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#GE24

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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
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mastodon.ieMichal Měchura (@lexiconista@mastodon.ie)The best-spent fifteen minutes before the election: https://whichcandidate.ie/

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/

#GE24
#irishpolitics

“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

#GE24 #ClimateEmergency

friendsoftheearth.ie/news/labo

Climate grades GE 2024 manifestos
Friends of the Earth · Labour tops manifesto assessment on climate, the three largest parties all fail | Friends of the EarthCampaigners call for would-be Taoiseachs to be challenged on their party’s failure in Leaders’ Debate The Labour Party has come out on top in 

‼️#Irlanda 🇮🇪 - encuesta Ipsos (25N): 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗲𝗹 🔵 𝗮 𝗱𝗶́𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘀.

🟢 FF 21% (+2p)
☘️ SF 20% (+1p)
🔵 FG 19% (-6p)
🟣 SocDem 6% (+2p)
🌻 Greens 4% (+1p)
🔴 Lab 4% (-1p)
✊ S-PBP 3% (+1p)
🟤 Aontú 3%

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electomania.es #GE24

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

thejournal.ie/wicklow-special-

TheJournal.ie · Wicklow school holding classes in 'storage rooms' after dept deny funding to fix faulty roofA faulty roof at Wicklow Educate Together National School destroyed the special education classrooms and facilities.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

#GE24

*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.