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IT HAS BEEN confirmed that the local and European elections will take place on Friday 7 June.
The Limerick Mayoral election will also take place that day.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar confirmed the date to reporters today while in Washington after he was asked when the next general election will be held.
In response, Varadkar said:
“No time soon anyway. The next elections will be the local and European elections and Limerick Mayor election on the seventh of June.”
The Taoiseach added that there is no date in mind for the general election yet.
The latest the next general election could be held is March 2025.
With reporting from Political Editor Christina Finn who will be in the US throughout the week for the Taoiseach’s visit. Follow @thejournal_ie and @christinafinn8 for all the latest.
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I’m not surprised he’s hoping to drag out the general election, the spoofers will be decimated in it, it can’t come soon enough.
@Richard Brady: Don’t forget to vote against the EU patent referendum on the same day.
Why make things easy for them, when they have nothing but disdain for us?
@Staker Wallace: 17 EU countries already signed up to it. Wouldn’t it be simply dreadful for Leo & co (the best little bootlickers in the EU) if we rejected it?
Can’t wait!
@Staker Wallace: grow the fk up.
@Ian: Find a bin and get in, as you sez yourself.
Want a change for sure, wont vote for any of the main parties, after the referendum they have lost me.
Who else is there to vote for then if you rule out everyone? A large amount still support FFG.
@9QRixo8H:
@9QRixo8H: Well the obvious decision is to vote the current government parties out. Fine Gael are in power since 2010, almost 15 years and the country has gone down the swanny and their biggest failure has been housing which they allowed to grow to crisis levels. Fifteen years in power is also something that may sway people to vote against FG as they are the same old stale faces stuck in “old Ireland”. Fianna Fail are proven liars, as evidenced by their contrived attack on FG’s stint in government prior to 2020 whereby they accused FG of failing the people of Ireland with regard to housing yet after the election they formed a coalition with a party they said could not be trusted (I know the hypocrisy ! )
The Greens like similar small parties from the past who propped up larger party’s in government are pretty impotent and will receive plenty of ridicule by FFG diehards right up to the GE.
So we either stand by idly and re-elect FF/FG/G who have failed utterly or give the main opposition a chance to prove if they can Govern this country better than whats there already.
Its the only way we’ll find out and a break for 5 to 10 years in opposition will do wonders for putting manners on FF/FG.
@9QRixo8H:
@9QRixo8H: Independents all the way. Party people are loyal to the party only and not the people
@Michael Dineen: What do Inds do other than get paid to be in opposition? They can never govern
@9QRixo8H: not after shambles of referendums.
@9QRixo8H: Like anyone would listen to you .. lol. You’re condescending views and predictions for the referendum were as far off as you could get. Anyone voting NO was a ‘Paisleyite’. You’re about as in touch with this country as the government.
. Back in your box ..
@9QRixo8H: independent Ireland party,aontu,michael mcdowell’s new party
Daly and Wallace are the CV only two MEPs who constantly question the EU . The FFG brigade are nothing but yes men .
The mere fact that someone called honey badger or stoat is giving out about them speaks volumes for the good that they try to do .
Be careful who you vote got .. look around you at the state of Ireland . Tent cities .. knife fights with over 20 immigrants taking part in talbot st yesterday , a recent beheading and according to the CSO rape statistics have nearly doubled .
Us Irish deserve better than what FFG have lumbered us with .
FFG have also left us with one of the highest debt per capita in the world .. yes the world
none of them are welcome near me or my family.
Vote independent and antou.
It will put some manners on other parties and may force some changes regarding, housing, illegal/welfare immigration,disability rights,insane hate speech law ,deportations, hospital waiting lists ,woke agenda, the list goes on …
It’s worth a try . OR we can just keep voting for the same and not get any change .
No thank you.
#Under Aontu’s eye, praise be Offred Tobin!
@9QRixo8H: Better than what you’d call a government that we have now, they all got their answer last week and it’s a NO NO, time for big changes enough is enough.
@silvery moon: the Handmaid’s Party?
@Deadman Walking: Aontu would hand the country back to the Cathlic Church, No thanks to that again. They were a bloody disgrace during the referendums.
So in these local and European Elections will we see the momentum from the reference by the public giving the government another defeat at the ballet box on June 7th… or will we see the same old same with a few changes here and there… in which a GE that will held by the end of October after a give away budget.
@Paul Maguire: Definitely another defeat.
SF did do badly last time it’s impossible for them not to advance.
It’s more a question of how big a defeat.
Wallace, Daly, & MacManus out. Three embarrassments.
@honey badger:
MacManus?
@P. J.: Yes, Chris MacManus. Sinn Feins parachuted in replacement for Matt.Carty. He has a proud record of abstaining on, and voting against, motions critical of Putin/Russias murderous invasion of Ukraine.
He has no mandate. He failed to get elected at the 2016 GE. He has gone from beimg an anonymous councillor to representing 1.25 million people. Who does he think he represents? I assume he is following party instructions.
Vote for your favourite Independents. Get rid of party politicians.
Remember people do not vote for the liers and we have now in government, all out canvassing telling people they voted NO NO in the referendums last week trying to save their skins. Do not vote give any FF FG SF G VOTES
Majority want a change but really what’s the alternative.
FF/FG are stale and only die hards want them in.
SF hard to trust to not put the economy back 20 years.
Greens have lost the plot.
After that, all the other parties are too small and will only have coelation assparaisions so back to more of the same in a different mix I fear.
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .:
Would that be SF to put the economy back to when Ireland was bankrupted by FF and the IMF was required to run the country, which was bailed out to the tune of €67 billion. OK then
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .: That’s it in a nutshell,the dilemma were in,the current lot have failed miserably,and the alternative in my opinion will do no better.
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .: independents would keep sf straight in a new government. Beats feeding the same bunch of wasters who keep proving themselves as incapable and untrustworthy at every hands turn.
@Mike 100: @Mike 100: Independents might or might not keep any party straight.
But experience would show they do not.
Michael Lowry?
Neil Blaney?
Jackie Healy-Rae?
Mattie McGrath?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Whereas Tony Gregory Independent TD had Charles Haughey in the palms of his hands in the 1980′s and used that power to help his constituents in Dublin City. The four above you mentioned were only out for themselves.
@Frank Cauldhame: Yes.
Tony did a great job for his constituents.
But kept a crook in office.
To the detriment of the country as a whole.
He did a great job for his constituents.
But he did not keep Fianna Fail in line – i.e. honest – which was the claim made.
@Mike 100: in that case vote for independents.
@a million ,really ! country is gone mad .: Independents all the way. Party people are loyal to the party only and not the people
I don’t know who to vote for, we have no government and no opposition, so you see, my friends, I am up a gum tree, without a paddle
Sinn Fein have endorsed their own childishness by now moaning that scarves gifted for St Patrick’s Day contained New Zealand wool. And this is the party that so many want to be the next Government
@Ian McDonald: Bad enough that it was 40% NZ sheep wool, but they didn’t even check the religion of the sheep! As if sheep have passports now.
@F Fitzgerald: ah that’s just maaaad
@Roy Dowling: You have no idea how many civilians have been killed by Russia in Ukraine.
In Mariupol alone, Ukrainian officials say up to 25,000 are thought to have been killed.
For some reason, Ukrainian figures are not accepted as legitimate but the Hamas run health ministry in Gaza are.
get ready for a second slap lads
There’s a petition calling for a general election, should all be held at the same time.
@wolfhound dubh: link me to that vote against Russia. I can’t find it.
@Wolfhound Dubh: Yes you can. Delete the www. on the link. I can copy and paste from there. Thanks.
@wolfhound dubh: Do you support their continous abstaining and rejection of motions against Putin/Russias invasion of Ukraine? If so why?
@Roy Dowling: @Roy Dowling: Well, we don’t yet know of the countless thousands russia murdered in Mariupol alone.
And we might never know.
There will be a lot of mass graves to be excavated after russia has been driven out of Ukraine.
That is not to say that Israel’s crimes against humanity are not to be condemned equally.
@Wolfhound Dubh: The estimates for the dead of Mariupol start at 10,000.
And that is just one city.
I could post partial links long before i was allowed to post actual links. You’ll find a way. I did a basic Google search and found nothing. Copy and paste direct text from this article you’ve described and I’ll look again.
@Roy Dowling: “Yet you applaud Israel for its slaughter”
You’re another one at this gibberish. I’ve asked several of your ilk to provide evidence of this applauding I’ve been doing.
So far not one of you have been able to substantiate this nonsense.
I doubt you’ll be any different. Why? It’s something I’ve never done. Stop lying. It’s silly.
@honey badger: So, you condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza?
@Wolfhound Dubh: That text is from 2022. Now, head off there and look at his voting since. See what the “party supports sanctions” actually translates to.
I dont make things up.
@Wolfhound dubh: Yes, for some reason I often can’t reply directly to comments.
While you’re here can you explain this:
Two days ago, the European Parliament adopted new rules on criminalising the violation & circumvention of EU sanctions. You probably didnt realise that Flanagan, Daly, Wallace, and Sinn Feins MacManus all voted against EU and Irelands interests & again with Russian interests when it was voted on.
Your thoughts would be welcome.
@honey badger: On February 27th, Sinn Feins Chris MacManus, Daly and Wallace all voted in the European Parliament against giving aid to the Ukraine.
Once again, they voted in Russias interests, not the EUs.
Why?
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