Its all over. The candidates can lie in this morning as its now the turn of the political hacks who all across the country will be turning up to the count centres across the 43 constituencies to start tallying the Presidential Election. The boxes will be opened at 9am when the votes will be sorted and tallied. Then the Votes for the presidential election will be sorted. Once sorted the votes will be counted and the result sent to Dublin. We wont have...
After thinking about all the tweets and facebooking from the Irish Presidential Candidates, I decided to ask them if they would contine use Twitter/Facebook if they were elected President of the Republic of Ireland. I asked the question on Twitter initially, but then posted it also on the candidates Facebook to give them all a fair chance of responding. These are the respons in the order I have recieved them and on what medium they responded on. Mary Davis -...
A feature of any election campaign, is the election broadcasts. This year is no different. So far only broadcasts from Mary Davis and Sean Gallagher have been aired. I will endeavour to post the others as they are aired. Mary Davis She also has one as gaeilge Sean Gallagher Very different uses of the election broadcasts. It will be interesting to see what the other candidates come up with. Related articles Sean Gallagher is an Official Candidate (stephenspillane.com)
Tomorrow the Sunday Business Post have a Red C poll for the Presidential Election. The comparison is with the Red C poll for Paddy Power on October 6th. The field work for this poll was done between Monday and Wednesday so does not include any changes, if any, after the Prime Time debate. Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 39% (+18) Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 27% (+2) McGuinness, Martin (SF) 13% (-3) Mitchell, Gay (FG) 8% (-2) Norris, David (Ind) 7% (-7)...
Its been a busy week here and I have managed to miss to polls that were published last Thursday, the 6th of October. The first poll was in the Irish Times and was carried out by Ipsos MRBI. The figures were as follows: Higgins, Michael D (Lab) 23% Gallagher, Sean (Ind) 20% McGuinness, Martin (SF) 19% Davis, Mary (Ind) 12% Norris, David (Ind) 11% Mitchell, Gay (FG) 9% Scallon, Dana Rosemary (Ind) 6% In the second poll by Red...
As with every election campaign, I am out on the streets and talking up my preferred candidate or cause. This time out, just like with Lisbon 2, I have left Fine Gael behind to support a different group. If you weren’t aware, I am supporting Mary Davis for the Irish Presidency. There are many reasons for this. but I think she is best placed to represent Ireland abroad and to engage Irish communities at home. On Friday I went on my...
As the Campaign gets under way the attention turns from the nomination process to the debates. RTÉ and TV3 have organisied debates on Radio and TV. No sign yet of an Irish Debate on TG4, or news if Newstalk or any other station have organised one yet. And the debates are: Wednesday 28th September. 1pm, RTÉ News at One. RTÉ Radio One 9:35pm Primetime, RTÉ One Friday, 30th September 9:35pm The Late Late Show, RTÉ One Tuesday, October 4th...
Senator David Norris this evening secured his fourth and final nomination to contest the Irish Presidential Election. Dublin City Council joined Fingal County Council, Laois County Council and Waterford City Council and gave a nomination to the Senator. Senator Norris took the longest to get a nomination due to withdrawing earlier in the race and then re-entering. How this will pan out during the campaign will be interesting. He along with Dana Rosemary Scallon both secured their nominations from...
This afternoon Dana Rosemary Scallon secured the nomination of her fourth council ens uring her appearance on the ballot paper on October 27th. Following on from the nominations yesterday from Carlow County Council and Roscommon County Council, Ms Scallon secured the nominations of Donegal County Council and Offaly County Council bringing her t Longford County Council have also voted to nominated Ms Scallon for the Presidency, bringing her to five nominations the same number she attained in 1997.otal to...
Eight councils are still to meet before the deadline at midday on Wednesday to discuss nominations for the Presidency. Below is the timeline of the council meetings and who they will be discussing. Both Senator David Norris and Dana Rosemary Scallon are both short two nominations to contest the election. Tuesday, 10am Donegal County Council will be the first council to meet and they will only discuss a motion supporting Dana Rosemary. Back in 1997 Donegal was one of...
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