Well lads and lassies.... The debate is over and its now time to do your duty...I would ask all of you to make that effort, no matter how annoyed or pissed off you are with politics and politicians, to get out and cast your vote tomorrow. The events in this country over the last fifteen years and, in particular, the last four leave me in no doubt that everyone should let it be known how they feel especially for those who have friends or relatives who had to go abroad in search of better prospects....
Agree 100% - Do vote, it's vital the population all have a say - Don't spoil your vote, there are plenty of candidates to pick from, so even if you don't like anyone in particular, give your No 1 preference to the candidate who offends you the least etc. IMHO, anyone who doesn't vote has absolutely no right to bitch and moan about the outcome, given they didn't take the opportunity to try and influence the outcome.
Id go a little further than that, and say anyone who doesnt vote, is giving up their right to complain about taxes, high prices, low wages etc. People fought and died for our right to vote. People should be proud to have a right to vote and potentially make a difference. I understand some people are still miffed over the Lisbon treaty and being made vote twice, and how undemocratic and farcical it was. But that wont happen again.
Spot on!...and have a read of this before you vote: The Single Transferable Vote - how the system works http://www.thejournal.ie/the-single-...-works-2011-2/ this is probably the most important bit: Dr Jane Suiter, politics lecturer in UCC, says it’s important for people to vote for the candidates they want to be elected as their first and second choices on the ballot. However, if you want to make sure your vote travels, she said, then in number one you need to put someone who is likely to be either eliminated quickly or elected quickly, so that their votes or surplus votes are transferred. If you vote for somebody that’s in the race for the last seat as your first preference, then your vote probably won’t travel.
The text of the Easter Proclamation Proclamation of the Irish Republic, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916.Poblacht na h Éireann.[1] The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic To the people of Ireland. IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory. We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a foreign people and government has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Irish people. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty: six times during the past three hundred years[2] they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and again asserting it in arms in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades-in-arms to the cause of its freedom, of its welfare, and its exaltation among the nations. The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally, and oblivious of the differences carefully fostered by an alien government, which have divided a minority from the majority in the past. Until our arms have brought the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent National Government, representative of the whole people of Ireland and elected by the suffrages of all her men and women, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the people. We place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God, Whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity, or rapine. In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valour and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
http://irishexaminer.com/images/proclamationfullsize.jpg The Proclamation Of Dependence. This is what we have become..sadly. But to vote is crucial.
Not sure if i can vote.. I moved out of me folks gaf about 3 years ago and didn't tell anyone cos not too far away and go home regulary for post and what not.. I got a polling card there for the by-elections not so long ago but not this time.. Me brother says he think he remembers someone calling last year seeing who was still living in the house and he didn't say i was living there..
You don't need a voting card just a photo id. You could go to where you voted last time and see if you can vote.
Yeah i know that, but just wondering would they have taken me off the registrar to vote there, I hope not
Same Here I think the hole voting system is a joke there is an african person in my job doin work experience ,Nice Chap en all , he is living in the country 2 and a half years now Nothin against the Guy but he got a voting card in the post a couple of weeks ago wat the F*ck is up with that not even an irish citizen and he gets a voting card . IMO the whole system is F*cked up
Sure he must of got citizenship or he couldn't vote, he either is a citizen or he's telling you porkies..
Needs to be a Irish citizen to vote in General election, Non-EU citizens may vote at local elections only. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/e...to_the_irish_system/right_to_vote.html#l862a3