The Irish

Who’s going to be the first to post a shot of voting nuns itt?

This changes everything. (via detective pals @eoinwilson and @ewanfromdublin).

A thread.

— Michael Pidgeon (@Pidge) May 24, 2018

vote long gone, they clean those registers up pretty fast. surprisingly so considering getting on in the first place involved filling out a for that had been photocopied to the point of illegibility and the process did not exactly suggest administrative efficiency

Lol at this (surprisingly educational) video!

Voters across the country will cast their ballot in #GE2020 using the Single Transferable Vote, with people able to rank their candidates in order of preference. @news2dayRTE enlisted the help of pupils at Glenbeg NS in Dungarvan to explain the system | https://t.co/Sz3eM8tLPm pic.twitter.com/KpoutPd2rG

— RTÉ News (@rtenews) February 7, 2020

I’m still on the register and I emigrated 11 years ago!

― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:17 (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I moved 10 and I was off it a year later

yer local td prob has a lot to do with it, ring is famous for managing the register around my home home

Because I'm a person of low moral character, there were until last year three things that were still sent to my mother's old place (and begrudgingly delivered the five minutes walk to where she lives now with my sister):

* Trinity Today, because alumni magazines will survive the death of the universe.
* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.
* Things related to me being on the electoral register, which is mostly voting cards but last October, when my sister gave me a few years' worth of stuff at once, a jury duty notice for later that month!

They're very clear that you have to return the form with whatever you're pleading and any supporting information, and when I rang to ask what I should put, they said "Just put that you don't live in Ireland any more". This seemed too easy, so I later checked that at least I'd be taken off the electoral register and they said no, but we'll put you through now, and the next one said yes that'll be done, no we won't email you a receipt or anything.

My voting card arrived a few weeks ago, I'm told.

* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.

the student account set up the thursday before first classes to get all the clobber, hah?

i remember aib being allowed into my primary school to sign us all up for accounts with £1 in them

I think I got removed when I explained why I couldn't turn up in Bray for jury duty.

Last year BOI cottoned on to the fact that I might not be a student *checks notes* 19 years after I started university.

I also have an account with €0.01 in it, but I feel like I heard they charge you money to close them, so fuck that.

Yesssss
https://img.rasset.ie/0013912e-614.jpg?ratio=1.78

The first voting nuns of #GE20 https://t.co/AFFn21sBTx pic.twitter.com/rxist2EfLJ

— broadsheet_ie (@broadsheet_ie) February 8, 2020

thank god, i was afrit

SF didn't run enough candidates

Irish politics discussion thread

Irish men the 'undisputed ugliest' in the world, according to dating website for 'beautiful people'https://t.co/sWt3Avya0D

— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) February 16, 2020

A new poll by picky international dating site beautifulpeople.com has seen Irish males slip to the foot of a table of the world’s most attractive nationalities.

Just six per cent of Irish single men who applied to land their profiles on the elite Los Angeles-based site were successful - less than any other nationality, and officially Ireland’s worst-ever result in the site’s annual nation-by-nation ‘beauty charts’.

In contrast Ireland’s women have climbed up the table to sixth overall in the world - their highest-ever ranking and tied with France, with an impressive 35 percent acceptance rate.

Further analysis of Ireland’s data - which is taken from statistics from the island of Ireland as a whole - reveals Dublin to be home to the “most attractive” inhabitants, followed by Cork, Galway and then Belfast. However, romance-hunters from Limerick were most likely to be rejected.

Come on though, you're top at something.

I think you’ll see the women aren’t included in that? 😶

The men have written their name in the history books though.

cant be denied, taken as bunch the rural fellas are still carrying a lot of the impacts of generational famine-traceable poverty

and we dont rly have the climate to work on the beach bod or tan

hairlines ate an issue an all

just as well we have the charm

have we a government yet

just a civil service, itll be ok

Previous ministers stay in post till a new government forms so, yes.

Idk why you thought I didn’t know this.

xp we’re in safe hands with ye running the place anyway.

*spends entire morning trying to compose a topical limerick that doesn't mis-stress the word "limerick" *

Correct pronunciation is two syllables, fyi

depends on whether you need to rhyme with mrick for the county or boyyyyyyyy for the cidddyyyy tbh

It’s pronounced “biy”.

*morning becomes longer*

its pronounced langer

Dáil is trying to pick a Taoiseach, will I be fucked watching the whole thing? Depends how delayed this train is. Anyway, here’s the link.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/cR7I43R3LTI4ODE2MzM4MTV8MXlOeGFReWFQbGd4at4X_ZE1eK-ehsBsOoH3XdQmmmHhCsuI4skHSWv1w5cn

Is it in order for TDs to address the chamber in Irish, how many of them do/can

its in order, id say more do than can tbh

game of them

lol

lol

Trying to think how long it’s been since we had a Taoiseach who actually had Gaeilge? Is Michael D the nearest thing we have atm? Not that my spoken Irish is anything to brag about either (my worst LC subject!)

id be surprised

oh fuck

i was about to say michéal jesus

sorry michéal

What? I’m on a train with intermittent signal, pls take pity on me

bruton would v likely have had learned gaeilge i shouldve thought

gyac id literally half typed michéal martin prob has it and i remembered oof yes but never been taoiseach has he

v hard to say had enda it. id say he did maybe, hid a lot of light under a bushel did enda tbh

I thought MM would too with the name and being from cork like but no apparently not?

i didnt do Irish from christmas 5th year on, after dropping to pass

chafed on me, the mandatory aspect, well, everything about gaeilge chafes on me except the gaeilge itself tbh

Lol I thought the prick had been elected somehow there don’t scare me please

hmm

id say mm, ek would speak it better than a lot who speak it badly and claim fluency, dye get me

mechawl will be taoiseach sooner than later, as well to brace for it

Only man ever to be Taoiseach to save face

What manner of humiliation will he put up with for the Wikipedia category? We can only watch and hope

it's gonna be the tradeoff equivalent of when the greens agreed to the bank guarantee in return for closing three mink farms in donegal

anyway its been a busy week at work and a quiet week in politics, but rest assured i wouldnt let ye miss anything

fg have stayed very firm, have actually stepped up direct attacks on sf in order to leave ff the pressured candidate

sf candidates, actually under the eye of the media that were happy just to lol cordite the party during the campaign, starting to look a bit dodge

ff, the longer theyre left, are starting to develop collective nervous tics

the second captains podcast on the immediate aftermath was exceptional btw, it asked pretty much everything i wanted to hear asked and most of the answers left me better informed or thinking a little differently

Best electoral system in the woreld.