Full recount and recheck in #IrelandSouth, requested by Liadh Ní Riada to begin at 9am tomorrow. @rtenews pic.twitter.com/zWTkZZet6o
— Paschal Sheehy (@PaschalSheehy) May 29, 2019
Tonight
Earlier…
Breaking: @BillyKelleherTD becomes the 2nd MEP elected in #IrelandSouth
— Brian O'Connell (@oconnellbrian) May 29, 2019
OMG with 500 votes in it @GraceOSllvn comes out just ahead of Liadh Ni Riada for the fifth and final seat. MY NERVES!!! #irelandsouth https://t.co/wVT1T80Zyj
— Carolyn Moore (@carolynmoore_ie) May 29, 2019
My reading of this is that Kellehers transfers should push Clune further into 4th place but not by much. Then Ni Riada will be eliminated and I presume her transfers will massively favour Wallace and O’Sullivan, knocking Clune back into fifth #irelandsouth https://t.co/c9Gbbjswss
— Conor Rock (@ConorRock) May 29, 2019
Escalating.
Earlier…
Count 18th in #IrelandSouth is expected to bring more drama, we are still awaiting the results, but @DeirdreCluneMEP appears to have picked up significant transfers, aprox 8,000, from @malcolmbyrne. @GraceOSllvn and @LiadhNiRiadaMEP may only get half that amount #iestaff
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 29, 2019
Tonight.
Earlier…
This evening.
via Olivia Kelleher:
Independent TD Mick Wallace chatting to a family member of Green Party Senator Grace O’Sullivan in Nemo Rangers Cork. Ireland South count continues…
Meanwhile…
Newly elected #Dublin MEP Clare Daly has arrived at the #IrelandSouth count to show support for her #Independents4Change colleague Mick Wallace, who looks likely to be elected on next count pic.twitter.com/MPxl0uiSm1
— Ed Davitt (@davitter) May 29, 2019
Earlier…
#Elections2019: O’Sullivan hails ‘miracle’ transfers as Clune back in the mix in Ireland South https://t.co/oaEIviatfI pic.twitter.com/4gqdbzzJXg
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 29, 2019
This evening.
Earlier…
#IrelandSouth gossip update – next count is due much earlier than expected, around 6:30. We feel that the Kelleher transfers are exceptional and will push him well above quota. We’ll almost certainly be facing count of his transfers then to decide the 4th and 5th seats
— Ed Davitt (@davitter) May 29, 2019
Looks like squeaky bum time at that #IrelandSouth count. Next round of counting could eliminate any of about 4 candidates! Malcolm Byrne (FF) just been eliminated with a very respectable 81k votes after an energetic campaign, beaten in the end by a FG transfer washing machine.
— Barry Magee (@Barrywmagee) May 29, 2019
This afternoon.
Earlier…
BREAKDOWN Count 17 #iestaff
Quota: 119, 866 Eliminated: Malcolm Byrne 80,623
Mick Wallace 101,725 (18,141 votes short)
Grace O’Sullivan 93,123 (26,743 short)
Billy Kelleher 92,885 (26,981 short)
Liadh Ní Riada 91,839 (28,027 short)
Deirdre Clune 89,743 (30,123 short)— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 29, 2019
Green Party candidate @GraceOSllvn, who is currently in second placin #IrelandSouth, is in buoyant mood as she arrives at the count centre #iestaff via @Elaine_Loughlin pic.twitter.com/GFBHoKs6f1
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) May 29, 2019
This afternoon.
Count 17 in Ireland South.
Earlier….
Things are getting very interesting in #IrelandSouth where @mickwallace picked up 5,545 votes in count 15 #iestaff pic.twitter.com/K4FuMvSTXR
— Elaine Loughlin (@Elaine_Loughlin) May 29, 2019
Huge transfer for Mick Wallace in Count 15 here in #irelandsouth getting 5545 and now in 2nd and almost 6k ahead of Kelleher. Also doing well Grace O Sullivan getting 2743 from Adrienne Wallace’s transfer. Sheila Nunan and Andrew Doyle’s votes to be distributed together next.
— Brian O’Connell (@oconnellbrian) May 29, 2019
This morning.
Count 15 in Ireland South.
Meanwhile, In Midlands North West…
Flanagan, Carthy (SF) and Walsh will all be elected today when we get the final result.
Rumours abound that the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will make an appearance. Maybe he wants the focus to be on Maria Walsh and not another certain Maria….#EE2019 #MidlandsNorthWest pic.twitter.com/sbOSMx7k1s
— Barry Whyte (@BarryWhyte85) May 29, 2019
Five battle for three seats in Midlands-North-West (RTÉ)
Congrats people of Ireland. You are now represented in Europe by a nutter who Tweets Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7mNZQyWkAAONxB.jpg
…were the DUP standing in the South?
Doubt it. Flat Earth stops at the M50. They’d fall off
Some nutter alright. Left two government ministers and two Garda Commissioners licking their wounds. UK and US investigations in NAMA.
The only nutters will be those that he drives nuts.
Looks like the electorate aren’t in agreement with your analysis.
He’s from Wexford. They’ve got boycott withdrawal symptoms.
You do realize that the votes were from all over the South? You know – the clue is in the name Ireland South Constituency.
You don’t have to confirm what your name says.
Is that you Mark?
Mick appears to be annoying all the right people.
That’s a bit harsh on former GAA President Kelly
You certainly live up to your name.
You’re taking him out of context as he was using the image to raise a very valid point that is not even controversial to jewish intellectuals anymore. Israel is widely accepted to be a rogues state and has been abusing it’s power against Palestine for decades.
If you want to clear the shitferbrains about Israel v Palestine out from your confused head, just look up the Jewish American Professor Norman Finkelstein and read his books or even just watch his recent reporting from the past year or so.
You can find a very good detailed summary of the present state of the conflict with recent history and references to the overall history on DemocracyNow.org. It’s about one to two hours long and probably on pootube as well.
He is considered both the scholar and the worlds most trustworthy authority and goto reference point on Israli and Palestinian actions by the most respectable intellectuals alive.
He is Jewish and his parents are holocaust survivors etc etc so he’s not some flag waving intellectual crank like many out there..
Also, you shouldn’t further the problem and continue with the abuse of what is real anti-semitism(a.k.a anti-jewish, anti-judean types of racism, bigotry, religious hatred etc) and all that smearing that goes along with it by lobbyists who support the insane zionist wing of the apartheid rogue state of Israel…
Educate yourself, not all jews are the same, stop defending the ones who perpetrate evil actions under the smokescreen of fake anti-semitism..
:-J
Yep
Posted something similar on annuder thread there
probably de’papers
I can’t remember seeing anyone gather as many transfers in an election as Mick Wallace is getting down there in South
It’ll be interesting now with the bigger distributions
Especially Malcolm Byrne’s
Who’ll get the better hop
The fellow Yellowbelly or the party colleague?
Oh yeah
Annuder Candidate’s that’s surprised
Well me anyway
Cause I think she’s useless as well as a gobsh_ rhymes with Alex White
FF Anne Rabbitte over there in MNW
Over 30 thousand 1st preffs
Big mistake by FF to run two in MNW. They may end up with none as a result.
Why such a low opinion? I’d never heard of her before to be honest
“Sheila Nunan and Andrew Doyle’s votes to be distributed together next.”
“together”?
Even if Doyle got ALL of Nunan’s transfers he still wouldn’t get above Clune and therefore avoid elimination in the next count
Yeah
Their combined total is lower than the next Candidate
Deirdre Clune as it happens
Who will or should anyway get a daycent share from that 67k ish pool of ballots
And might leggie her over FFs Malcom Byrne
And if he goes next (16th count) then you can Mick and Billie to be elected from his transfers
Worst case is Billie will have to wait on Clunes
@ Frilly
you don’t reckon Clune nicks the last seat (with Grace) at the expense of Liadh?
Nah
I don’t think theres enough there for Clune to tip in ahead of either Liadh or Gracie Green
Malcolm will go next and his Prefs will swing heavily to Mick and Billie
The fight is between Gracie and Liadh as to who gets to start work now and who hasta wait on Brexit
Together.
Even if all 25,958 of Sheila’s votes were transferred to Andrew he would still have fewest votes and be out in the next round. So they transfer both together.
‘Rumours abound that the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will make an appearance’.
Firstly, he’s not Elvis. And secondly, if he does appear then I trust the good people of Midlands North West will ask him the questions that need asking.
the people of the north west just elected 2 FG candidates
So what’s going to be the final result in seats?
FG =
FF =
GP =
Independents =
Other =
FG 4
SF 3
I4C 2
FF 1
DUP 1
Alliance 1
GP 1
Independent 1
(Reserves for if/when UK leaves EU before 2024)
FF 1
Green 1
Looking at that, independents Wallace, Daly and Flanagan take 3 seats. No big spend. No massive ‘machine’ behind them. Two ahead of big bucks FF and one short of bigger bucks FF.
SF to get 3
ha ha ha haaaa
ohhhh good one
what a great election this has been, SF/IRA getting humiliated across the country, and Casey was shown for what he is. Fantastic stuff, well done Ireland.
“Would you like fries with that milkshake?”?
Quick update for ye
Gracie Green got 8,382 transfers putting her ahead of Billie
93, 123 to his (now) 92,876
There’s no telling how long that’s going to last as logic would suggest Malcom Byrne’s 80, 623 will favour neighbour Mick and running mate Billie
But at this stage eff’ knows
But Mick may well be elected after this count (17th btw)
Quick update for ye
Gracie Green got 8,382 transfers putting her ahead of Billie
93, 123 to his (now) 92,876
There’s no telling how long that’s going to last as logic would suggest Malcom Byrne’s 80, 623 will favour neighbour Mick and running mate Billie
But at this stage eff’ knows
But Mick may well be elected after this count (17th btw)
Meanwhile Clune got a savage 20, 183 transfers and is just 2096 behind Liadh ….
Me nerves
What’s the prog V? Will FF, the Republican Party transfers/excess split to SF or the Greens. Or, could FG Deirdre Clune do a Liverpool?
Pensioned-off FGer and bankrupted bookmaker, Ivan Yates is predicting Grace and Deirdre to take the last two seats and adieu to the Shinners Liadh.
It all depends on Malcom Byrne’s transfers
You’d think they’d go between Mick as a fellow Wexican and his running mate – Billie
Although there’s no love lost there
But if Mick gets a daycent slab
Like enough to give him a surplus
Then you’d have to lean towards that surplus swaying towards Gracie Green
Then we have a Game of Thrones finale
Because Billie (most likely at this stage) needs Clune to go out asap to get him over the line
If she survives another count
Nemo will be like Westeros
I wouldn’t be surprised if Deirdre Clune does better from Byrne’s transfers than Liadh
Brilliant Count t’folly all the same
4.30pm
Mick Wallace 101,725 (18,141 votes short)
Grace O’Sullivan 93,123 (26,743 short)
Billy Kelleher 92,885 (26,981 short)
Liadh Ní Riada 91,839 (28,027 short)
Deirdre Clune 89,743 (30,123 short)
Wouldn’t it be fuppin’ gas if Malcolm Byrne’s transfers largely avoided Billy Kelleher because of the barbed comments between the two in the campaign.
What are the odds of Mick, Grace, Liadh and Deirdre taking the final four seats, with Billy Kelleher coming nowhere. That would be some result for Micheal Martin, just one MEP seat in Dublin which doesn’t even come into effect until the UK leaves the EU.
This is more exciting than the champions league final.
Paddy the Racist now saying he’ll run in Donegal in the next general election because he’s only failed to get elected twice so far.
G’wan the mighty Wallace….
PARLIAMENT
Starring Clare Daly and Mick Wallace
Suddenly European affairs has got that little bit more interesting….
WACKA,WACKA… WACKA,WACKA… WACKA,WACKA…
WHAA WHAAAAAA DA DA DAAA…
Or invent / insert your own 70’s style hit tv show theme tune…..
:-J
WTF
Malcolm Byrnes transfers are an indication of the biggest message the voter sent
The want main parties
Of Byrne’s vote
61,089 were transferable
63% went to his party colleague Billie electing him with a surplus – and they were no party pals on the campaign
13% went to another main party – confidence and supply partner I suppose, FGs Deirdre Clune
12% to fellow Wexican Mick Wallace
Which is my biggest shock
I thought the Wexican’ s would put Mick higher than Corks Barry Tea Heiress, who can now expect to be returned to Brussels thanks to them, as she will enjoy a fair clutch of Billie’s surplus.
Looks like the voter is still mainstream
And
Byrne’s Voters were main party voters
Did I hear that correctly? A full recount approved? On what basis?
There’s less than 400 votes between Liadh and Gracie Green
After 18 counts
With a sitting MEP looking at being eliminated
Of course there’s going to be a recount somewhere
I’d start at Byrne’s distributions meself
I hope someone (you?) can do an analysis of this and present it in plain language for us mere mortals in due course.
Oh that’s man’s work
I’d say ye’ll be treated to feast of versions from the lads over there on that list
Feckin full recount and recheck granted down in Nemo
M.O.G.
Dear god Sharon, those boots. Pity RTE insisting on stand and deliver the news these days.
Independent voters have returned three independent MEPS, but in general independent voters are not much organised. Registered parties are fairly well organised. Wallace and Flanagan don’t lead any ‘movement’. They have attracted many votes of citizens who don’t fancy parties. What talents and personality traits in Wallace and Flanagan attracted so many votes across their constituencies?
You could the same question of the others.
My question was about two of the Independents, Wallace and Flanagan. They are not mainstream and are not FF-FG centrists. They don’t represent a known movement, unlike the 5.7% GP candidates. They are not allied to any left organisation like SP, LAB, PBP or any of their affiliates. They are simply themselves warts and all and they have scooped votes across the board. Why and how?
Because they’re established Household names that have gone before the electorate with the same message more than once
The Voter knows exactly what they’re getting
Unknown Independents will have a tough time of it going forward
Told ye last week
The voter wants stability
And established Indos and Main Parties attract that vote