So with the campaigning underway and nominations coming in, Paddy Power has commissioned RED C to undertake an opinion poll for the Presidential Election. The results are interesting and changes are from the last RED C Poll in August. Micheal D Higgins (Lab) 36% (-3) Gay Mitchell (FG) 24% (-1) Sean Gallagher (Ind) 21% (nc) Mary Davies (Ind) 19% (+4) The only candidate to rise in the poll is Mary Davies, which may show some momentum in the campaign...
Remember during the expense scandal in the UK that the big issue was over the “flipping” of the designations of first and second homes. Well it would seem that two Fianna Fail Senators were doing just that over here. Ivor Callely, who could be expelled from the Fianna Fail Parliamentry Party over his flipping of his homes. Despite his home being in Dublin, Mr Callely was claiming his expenses based on his second home in West Cork. It now...
Image via Wikipedia I read two posts (Jason and Tadhg) over the weekend about the Labour Party conference in Galway. It made me realise one thing. Fine Gael cannot work with Labour to better this country! In the next election, the main battle will be between Labour and Fine Gael. They will be fighting to pick up seats from Fianna Fail, who will be desperately trying to hold on to them. This is especially true in Dublin where Fianna Fail...
There seems to be a bit of talk about Electoral Reform lately going around and the possibility of it being in the new FG policy. As someone who would like to see the Seanad replaced with an elected body, by a PR List, possibly national or regional, Jason O’Mahony, who I normally agree with, raises a better idea for the using the List System within the Dáil elections. The only part I disagree with him is the idea of...
Image via Wikipedia The Statement: Statement by Trevor Sargent TD A Ceann Chomhairle, I thank you for the opportunity to explain to the House the circumstances of the clinic enquiry I received in June 2008 relating to an assault in September 2007 which were partially reported in the media this afternoon. A victim of an assault came to me to voice his frustration at the slow progress being made with a case where he alleged he had been head-butted...
Image via Wikipedia So now Trevor Sargent is accused of acting improperly in a criminal case. The Minister of State is the latest in a long line of accusations to have hit the Government. The latest of course being the resignation of Willie O’Dea. While many would have assumed the Green Party were above all this type of stuff but it turns out, being in Government with Fianna Fail may have taught them some bad habits. If Sargent was...
Image via Wikipedia So what do three of the above have in common at the moment? To me they represent why Fianna Fail is no longer fit to govern. O’Dea lied under oath, and was forced to resign. Coughlan thinks young people emigrate for fun and theres the whole Hanger 6 debacle Ahern was cheerleader in chief for O’Dea and he is the Justice Minister! This government is beyond itself. It is out of ideas. It has no idea...
Last night I attended the GLEN briefing on the Civil Partnership Bill, hosted by the Cork Gay Project and L.inc. It was a very interesting meeting and I certainly learned a lot! We were given a 3 booklets on the Bill and I am currently working my way through them and they are fascinating. The speakers were Eoin Collins, Director of Policy Change at Glen and Dr Fergus Ryan, head of Law at DIT. A few things struck me...
Its polling day! The polls are now open so if you haven’t decided who to vote for read some of these posts: A vote for Labour is a vote for Fianna Fáil – Mulley.net How to vote to hurt Fianna Fail without helping Sinn Fein. – jasonomahony.ie Why Vote Fine Gael – StephenSpillane.com (I’ll update this post as the day goes on)
So further on from my last post here are the full topline figures of the Irish Times TNS/MRBI poll: Fine Gael 36% – 2% Labour 23% +3% Fainna Fáil 20% -1% Sinn Fein 8% -1% Green Party 3% = Independents 10% +1% So Fianna Fail are definately dropping while the Greens have halted their slide, for now. Sinn Fein are down one point, which could hurt Mary Lou’s chances. We have to wait till Satuday for the Euro-Poll. It...
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