Are the votes from the Islands counted yet ?
I don't think so
Wel, best of British to all the candidates and may the best men win!
I would be very surprised if Mary Lou McDonald was not elected in Dublin Central
Don't be! That's a very competitive constituency. Still, she has a good chance.
Just heading out to vote now. I am a nerd about these things, I absolutely love voting, far more than is normal!
"Just heading out to vote now. I am a nerd about these things, I absolutely love voting, far more than is normal!"
It's the first time I'll vote in the south so I'm all excited too. So much choice! Up home its just SF or the SDLP to choose from.
You voting in Dublin, Reg?
There is a fair choice although I only put three preferences down. No point giving votes to candidates I don't like...
JG
We have thrown the kitchen sink at Dublin Central, If Mary Lou doen't win a seat it's a poor reflection on us.
I think she will win a seat
Reg and JG
As long as Sinn Féin gets the No 1 you are both assured a place in heaven 
Ah yeah, Chris. I think she will get in too. Particularly after Nicky Keogh getting shafted!!
SF didn't get my number one! There are two Shinners in Dublin South, neither with any chance of winning a seat. I voted Green (number one) and Labour (number two). A combination of belief and strategy! I don't want FF back in under ANY circumstances.
Ah yeah, Chris. I think she will get in too. Particularly after Nicky Keogh getting shafted!!
Perhaps I am having a blonde moment but I can't understand your tone here. Could you elaborate please?
In relation to Dublin South, any idea what possessed us to run two candidates?
JG,
Aye, I'm voting in Dublin South East.
I'm not voting for the Stickie-Blueshirt axis of evil (even though Ruairi Quinn is impressive) and I'm certainly not voting for McDowell so that just leaves FF (2), SF, the Greens and some tree-hugger lad.
I'll probably vote FF 1-2. I might give Daithi Doolan a vote as well just to piss off Independent Newspapers!
JG
You voting Green to add a bit of colour to your grey personality? 
*runs like fuck*
*sneaks back*
Reg gave SF his third vote JG, you never said what you did with yours. I mean I realise that you wasted your first two trying to be coool
*zoooooooom*
Chris,
Could you elaborate please?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's just that Nicky only missed out on being elected by something like 50 votes last time out. He would have been the obvious choice, living and working in the area his whole life etc. But then suddenly the middle class girl from Dundrum gets "parachuted" in! I'd be pissed off if I was Nicky.
In relation to Dublin South, any idea what possessed us to run two candidates?
None whatever. I was actually going to ask you the same thing! There's a girl called Sorcha NíCormaic and a guy called Séan Tracey. Ever heard of them?
Tony,
I gave SF my third vote too. It's really a matter of stategy. If I lived in Dublin Central I'd probably vote for SF but in Dublin South there doesn't seem much point.
I mean I realise that you wasted your first two trying to be coool
LOL! Am I out of the gang?!
Kerry South looks ok!!
http://www.sinnfeingeneralelecti...com/en/photo/
82
Not in the same league as Martina!
Wasn't Mary Lou a convert from the Blueshirts ?
I'll probably vote FF 1-2.
Good man Reg
MR,
I thought she was from a FF background. Can't say for certain though.
MR,
She was in FF before!
MR,
Why do you approve of Reg voting FF so much?
FF ? That's even worse !
Julius - because FF is what SF will morph into within a couple of generations.
You may well be right, MR. Do you think FF represent safe republicanism?
There's a number of reasons Julius.
SF 21st Century have gone further than de Valera did when he left the party.
SF now have their noses in the parliamentary trough - and that has them hooked.
IRA Criminality is likely to cause the sunderng of the ties to physical force republicanism - at some point SF will have to choose between supporting the remnants of the IRA or staying parliamentary. With the lure of parliamentary power and the parliamentary trough it should be no contest. Look at where we stand in respect of policing in NI - signed up.
Ok, there was some bluster at the arrest of Arthurs, but really remarkably little fuss - in the past rent-a-mob would have on the streets.
I thought you weren't in favour of "terrorists in government" (lol) as DV would phrase it...
As you know politics is complex !
And in one generation the terrorists in SF will be yesterday's men - it will be people like Chris with clean hands who have the wheel.
How do you know Chris has clean hands? LOL!
He said so - and I believe him!
Naive or what ?
Ahem... care to answer my question (above), MR?
I did - Chris told me!
Eh, hello, it's me here - JG!!!
I thought you weren't in favour of "terrorists in government" (lol) as DV would phrase it...
Chris told you?
Doh! You asked another question after
I thought you weren't in favour of "terrorists in government" (lol) as DV would phrase it...
You should have been more specific!
As regards this specific - I gave you a answer - "Politics is Complex".
There's no contradiction between my belief that there's no place in Government for Terrorists - Ferris, Kelly, McGuinness, Murphy etc and the thought that in a couple of generations when SF have clean hands they should have either morphed into a version of FF or even have united with FF.
"Good man Reg"
Crikey! That can't be good.
On the other hand, MR favouring a vote for a republican party may show he's finally coming round!
Reg - I favour a Federal European socialist republic FF aren't really "Irish Republicans" in the proper sense. Would that my Government had been as firm with the IRA as thay have in the past!!!
MR,
Doh, you posted under a different name and I didn't know it was the same person!
Night John boy!
And I thought the Phantom AKA 'Max' had it bad.
"LOL! Am I out of the gang?!"
Only if yoy voted Stick at both polling stations
Personally I have zero confidence that a pedant who keeps the company of utter bigots does anything other than play with republicans here and laugh at you back home (in the comfort of his "impregnable" Coleraine home,on ATW. You need to think your concept of *gombeen*
Too late to influence voting for SF:
I would also like to draw attention to David Vance's defence of his site (A Tangled Web) defending contemptuous remarks about the death (gored by a bull) of a SF councillor on the same day his own father died. When I asked him to condemn the contempt displayed to the councillor and his family, David accused me of being *mentally ill* He seems fit, nonetheless of being considered as a reasonable (not mentally ill) person twhose views should be sought on moral isues, including global warming, on the BBC. I wonder on values, sometimes...
If SF get 15 seats, fair play to them.
Jo/Jacqui/Sean - have you always been hysterical ?
MR - don't forget the harlot posts under thae name 'I wonder' as well!
exit poll - Bertie returns - and most interesting - SF only gain 1 percent to 7.3 !
http://breaking.tcm.ie/ireland/m...d/mhkfcwkfcwmh/
Ha ha!
SF Advance? Don't think so! Word has reached my ears that Ferris is in trouble in Kerry North. Joy!
Chris
Sorry for the gloating. But I just couldn't resist it.
Tumbleweed blows past
Suit yourself!
That wasn't a dig at you Mr Bla !
I meant that this site is a ghost town - I wonder why ?
Looks like being a good day for republicanism generally. The Stickie-Blueshirt Axis of Evil is in big trouble; although the Blueshirts seem to have done reasonably well on their own.
I hear Mary Lou might struggle in Dublin Central. Hopefully not. She is very capable.
Mad you need to apologize to Jo, you have accused her of being me and thats both cowardly and craven. No woman could possibly look on being called Sean as anything but an insult and while you wear your mask of civility well you occasionaly,like on this occasion, you clearly are a man of little class or refinement
Sean the Emerald Pimpernel
What on earth are you on about?
Poor Mad Jo has blogged using the handle Sean in the past. It's not your copyright.
Reg
Indeed
The Stickie-blueshirts are fucked, as are the fascist PD's!
I am waiting for the Cabra vote in relation to Mary Lou although at the moment it's not looking great.
If we do not win a seat in Dublin Central then the blame will lie with the Ard Chomhairle, no one else!
We were less than 100 votes off a seat here last time with Nicky Keogh.
PD's are biting their nails
lol
The story of this election will yet again be about the rise of Sinn Féin - Chris.
LOL! 
I know JG, I know! A big slice of humble pie coming up.
I have my own views on this poor showing.
I will be doing a blog later tonight
Good stuff. I'll pop by again later.
Just puttin' the wind up ya!
The whole thing is a pity. I can't believe how well FF appear to be doing.
JG
That's the reason we are being squeezed. The whole "the shinners are coming" did not spook the horses.
It was the prospect of a blue-shirt-stickie Axis of Evil that galvanised the FF voters.
The only positive from these results that a shinner like me can get at this early stage is that the PD's are fucked!!!
Chris - surely the lesson to be learned is that you will have to seperate Northern and Southern politics inside the party ?
One thing for sure - the people of the ROI are not in the least bothered about NI and Unification.
"One thing for sure - the people of the ROI are not in the least bothered about NI and Unification."
You'd be surprised. The fact that it wasn't an election issue is because all the parties are pretty much in agreement about it.
I have to agree with Reg MR, the suggestion that he people of the 26 don't care about Unification or the people in the North is merely a Unionist wet dream.
All of the parties is the 26 and I mean all of them have declared their support for a 32 county republic, it wasn't an issue.
The problem for us down south is that we are seen as a one trick pony and that is a problem of our own making.
The Peace Process is settled, time for new strategy and ideas.
strategy
how about developing an orange pill that unionists can take orally,
( or anally in the form of a suppository ) which will have the cathartic effect of them waking up and announcing wildly
" Hey we're Irish FFS, WTF are we doing to our neighbours? For goodness sakes we need to take these peace walls down, and this border what's it for, its just so stupid "
Does SF have a budget for Medical Research?
All of the parties is the 26 and I mean all of them have declared their support for a 32 county republic, it wasn't an issue
But Chris - your party kept on and on and on about the big difference between them and the other parties - and why people should vote SF - was that SF were the ONLY party that actually MEANT what they said about unification!
Face it, voters in the republic have a totally different (partitionist?) take on politics than the NI electorate.
Where the constitutional question is settled in the republic SF are an irrelevance.
As someone said, if the political circumstances influences are so totally different each side of the border, what is the point of an 'all island party'?
Crowe is gone. Good show the Fine Gaelers!
Chris
Your comments re. Mary Lou are interesting. Did I not recall you praising the decision to foist Mary Poo onto the constituency?
Clearly Tinkerbell McDonald ain't so perfect after all!
My apologies to Chris - it was NR who had this to say:
"Hello Mary Lou and hello to the Dáil as well!
Good luck to Mary Lou McDonald who has been selected to stand as the Sinn Féin candidate in Bertie Ahern's Dublin Central constituency at the next 26 county election. Mary Lou's candidature provoked a bit of debate over at slugger but I think it is good to see Sinn Féin selecting a hard working representative who will hopefully become Sinn Féin's first female TD since the party began to fight Dáil elections again in the 1980s.
Nicky Kehoe, the previous candidate in the consituency and the person who nominated Mary Lou came within 74 votes of being elected last time out. I pay little attention to the fanciful theory expressed by some on Slugger that these votes will not be easily gained by Mary Lou. Mary Lou McDonald has a proven track record as a winner in Dublin. She will be able to rely on a core Republican vote and I am certain that she will be able to entice new voters who had not previously considered Sinn Féin as an option at the polls. I'm also confident that despite the fact that Sinn Féin often struggle for transfers, Mary Lou may well be able to attract a large number of Berite Ahern's transfers. Given the rise of Sinn Féin since the last Dáil election and the quality of the candidate, I firmly expect Dublin Central to be one of a number of Sinn Féin gains."
Your apology is accepted
Just saw Gerry Interviewed by the Beeb - his nose grew inches - best one was his claim that he thought before the election they might increase to seven LOL!
McDowell is OUT
There is a God!!!
Some leader! LOL.
Good day today lads. LOL
Ingram you are a waste of skin
sorry chris had to say it
Sean the Emerald pimpernel
Wow what a result.
The meteoric rise is over.
This is the exact reason why some more rather reasoned people in the movement argued against the pursuit of electral politics as if it was the only thing that mattered.
The SF leadership have been straight on the issue...we are interested in power...its as simple as that.
Well now look what we have.
A party which pursued electoral politics and ditched its revolutionary credentials in the shameless pursuit of 'power'.
That project was always doomed to failure and now they are looking around for alternative strategies.
Too late. The lines have been crossed and SF have bought into the status quo lock, stock, and barrell. There is no going back now. The leaderships integrity has been damaged over the last few years and now their strategy has been dealt that first of many body blows.
Good luck.
Cute handle gaskinisaprettyintellectual - I guess you have never seen the blogger
TOUGH SHIT YOU CUNTS!
No United Ireland now after this debacle!
Truth,
SF are down one seat. I wouldn't start celebrating just yet!
"No United Ireland now after this debacle!"
Why? What a stupid remark. When did SF become the only United Ireland party?
Reg - one thing Northern Nationalists have to face - they cannot take the South for granted any more.
"Reg - one thing Northern Nationalists have to face - they cannot take the South for granted any more."
Mad, I don't think we do. Anyway, that's a separate issue to the election result.
Garrett Fitz is right that southern elections have always been decided on bread and butter issues.
The inference that SF's poor performance means no-one down south cares about unity makes no sense as SF have never done well down there - (since the formation of FF at any rate).
As I say, all the southern parties are nominally pro unity anyway.
"Cute handle gaskinisaprettyintellectual - I guess you have never seen the blogger
Madradin Ruad | 05.26.07 - 5:22 pm |
Haha.
I suggest you have a closer look at the aul handle..unless of course you are only f*cking about, which is fine too.
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