Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. The boxes will be opened at 9am when the votes will be sorted and tallied. Then the Votes for the presidential election will be sorted. Once sorted the votes will be counted and the result sent to Dublin. We wont have...
With all the focus on the Presidential Election on October 27th, the two Referenda on the Constitution seem to have slipped under the radar. At home we received the the Referendum Commission’s booklet to the referenda and much like their website I was very disappointed in the the information given. While they give the basic information on the actual changes to the Constitution as set out in the 29th Amendment to the Constitution, regarding Judges Pay, and the 30th Amendment to...
Its been a busy week here and I have managed to miss to polls that were published last Thursday, the 6th of October. The first poll was in the Irish Times and was carried out by Ipsos MRBI. The figures were as follows: Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 23% Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 20% McGuinness, Martin (SF) 19% Davis, Mary (Ind) 12% Norris, David (Ind) 11% Mitchell, Gay (FG) 9% Scallon, Dana Rosemary (Ind) 6% In the second poll by Red...
As with every election campaign, I am out on the streets and talking up my preferred candidate or cause. This time out, just like with Lisbon 2, I have left Fine Gael behind to support a different group. If you weren’t aware, I am supporting Mary Davis for the Irish Presidency. There are many reasons for this. but I think she is best placed to represent Ireland abroad and to engage Irish communities at home. On Friday I went on my...
As the Campaign gets under way the attention turns from the nomination process to the debates. RTÉ and TV3 have organisied debates on Radio and TV. No sign yet of an Irish Debate on TG4, or news if Newstalk or any other station have organised one yet. And the debates are: Wednesday 28th September. 1pm, RTÉ News at One. RTÉ Radio One 9:35pm Primetime, RTÉ One Friday, 30th September 9:35pm The Late Late Show, RTÉ One Tuesday, October 4th...
This afternoon Dana Rosemary Scallon secured the nomination of her fourth council ens uring her appearance on the ballot paper on October 27th. Following on from the nominations yesterday from Carlow County Council and Roscommon County Council, Ms Scallon secured the nominations of Donegal County Council and Offaly County Council bringing her t Longford County Council have also voted to nominated Ms Scallon for the Presidency, bringing her to five nominations the same number she attained in 1997.otal to...
Eight councils are still to meet before the deadline at midday on Wednesday to discuss nominations for the Presidency. Below is the timeline of the council meetings and who they will be discussing. Both Senator David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon are both short two nominations to contest the election. Tuesday, 10am Donegal County Council will be the first council to meet and they will only discuss a motion supporting Dana Rosemary. Back in 1997 Donegal was one of...
It has been an interesting day in terms of council nominations for the Presidential Election and it looks like this could drag out until Wednesday morning! Senator Norris started off well by receiving the nomination from Laois County Council, but then things started going downhill. Carlow County Council ended up being tied between Senator David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon. The vote then came down to the casting vote of the Chair who voted for Dana. That was Dana’s first nomination...
After a meeting last night with supporters Mattie McGrath TD has decided not to sign the nomination papers for Senator David Norris, this means that focus until Wednesday midday will focus on the 12 councils meeting this week. Note: Information on days of meeting and motions before them are from the fabulous plaintalking.ie blog by Andrea Pappin Monday 26th Four councils are meeting today. Laois County Council and South Dublin County Council will be meeting to discuss motions supporting...
Shane Ross has become the 18th Oireachtas member to sign the nomination papers for Senator David Norris to contest the Presidential Election. He is now just two signatures short for the nomination from Oireachtas members. Where will he get those two signatures is the big question. Michael Lowry TD, Mattie McGrath TD and Senator Martin McAleese have all been mentioned as possible signatories but will it happen? If he cannot get the 20 it is most likely that he...
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