have asked before, but is anyone aware of a site/resource that records td voting records.
Given that it's their actual function, it's really a hugely underreported aspect of their activities.
Course, party politics renders each vote in the dail pretty irrelevant anyway.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck, i meant to ask where do the fine gael ppl live, obv the ff ppl are everywhere like nitrogen or dogs
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
fine gael live around the ffailers, but in smaller houses and are envious of their good teeth
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
cant vote
― plax (ico), Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
THE PILL, I ASK YA. THE FECKIN PILL MIND
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
not all bad news on the economy front. hopefully a bit more of this in the next 12 months, tho a lot depends on how the new govt handle the property/mortgages question
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0217/breaking27.html
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 February 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04eYfYVedW6Wg/610x.jpg
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 21 February 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
soooo
how ye votin ye cute hoors
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda surprised to hear i have no right to vote...i guess a line would have to be drawn with ex pats somewhere but plenty people of my age might want to vote based on their chances of ever being able to live in ireland again or bring up kids there.
but sorry, that's a tangent...
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
is it feck a tangent, it's a fuckin disgrace tbh
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
disenfranchise those that are gone abroad, disenfranchise a significant proportion of those that are here so that they have to go abroad, what's the fuckin point/benefit of that?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i had thought people coming home to vote was a thing...has this always been the case? seems a bit fucking dense, as i say, i don't even know if i'd ever want to live back home except during all this at some point the thought struck me "fuck if i have kids the current state of ireland means it's massively unlikely they'll grow up in ireland," and despite the fact i take the piss out of the country i suppose i had some notion that i might be able to go back.
that plus, paid taxes there for 7/8 years.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF
http://www.finegael2011.com/game/
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
when are we gonna be able to vote with an internet password?
when that happens, we'll be able to bypass these killinascully motherfuckers altogether
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
lol wtf is that
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
what are they thinking...
lost my third life trying to jump joan burton btw
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
her nasal siren song saw me crash against the rocks of her craggy oratory
THA PEKKKKKKPLE OF DIIIIIIIIS CCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOUUUNTTTTTRYYYYYYYYYY
jesus.
i found some site that takes your answers to a couple stock questions and tells you what party you're closest in policy too. i am 'hardcore labour', but she terrifies me as part of any potential govt.
was also 'strongly sf' fwiw. news to me, prob based on a fiersh opposition to the IMF deal.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i fucking can't stand her. she can't speak, it really offends me when politicians are crap speakers. her post budget speech was horrendous, reading awful "jibes" off notes and pausing midway through in befuddlement at her own lines.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
can only see her and ring scrapping it out for a social protection sub-ministry, tho i've a feeling that labour be looking for er to get a decent front bench position
labour's best performers really are quinn and rabbitte though, gilmore and burton always strike me as the league cup front two while the two stars watch from the sidelines, hoping they don't have to come on to recover a fuckup at halftime
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
loking more and more likely that FG get 4/5 in mayo, btw, tho it seems to me that the last seat could go any way really. FG (Mulherin)/IND (Kilcoyne)/LAB (Cowley) and maybe even the SF lead candidate (Conway-Walsh) could surprise on transfers.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yah p much all my friends have left by now and are royally pissed off to realise that they have no vote anywhere now
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dont worry they'll get their own david mcfuckingwilliams subcategory out of it sher
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
great
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how people are surprised to discover that you cannot vote if you are not resident in Ireland. It brings me back to the early 1990s when people were always going on about this. Next thing we will be having Larks in the Park and having remakes of the Commitments.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Who's on for Feile?
I happened to be home for the last election, didn't really consider it this time though.
― Pisle of dogs (seandalai), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
we'll soon be back to the three bed semi for forty grand too, fwiw
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
strong zing
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0223/breaking36.html
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone willing to predict a result? Consensus seems to be FG not quite at a majority, but as in the last UK election it all depends on how close they can get. I expect the FF vote to be higher than the polls suggest.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Friday, 25 February 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Everyone is suspecting that the FF vote will be higher than polls suggest, but I have started wondering if this is just because people cannot get their heads around the idea of a once dominant party being completely flattened.
for what its worth I elsewhere posted this prediction yesterday*: http://westerneyes.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22#p207 I am starting to think that FG will get more and FF less, but only because one of my brainy election obsessed friends has said so.
*note subtle plug for new internet message board
― The New Dirty Vicar, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
If Ming the Merciless does indeed get elected I'll laugh heartily.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
maniacally would be more appropriate.
I'm in agreement abt FF- I've the gut feeling they'll be higher than all evidence suggests. But to estimate seats, impossible really.
Hoping FG need LAB. I think it's the likeliest outcome.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Friday, 25 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Also think FG/LAB is most likely but I think on balance I would actually prefer FG-only (with or without gene pool independents).
Don't think Labour in govt will make any significant difference in terms of policy - it's CON/DEM all over again except without so many clear manifesto promises to renege on (although mind you I'd put money on a reversal of the minimum wage cut as a pre-condition for Labour entering govt.) Plus Labour would be the biggest party in opposition and for the 1st time ever we'd have something like a right/left split in the Dail.
PLUS, presumably the next govt is going to oversee swingeing cuts, continued recession and eventual default on the deal and consequent humiliation. Why not let FG take those hits?
Ain't gonna happen but I'm just musing here.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
d'you know, if we look at it from the point of view of who'll actually do what after the election, there's nothin to look fwd to in any outcome. As well to let ff stay in power, except that their priority continues to be the protection of the failed investor classes.
Sf getting in and vetoing the imf deal is the only vaguely interesting, if purely theoretical, govt manifesto.
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
xp - It's not quite CON/DEM redux in the sense that Labour are to the left of the Lib Dem leadership and presumably wouldn't be so happy to go along with FG's austerity mania.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure that austerity is negotiable, given the parameters.
Lucinda creighton, eh?
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yah seems like labour as strong opposition leaders could really establish themselves instead of just being fgs scapegoats for a couple years
― plax (ico), Saturday, 26 February 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Exit poll:
According to the poll, Fine Gael is on 36.1 per cent, Labour is on 20.5 per cent, Fianna Fáil has slumped to 15.1 per cent, Sinn Féin is on 10.1 per cent, the Green Party were on 2.7 per cent and Independents and Others were on 15.5 per cent. The poll of 3,500 voters was carried out yesterday. The margin of error was 2.5 per cent.
Looks like FG/Lab coalition is the outcome.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Saturday, 26 February 2011 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Twitter is really struggling with this...
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Saturday, 26 February 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Ming is going to be elected!
Some classic posters from his pre-makeover heyday:
http://www.roscommonhistory.ie/Misc/PoliticalEphemera/mingflanagan/posters/ming12.jpg
http://www.roscommonhistory.ie/Misc/PoliticalEphemera/mingflanagan/posters/ming06.jpg
http://www.roscommonhistory.ie/Misc/PoliticalEphemera/mingflanagan/posters/mingposters.htm
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Saturday, 26 February 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
A great political dynasty:
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6180/dv2ki.jpg
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Sunday, 27 February 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
God bless all here
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
A grand night
A grand night indeed
fucking hell...ming.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
The partiless
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Monday, 28 February 2011 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Are you now laughing in an evil and maniacal way?
― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 28 February 2011 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yes.
In case anyone has an hour or two to spare, a documentary on the great man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADUUDjbqu3M
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 28 February 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
lol recounts...good to see my home county of Wicklow getting in on the game.
― oigwheoiqng4g (seandalai), Monday, 28 February 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
dick roche isnt bitter
― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link