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Wave elections in Ireland
In the past 150 years, there have been three significant wave elections in Ireland, which featured a significant change in the rank order of political parties since the previous election and a medium-...
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How to win when you lose
Brian Cowen was clearly going to win yesterday’s confidence motion. That was obvious when he tabled the motion, which he wouldn’t have done had he not been sure after talking to the TDs that he safely...
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Ambition in government
My feeling is that the electorate is looking for a new government that is serious about implement a consistent policy platform. Politicians in Labour have settled into thinking of the next government...
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Paddy Power constituency betting – 4 Feb
Paddy Power finally have odds for candidates in all constituencies listed on their site. They are playing it safe, with more candidates at evens or below than there are seats in quite a few...
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Debate on cannabis and other drugs
Paddy Power are now putting Luke “Ming” Flanagan as one of those likely to get a seat in Roscommon–South Leitrim, behind sitting Fine Gael TDs Frank Feighan and Denis Naughten. When he came to...
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Formation of government
Thankfully, we seem finally to have heard the end of the line of questioning that implied that Fine Gael and Labour should have put forward a joint policy platform so that people would know what they...
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Get on Board
One of the positive things about an election campaign, apart from any of the parties’ campaigns, is chance is gives groups to highlight particular issues which members of all parties can endorse but...
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Paddy Power Final seat tally
Below are the final estimations of seats based on constituency betting from Paddy Power. When compared with the estimation at the beginning of the campaign, there has been a clear shift to Fine Gael...
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Results day
Political nerds have a dilemma on election count days. There’s a choice between going to a count centre and seeing the votes as they come in or staying at home or at an election results party to see...
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Great Wicklow result
Precisely the five I’d have picked myself: Andrew Doyle (FG) – 16th count, Billy Timmins (FG) – 17th count, Simon Harris (FG) – 19th count, Anne Ferris (Lab) – 19th count and Stephen Donnelly (Ind) –...
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Independents in the Dáil
The final results are now in: 76 Fine Gael, 37 Labour, 20 Fianna Fáil, 14 Sinn Féin, 5 United Left Alliance and 14 Independents. It is a particularly good year for Independents, who since 1933 have...
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Geographical distribution of Taoiseach vote
On Wednesday, I saw my Independent TD Stephen Donnelly walk through the lobbies to vote for Enda Kenny, making Wicklow one of 7 constituencies where all TDs voted for him. It is one of the features...
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Parliamentary party size
Now that we have the full list of members of the Seanad and their party affiliations, we can make comparative chart between the sizes of parliamentary parties after this election and after the 2007...
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Dublin in 2011 with Boundaries from 2012 Constituency Commission
Here’s be my estimation of how the seats in Dublin at the last election would have gone under the proposed boundaries by the Constituency Commission released today. The purpose of this is really to...
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Wave elections in Ireland
In the past 150 years, there have been three significant wave elections in Ireland, which featured a significant change in the rank order of political parties since the previous election and a medium-...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to win when you lose
Brian Cowen was clearly going to win yesterday’s confidence motion. That was obvious when he tabled the motion, which he wouldn’t have done had he not been sure after talking to the TDs that he safely...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ambition in government
My feeling is that the electorate is looking for a new government that is serious about implement a consistent policy platform. Politicians in Labour have settled into thinking of the next government...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paddy Power constituency betting – 4 Feb
Paddy Power finally have odds for candidates in all constituencies listed on their site. They are playing it safe, with more candidates at evens or below than there are seats in quite a few...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Debate on cannabis and other drugs
Paddy Power are now putting Luke “Ming” Flanagan as one of those likely to get a seat in Roscommon–South Leitrim, behind sitting Fine Gael TDs Frank Feighan and Denis Naughten. When he came to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Formation of government
Thankfully, we seem finally to have heard the end of the line of questioning that implied that Fine Gael and Labour should have put forward a joint policy platform so that people would know what they...
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