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Could you imagine Boris and Corbyn sitting around a table together. Thank God one party had a majority to Govern
ROI politics - will Varadkar win the election?
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Danllan
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I am very glad you think so.
Boohoo
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So Sinn Fein spend an election campaign trying to distance themselves from the IRA and then the truth comes out when the results are announced.
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► VIDEO: 'Come out ye Black and Tans' - Sinn Féin supporters celebrate with rebel songs at Count Centre
February 9th, 2020: Sinn Féin supporters are jubiliant, already singing rebel songs at the RDS count centre in Dublin. Jennifer Bray reports on early tallies for General Election 2020. Video: Bryan O’Brien
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'Up the Republic, up the RA and tiocfaidh ár lá', SF TD
David Cullinane, who topped the poll for Sinn Féin in Waterford, declares "up the Republic, up the RA'
Wellytrack
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So Sinn Fein spend an election campaign trying to distance themselves from the IRA and then the truth comes out when the results are announced.
► VIDEO: 'Come out ye Black and Tans' - Sinn Féin supporters celebrate with rebel songs at Count Centre
February 9th, 2020: Sinn Féin supporters are jubiliant, already singing rebel songs at the RDS count centre in Dublin. Jennifer Bray reports on early tallies for General Election 2020. Video: Bryan O’Brien'Up the Republic, up the RA and tiocfaidh ár lá', SF TD
David Cullinane, who topped the poll for Sinn Féin in Waterford, declares "up the Republic, up the RA'
What a surprise.
SF have successfully rebranded themselves as a left wing socialist party and appealed to a youth vote who knows little to nothing of their past.
After a few years of being utterly useless pass it will be a harder sell next time.
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Every cloud has a silver lining. This result I think makes a United Ireland an even slimmer possibility now. Getting some of the wavering unionists to vote for it depends upon there being a visible moderation and move away from British and unionist hatred. This election will have made many rethink in light of the resurfacing of that hatred. Never mind us living in the supposedly dark ages in Northern Ireland. It's clear the republic isn't anywhere near ready to modernise.??
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Not just the youth vote, SF placed a large emphasis on the health service which is in dire need of rationalisation and with an aging population it is a subject close to many hearts, as are pensions.
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True thank god or the would be even more unbearable !!!
Wellytrack
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All things that mean so much to everyone. We’ll see how it pans out, but I’d doubt SF can work a calculator any better than FF/FG.
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Like all politicians they have two calculators, one for before the election and one for after.
Danllan
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Interesting, I've been thinking that they only had one, but were too quick with the memory erase button...
i wonder how many other countries will feel about sharing security info with RoI with Mary lou as (deputy)leader
while the timing of SF getting into power sucks big time, in the end it will hurt SF for years to come. A bit like when the Lib-Dems got into power with the Tories, and suddenly everyone saw they were full of BS, Much will be the same for SF. it easy to make a load of promises when you think you never have to fill them. but now that SF is/will be in power and have to fulfill those promises people will see them for the BS they are
while the timing of SF getting into power sucks big time, in the end it will hurt SF for years to come. A bit like when the Lib-Dems got into power with the Tories, and suddenly everyone saw they were full of BS, Much will be the same for SF. it easy to make a load of promises when you think you never have to fill them. but now that SF is/will be in power and have to fulfill those promises people will see them for the BS they are
Wellytrack
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I would like to think your correct, that they will get found out.
unfortunately we live in a post truth world these days when lies are the new ‘alternative facts’.
It wouldn’t be like SF to blame someone else or lie would it??
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Now things are getting a little more interesting with Sinn Fein winning the popular vote. That's certainly put one on the noses of the two main parties who were always of the opinion that they were there just to swap the top jobs from time to time while the others scurried around as a distraction. Trouble is that like Europe splits the Tories any mention of working with SF divides both FF and FG so I rather feel that a new Irish government is going to be a long time a'coming.
No such reservations for my mate Mattie McGrath (he who avoids me in pubs) who tells the world, or anyone who is listening anyway, that a group of independents are willing to work with any old coalition that tips their cap to them.
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No such reservations for my mate Mattie McGrath (he who avoids me in pubs) who tells the world, or anyone who is listening anyway, that a group of independents are willing to work with any old coalition that tips their cap to them.
'Sinn Féin has won the election' - Mary Lou McDonald rallies party ahead of govt formation talks
Mary Lou McDonald has rallied her new bumper-sized parliamentary party with a call of “my friends, we have work to do”.
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M-J-G
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This is what happens if you give free will, they do what they want ?
The shinners are just a blip on the chart, I wouldn't bother too much about it.
The shinners are just a blip on the chart, I wouldn't bother too much about it.
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Be careful about putting the house on that.This is what happens if you give free will, they do what they want ?
The shinners are just a blip on the chart, I wouldn't bother too much about it.
M-J-G
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I wouldn't bet on anything in politics apart from those involved being in it for nothing other than money and power.
People will lean in the way that they want.
If they have voted for what turns out not to be what they wanted, they won't do it again.
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There has been a revolt in Ireland. Not a huge one. It isn’t a Brexit-sized rebellion. It isn’t an all-out populist protest against the establishment of the kind we have seen in the US and various European countries in recent years. But still, the result of Saturday’s general election is a...
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The man talks sense. The gulf between Dublin and the rest of the country has always been marked and the denizens of the mainstream Irish media are hugely self regarding believing themselves to be the new bishops instructing the unholy and unwashed peasants of the interior on how thy should be thinking.Leo Varadkar has paid the price for banging on about Brexit | The Spectator
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they won nothing ,only acting like they did,they have I think 36 seats out of 160,They are saying they should be allowed to govern but it hasent dawned on them yet that they need 81 to have a majority . They are poor at the maths but I didnt think they were that bad.