Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10775375)

Mary Lou topped her area [emoji122]

Originally Posted by arista (Post 10775402)

So Martin needs all the other small parties

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10775481)

Not if he goes in with Sinn Fein or Fine Gael

Originally Posted by arista (Post 10775483)

Yes Sinn Fein

or all the other smaller parties?

Originally Posted by Ammi (Post 10775994)

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock (Post 10771491)

That idiotic speech probably means that he'll win the Election going by how Politics has been going since 2010.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10776039)

That's the guy from my constituency :love: Micheál Martin is also in my constituency but he came second to Donnchadh :hehe:

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10776040)

Nope :laugh:

Interestingly though, even though it's a "shock" result which seems to be following suit of other western countries, rather than going more right we're going more left

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10776050)

:hehe: so both leaders lost, incredible...

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10776053)

There are no right wing parties in Ireland are there, both FF and FG are pretty much the same, both Centre, Labour I guess would be left, not sure about the smaller parties?

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10776058)

Yep, Mary Lou topped hers though :hehe:



Not really, FF & FG are pretty centre(although a little right leaning), I'd say most of the smaller parties are more left wing so ideally it would be Sinn Fein with some of them but they won't have enough numbers I'd say

Originally Posted by Cherie (Post 10776085)

Looking at the parties it would be very messy, they will probably go with FF or FG, interesting times!

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10771695)

I mean it's to do with wanting someone completely different in there, lets be honest here, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael may as well be the same party and they certainly know how to look after themselves and their cronies. Sinn Fein just offer something completely different ad people are curious to see how they would do. We've never ever had anyone other than Fianna fail or Fine Gael run the country, I'd like to see them have a shot at it. It's almost impossible for that to happen though because they don't have enough people running and the bigger parties won't get into bed with them

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock (Post 10776094)

Tbh what you're describing here sounds like the UK politics.

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10776040)

Nope :laugh:

Interestingly though, even though it's a "shock" result which seems to be following suit of other western countries, rather than going more right we're going more left

Originally Posted by Niamh. (Post 10776098)

With Labour and the Conservatives running the country you mean? You've still not had a third party come through and really upset that status quo though, have you?