POLITICIANS: We don't think climate change needs to be on the #GE24 agenda.
THE RIVER FEALE: I'm going to put it back on the agenda.
https://www.thejournal.ie/flooding-kerry-listowel-evacuated-6552671-Nov2024/
POLITICIANS: We don't think climate change needs to be on the #GE24 agenda.
THE RIVER FEALE: I'm going to put it back on the agenda.
https://www.thejournal.ie/flooding-kerry-listowel-evacuated-6552671-Nov2024/
I thought I knew who would be on Friday’s ballot paper from looking at posters on poles, and from leaflets through the letterbox (only one candidate has turned up in person). But using #WhichCandidate I realised about a 1/3 of the candidates in my constituency are unpreferrable to me in every way, and about 3 or 4 were unknown to me. WhichCandidate helped me make a plan for Friday #IrePol #IrishPol #GE2024 #DBN #Mastodaoine #GE24 #IrelandVotes
From: @lexiconista
https://mastodon.ie/@lexiconista/113545287758245995
What's your plan to go vote?
Our ballot papers arrived, I will be going to vote with my adult kids.
We plan to go around 6pm.
If you make a plan, you are more likely to go vote.
We need a good turn out, despite the weather & dark.
Dear #mastodaoine
If you find it hard to track which nazi candidates to vote out in this upcoming election, look no further!
Our little fascist friends did a great job of compiling a list of racist candidates in every constituency.
You know what to do!
P.S. Here is the link to the PDF version of the same list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VX-S0waDYqVqpD8mUQX1HSCRvUaTmlav/view
A handy guide from the Abortion Rights Campaign to see your local candidates views on the issue of reproductive rights.
Here are the candidates in my local constituency of Dublin Bay South but you check out every constituency at https://tinyurl.com/nmkre7pz
Friday, 29 November is Election Day and it's also the Last Friday of the month which means #CriticalMassDub will roll at 6pm from Parnell Sq (opposite Hugh Lane Gallery)
Come and join us for some music & craic around the city's streets for approx 1hr of fun!
A lot of people have not received their polling card yet. Don't panic! You can vote without it. Use www.checktheregister.ie to confirm your polling station, then bring something that proves your identity (e.g. passport) to the polling station.
www.electoralcommission.ie/what-you-need-to-vote/
“It is alarming that the manifestos of the three parties vying to provide the next Taoiseach all failed this independent climate assessment. They all voted for the climate law and the binding limits on pollution adopted by the last Dáil. But their manifestos don’t contain polices to reduce emissions fast enough to meet those 2030 commitments." - Oisín Coghlan, Friends of the Earth
https://www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labour-tops-manifesto-assessment-on-climate-the-three-larges/
This is the sort of absurdity which underlines the fecklessness of the recent budget, loads of tax cuts for the middle-classes but no funds to repair a school roof.
Wicklow school holding classes in 'storage rooms' after dept deny funding to fix faulty roof
https://www.thejournal.ie/wicklow-special-education-class-faulty-roof-6548903-Nov2024/
@franoreilly Hah! Nice work, and the right decision. Can I have a guess at which party?
Notwithstanding what the various parties are saying before the election I think the only coalition pairings we can definitively rule out are FG with SF and PBP-Solidarity with FF or FG.
Although, I think it would also be unlikely to see centre-left/left parties in the same coalition as Independent Ireland or Aontú.
This poll, like most others, doesn't separate Independent Ireland out from the "Independents/Others" category. The only poll to date that has done that is the Red C/Business Post poll which has it varying from 3-5%.
I think that this opens up the worrying possibility of Independent Ireland and Aontú forming a social conservative alliance that could make up the numbers to support a coalition between two of the three larger parties i.e. FF/FG or FF/SF.
Some commentary on the proposed Centre Left Alliance here
A notable feature of the poll is how support for the parties changes once people are shown their ballot paper. FG and SF each go down by two percentage points while Aontú, Greens, Solidarity-PBP and Indos/others all increase by one percentage point.
This reflects, in part, the fact that FG have lost so many of their incumbents and are running less well known names in a lot of constituencies.
This poll makes a simple three-party coalition less likely. Possible permutations include:
FF/FG/II/Indos
FF/FG/Centre Left Alliance* (possibly without SocDems)
and perhaps less likely:
FF/SF/Centre Left Alliance
FF/SF/II/Aontú
*Centre Left Alliance as proposed by Labour leader Ivana Bačik would include Labour, Greens and SocDems negotiating as a single bloc but SocDems are not warm on this idea. Greens seem open to it. But of course everything can change once the results come out.
Poll reveals ‘Harris hop’ is now history, as Fine Gael falls four points in tight race