Out of almost 1,000 council seats.
Peadarâs time wonât be here for a long time yet, Iâd wager.
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You have an irrational hatred of him and his party, though, so you would say that, wouldnât you
I donât think heâll be trying to appeal to people like you anyway
Finian McGrathâs time is up - a glorified town councillor
Dublin Bay South has Chris Andrews and Dun Laoghaire maybe but is it a bit of a stretch when sheâs living in Tallaght.
Dublin West would be very interesting as itâs already more or less a group of death. Youâd imagine that theyâll give Donnelly another go at it though.
I have a perfectly rational hatred of him and his party, theyâve betrayed their core voters time and time again and finally the scales have fallen from peoples eyes.
and just because someone shares your whacky, swiveled eyed view of the world doesnât make them enlightened.
Sheâs a quality candidate so room has to be made for her somewhere.
Eoin OâBroin himself was a Blackrock College boy and did very well in Dublin Mid-West.
I think Lynn Boylan is very good and very sound too.
As @Sidney says, she could run in one of several Dublin constituencies.
They really thought theyâd get a seat via yer man Paul Donnelly last time in Varadkarâs constituency (is it Dublin West?) but Joan Burton held on and that little weirdo Jack Chambers got in for FF. Boylan would surely take a seat there but it could ruffle some local feathers.
What constituency does Artane / Coolock fall under? Is it Dublin Bay North or a neighboring one? Boylan has done a lot of work with the Stardust campaigners and has goodwill there.
Denise Mitchell is a sitting TD for them in Dublin Bay North and that ex-Dublin Mayor MicheĂĄl Mac Donnacha or whatever heâs called was unsuccessful as her running mate. I agree that Aodhan will probably take a seat back for Labour here.
Itâd be funny if they parachuted her into Dublin Bay South ahead of Chris Andrews. He might revert to visiting internet cafes to have a cut at the party.
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Ad hominem abuse doesnât add much, art
The vast majority of Irish people share my views on most subjects
OâRiordain was an excellent minister by all accounts
sid, youre a great man to go with the ad hominem when it suits your own agenda.
we have very differing views of o riordan. the electorate appear to share my view as hes not a TD anymore. and thatâs even before we got at his u turn re the Seanad so he could keep his snout at the trough.
weâll leave it at that
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Donnellyâs failure last time in Dublin West in a seat he should never have lost counts against him.
If he couldnât take one in 2016 when the political climate was much more favourable to him, I doubt heâll have any more success in 2020.
They should give probabaly Boylan a cut at that constituency - she could get a decent womenâs vote too - I presume Joan Burton will be standing down - though Catherine Noone will be a much stronger contender next time than before as her profile has been raised massively due to her part in the referendum campaign last year and Leo Varadkar will likely have a massive transfer surplus because heâs Taoiseach this time.
Yet he only barely lost out in the most competitive constituency in the country in an election where Labour were absolutely wiped out in Dublin and werenât even in contention for all bar one or two seats.
âSnout at the troughâ is the sort of miserable, tiresome rhetoric thatâs growing very old.
Iâm not sure why youâd vote at all with that sort of atttude as if one was to take your logic, every single politician in the country is a âsnout at the troughâ.
I think FG have shifted Catherine Noone to Dublin Bay North based on the literature coming in my letterbox since moving to the constituency. Not sure if she actually settled in the area or if itâs a tactical move given Richard Bruton is getting on and thereâs probably not a second seat for them in Varadkarâs patch.
In fairness to Aodhain heâs walked the walk. Heâs very highly regarded in the North East inner city from his time teaching in Sheriff St and itâs well known that that motivates his sense of social justice.
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SF should definitely let Boylan have a go at Dublin West then.
I presume yer man Neale Richmond will standing for FG in the next election? Be interesting to see where he runs, I presume one of the South Dublin constituencies.
I think thatâs right.
I think heâs sound.
you work with fuzzy and flawed logic; not every politician supported doing away with the Seanad, even fewer politicians who took this view then tried to join the Seanad after failing to get a dail seat
The Seanad is a national political forum
Itâs irrelevant what his view on its potential abolition was
Why shouldnât he take a seat in it?
Should the Brexiteers have all boycotted the European elections because they want to leave the EU?
That would be fuzzy logic
if he was the man of principle you suggest he is then he wouldnât take a seat. end of. he lacks testicular fortitude. climbdown orriordan
So youâre saying all anti-EU politicians should boycott the European Parliament, yes?
that is utterly non sequitur. when was the referendum on abolishing the EU?
just admit your idol has feet of clay