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AS THE VOTE counting continues, it’s becoming apparent that the Social Democrats are having a good day.
The party’s leader Holly Cairns, who gave birth to her first child yesterday, looks set to retain her seat in Cork South West, where a tally has her on 20%, behind Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins, who is on 23.5%.
More broadly, the Social Democrats look likely to keep incumbents Jennifer Whitmore, Gary Gannon and Cian O’Callaghan in their seats while it’s understood the party is hoping to break into double figures in the Dáil this time round. TDs Catherine Murphy and Róisín Shortall are not running for re-election.
An exit poll on first preference votes published not long after the polls closed at 10pm last night had the Social Democrats on 5.8% nationally.
Limerick councillor Elisa O’Donovan is in the running in the Limerick City constituency. Rory Hearne is also in contention for a Dáil seat in Dublin North West.
Sinéad Gibney, who failed to win a seat in the EU Parliament earlier this year, has said she is “thrilled” with the result so far after this morning’s tally showed her on 8.7% of the vote in Dublin Rathdown. However, it will be a close race for one of the four seats up for grabs.
In Cork East, councillor Liam Quaide is in a tight race with Sinn Féin’s Pat Buckley, behind Fianna Fáil’s James O’Connor and Fine Gael’s Mark Staunton.
One constituency to watch is the highly competitive Dublin Central constituency, where TD Gary Gannon is in the running on 13.2%, behind Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Fine Gael’s Paschal Donohoe. Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch is also in with a chance of being elected.
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First off….huge congratulations to Holly on yesterday’s ‘special delivery’— long life & happiness to Mother & Daughter.
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Today’s results looking better than expected for SD’s…..if they get get into double figures ( looking increasingly likely) they’ll very much become kingmakers….. interesting days ahead
@Frank Mc Carthy: Phoney posturing by a multi-ID troll who makes vile, misogynistic comments in his other profiles.
@Brendan O’Brien: jesus brenny …. . Just cause your hero’s in greenie party got a huge SMACKDOWN similar to kamila in the US election….. no point in flying off the handle at me….. its called DEMOCRACY……. taxing the working stiff within an inch of his life for more redundant cycle lanes simply wasn’t a good manifesto
@Brendan O’Brien: Nobody likes you.
@Frank Mc Carthy: Comments were closed yesterday on the article about Cairns giving birth because of the ones you had made as ‘Basildon Joe’.
You’re quite the sicko.
@Brendan O’Brien: liar…. I wished mother & daughter all the best…. why lie….I know you’re having a nightmare day of it…… the truth will ser you free
@Stephen: hahaha….. Is that really brenny????
@Stephen:
@jason dawson: haha good one.
@Frank Mc Carthy: He got that reported in lightening quick time hahahaha
@Stephen: doesn’t hang about does brenny
@Brendan O’Brien: Have you considered therapy, for you and your multiple personalities?
I’m delighted for the Social Democrats.
@Brendan O’Brien: yep, got my number 2, in an electoral sense
@Kevin Kerr: regrettably, no SD candidate in my constituency/ ballot paper…. But if there was they’d definitely get a high preference
The Social Democrats are just a polite version of PBP. They have the exact same far-left policies as them and are just as radical. It’s pretty disappointing that they got nearly 6% of the vote. Holly Cairns wants open borders, extreme wealth redistribution, nationalisation of certain industries, more wacky environmental policies, LGBT indoctrination in schools, big minimum wage hikes that are going to hurt businesses and she silenced and kicked out a candidate that was Jewish and supported Israel because her party loves Hamas. She’s not even a real farmer! She owns two acres of land and has no livestock whatsoever.
@Frank O’Hara: yawn
@offside again: You haven’t provided any sort of coherent rebuttal to the points that I made. Is that because you know I’m right?
The voting and then the horsetrading. Can’t wait for it all to be over.
Life will go on as usual but no matter who gets elected ; the western world will continue its downward trajectory.
Hope ye voted for someone who will slow it down or at least not speed it up
@offside again: why such / any negativity??Ireland beat Australia in rugby, the green party ( thankfully) more or less got eradicated, America voted overwhelming for peace & stability…….all in all I’d say it’s ALL GOOD
@Frank Mc Carthy: All is good ! Thanks for the laugh
Maybe it’s good, maybe it isn’t.
We’ll see
@offside again: At least you ended that with more pragmatism than when you began. No one’s going to find happiness for you, gotta do that yourself.
Has anyone else noticed. Ben Gilroy is on the ballot paper in Meath West and Fingal West. He’s been eliminated in both. It’s a bit odd, is it even allowed? He’ll have two sets of transfers being distributed in two constituencies
And if they go into gov with FG/FF they will be punished at the next election.
@AnthonyK: Depends, the Greens are gone because the made life more difficult for people in an already threadbare system, success is pretty simple in Theory.
@AnthonyK: yep the smallest party in coalition usually gets trounced.
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