Thinly veiled “I’m getting old and very cranky.”
Swap getting and very!
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Awkward squad drowning their sorrows here I see
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Mick Barry a single vote ahead of Kenny!
Incredible scenes in Cork North Central.
https://twitter.com/damiensreenan/status/1863363471431122988?t=Y3UzelRpmnaj-NdpI5gl8Q&s=19
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Ferocious stuff there Thomas Byrne.
The foisting. The thumbs up. The praying. The grimace. It had it all.
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Embarrassing stuff really. Empty count centre. Existing TD. No drama in the count. Then him giving it the opera performance for the socials.
Mick Barry gained slightly over Labour off the transfers of Tony O’Sullivan FF earlier.
Can we take this as a sign that his FIGHT to survive might just be successful?
He has utilised his experience so well during this count and that has kept him in the hunt. He’s had the moral courage and honesty of effort. Savage effort on count 14 in particular.
RTE are wrapping up now, is there a local Cork station to give minute by minute updates on this election epic? C103?
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In their current guise, there’s probably a limit to how much they can grow that Independent Ireland potentially doesn’t have.
The reason they were founded was because they were anti-abortion; that is their core belief upon which the party is based.
Which is fair enough, it’s something Tóibín believes in and obviously there are also plenty of voters who hold that belief.
But I’m going to go out on a limb and say that is a view mainly held by older members of the community, who aren’t going to be around forever. And while younger voters don’t tend to vote as much in general elections, as they grew older, they will.
There probably is a place for a conservative-ish party even among younger voters but I do think having that as a central tenet will limit their appeal among younger voters.
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The RTÉ panel pretty much agreed with these estimates in the last half hour so looking like a gap of 10 between FF and FG which will make negotiations a bit trickier.
https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1863279630284681244?t=vGLlVa2agV-YhrR0_y-EWA&s=19
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O’Reilly’s elimination should get Maxwell over the line in Cavan-Monaghan.
Then either Gallagher or Smyth gives a big boost to the other and to Brendan Smith also.
SF probably need a decent host of transfers from Aontú then. Preferably to Carthy to get him past the quota so he can start distributing his surplus to the other two.
Tight one.
As long as the greens were smashed than everyone is happy
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I think so too. MM to step aside and have a run at the Áras. SF need a stint in government and we all need FG out.
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I wouldn’t say he’d be the type of lad to be altering his accent?
Fitzgerald eliminated in Carlow-Kilkenny.
Finding it hard to keep track of who that is likely to help and whether Callaghan will get the big benefit or one of the FF candidates (Cleere?)
He has a very 1950s accent. He speaks like somebody who says “the a’Zoo” “edumacation”, and liberally uses the word “bounder” to refer to people like himself when he was younger.
You can keep saying it all you want. Harris won’t let it happen.
The last numbers I saw had only 5 votes between the SF candidates, that’s really the only question now, which of them is elected
It’s out to 29 in favour of Drennan now.
She’s the Kilkenny one, I presume, so more likely to hold that lead with Fitzgerald transferring?