Nothing too shocking, Aontu have done very well though.
A SF/FF government is probably the best outcome from this, if it happens.
FG and FF have been behind all of our major issues in the past 2 decades, not SF
Great night if you’re middle aged, middle to upper class with your house paid off, decent income and a nice car. Horrible night if you’re left wing, or looking for change in general
Sinn Féin might try and claim victory if they end up as the largest party, but it must be a crushing disappointment compared with last year when they had as much support as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael combined.
Average turnout in all the Dublin constituencies is 53%. For all the anger and discontent we keep hearing about, especially with the new far right popularity, not people seem to be care enough to actually vote
SF need an economic downturn to ever get in.
FG and FF exit poll result will be swapped at the end of the actual count
Really expected FF to do better than FG.
Tbh it’s very difficult to see the independent vote so high… Not happy with the current government… Vote independent…🙄
This country is pathetic.
I guess if you have your house and have no family members on a waiting list for scoliosis you are happy. The rest of us might all aswell feck off and stop complaining.
I know change is needed for this country and the alternative parties do not seem to offer much by way of that. It’s depressing to see people interviewed by RTE say they voted for x because thats who their family always voted for. Seems like they put no effort into it and do not have a mind of their own.
The same people won’t be able to comprehend the consequences of their voting as their child jumps on a plane to take up a nursing position in Australia. FG/FF really need to get their shit together and we as a country need to demand better from them. We are far to apathetic with this stuff.
Rte 2 had a vox pop of people outside the polling stations.
Majority well over 60 years old.
Majority voting for the same.
Waste of time
Take Michael Martin out back and then do business with SF to form a government that might actually change anything.
Feck all people voted, bunch of north side areas with 25 percent… so much online bitching, moaning, bluster and grandstanding and less people voted this go around than in 2020. It’s pathetic really.
I dunno, people are giving out as though nothing is changing, but two successive governments of FF and FG in bed together is a fairly drastic change from what has been the status quo. Traditionally they were able to play off eachother, when one became unpopular, the other got the votes, but that dynamic isn’t there anymore. They might well get another ramshackle coalition but I feel like it’s only a short matter of time, scandal or further souring opinion before they run out of options.
Another FF/FG coalition basically guaranteed then, unless one of those two parties breaks with their commitment not to go into coalition with SF, which they won’t.
Impressive recovery for SF on the other hand, after such a weak performance in the locals and being mired in scandal in the run up to the election this is some come back to be fair to them.
Shows what a well oiled machine that party just on a purely organisational level, they’re good operators in the political game, whatever you think of their politics.
The transfers are high between FFG. Seems solid .
SF couldn’t align the left policy wise or cohesively. SDs transferring to SF doesn’t seem to be a thing . Labour to SF don’t ever seem compatible.
The younger vote didn’t turn out in droves.
In discussion this evening the opinion was that after 6pm to 8pm the 18 – 25 age group were few in comparison to the 35 -50 group.
Early voting am was deemed to be similar.
Soc Dems have done very well.
I’m assuming this means another FFFG government?
The change will be in how these parties form a coalition if the percentage translates into fewer seats.
Sinn Fein may not have a path to power at all, and FFFG might need to bring in multiple small parties plus independents.
It won’t be enough to convince one bedfellow.
Jesus another 5 years of the same crap, I don’t understand why people complain and then go and vote the same way again.
Is Simon Harris co ordinating a counter attack against Skynet in that photo or what
Really saddens me that so few vote. There’s no excuse for it.
No country for young men.
Thats the sound of irelands youth leaving on planes to Oz and America!
Not massively surprising. The system works fine for a lot of people. The people who are getting seriously fucked aren’t voting it seems. Like I can’t understand a student paying fuckloads in rent or commuting 2 hours to college and then not voting. Same with the immigration issue too, so many people angry about housing and immigrants. I’d bet good money those people didn’t vote.
I wasn’t fully convinced by Sinn Fein either honestly. Feels like a lot of their momentum dropped off and scandals didn’t help. FF and FG is more of the same. We’re so far behind in infrastructure and just feels like we’re squirreling money for the day the arse falls out of the country and we’re paying 15% of the country unemployment again with nothing to show for it.
I don’t think anyone can fix housing in the next few years. It’s debatable if the people who let it get this bad should be given the chance to fix it. I don’t believe the country is like America though. Regardless of who is in government, it generally feels like they want to improve the country. I think something new might have given a bit of hope things will change. I can only see the healthcare, housing, homelessness issues getting worse but I’d be over the moon if they improved.
Spotted an early prediction poll going around and saw FG lower than FF and SF and immediately thought of them shitting the bed for like the last two weeks , especially with the carer situation.
Then I remembered that the FFG crowd would fucking love that, god forbid a peasant talk to royalty. Good man walking away from her Simon!
And the exit poll seems to confirm that train of thought
The “I’m alright jack” crowd without a care in the world with their multiple houses to rent out to cover their little fintan’s trinity fees, nice pension and an apartment in Málaga/Bulgaria to retire to.
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More of the same so
I’m shocked, shocked!
Well, not that shocked.
Independents projected at nearly 15%. There’s going to be a few kingmakers
Exit poll in 2020 had FG on 22.4, SF 22.3, FF 22.2.
So in real terms basically no change. All main parties down slightly, SF relatively a little stronger, FF lost a little more.
So another five years of FFFG seems a sure thing. Might take a while to put a government together though.
The biggest upset here is that SF could have the largest party and so get first dibs on attempting to form a government.
Maybe the people of this country like the misery.
FFG+Labour
Rotaaaaation once again…
https://preview.redd.it/bui7y85gzw3e1.jpeg?width=583&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc75573c1ac8f8a969e2a57d44c93d3fae30d52f
Nothing too shocking, Aontu have done very well though.
A SF/FF government is probably the best outcome from this, if it happens.
FG and FF have been behind all of our major issues in the past 2 decades, not SF
Great night if you’re middle aged, middle to upper class with your house paid off, decent income and a nice car. Horrible night if you’re left wing, or looking for change in general
Sinn Féin might try and claim victory if they end up as the largest party, but it must be a crushing disappointment compared with last year when they had as much support as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael combined.
[Sources](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6J5EOYdUU) indicate the remaining 38.4% of the vote has been fully allocated to the Healy-Raes.
Shur look… isn’t that it.
Average turnout in all the Dublin constituencies is 53%. For all the anger and discontent we keep hearing about, especially with the new far right popularity, not people seem to be care enough to actually vote
SF need an economic downturn to ever get in.
FG and FF exit poll result will be swapped at the end of the actual count
Really expected FF to do better than FG.
Tbh it’s very difficult to see the independent vote so high… Not happy with the current government… Vote independent…🙄
This country is pathetic.
I guess if you have your house and have no family members on a waiting list for scoliosis you are happy. The rest of us might all aswell feck off and stop complaining.
I know change is needed for this country and the alternative parties do not seem to offer much by way of that. It’s depressing to see people interviewed by RTE say they voted for x because thats who their family always voted for. Seems like they put no effort into it and do not have a mind of their own.
The same people won’t be able to comprehend the consequences of their voting as their child jumps on a plane to take up a nursing position in Australia. FG/FF really need to get their shit together and we as a country need to demand better from them. We are far to apathetic with this stuff.
Rte 2 had a vox pop of people outside the polling stations.
Majority well over 60 years old.
Majority voting for the same.
Waste of time
Take Michael Martin out back and then do business with SF to form a government that might actually change anything.
Feck all people voted, bunch of north side areas with 25 percent… so much online bitching, moaning, bluster and grandstanding and less people voted this go around than in 2020. It’s pathetic really.
I dunno, people are giving out as though nothing is changing, but two successive governments of FF and FG in bed together is a fairly drastic change from what has been the status quo. Traditionally they were able to play off eachother, when one became unpopular, the other got the votes, but that dynamic isn’t there anymore. They might well get another ramshackle coalition but I feel like it’s only a short matter of time, scandal or further souring opinion before they run out of options.
Another FF/FG coalition basically guaranteed then, unless one of those two parties breaks with their commitment not to go into coalition with SF, which they won’t.
Impressive recovery for SF on the other hand, after such a weak performance in the locals and being mired in scandal in the run up to the election this is some come back to be fair to them.
Shows what a well oiled machine that party just on a purely organisational level, they’re good operators in the political game, whatever you think of their politics.
The transfers are high between FFG. Seems solid .
SF couldn’t align the left policy wise or cohesively. SDs transferring to SF doesn’t seem to be a thing . Labour to SF don’t ever seem compatible.
The younger vote didn’t turn out in droves.
In discussion this evening the opinion was that after 6pm to 8pm the 18 – 25 age group were few in comparison to the 35 -50 group.
Early voting am was deemed to be similar.
Soc Dems have done very well.
I’m assuming this means another FFFG government?
The change will be in how these parties form a coalition if the percentage translates into fewer seats.
Sinn Fein may not have a path to power at all, and FFFG might need to bring in multiple small parties plus independents.
It won’t be enough to convince one bedfellow.
Jesus another 5 years of the same crap, I don’t understand why people complain and then go and vote the same way again.
Is Simon Harris co ordinating a counter attack against Skynet in that photo or what
Really saddens me that so few vote. There’s no excuse for it.
No country for young men.
Thats the sound of irelands youth leaving on planes to Oz and America!
Not massively surprising. The system works fine for a lot of people. The people who are getting seriously fucked aren’t voting it seems. Like I can’t understand a student paying fuckloads in rent or commuting 2 hours to college and then not voting. Same with the immigration issue too, so many people angry about housing and immigrants. I’d bet good money those people didn’t vote.
I wasn’t fully convinced by Sinn Fein either honestly. Feels like a lot of their momentum dropped off and scandals didn’t help. FF and FG is more of the same. We’re so far behind in infrastructure and just feels like we’re squirreling money for the day the arse falls out of the country and we’re paying 15% of the country unemployment again with nothing to show for it.
I don’t think anyone can fix housing in the next few years. It’s debatable if the people who let it get this bad should be given the chance to fix it. I don’t believe the country is like America though. Regardless of who is in government, it generally feels like they want to improve the country. I think something new might have given a bit of hope things will change. I can only see the healthcare, housing, homelessness issues getting worse but I’d be over the moon if they improved.
Spotted an early prediction poll going around and saw FG lower than FF and SF and immediately thought of them shitting the bed for like the last two weeks , especially with the carer situation.
Then I remembered that the FFG crowd would fucking love that, god forbid a peasant talk to royalty. Good man walking away from her Simon!
And the exit poll seems to confirm that train of thought
The “I’m alright jack” crowd without a care in the world with their multiple houses to rent out to cover their little fintan’s trinity fees, nice pension and an apartment in Málaga/Bulgaria to retire to.
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