I think he’s played the Palestine stuff well.
And he’ll do a budget and then go for an election. The budgets aren’t as “exciting” anymore since they’re all leaked but maybe they’ll go for a surprise to throw in there and then just go in hoping to return the same parties but with more balance of power with FG. It seems doable
I’d say he’d be well liked around Tipp Town for sure.
Another possible success for an Abbey alumni?
I don’t think these local elections have much bearing on the general election.
I voted 1-2 for my local FG councillors who “helped” me/notified me when I got planning. Fg/FF are still the old reliables on the ground in this department.
In the general election I don’t have one of these local representatives so it will have to be Lowry or possibly a mid-right alternative.
Very well.
I think from an optics of view it would help the Government to have our election in close enough proximity to the US election campaign to draw a contrast between them and the insanity of what will be the US campaign, as if to ask, do you really want this crazy shit here?
A giveaway budget won’t harm things either.
I’d guess a November election.
I’ve a cousin who would claim he was his campaign manager. He got a huge youth vote that was probably in a vaccum. Best of luck to him. The cousin will do some supping over the weekend.
Do they still have the pub in Bansha?
Some of the men on the ground will answer that. I’m too far removed
No that’s gone over ten years.
Heney probably left a few hundred votes behind too from the diaspora. Some amount of young people in the area abroad.
Unreal performance. Set his stall out early and had the work put in.
I might tip in to Thurles later for the general hooping and hollering across all the candidates. Always a tremendous occasion.
Any update
No. First official count is now but sure you have the numbers from earlier.
Donnelan wont make up the gap, haughey will get in so its one of the old councillors not getting in. Healy will get transfers surely, so its either guerin or Lavin who lose out
Rte leading with “nothing to see here” for govt parties even though theyve dropped 10% in support going by those tallies
Yeah but SF at 13 per cent after polling in the 30s 9 months ago is a bigger story
Poor Art is seething.
We were told that Change was coming.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0608/1453654-elections-2024/
The shinners have been dropping like a stone of late due to being a totally ineffective opposition and several missteps including saying theyd rerun the roundly rejected referendums
10% drop and you think everything is rosy for the blueshirts, brown envelopes and watermelons?
If the government gets those tally figures, they are romping home in a general.
The difference to 2019 and 2020 is that FF and FG are actually transferring to one another.
