Ireland Votes Galway Advertiser Smart. It makes sense. It also makes sense for an electoral pact between Independent Ireland and Aontú in Galway West. If Aontú had transferred even 50% of their roughly 2% vote in Galway West in 2024, Cllr Noel Thomas (Independent Ireland) likely takes the final seat instead of

Elaine Mullally ☘️ It will only reduce our democratic representation and make the existing TDs stronger, to save maybe 2 million euros a year. Like 0.001% of the national budget. Anyway we're not in any means an outlier in our MP representation per capita, this is a myth. McDowell is a snake in the

Completely agree. Currently a seat cap will only rapidly draw seats from rural Ireland as Dublin's population inevitably grows faster than that of rural counties.

Very well-written letter by Sandra Adams in today’s I.Times. The reason why Irish schools aren’t secularising at pace is because many parents want a ‘Catholic ethos’. Fintan O’Toole also admits this in his (admirable) book on united Ireland (with S.McBride).

Hoax poll unfortunately I was caught too. No results from Vote HQ on Dublin Grok wrong as usual.

NEW POLL FROM IRELAND'S MOST ACCURATE POLLSTER RED C The Fianna Fáil number is just astonishing! It's hard to see Martin holding on for much longer. For context, Fianna Fáil's worst ever result was 17.4% in 2011. Ireland had 14.7% unemployment, and the highest emigration rate

IS THE EUROPEAN "FAR RIGHT" REALLY FAR RIGHT? -ANALYSIS The term "far right" is doing too much here. There is far more that divides the parties discussed above than unites them in any meaningful sense. Firstly, Meloni is about as far right as Bertie Ahearn's Fianna Fáil, and is

if Aontú combined with Independent Ireland's voteshare they would win 23 sets

The obvious government here is a Sinn Féin lead government with Fianna Fáil. Also this accounts sucks

There has been seismic, enormous and monumental changes really 2016 General Election Result: ----- FG 50 seats: 25.5% FF 44 seats: 24.3% SF 23 seats, 13.8% LAB 6.6%, 7 seats PBP 3.9%, 6 seats Independents4Change 3.9%, 6 seats SocDems 3%, 3 seats Green Party 2.7%, 2 seats RENUA,

Up six points since the General Election. More than any other party in the country. 6 points ahead of Fine Gael. A whopping 8 points ahead of Fianna Fáil, but Daniel Murray from the Business Post says Sinn Féin is in trouble. Irish media, folks 😂

I mean, his dad/ grandad/ uncle is probably a councillor/ TD in FF, like every other Fianna Fáil candidate chosen since time immemorial. Fianna Fáil is hardly a meritocracy, the young man could be wanted by the Hague and get the nomimation if he had the right connections