Got this via text: Our Enda, who art in Mayo. Hallowed be thy Fine Gael, Thy election won. Thy will be done in Dublin as it is in Carlow. Give us this day our weekly cheese and forgive us for Bertie, as we forgive Michael Lowry and Michael Noonan. And lead us not into Brussels, but deliver us from the IMF. Amen.
So tonight its all about the preparation for the tally tomorrow. I have to be in the concert hall in Cork City Hall. I shall be doing the tally for Cork South Central but Cork North Central will be counted in the same hall. I will be trying to keep people updated on both counts on twitter. Keep an eye on the #tags #CNC and #CSC Check out Mamanpoulet.com for more ways to follow the counts tomorrow. Also there...
The last few Thursdays I have been interviewed for a Radio show. This is this mornings interview where they made me make a prediction on the election. I made the following prediction: Fine Gael 79 Labour 35 Fianna Fail 22 Sinn Fein 16 Greens 0 Independents 15 Whats your prediction? I will be responding to the election on the show on Monday. Tune in around 9:30am thurs 24 feb show stephen spillane Related articles Election 2011: End of Showtime...
A bit late in reporting on this poll but I was working and canvassing! So to the topline figures: Fianna Fail 15% (-1) Fine Gael 40% (+1) Labour 18% (+1) Green Party 3% (+1) Sinn Fein 10% (-1) Others 14% (-1) Some minor changes from Sundays poll, but it is still quite interesting. Fine Gael are still holding their ground and the Greens have moved back up to the top of the margin of error range! Fianna Fail, Sinn...
The second last poll of the campaign will be in the Irish Indepdent by Milward Brown. The topline figures are as follows: Fianna Fail 14% (-2) Fine Gael 38% (+1) Labour 20% (nc) Green Party 1% (nc) Sinn Fein 11% (-1) Others 16% (+2) An interesting poll. Shows that Fine Gael are holding strong. Labour have managed to halt their slide, while Fianna Fail have lost some of the support they had regained. It will be interesting to see...
There have been a few questions asked about the Election Broadcasting Moratorium which is changing this year in comparison to previous elections. This year, broadcasters will be allowed to cover the election up until 2pm on Thursday. From the BAI Guidance Radio and television broadcasters shall observe a moratorium on coverage of an election. The moratorium will operate from 2pm on the day before the poll takes place and throughout the day of the poll itself until polling stations...
I noticed on the way to work a number of interesting posters that have made an appearance! So today I decided to take my camera with me on the way to work. Here are the pictures that I took! Some people have a great sense of humour! Know of more funny posters? Leave a link in comments!
I have a feeling we will have a few polls this week as in we enter the last lap and the Irish Times have an Ipsos MRBI poll in tomorrows paper. The topline figures are: Fianna Fail 16% (+1) Fine Gael 37% (+4) Labour 19% (-5) Greens 2% (+1) Sinn Fein 11% (-1) Others 15 (nc) This poll confirms the results of the polls in Sunday’s papers. Labour seem to have made a massive mistake in their camapign and...
Two polls today! Its like christmas! Sunday Business Post/Red C Poll Its five days to polling day and the Sunday Business Post have their last opinion poll of the campaign. The headline figures are as follows: Fianna Fail 16% (+1) Fine Gael 39% (+1) Labour 17% (-3) Greens 2% (-1) Sinn Fein 12% (+2) Independents 14% (NC) This poll shows some recovery for Fianna Fail and another advance for Fine Gael who are really approaching 40% and possible overall majority. This...
I did not expect to be adding to my diary today, but last night I got a text to say that Enda Kenny would be campaigning in Cork today. So I got up early to head into town to meet up the leaders tour. The rain was terrible, and the tour and run over time in the Simon Community and St Johns College so when Enda arrived we went to the English Market, that favourite of campaign stops when...
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