2011 General Election

#SE11: Labour Panel

April 28, 2011
By Stephen
#SE11: Labour Panel

The Seanad elections are continuing today and the count for the Labour Panel took place yesterday and concluded last night. There was 21 candidates for 11 seats. 4 candidates had to be elected on each sub-panel. The following were elected: Maurice Cummins (FG) 1st Count (outside panel) Healy-Eames, Fidelma (FG) 4th Count (inside panel) Maloney, Maire (Lab) 6th Count (outside panel) Cullinane, David (SF) 9th Count (inside panel) Mulcahy, Tony (FG) 13th Count (inside panel) Keane, Cait (FG) 13th...

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#SE11: Cultural and Education Panel

April 27, 2011
By Stephen
#SE11: Cultural and Education Panel

The count for the Cultural and Educational Panel came to a close yesterday evening with 5 candidates elected. They were in the following order: Clune, Deridre (FG)  10th Count (inside panel) Ó’Murchú, Labhras (FF) 13th Count (outside panel) Byrne, Thomas (FF) 13th Count (inside panel) Gilroy, John (Lab) 14th Count (inside panel) Mullins , Michael (FG) 14th Count (outside panel) Mullins was elected without reaching the quota. Personally I am delighted to see that Clune was elected to the...

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#SE11: Cultural and Educational Count 1 Result

April 26, 2011
By Stephen

Number of candidates: 17 Number of seats: 5 Total poll: 1065 Quota:  178 Results: BOYHAN, Victor 44 (44,000) BYRNE, Thomas 129 (129,000) CLUNE, Deirdre 103 (103,000) DELANEY, Conor 16 (16,000 GILROY, John 157 (157,000) HOGAN, Nichola 27 (27,000) IRISH, Anne-Maria 25 (25,000) KENNDY, Pat 32 (32,000) McCARTIN,  John 68 (68,000) MULLINS, Michael 78 (78,000) O’DEA, Jim 11 (11,000) Ó MURCHÚ, Labhrás 104 (104,000) ORMONDE, Ann 66 (66,000) QUINLAN, Hilary 47 (47,000) QUINN, Liam 23 (23,000) TORMEY, Bill 49 (49,000)...

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#SE11: Count 1 Tally Results.

April 26, 2011
By Stephen

Here are the first tally results for the Cultural and Education Panel: 1. Gilroy Lab 157 2. Byrne FF 129 3. O Murchu FF 105 4. Clune FG 103 5. Walsh FF 85 6. Mullins FG 77 7. McCartin FG 68 8. Ormonde FF 66 9. Tormey FG 49 10. Quinlan FG 47 11. Boyhan IND 44 12. Kennedy FG 32 13. Hogan FG 27 14. Irish FG 25 15. Quinn FG 23 16. Delaney FG 16 17. O’Dea...

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#SE11: Culture and Educational Panel

April 26, 2011
By Stephen
#SE11: Culture and Educational Panel

The sorting of ballots for the Vocational Panels for elections to Seanad Eireann has been completed in Leinster House. It is expected that the first count will get underway at around 2:15pm. From the sorting of votes we know the following: 1073 ballots recieved 4 rejected Valid poll 1069 The first panel to be counted will be the Culture and Educational. This is a 5 seat panel and there are 18 candidates. This is split as 13 on the...

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Coveney, Creighton and Europe

March 15, 2011
By Stephen
Coveney, Creighton and Europe

A lot of people mentioned to me that were surprised that Simon Coveney was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food. To me it was no surprise, not only is Simon popular with farmers, in a Red C Poll for the Irish Farmers Journal Simon was the most popular candidate for Agriculture Minister, but he has European experience. The majroity of legislations, rules and payments relating to Agriculture comes from the European Union through the Common Agriculture Policy. This...

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Fantasy Cabinet 2011

March 4, 2011
By Stephen
Fantasy Cabinet 2011

Over on the Irish Times Blog Deaglán De Bréadún has a fantasy cabinet and is looking for suggestions for the new Fine Gael/Labour Government that will be appointed next Wednesday. Here is my go at it: Taoiseach: Enda Kenny (FG) Tainiste and Foreign Affairs: Eamonn Gilmore (Lab) Finance: Michael Noonan (FG) Enterprise: Joan Burton (Lab) Public Sector Reform: Richard Bruton (FG) Education: Ruairi Quinn (Lab) Social Protection: Rosin Shorthall (Lab) Agriculture: John Perry (FG) Justice: Brendan Howlin (Lab) Communications,...

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Diary of a Canvasser: Its all over

March 2, 2011
By Stephen
Diary of a Canvasser: Its all over

So that last week of the flew by and before I knew it I was voting an tallying the results! I had a very long weekend awaiting results, but for a change in a national election, the results had me and others shocked. We knew Fine Gael were going to do well, but we didnt think we were going to do *this* well. It was amazing to see Fine Gael Candidates who I had met over the years topping the poll...

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Prayer to Enda

February 28, 2011
By Stephen
Prayer to Enda

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.  

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Preparing for the Count

February 25, 2011
By Stephen
Preparing for the Count

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...

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