Katrina
Apr 29 2007, 8:44 pm
Following reading the piece on the
BBC, this
Ireland.com story has more details.
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The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has set Thursday May 24th as the date for the general election. ...
Although an announcement has been expected for some time, its actual timing still came as something of a surprise with most politicians and observers believing the Taoiseach would not call the election until Tuesday at the earliest. ...
The election is expected to be close with an alternative government of Fine Gael and Labour moving into a strong position to win , according to the latest TNS mrbi opinion poll carried out for The Irish Times
Rock The Vote.ie has information about registering, if you haven't already, but the timing is extremely tight. Perhaps someone will post about information for overseas voters?
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Right, It's On.
Bertie's called it. May 24th (a Thursday) will be the date for the 2007 general election. That means that you have until Thursday of this week to have your supplemental register forms into your local council and only until Tuesday for supplemental postal register applications to be in.
Our advice is to post your forms for regular register (if you're posting them) by Wednesday (at the VERY latest) and tomorrow for postal vote applications, just to make sure that the good people in An Post get them there in time. So hurry over to our register to vote section , print off the relevant forms and get yourself on the register for the only thing you're gonna hear about in the news for the next three weeks.
AAAAAAHHHHHHH!
The various parties' position on flag washing is however not yet clear.
Ciars
Apr 29 2007, 11:32 pm
Thanks for posting that Katrina
A timely reminder for me to get my sh*t together and organise my postal vote.
exquitius
Apr 29 2007, 11:53 pm
A postal vote in Ireland is only possible for anyone still normally resident in the REPUBLIC and only away for a wee while on business or holiday. Technically you can lie and still claim to live in the 26 counties in order to get on the register of electors and a chance to vote.
As the government information site succinctly puts it
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Overseas voters
If you are an Irish citizen living abroad you cannot be entered on the Register of electors. This means that you cannot vote in an election or referendum here in Ireland. (The only exception to this is in the case of Irish officials on duty abroad (and their spouses) who may register on the postal voters list).
Info on registering to vote is at
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categori...stering-to-vote
Punchbear
May 24 2007, 4:15 pm
Don't forget to vote for Damo, or yis'll wreck me buzz, me head an' me gaff man.
Medusa
May 24 2007, 4:24 pm
im not registered to vote
can i do it though im living here?
donti need the Gardai to stamp a form after prooving my id?
garibaldi
May 24 2007, 4:28 pm
'tis a wee bit late now - the voting has already started!
SleeplessInMunich
May 24 2007, 4:29 pm
And you can't vote if you are here anyway.
Yeti
May 24 2007, 4:32 pm
Read the thread first, then jump in a plane back to the auld sod to vote.
Keydeck
May 24 2007, 4:33 pm
Feck, now a different shower of bastards will get in instead of the shower of bastards I would have voted for.
Yeti
May 24 2007, 4:34 pm
Yerra, de goverment will win again.
Bring back Dev I say.
Punchbear
May 24 2007, 4:36 pm
One size bastard fits all.
Keydeck
May 24 2007, 4:37 pm
I think I saw him in Kilians a couple of weeks ago.
Ahhh, O'Brien, my hero!
Punchbear
May 24 2007, 4:38 pm
This little fecker helped get Putin elected. He'll do the same for Bertie.
At a price.
Yeti
May 24 2007, 4:40 pm
The main thing is to provide a democratic bulwark against Bosco.
garibaldi
May 24 2007, 4:43 pm
Ah jaysus lads, nobody has come up with "who shot Michael Collins?".
That was my late mother's bewhine on every election day.
She then voted for Brian Lenihan.
I never got the connection if there was one.
I was fierce young at the time.
Yeti
May 24 2007, 4:48 pm
No way could Brian Lenihan remember shooting Collins.
Punchbear
May 24 2007, 4:49 pm
QUOTE (garibaldi @ May 24 2007, 5:43 pm)
Ah jaysus lads, nobody has come up with "who shot Michael Collins?"
Nobody's come up with "Fortycoats for Taoiseach"
In fact, I'm sorely testing my Googlejitsu, because I'm fecked if I can find a single picture of the feckin' fecker.
Keydeck
May 24 2007, 4:53 pm
Yeti
May 24 2007, 4:57 pm
Bosco had all references to Fortycoats erradicated, apparently FC made the mistake of telling some anecdote at an RTE function, something about sharing a bottle of meths with B.
The wrath of Bosco is not to be underestimated.
Thanks Keydeck, I always knew the FC was a bit of a dealer.
garibaldi
May 24 2007, 5:05 pm
QUOTE (Yeti @ May 24 2007, 5:48 pm)
No way could Brian Lenihan remember shooting Collins.
Granted Yeti, but Brian doubled as a prostitute robot from Mars.
Sideman: the rantapine!
Jaze ... those were the daze!
Yeti
May 24 2007, 5:09 pm
Whose body parts did he borrow for that gig?
garibaldi
May 24 2007, 5:11 pm
All borrowed from Manny and Bernard!
Punchbear
May 24 2007, 7:01 pm
And now to ride The Whirligig Witch.
Actually, according to
RTE,
Auntie and the
Indo, it's awful tight.
The election, not The Whirligig Witch. Although by the look on Fortycoats face, we could be talking wizard sleeves and witches pockets.
I really wish I could've voted.
Turnout has been very high for Dublin North Central and nationwide, according to
The Irish Times.
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A spokeswoman for the returning officer in Dublin city said turnout in the Dublin North Central constituency was estimated at 43.5 per cent at around 6pm. In Dublin North West, the turnout so far was around 38 per cent, while it was 32 per cent in both Dublin North East and Dublin South Central.
Jack
May 25 2007, 5:58 am
W***ers made reducing or abolishing stamp duty for house buyers an election issue. First the budget and then that, try selling a house in Dublin now.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 9:32 am
Anybody else interested in a petition or similar regarding the postal vote and it's abolition? What's the point of being an Irish citizen if your vote is effectively taken away from you? Because the more I think about it, the more pissed off I become.
Edit: I've rung the embassy in Berlin and they don't have an official explanation on policy change, it's just become policy. The Cultural Attaché, Adrian Farrell, isn't in this morning but he can be reached @ 030-220720. Maybe he can shed some light on the postal votes disappearance.
parnell
May 25 2007, 9:41 am
QUOTE (Jack @ May 25 2007, 6:58 am)
W***ers made reducing or abolishing stamp duty for house buyers an election issue. First the budget and then that, try selling a house in Dublin now.
Well u could always sell it , but ud be unhappy because u only made a 100 + % capital gain or so?
Yeti
May 25 2007, 9:45 am
If you live in Germany Punchbear, you should get pissed off about not having any vote here except in communal and EU elections and referendums.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 9:54 am
Voters Limbo, no Tacos. Bloolcks situation it is.
And I'm not changing that spelling for the world.
MonksTown
May 25 2007, 9:59 am
Well Bertie's Green Tories seem to have won it but who is he going to rely on in the Dail to have a majority?
The Shinners?
Ironic if they were involved in government on both sides of the border.
Deccie
May 25 2007, 10:00 am
Bertie said he wound not go into coalition the SF as the basis politics are totally different.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 10:01 am
Bertie says lots of things...
Deccie
May 25 2007, 10:05 am
and does a lot of accept loads of cash things
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 10:06 am
I love the way he gets the mad stutters when he lies in public, lying right out the bottom of his Michael Guiney socks.
Yeti
May 25 2007, 10:08 am
Leave Bertie alone, if it wasn't for the few bob he found in the toilet of the Blanchardstown Mcdonalds he'ld be homeless.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 10:11 am
Bobbin' for a few bob was he? In the olden days we called that cottaging.
parnell
May 25 2007, 10:12 am
QUOTE (MonksTown @ May 25 2007, 10:59 am)
Well Bertie's Green Tories seem to have won it but who is he going to rely on in the Dail to have a majority?
The Shinners? Ironic if they were involved in government on both sides of the border.
Actually you've got that backasswards there. The Tories would be more comparable with Fianna Gael ideologically than Fianna Fail - traditionally more left wing / self sufficiency /union friendly.
However Fianna Gael's ability to sell their souls for power has led to some disastorous Labour-FG governments involving hilarious levels of nepotism (mostly Labour appointees funnily enough).
The Shins are supported by who? Oh yes those on the dole/immigants/Nazi nationalist types ... so a bunch of crims supported by those who have no true interest in the country. Thuper.
parnell
May 25 2007, 10:14 am
Hold up , one thing about Bertie , he's a former wife beating alcoholic , with as much clue about public finances in Ireland as the average Münchner but he's no Haughey , he's very small time , especially within Fianna Fail.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 10:35 am
Was just chatting to a mate at home and the electoral register appears to have been a bit of a mess:
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The register of electors here was a mess, loads of people recieved 2 votes and there were many reports of long dead relatives recieving polling cards.
And
this from the Irishelection.com site.
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In a farcical state of affairs (no pun intended), it has emerged that 17,000 people eligible to vote in the Dublin South-East constituency are not registered and a further 15,000 people who have died or moved from the area are still on the register.
Also from the same, although I can't find any articles to corroborate:
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As if that wasn’t worrying enough for the Government, the Irish Examiner has reported on a warning from Labour Party TD Eamon Gilmore that the Government might be forced to pay out compensation to voters if they are denied their constitutional right to vote.
Have we waived our right to vote as emmigrants?
Personally, when I checked the register online, I found two of me. Wahey the lads.
Yeti
May 25 2007, 10:37 am
My sister got two voting cards as well.
Vote early and vote often.
parnell
May 25 2007, 10:42 am
Meanwhile Dick (the head) Roche , the incumbent Fianna Fail Minister for the Environment (whatever the fuck that means) with responsibility for such matters claims that there were no problems at any time yesterday.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 10:44 am
dick.roche@oireachtas.ie
He'd be the man to talk to about this postal vote thing then.
garibaldi
May 25 2007, 10:48 am
QUOTE (MonksTown @ May 25 2007, 10:59 am)
Well Bertie's Green Tories seem to have won it but who is he going to rely on in the Dail to have a majority?
The Shinners? Ironic if they were involved in government on both sides of the border.
Aha! That's the way to creep in. Nice work.
The thing does have a whiff of newly independent
colonial first time elections.
They should've brought in the US to oversee the
whole shebang. Then again the US would probably stay
on the basis of protecting their interests in
oil/leprechauns/
WMDs/Guinness.
Is Guinness a WMD?
It's a great day to be alive begod!
MonksTown
May 25 2007, 10:55 am
QUOTE (parnell @ May 25 2007, 11:12 am)
Actually you've got that backasswards there. The Tories would be more comparable with Fianna Gael ideologically than Fianna Fail - traditionally more left wing / self sufficiency /union friendly.
I meant "Tory" in the sense of pro free market, business as opposed to the paternalist approach of Fine Gael.
I should have written it ore clearly so you were right in your post.
The UK Conservatives are a broad church from the cuddly paternalist to slash and burn Thatcherite c**ts.
Just in Ireland it's split in two parties.
imvho.
Deccie
May 25 2007, 10:56 am
QUOTE (MonksTown @ May 25 2007, 11:55 am)
Conservatives ... in Ireland it's split in two parties.
imvho.
totally agree.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 11:03 am
The
real reason they got back in.
Deccie
May 25 2007, 11:05 am
Classic
My little pony politics.
Punchbear
May 25 2007, 11:07 am
Bertie.
Looking officially unimpressed.
Deccie
May 25 2007, 2:07 pm
Looking like FF are going to get back in.
RTEPaddy Power the bookies are already paying out!
Deccie
Jun 12 2007, 4:26 pm
3 weeks after the election and still no government? is there a deadline on this process?
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