Irish politics discussion thread

xp when I was searching for that tweet I found that Craig Murray does have a take on it lol

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For Our Future

Idgi

implication of resemblance but idk

is this fuckdog in with a chance or is it internet idiotics

hope no gombeen man gets elected uachtarán

how do folk rate higgins? seems alright to me whenever I've heard him speak or read anything by him, likes dogs.

I don't know what he's like but I have often brought him up as an example when people say, "And if you got rid of the Royal Family and replaced the Queen with a President, you might end up with President Tony Blair, how would you like that?"

hes great, first do no harm and then otherwise nice soft left intelligentsia also dogs

first twitter reports sez huggins round 1 and c.70% to repeal blasphemy

Yeah I saw that, 20% of first prefs is a poor showing for the prick but then again low turnout plus a fair number of the country are pricks so

Is there any way he could win on 2nd prefs, pls forgive my ignorance, I got a C in CSPE.

Michael D wins automatically if he clears 50.00001

Obviously we’ll always have been denied THE REAL CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE, the Blair/McCann truther.

Me and my friends have been working on a list of things that remind us of the boom, and another of things that remind us of those eary recession years. You can have it if you like: pic.twitter.com/NmzbgruGA7

— bat simons 🦇 (@rat_simons_) October 26, 2018

ah low turnout and mdh assured a win, and everyone else had an actual shocker. casey just the beneficiary of a safe protest vote imo

for all the talk of a jump from 1% to 20%, the winning margin is fucking huge.

no matter who came second it would be painted as a warning to the establishment by the vested interests.

i was gonna get involved on boards but fuck the spinning losers and their triumph over casey. its just nice to win and breathe again

Yeah it is. Laughed at reading some twitter cunts saying Peter Casey’s % meant the country was living in a left wing bubble - which meant ignoring the really left wing politician who actually won it.

It was a pretty boring campaign for the most part. Very amused that Sean G got a fraction of what he polled last time.

"ye'll have to listen to us now!"

1/5 of ppl to everyone else

delighted for sean long life to him and the same kicking every sevenyear sez i

anyway i voted duffy

no biters ara fuck ye

ooof

hitch trial collapse is gonna cause waves

The Irish Times article seems to go as far towards saying "this is corrupt as fuck" as they legally can.

Members of the Byrne family stood up and called the situation “disgraceful” and a “farce”. They said there was “no justice in Ireland” and claimed that gardaí could not “solve this case but could solve all the others”

This is actually touching faith in the Gardaí!

ive a mate, referenced itt iirc, and he worked in an oversight (insofar as allowed) capacity over the nnghardaí and its the only item he ever gave me the pokerface on

this sounds dodgy as.

gombeen men afoot

i cant tease out whether they're covering corruption (general or on behalf of either faction) or incompetence (trial apparently majorly compromised due to basic procedural errors) but theyre blatantly covering

cant ask anything about a 'tragic death' im afraid. case closed.

gubu

get that right up ya dob u cunt

we'll talk about it in here so i spose

the statement by SoS for NI made to the house of commons yesterday is not just a resigning matter but should be an international scandal the scale of which should see ambassadors, foreign ministers and idk any human rights, justice or military union either country is involved in involved and investigating as a priority

its not as important as internal labour party intrigue obv but hey this is probably a good reminder that yknow countries really should rule themselves

Cmon deems I did bump The Irish!

But yeah it’s a complete disgrace. I was reading some of the Ballymurphy stuff yesterday and nearly in tears overvit.

sorry ive been off ilx today, my mistake.

new statesman cover is choice

It surely is a thing that exists. NS besides S Bush is largely shite anyway but between this cover & the Guardian cover, supposed liberal UK doesn’t give a fuck about us either.

Enjoyed seeing the shadow defence secretary having to row back yesterday.

What’s the coverage like at home?

about what specifically? brexit is off from what i can tell

The statute of limitations stuff

tbh ive not seen a lot on it rly

well now

dont particularly feel like johnson is capable of actually maintaining a run but rly its no matter itll be some bad cunt in charge of dictating terms to us between now and October.

Think literally all the candidates are either extremely bad or awful on the Irish question, but they’re not going to be any better than May at handling it so

ok irish ppl

the journal says if you hate a candidate, put nothing against them

i think you start with ranking those you like in order of preference, and once youve exhausted your positive energy (happens quite quickly) then take the list and starting from bottom put the lowest available preference against the fucker you most want to block, then iterate up. that way you express a preference at every possible transfer that might come up.

which is right

You're right, but some of those transfers won't be all that likely - though it fills up your negative energy for the rest of the day!

its fuckin killin me to put a number against fully two thirds of em but anything that keeps ben and the prolifers and irexit crew bottom must be done

deems I have it on excellent authority that my family (well those of us with the vote in Ireland) are voting for yr cousin & my parents would never have voted green in their lives

she is coming across v well and look we're a solid bunch on the island what can I say

God’s own country, apart from the time I capsized a kayak there.

allah's own country https://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/misread-achill-celtic-supporters-flag-causes-quite-a-stir-after-being-mistaken-for-islamic-banner-334820

ye forget nothing

Iran, Iraq, Ireland...

bernie has stated he will fight any planned invasion of ta'allah

locals wont be very clear til tomorrows figures start comin in but in europe greens look well ahead of expectations

A functional foreigner asks - have the Greens leveraged a connection with the larger movements / awareness elsewhere, or have the people who declared they'd never vote for those arseholes again cycled through all the other arseholes?

col a col b

think theres some good young voices across the board, but the ones coming through the big parties were noticeably weak and anodyne in contrast.

whether the indies or smaller party talent can work out a way of functioning effectively enough to impact how a GE goes or whether theyre just trying to get invited into the tent will make for an interesting watch

do think climate and housing/planning/transport policy are the big topics on the ground for the euros/locals so the green surge probably reflects that rather than being all protest.