Fine Gael’s Frances Fitzgerald, Labour’s Alex White, Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews, Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan, Green Party’s Ciarán Cuffe and Independents 4 Change’s Clare Daly
This morning.
At Buswells Hotel on Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.
Six Dublin MEP candidates – Fine Gael’s Frances Fitzgerald, Labour’s Alex White, Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews, Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan, Green Party’s Ciarán Cuffe and Independents 4 Change’s Clare Daly – took part in an election debate hosted by the Association of European Journalists.
It was moderated by RTÉ’s Eileen Dunne.
The Irish Examiner‘s political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith attended.
He observed:
Earlier: Blue Wave
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Awful shame the ant-vaxxer racist conspiracy nut wasn’t there.
To be fair, there’s at least 3 of them and they’re only polling a combined 1%.
Could you imagine having to deal with the nutjobbery of Creepy Eamon, Gemtrails, Hermannnnnn and Gilroy in one room?
Awful debates so far on TV, was this one this morning streamed or will it be available for general viewing?
I think Frances must be using a body double lads
She doesn’t look a bit like her campaign poster
Btw herself and Durkan 29% of 1st Prefs?
My
rhymes with poll
They are
Shur’ Brian Hayes took 15% ish last time in the 1st count
And was still well short of the quota when he was deemed elected
No effin’ way have the Blueshurts managed to double that showing in the last 5 years
Head on block
4 seats – Lynn/ Frances/ Barry/ and Clare
Durkans transfers to hoist Frances into the 2nd placed finisher
With a savage
Even onto Brisco / Byrne levels of recounts for that last ‘brexit escrow’ seat
Between Cuffe and Higgins
Maybe White too
But very hard to call
Although Cuffe and Higgins have the advantage over White imo
Cuffe is in the footsteps of Eamonn Ryan
And herself has the Name recognition thing going for her
So if there’s sleeping labour votes …. My guess that’s where they’re gonta end up
But that count centre is going t’ be Battle for Winterfell stuff
Can’t wait
“Ms Fitzgerald…says she would welcome funding on housing from EU,”
And what would FG do with it?
Give it to their pals in the private sector.
Use it to reduce taxes on REITs or high earners. That’ll help the free market sort things out surely.
Its what they’ve done for the last 5 years, why change course now?
– https://www.rte.ie/news/eu-candidates-2019/2019/0424/1045396-allan-j-brennan/
You can’t be what you can’t see.