This Column appeared in the Cork Independent on Thursday 26th May 2011 I joined Fine Gael in 2004. If someone told me on that day, that in seven years time Enda Kenny would be welcoming the British Queen and American President to Ireland as the leader of the largest party in Dáil Eireann and the Toaiseach of the largest Government Majority in coalition with Labour. I probably would have laughed in their face and said in your dreams. During...
Over on the Irish Times Blog Deaglán De Bréadún has a fantasy cabinet and is looking for suggestions for the new Fine Gael/Labour Government that will be appointed next Wednesday. Here is my go at it: Taoiseach: Enda Kenny (FG) Tainiste and Foreign Affairs: Eamonn Gilmore (Lab) Finance: Michael Noonan (FG) Enterprise: Joan Burton (Lab) Public Sector Reform: Richard Bruton (FG) Education: Ruairi Quinn (Lab) Social Protection: Rosin Shorthall (Lab) Agriculture: John Perry (FG) Justice: Brendan Howlin (Lab) Communications,...
Got this via text: Our Enda, who art in Mayo. Hallowed be thy Fine Gael, Thy election won. Thy will be done in Dublin as it is in Carlow. Give us this day our weekly cheese and forgive us for Bertie, as we forgive Michael Lowry and Michael Noonan. And lead us not into Brussels, but deliver us from the IMF. Amen.
The last few Thursdays I have been interviewed for a Radio show. This is this mornings interview where they made me make a prediction on the election. I made the following prediction: Fine Gael 79 Labour 35 Fianna Fail 22 Sinn Fein 16 Greens 0 Independents 15 Whats your prediction? I will be responding to the election on the show on Monday. Tune in around 9:30am thurs 24 feb show stephen spillane Related articles Election 2011: End of Showtime...
The second last poll of the campaign will be in the Irish Indepdent by Milward Brown. The topline figures are as follows: Fianna Fail 14% (-2) Fine Gael 38% (+1) Labour 20% (nc) Green Party 1% (nc) Sinn Fein 11% (-1) Others 16% (+2) An interesting poll. Shows that Fine Gael are holding strong. Labour have managed to halt their slide, while Fianna Fail have lost some of the support they had regained. It will be interesting to see...
I have a feeling we will have a few polls this week as in we enter the last lap and the Irish Times have an Ipsos MRBI poll in tomorrows paper. The topline figures are: Fianna Fail 16% (+1) Fine Gael 37% (+4) Labour 19% (-5) Greens 2% (+1) Sinn Fein 11% (-1) Others 15 (nc) This poll confirms the results of the polls in Sunday’s papers. Labour seem to have made a massive mistake in their camapign and...
I did not expect to be adding to my diary today, but last night I got a text to say that Enda Kenny would be campaigning in Cork today. So I got up early to head into town to meet up the leaders tour. The rain was terrible, and the tour and run over time in the Simon Community and St Johns College so when Enda arrived we went to the English Market, that favourite of campaign stops when...
I have finished another week on the door steps and this week saw me canvassing for Jerry Buttimer and Deridre Clune. On Monday we were out canvassing in Ballinlough for Jerry Buttimer and we got a good response. I got my first local issue on the door that night. Someone was giving out about City Council and the pothole outside their house. This was no ordinary pothole though! It was huge! So she had to complain! Thankfully Enda had...
There is a poll in todays Irish Daily Star (details from Journal.ie) by OI research. It is a telephone survey of a 1,000 voters on Sunday and Monday. The topline figures are as follows: Fine Gael 39 Labour 18 Fianna Fáil 17 Sinn Fein 10 Green Party 2 Independents/others 14 It is interesting to compare it to yesterdays poll in the independent which it dosent differ too differently from. Seats would be along the lines of Fianna Fail 31...
A new poll has been published in today’s Sunday Business Post by Red C. It shows that Fine Gael is +3% on last weeks at 38% showing that Enda’s non appearance on Tuesday night has not hurt him at all. The poll was done on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday should take good account of the Debate. Crucially Fianna Fail are down 2% to 15% showing a further deterioation in their support and nearly shows very little hope of a recovery...
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