Elections in Ireland.

Post by **faceless** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 5:29 pm

The Socialist Party has won its first Parliamentary seat in Ireland. Well done to Joe Higgins in West Dublin. And there's still a lot more seats to declare.

[web]https://www.rte.ie/news/election2011/results/index.html[/web]

dmrtn · Post by **dmrtn** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 8:05 pm

Looks like there are 5 TDs (Irish for MPs) under the general banner of the United Left Alliance.

Joe Higgins - Dublin West
Clare Daly - Dublin North
Joan Collins - Dublin South Central
Seamus Healy - South Tipperary
Richard Boyd Barrett - Dun Laoghaire

luke · Post by **luke** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:05 pm

this would only matter if there was a real functioning democracy, but as this article puts it 'the terms of the EU-IMF bailout must be applied whatever the will of Ireland's people or regardless of any change of government' and 'Irish voters are not a party in this process'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... th-EU.html

so, vote for who you want, doesn't matter :greatbigmiddlefingertoirishvoters:

Post by **faceless** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:42 am

That might be somewhat true Luke, but it's good to see the Irish turning more to the left than the right.