Irish Times

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

TonTon wrote:

dissolving and merging the individual parties into a unified national organisation may take some time.

Does anyone think that's likely to happen?

not a hope. Your ego has to be absolutely enormous to become a far left politician in a climate as unpromising in ireland (given your chances of success are effectively zero) so the idea that these people could all work together are almost zero. the infighting and internecine warfare is so all encompassing, precisely because the stakes are so low.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Finally some swearing.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

These people are far too tall and thin. They are the wrong shape for people born in the 1920's-1940's.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

haha, did tony gregory only find out about the dublin west by election during the count.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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This is hilarious. It's baroque in its hilarious awfulness.

This is such a brilliant story, and they're making such a shite of it

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Could a "rebranded" Sinn Fein win lots more support?

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

I can't decide if the highlight of the programme was haughey eating an ortolan, or dessie O'Malley breaking up fist fight with saddam's scimitar

[Diable Rouge]

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Tubby Isaacs wrote: Could a "rebranded" Sinn Fein win lots more support?

Unlikely - Mary Lou seems to be becoming as increasingly compromised as Adams, so the notion of a clean break will be harder to sustain. As TAB mentions, Charlie has become even more comical - would Mitterand really bring a French finch with him to the Blaskets, and while the thought of Des O'Malley swinging Saddam's sword is delightful, it seems as apocryphal as a hurley hanging in Baghdad's presidential palace.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Mitterand would definitely bring a chef and ortolans with him, and someone apparently did drive people away from jim gibbons by wielding a sword. It's not clear though if it was dessie, or if it was saddam's scimitar.

[anton pulisov]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

All this Stephanie Roche cheerleading in the Irish media is starting to annoy me.

[Diable Rouge]

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Best save your ire for the founding meeting of AIRB (the Anti-Irish Rugby Brigade).

[anton pulisov]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Or just AD4, for short.

[loose cannon]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Are there any current affair comedy shows on radio these days ?

Anything about the minister for foreign affairs who mixes up his L and N.? Must be a challenge working with Charnie Fnalagal, especially when discussing places like the Nebalol, Nibya let alone his native Irenald.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/charlie-flanagan-regrets-c-word-tweet-to-sinn-f%C3%A9in-deputy-1.2052217

[anton pulisov]

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I heard he headed once over to the ECB and asked for Noal.

[anton pulisov]

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Ok, who does Lucinda know at the Irish Times? She's a top headline on Irishtimes.com again. She farts and the Irish Times writes about it.

[Diable Rouge]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Reboot score a whopping 1% in their first opinion poll, increasing to 6% "if their policies were known". The government surprisingly make gains:

FG 24% (+3)
SF 21% (-3)
FF 18% (-1)
Lab 8% (+2)
Others 29% (-1)

[DCI Harry Batt]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

They are actually called Reboot. That's hilarious.

[Borracho]

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Reminds me of Eamonn McCann's quip about the Progressive Democrats years ago: "Apart from anything else, there are two lies in their name."

[Duncan Gardner]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Question for the local election-watchers: can that 29% be broken down (broad left and right, or maybe even 'false' FG and FF only pretending to be independent? ). Ta.

Deputy Calx, you're neither right, honorable nor a Gentleman, etc. etc.

[Toro Toro]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

"#rebootireland", no less.

As Fintan O'Toole says, the alternative title was "Have You Tried Turning It Off And Turning It Back On Again?"

[Borracho]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Jackboot Ireland

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

"hit the complicated thing you don't understand a slap and hope it works" might be better.

reboot isn't their name. they don't have a name yet. Reboot ireland is just their hashtag

[Diable Rouge]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Duncan Gardner wrote: Question for the local election-watchers: can that 29% be broken down (broad left and right, or maybe even 'false' FG and FF only pretending to be independent? ). Ta.

Deputy Calx, you're neither right, honorable nor a Gentleman, etc. etc.

Greens are 1%, and in another supplementary question of Red C, ULA would be on 8% if it reformed.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

Chanced upon this.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/marc-coleman/so-were-not-greece-but-it-can-still-end-in-tragedy-30897798.html

Roughly translated- I want my taxcut now, honsestly it'll pay for itself.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The 2016 Irish election is over!

mark coleman is nuts. The government does however need to give something back for electoral reasons, because the economy is on target to being back in good shape in two years, just in time to really benefit the next govt.