[Niamh.]

At least Leo is sticking to what he said before the results. Micheāl is a lying weasel

[arista]

Sinn Fein
made a error of not running enough candidates
only 42
Jen Bray Irish Times
told Ch4HDnews Live


The Top Issue is Housing.

[Niamh.]

Yep definitely

[arista]

So Martin needs all the other small parties

[lime]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Mary Lou topped her area

When I had my ticket in front of me and remerered FF and FG telling me that to vote SF made me have blood on my hands,,, Big Mistake..We all have blood on our hands

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by arista

So Martin needs all the other small parties

Not if he goes in with Sinn Fein or Fine Gael

[arista]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Not if he goes in with Sinn Fein or Fine Gael

Yes Sinn Fein
or all the other smaller parties?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes Sinn Fein

or all the other smaller parties?

Yeah but he would need almost all of them and independents as well I think. We need the final count though to work it out properly. They will need 81 seats

[arista]

Tomorrow they say

[arista]

[arista]

[Ammi]

...crikey, that’s pretty impressive stuff, Sinn Fein...

[Ammi]

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

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

Nope

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

so both leaders lost, incredible...

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Nope

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

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?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

so both leaders lost, incredible...

Yep, Mary Lou topped hers though

Originally Posted by Cherie

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?

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

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yep, Mary Lou topped hers though



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

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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

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

Well Leo has said he won't go with Sinn Fein so I think the only realistic option would be either FF & SF or FF & FG

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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

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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

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

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?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Nope

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

Hopefully it's not gonna end up being far left though.

But at least ROI voted away from the same two parties unlike the bleeding UK.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

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?

Yeah, we have a voting system in place that makes it pretty much impossible to break them up.

Sinn Fein did really well though Niamh, going back to the ROI Election.

[bots]

people blame first past the post, but it provides a working government without coalition. Coalitions are very ineffective forms of government, always have been. If a candidate gets enough votes, they get a seat, it's not an unfair system, it's just portrayed as unfair by those that lose