back from the Grand Marshal announcement for St Patrick’s Day, Daragh Brophy took a stroll past Leinster House and met these two gentlemen.
We’re about 30 minutes away from the broadcast moratorium – which means that radio and TV have to be silent about general election 2016.
So you’ve probably heard the last of Enda Kenny, Micheál Martin, Gerry Adams, Joan Burton & co…. for now.
Daragh Brophy taking over for the last few minutes here before the broadcast ban kicks in…
In case you were wondering what the radio and TV moratorium is all about, by the way – here’s Broadcasting Authority of Ireland boss Michael O’Keeffe:
“The moratorium remains an important measure for ensuring that fairness is achieved by the broadcast media prior to, and during, the period when citizens cast their ballot.
The prohibition of electioneering and references to election issues will allow voters a period for reflection in the final stages of the election campaign.
Essentially it means that from 2pm, radio and television stations will not be permitted to carry any content that relates directly to general election issues, including anything relating to the merits or otherwise of general election candidates.
In non-election news, intrepid RTÉ reporter Teresa Manion (of Storm Desmond fame) landed an ‘Above and Beyond’ award at the Best Work Place Awards in Dublin last night.
If you’ve a few minutes to spare, check out this report of ours from Bunclody – which was named as the most economically depressed town in Ireland in 2014.
Coming up to election 2016 – have things changed?
Still four minutes left before the moratorium…
No sign of Enda Kenny popping up on Home and Away just yet.
Although is that Joan Burton who’s just called to this lady’s door?
That’s it for the afternoon… We can all enjoy a politician-free 9 o’clock news tonight.
Meantime, we’ll be back early tomorrow morning with your election day blog… when we’ll do it LIVE all over again.
WE’LL DO IT LIVE.
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You can’t fix stupid but you can vote it out. Time End a and Joan were put out to pasture.
shocking news coming out of spain…
I think it’s great news Dane lad. Pedro Sanchez will make a fantastic socialist prime minister :)
Is there going to by anEnda of cronyism?
slab might have company ;)
Shocking that the police have waited more than 2 years to arrest him,If they knew 2 years ago, and were investigating him, including interviewing him last year, why wasn`t he extradited earlier?
Even more shocking, that he was implicated in a murder of a Garda 20 years ago and let live abroad for that length of time.
For the gardaí to leave this alone for so many years, and then pick him up at the time of an election, leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
Tommy it looks like the SF cover ups of alleged abuse are coming back to bite them like happened over time with the catholic church:
Now, I think like the many GOOD priests in the catholic church it would be VERY unfair to label or lump all SF people in with these abusers and call SF people as being all abusers and there are good people in SF, but like the church the moving around of abusers and cover ups is what people found to be totally wrong of both the church and SF.
@ Greg, I think you will find that there is nothing new in your post, nothing that the electorate was not aware of, I think you should be more worried at the timing of the whole thing, read my post above for clarification,
It`s a pity that your “Faux outrage” accounts for almost nothing, seeing as it is already in the public domain about these abuses, you should be more worried about the politics being played out behind this more than anything else
Greg explain how SF are any more responsible for the actions of this ex IRA than FF are for the actions of the ex FF activist jailed for 14 years last Friday for child abuse?
@motherofdevine I didn’t see your above post before I posted mine, as we must have been both posting at same time.
ok 2 things. First it can take many months to build a case and send to the DPP as you know. If they wanted to time it better it would have come out 2-3 days ago before today’s broadcast ban kicks in to allow as much damage? So that’s that dealt with.
As regards the killing of Gerry McCabe by this man if that was the case about keeping it for an election time, why didn’t they use this in 2002, 2007,2011 or before? Maybe they didn’t have enough evidence. As you know, the killer of another garda Adrian Donohoe is known to gardai and is living abroad also and may take time to catch and extradite him. Remember only recently Nazis were caught and brought to trial from the 1940s. So justice will win out eventually, even if it takes time.
But its a good thing to catch and arrest anybody for abuse no matter who they are, right? Please can we can both agree on that?
pgm you are correct. If FF knew about the abuse and covered it up they should be dealt with and highlighted also, same with FG, labour AAA etc. I agree with you. Not arguing that.
But SF and Adams has known about cover ups and abuse already and DID cover it up. I don’t want to name that person ( and would be unfair to bring his family into this and like I said it would be unfair to lump all SF people in the same as people tried to do with priests) but you will know who I am talking about and is within the SF community.
I’m talking about this specific case. This is a case of domestic abuse that only came to light when the abused went to the Gardai. How does it relate to SF, anymore than the other case relates to FF? It has nothing to do with SF and you know it.
But would it be subject to the broadcast ban seeing as it’s not about the election?
slab and the terrorist arrested in spain both are not covered by the broadcast ban ;)
One of Gerry’s canvassers is the owner of the shed where Slab Murphy had the hundreds of thousands hidden in.
Another “good republican”
2011 we trusted lab,their election promises, red line issues,signed pledges tesco 6 advert,our trust was abused by lab,lets give lab the kicking they deserve
‘Slab’ would be a gentleman in comparison this lot !!!!!!!
A vote for FG and labour is a vote for lies broken promises and Irish water and Enda’s so called recovery that most people are not felling
Telling it like it is – Oliver Callan article today
“The most alarming feature has been the ferocious campaign against Sinn Fein. The State has never witnessed such a biased agenda across all media organisations against a political party.”
More smearing time to go ff fg
Greg F.F. F.G. and Labour governments covered up a lot of child abuse and all these governments keep that quiet in the past governments.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/special-investigation–vaccine-trials-on-children-worse-than-first-thought-300247.html
http://www.thejournal.ie/baby-deaths-mother-baby-homes-1506811-Jun2014/
Greg then there is …
https://businesshumanrightsireland.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/glaxosmithkline-clinical-trials-on-irish-children-in-residential-homes/
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/forced-trials-for-vaccines-need-to-be-included-in-inquiry-into-mother-and-baby-homes-30337258.html
These subjects are taboo like the TiSA Agreement and TTIP…
Anyone know if paddy power was giving odds on the IRA making a newspaper headline the day before an election.
Watersedge, Oliver Callan does satire though. He is taking the mick about everybody out to get SF!
While you are mentioning the sun. Front page of the sun today:
“Top Provo arrested in Spain over alleged sexual assault of young girl”
GREG… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2650475/More-mass-baby-graves-Ireland-Prime-Minister-Enda-Kenny-orders-investigation-memorial-800-dead-babies-planned.html
http://www.dcya.gov.ie/documents/publications/20140716InterdepartReportMothBabyHomes.pdf
WHAT GOVERNMENTS KEPT THIS QUIET FOR SO LONG I WONDER??
Dane , your candidate was caught out lying big time here in Wexford.Billboard advertising erected in Wexford GH Oncology unit.When I questioned her , Julie Hogan FG she said she had permission from the Hospital.I phoned the General Manager and they were very irate at the fact she was not given permission.Furthermore she justified it to me via facebook messenger that she had raised money for the hospital and had a medical history there.For political gain.She deleted my posts from her facebook page ( but I have screen captures of everything) and said she was blocking me and reporting me to an GS for harassment.Glad to see nothing has changed with FG. I’ve spoken to the Journal about it.
Stop trying to make out it is a piece from Waterford Whispers Greg and actually read it.
“A detailed analysis of the anti-Sinn Fein editorialising over the past three weeks would make a very interesting thesis for any media students. It had a significant negative effect on opinion polls. The party was slow to take issue with bias until its poll numbers were hit. Even then it only focussed its ire on RTE.”
“Let me be clear, there is no whiff of diesel from my clothes and I have no agenda for or against any political party. As a former student of journalism and its ethics, I have merely watched this campaign with dismay.”
Watersedge, I think Tommy is Greg myself?
A lovely couple
Greg, in relation to the link you put up. If the allegations are proved to be true, well he should be thrown in a jail cell and may he suffer for doing that to a child. The worst crime anyone can commit, but as usual you use abuse cases for political point scoring and try to link SF to this. That is like saying the case last week where Bill Kenneally who is related to three generations of Waterford TDs including former Fianna Fail TD Brendan Kenneally and who was jailed for abusing teenage boys is the fault of the FF party.
You are typical of what Oliver Callan is writing about.
Poor Dane comments here about SF being forced to make Tory cuts up north whilst cheerleading the Irish Tory party down here. Confused much Dane? The funny thing about it is that FG have spent so much of this whole campaign targetting SF that they haven’t even noticed FF coming up on the inside rail. Tragic for FG, and probably the death knell for Enda Kenny.
“All those involved in such abuse must be charged, prosecuted. Those who were involved in the covering up of or deliberate neglect of children in their care must also be made accountable for this fundamental denial of an individual’s right to safety and well-being, both physical and mental.”
From Gerry Adams in 2002.
All those involved – does not and should not include Gerry Adams.
*Exclude (How very Freudian) ……………….
Of course watersedge – can you not comprehend what “all” means? I am not a FG supporter, something that you also seem to be unable to comprehend, and if I was then I certainly would not knowingly cast my vote for any person who allowed and was aware of the abuse of a child and did nothing.
Yet you will.
That is the difference between us.
Yet I will, really, because the last time I checked, my local SF candidate has nothing to do with any cover up of child abuse so get off your moral high horse
Lol, touched a nerve there I see.
Guys please please don’t vote SF.
Wow, your post makes such a compelling argument. In fact it changes everything.
Fair enough, another 5 years for the ‘whats in it for me’ brigade.
Haha please listen to me because I’m important haha
Paul, I expect your comment will get red thumbed by the shinners in a while…..as soon as they wake up….usually about 10 or 11.
@fc – don’t you work?
@OGJ, that’s hillarious coming from you :)
@andrew – i’m self employed dear boy. It’s my time i’m wasting!
Ah public sector – yeah most champagne socialists are.
Yeah Paul lets all vote for FG and Liebour and destroy the country further…more blueshirt vermin
I’m disgusted to see people taking cheap shots at SF about new IRA kangaroo court exiled paedophiles emerging and canvassers sheds full of illegal cash.
There is definitely a negative media bias fabricating all these stories.
Sorry Paul but I am
Says the public sector working who is voting for the party whose first priority is to restore the public sector pay cuts lol, you couldn’t make it up!
They are for votes…
Shame that enda can’t see that he promised end to corruption and cronyism . And then promptly ignored that promise for the last 5 years.
FG never again. They could have walked into a second term had they kept their promises. Time for change..
Out of interest, Garwig. Who will you be voting for? I assume you aren’t voting for the leftist parties because they will all implement unlimited open door immigration
I have no problem with immigration, I have a problem with unchecked open door policy and those who don’t respect western values. It’s RTC for me and SD’S, I voted for change the last time but got more of the same.
Let’s keep the Syriza revolution going.
#tiocfaidhárlá2016
Start building the bunkers lads. Canned food. Get large amounts in Aldi.
Are you heading down here especially Comrade, will Paul Murphy be taking the trip too?
john brady sinn fein was the only candidate to canvass in person
in the rathnew co wicklow area others kept a very low profile
sending letters ect ashamed maybe?
There is no shame with FG or Labour parties.Not in their vocabulary.
Would have anything to do with the almost 150,000 constituents that every candidate won’t get to every person? No it’s a hush job
I’ve never once had a SF candidate call to my door.
I’d relish being told to f**k off on my own doorstep by the Addams family.
Can’t wait for tomorrow, and voting to elect (one cert and one likely) two outstanding young public representatives to the next Dail. Eoin O’Broin and Gino Kenny have been both excellent in our community and the constituency as a whole.
slabs sentencing will be the icing on the cake ;)
The same Gino Kenny who supported the Luas drivers strike? Nah, you’re alright there thanks.
Wow, your post makes such a compelling argument. In fact, it changes everything.
Thanks Shinnerbot Connolly.
Speaking of slab and the connection to SF, it is now discovered in today’s Irish Times that it was one of Gerry’s Adams Sinn Fein canvassers who owns the shed where the “cash was resting” so there IS a connection.
more corruption and cronyism.
PMSL! The shills for the ‘whats in it for me’ party talking about corruption.
Get back to us when a shinners snared looking for a bribe on national TV.
@ Greg,
more corruption and cronyism,
Siteserv, McNulty,Nama, Project Eagle, Isle of Man bank accounts, Anglo,DOB, Fennelly report…….
Ha,Ha,Ha,
You are some boyo for selective amnesia and faux outrage
Cheers for the giggles this morning.
Yay! Dearmud!
You made it back to the early shift justin time for the election,
I knew you could do it if you applied yourself
Can’t wait to hear more from anonymous multiple account shinnertrolls on who they’re voting for in their constituencies.
Top notch political discourse.
Lucky you Diarmuid, you pulled the 9-5 shift today!!
All please see the mindset of a blueshirt, whats in it for me, I want to climb the greasy pole, I am an over entitled traitor…
I will take much glee watching the massive decline of the traitors of the Irish people FG/Liebour….
The vermin are in a corner now and there is nothing they wont stoop too…Keep up your trolling lads people are going to vote tomorrow but not in the way you want….
Up the RA
It doesn’t exist.
*wink*
It does exist but you were never in it…jesus Gerry, get your story straight
Vincent Browne wrote in The Irish Times, 24 Feb.:
“We all know Gerry Adams was one of the leading figures in the IRA for a long time and it is no surprise he denies that, for to do otherwise would leave him open to criminal prosecution and, probably, civil suits.
We also all know of the complicity of Gerry Adams in legions of IRA atrocities, atrocities that probably would have happened anyway, with or without him.”
Vincent knows what he’s talking about. He worked in Belfast in the 70′s.
Yes David, and in the paragraph underneath that one, he wrote:
“But it was Gerry Adams, who, more than any other single person, was responsible for delivering the most significant political achievement of Irish history for generations: the peace agreement on Northern Ireland. In terms of achievement, no other figure in Irish public life rates even close to him.”
did he ever do much in this country though?
On Wednesday, 17 February on the People’s Debate, from the Louth/Meath East constituency, Vincent Browne said the following:
“Gerry Adams joined the IRA in the 1960s. He was a prominent person in the IRA when the provisional IRA was established. He became Belfast commander of the IRA in 1972. He was commander of the IRA in the period when Jean McConville was murdered, and her body disappeared, but I understand he had nothing to do with the disappearance of her body. A number of IRA members were executed during that period and their bodies disappeared, among them Seamus Wright. ”
Vincent went on to say Gerry Adams was interned in 1972, and again from 1974 to 1977.
From his release in 1977 “he became the single most important person in the IRA. Although he was very much involved in the IRA, and implicated in many of its atrocities, it is almost certain many of those atrocities would have happened had he not been there. But he also was a prime mover in the peace process. ”
“Although he was responsible for many deaths, as leader of the IRA for such a long time, he also saved a lot of deaths (sic) by bringing about the peace process “.
“The only reason he’s not here tonight is he knew certain questions would come up. He has a nerve to complain about inadequate coverage for what he has been saying, his utterances. He had an opportunity, a platform, to be here with us tonight and he has declined it.”
VB is a very wise man.
Hope people don’t fall for all the negative campaigning against SF and see it for what it is. Join the rising, no to ff fg labour.
“The most alarming feature has been the ferocious campaign against Sinn Fein. The State has never witnessed such a biased agenda across all media organisations against a political party.”
Oliver Callan’s article today
Watersedge,
while we are both copy and pasting again….
Oliver Callan does satire. He is taking the mick about everybody out to get SF!
While you are mentioning the sun. Front page of the sun today:
“Top Provo arrested in Spain over alleged sexual assault of young girl”
Again Greg, read the article. It is not a Waterford Whispers piece. As for the man in that article, what do you want me to say? If the allegations are proved to be true, well he should be thrown in a jail cell and may he suffer for doing that to a child. The worst crime anyone can commit, but as usual you use abuse cases for political point scoring and try to link SF to this. That is like saying the case last week where Bill Kenneally who is related to three generations of Waterford TDs including former Fianna Fail TD Brendan Kenneally and who was jailed for abusing teenage boys is the fault of the FF party.
Indeed David, some people tend to forget that the peace process was to stop the bloodshed and violence perpetrated by the very group that he was the single most important member of.
Time to get off the fence and call it. Let’s go.
FG. 45
FF. 48
Lab. 9
SF. 23
SD. 4
Ren. 2
AAA. 3
Green 1
Others 23.
Well that’s my call.
Last opportunity for all the propagandists to pretend that they are going to form a government without serious compromises with other unpopular parties.
If Fine Fail get in they’ll scrap the water charges at least. God help us if its the shinners!
More cronyism – vote fg/lieb
More corruption – vote fg/lieb
More lies – vote fg/lieb
More homelessness – vote fg/lieb
More people on trolleys – vote fg/lieb
More property tax – vote fg/lieb
More water tax – vote fg/lieb
More austerity – vote fg/leb
More bullshit – vote fg/lieb
Derek please stop quoting facts the vermin dont like that and I mean the supporters of FG/Liebour
Remember, if there is to be a real shot at bringing about change in this country – say no to FF / FG / LABOUR / RENUA
Not one vote / Note one preference, if you’re not sure about how transfers etc work, here is a good article.
rank all candidates in order of preference. our vote was hard won we should use it properly
No marks beside any Fine Gael or labour in the ballot box.Dont even give them a 2nd 3rd preference.
I will fill up the voting paper and not go near any F.G. F.F. or Liebour candidate…
Remember Taoiseach, stablity, recovery, keep the recovery going, add some fear. Scare the voters. The ship could sink. FG will steer you clear. Watch out, only FG can save you. FG the party that will protect you. The country is in safe hands with FG.
Don’t worry about the homeless, they don’t vote. The people who count have private health insurance. It’s the people who have you need to look after. Don’t worry about the have nots.
Keep Franfurt happy. Remember Merkel is relying on you know. No more pats on the head if FG goes down. Don’t worry about Labour. Labour was your poultice.
Forget about the whingers. They have never had it so good.
I enjoy watching the arrogant, Fascist FG blueshirts now on their knees, begging for votes.
The real power lies in the hands of the people, – please vote out these lying, snivelling, bully-boy traitors….!!
Vote for other candidates, you don’t have to vote for the established parties…
A vote for FG is a vote for FF
Here is to the “Bandwagon Effect” the “Milgram experiment” and to the “Stanford prison experiment” and how the political parties used parts of them to fool the voters…
Time for both finefail and Fine Gael to say their goodbyes. Ireland needs change and only new people can end the cronyism 100 years of it. Please start the change people of Ireland vote anybody else but these two all I keep hearing is there’s nobody else but there is….. Anybody but these please
THE IRISH PEOPLE VOTE ON 26Th FEBRUARY 2016 ON FRIDAY
THIS IS THE REAL POLL RESULTS AS IT STANDS IN A SURVEY I DID WITH THREE OTHER FRIENDS TODAY , AS IT STANDS IN ORDER OF THE CONSTUTIENCY
SINN FEIN – 30 %
INDEPENDENTS – 29%
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT
AND AAA -26%
FINE GAEL – 10%
FIANNA FAIL 9%
LABOUR
RENUA 2%
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS 14%
GREEN PARTY 2%
OTHERS 0
I know who I am NOT voting for tomorrow.
NOT voting for Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour, Renua, Social Democrats, Green Party.
Who will get my vote, I will ultimately decide tomorrow!
This is what has happened since FG/Lab took the reins of this country. Politicial policing, gardai throwing women into metal bollards and on the ground during peaceful protests, property tax, water tax, giving revenue permission to raid your wages, social welfare and bank account. Cronyism, nepotism and an inept leader whose strings are being pulled by Germany and Brussels and at the same time is a wannabe dictator. I could go on, but as i see it anyone who votes for these clowns can expect another five years of hardship.
History will record Kenny as the man who had a golden chance to reform Irish politics and failed utterly. He just didn’t have the guts to go through with it. A coward.
Here is some information for those interested (Public Domain of course):
The letter for each TD when the Dáil was dissolved, you will note how it tells them to check the Guidelines document on Termination payments for years of service. (I gather many TDs will have looked at this for obvious reasons)
Doc on Dissolution: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/media/tdsandsenators/afterthedissolution/Summary-note-from-Clerk-to-Members-on-dissolution-2016.pdf
Then, in the Guidelines (amongst other information) is Page 4, outlining the termination arrangements.
Guidelines Doc:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/media/tdsandsenators/afterthedissolution/Dissolution-Guidelines.pdf
What I find incredible is this, (and we already know it), is on the Dissolution document, we have this:
“The Members Bar and Visitors Bar will generally operate as normal. Credit arrangements will be discontinued for TDs on dissolution. Members will be issued with a final statement and outstanding balances must be cleared within 30 days.”
Not just the fact of the bar in the workplace, but the bar in the workplace that passes legislation that affects you, me and everyone else, where it can be argued, that voting for Acts and Bills can be done under the influence of alcohol!
The final day of costed budgets, tax relief, reduced levys and Solomon promises has arrived. Now prepare yourself for five years of overspending, tax and levy rises with broken promises justified. The extinction of the Champagne socialist is apon us but our parish pump sleeveen politician will survive. Now is not the time to turn away but to help change this country by using your right to vote. It’s your time, your country and your future whatever you choose that is your right and it must be respected.
This governments policy is not to increase income tax, but what we will do is introduce a property tax and then we will introduce a water charge through the guillotine without debate in the Dail or inquiring of the ability to pay. OK so far, we will then increase prescription charges by 400% after that we will increase car tax and then abolish the phone and electricity allowence and we will then increase the enviromental tax on coal and briquettes what we can try then is take the medical cards we might get away with it, and then we will scrap the death grant you see that looks better than increasing income tax or the tax 12.5% we charge inward investment companies. Basically we can screw the elderly and those less fortunate in society.
the banner image with “Howlin, White & Joan” …. is that Graham Nortons couch?
I wonder did Joan make the scones ?
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