Yearly Archives: 2016

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Michael Noonan at the Limerick Count Centre last night

Michael Noonan has this morning taken one of the last two seats in Limerick city..

Frilly Keane writes:

A media blackout on Noonan was in place until the call…In the end it was 393 Surplus transfers from Shinner Maurice Quinlivan that actually got him elected (without reaching the quota BTW )

So here’s what I want ta’ know, will Miriam [O’Callaghan] be asking Michael Noonan to say thank you to Sinn Féin?

Previously: Grace, Noonan And Monageer

Pic Eric Clarke

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The final leaders’ debate on RTÈ on Wednesday night

The national broadcaster and the main papers kept the distorted coverage going.

Gene Kerrigan, in today’s Sunday Independent, writes:

Reporting on its exit poll [on Friday night], the Irish Times said, “An inconclusive outcome does not even begin to describe what we are left with.”

Ah, now, lads, come on.

You can come to that conclusion only if you’ve totally swallowed the propaganda that this election was about stability versus chaos…

…Fine Gael and Labour asset-stripped the people in order to implement policies which Michael Noonan, in opposition, said were not only unfair but obscenely so.

And then declared themselves the parties of stability.

And the media obliged by selling that message with ferocious zeal.

No one is more gullible than the media when convinced it’s doing a public service by sucking up to those in power.

…The most significant media intervention was RTÉ’s decision to frame the election as an exercise in which the four top parties were supposed to generate the makings of another of those Penny-farthing Coalitions..

…By cutting out everything but the four top parties, in the last debate before the vote, RTÉ obscured the reality of the election – and did so deliberately.

As I type this, I have one ear glued to RTÉ radio as the results come in. An expert has just explained that Enda and Joan made a mess of the TV debate because they failed to mount enough attacks on Gerry Adams.

…Enda and Joan and Micheal Martin could hardly have assaulted the poor bastard more grievously without tying him down with piano wire and pouring molten wax on his nipples.

Welcome to slowly evolving change (Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent)

Previously: Ireland’s Biggest problem Is RTÉ, Says Max Keiser

(RTÉ)

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RTÉ reports:

A number of refugees have been found in a truck in Co Waterford.

It is understood up to nine people were discovered in the truck on the Waterford to New Ross road this afternoon.

Some of the refugees are believed to have been taken to University Hospital Waterford.

Sadly familiar.

Meanwhile, in Dublin earlier…

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Demonstrators gathered at the Ha’penny Bridge in Dublin to call for safe passage routes for those seeking refugee protection.

Similar protests took places in cities across Europe today.

Refugees found in truck in Co Waterford (RTE)

Pic: RTE and Irish Refugee Council

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Fiona Gartland tweetz:

Kildare North: Catherine Murphy elected on the first count.

Meanwhile, earlier…

And in Wicklow…

Wicklow: Stephen Donnelly on verge of election on first count (Irish Times)

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This afternoon.

Inistioge, Co Kilkenny.

Thanks SL

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Former Fianna Fáil TD Pat Carey at the Phibblestown Community Hall count centre in Blanchardstown, Dublin

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Former Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins looking over PJ Lennon’s shoulder at the Phibblestown Community Hall count centre in Blanchardstown, Dublin

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Fine Gael TD and candidate Richard Bruton at the RDS count centre in Ballsbridge, Dublin 

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Sinn Féin TD and candidate Dessie Ellis at the RDS count centre

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Labour TD and candidate Kevin Humphreys at the RDS count centre

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Green Party candidate Eamon Ryan at RDS count centre

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Independent Bernie Hughes at the RDS count centre

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Independent candidate Mannix Flynn at the RDS count centre

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Sinn Féin candidate Eoin Ó Broin at the count centre in Citywest 

This morning.

Candidates and supporters gather for the counts.

Meanwhile, in Dublin West…

In Kildare North…

In Tipperary…

In Dublin Central…

In Cork North Central…

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Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath speaks to media in Cork City Hall.

Meanwhile…

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Soc Dem co-leader Roisin Shorthall, who looks set to top the poll in Dublin North West, at the RDS this morning.

Rolingnews and Mike