Alright lads, only a few weeks to go to the local elections and just wondering what the general consensus is out there amongst our group? Votes are private and will close before the 5th June, Election date.
theres a lad literally living round the corner from me thats independent so ive no shame in saying ill give him number 1 i think its more important at council level to look after your immidiate area as regards voting as opposed to following your party leanings
I agree with you re local issues but unfortunatly these are base jumps for dail seats. Imo it will be the most interesting locals to be had in years.
I sent an email to www.registertovote.ie regarding voting if you are out of the country. Two weeks later I've yet to get a reply. Does anyone know what the situation is if you are away on holiday?
From what limited research Ive done, it seems you are able to do it in Northern Ireland, but not in the Republic. I asked one of the councillors who came to the door canvassing and he hadn't a clue. Especially as ill be away on international duty in Bulgaria!
If you are on holidays tough luck im afraid unless you are registered for a postal vote for reasons of work college etc..
I'm normally a Fianna Fáil man, but they actually have the cheek to put up candidates i've never heard of before, and further don't even live in the area, rather their address given is the co council...
A good friend of mine is running in the Cabra Glasnevin area for Sinn Fein, I have been doing a lot of work to help him as I've spent the year on work experience with him. So I'll be going Sinn Fein. Independants in my area are not worth a wank, Perry the anti bin tax rebel, went and paid his bin tax in his wifes name, and you've the less fortunate, less well off people facing the courts now PRICK! Fianna Fail don't know what their doing up my way, Maurice Ahearn should be in an old folks home, knocked on my door the other day and before he said anything " Sorry Bertie isn't with me today", Trying to get elected on the back of a no good fcukin scrounger, he was ran from my garden. Seaghan kearney is running for Fianna Fail also, he's young, preaching about fcukin people been broke, the man is a school teacher and DJ now, he's looking for a 3rd job. Mary FitzPatrick doesn't even wanna be in Fianna Fail, she would go independent if she could afford to. So there a joke. Never in my life would I vote for those fcukin Neo Nazi's Fine Gael. Greens are yes men who will never get a vote for me. I don't wanna pay tax for breathing so Labour on't get a vote. So basically when it comes to Local election it willl be fun, when it comes back around to the generals, well were all gonna be fcuked as there's not a party nor combination of parties in this country at present capable of running it. However by then Fianna Fail will be after sliming their way back into the good books and get re-elected...People will never learn, If you vote Fianna Fail you've no right to complain about the state of the country, and your 1% now 2% soon to be 5% tax levy. Give me a break
I don't want to criticise you on your views because everyones entitled to their own opinion but sounds like you have been a bit warped by the Sinn Féin mentality. To me their usual style of politics is to give out about everyone around them which tends to hide and overshadow there own policies. This is exactly what you have done here rather than state something good about your friend and why he should be elected.
Would agree 100%, especially the comment about Fine Gael being neo nazis! and this coming from a Sinn Fein supporter...
i could be wrong on this but i'm almost certain a few years ago a sitting SF councillor from the cabra area who was "opposed" to the bin charges voted in favour of the council's budget proposals for the year which included revenue from the bin charges...