Following on from the last TNS/MRBI poll, the Sunday Business Post has a Red C poll today. It is a week early to avoid a bounce from the Fine Gael National Conference this weekend. The headline figures are: Fine Gael 35% (+2)Fianna Fáil 30% (+4)Labour 14% (-1)Sinn Féin 8% (-2)Inds 8% (no change)Greens 5% (-1) The poll also showed that around half of former PD voters will vote Fine Gael. h/t: Irish Election
So a thread over on Machine Nation got me thinking ahead to next June’s European Elections. Some parties, including the Greens, Labour and Sinn Fein have selected their candidates. FF are a foregone conclusion with FG the only major party left to select. Of course Kathy Sinnott will run again. Libertas who say it is “substantially correct” that they have registered as a European Political Party. So who is running (in no particular order):Labour (Party of European Socialists) are...
So we have had two major(ish) u-turns on the latest budget. One on medical cards, but still 5% of pensioners will lose their medical card and one on the 1% “Lenihan Levy” which means that if you earn €17,540 you don’t pay tax but if you earn €17,541 you do as P. O’Neil points out over in Irish Election. I’m still not happy with that as I work in retail so therefore have to work Sundays and public holidays...
I have written an article over on Newsvine on this. I have reproduced it below. The Governments decision to scrap automatic Medical Cards for the over-70′s is still reverberating around the News websites and the papers letters pages. I have heard one theory on why the Government is not backing down on this issue despite the disquiet on the backbenches and with the coalition partners. Do they want the Government to fall? This is my fathers theory. Basically Fianna...
The following were appointed: Dan Boyle (Green Party)Martin Brady (FF)Ivor Callely (FF)Ciaran Cannon (PD)Maria Corrigan (FF)Deirdre de Burca (Green Party)John Ellis (FF)Eoghan HarrisLisa McDonald (FF)Brian Ó’Domhnaill (FF)Fiona O’Malley (PD) Also Senator Donie Cassidy has been appointed Leader of the Seanad. Leo Varadkar was quick off the mark with a press release below. I’d kinda agree with it, though you can’t expect hime to be reforming on it! IMO Taoiseach blows opportunity to appoint genuinely independent voicesto Seanad – Varadkar...
Well the Govt. have effectively sounded the death knell for this bill. They have tabled a reasoned amendment to the bill delaying the second stage for 6 months, well beyond the life of the current Dáil, meaning the bill will fall when the election is called. Please lobby your Fianna Fail and Progressive Democrat TD’s to oppose the amendment!
People of Cork cannot trust FF & PDs, Fine Gael Cork South Centralcandidate Cllr Jerry Buttimer has said: ‘The decision by the FF/PDGovernment not to honour its public commitment and promise to deliverCork Airport as completely debt-free is another example of Cork andthe people of Cork being marginalised’. ‘The people of Cork can no longer trust Fianna Fáil and the PDs.Their hollow empty words and promises are false rhetoric. Again wehave another example of false promises by Fianna Fáil...
got this off a friend I’m sure you’ve seen or heard about the IMS poll in the Tribune yesterday. FF – 39FG – 22Lab – 12PD – 5Green – 5SF – 7Others – 10 IMS did similar polls during the 2002 general election, and their predictions were woeful. 2 days before the election they had a poll which had FF on 50% (they got 41% on the day) and had FG on 18% (we got 22.5%). This crazy margin...
Maidin Maith againn!!! An nuacht ar an maidin seo! Well the bastards (Bus Eireann) put up their fairs today and i didnt even know! really pissed off!!! Had the exact change ready and it had gone up. I last got a bus on firday and they had no signs up! Any back on the news Breakingnews reports on the confusion been made by Pat Rabbitte on wheather or not he would enter a coalition with FF. RTÉ reports on...
Not in a Million Years!
Every time there is an election I always give Fianna Fail a look to see if I would give them a preference and next year in the Local’s and Europeans a fairly high preference is on offer due to the fact there is only one FG candidate in Cork South Central LEA and Ireland Euro South constituency, but after yesterdays budget not in a million years will Fianna Fail get a preference, no matter how measly from me. The...
Read more »