After thinking about all the tweets and facebooking from the Irish Presidential Candidates, I decided to ask them if they would contine use Twitter/Facebook if they were elected President of the Republic of Ireland. I asked the question on Twitter initially, but then posted it also on the candidates Facebook to give them all a fair chance of responding. These are the respons in the order I have recieved them and on what medium they responded on. Mary Davis -...
Tomorrow the Sunday Business Post have a Red C poll for the Presidential Election. The comparison is with the Red C poll for Paddy Power on October 6th. The field work for this poll was done between Monday and Wednesday so does not include any changes, if any, after the Prime Time debate. Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 39% (+18) Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 27% (+2) McGuinness, Martin (SF) 13% (-3) Mitchell, Gay (FG) 8% (-2) Norris, David (Ind) 7% (-7)...
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...
Senator David Norris this evening secured his fourth and final nomination to contest the Irish Presidential Election. Dublin City Council joined Fingal County Council, Laois County Council and Waterford City Council and gave a nomination to the Senator. Senator Norris took the longest to get a nomination due to withdrawing earlier in the race and then re-entering. How this will pan out during the campaign will be interesting. He along with Dana Rosemary Scallon both secured their nominations from...
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...
The Sunday Business Post has two polls for us about the Irish Presidential Election. It has one poll with the 5 nominated candidates so far and one poll with the 7 candidates who will most likely be on the ballot on October 27th. In the 5 Candidate poll the 1st preference vote would look as follows: Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 27% McGuinness, Martin (SF) 20% Davis, Mary (Ind) 20% Mitchell, Gay (FG) 15% Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 15% This poll...
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