Everyone’s Gone Bacik Crazy [Updated]

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Last night.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

Tanaiste Leo Varadkar greets Labour’s Ivana Bacik and party leader Alan Kelly following Labour’s victory in the Dublin Bay South by-election.

Earlier…


This evening.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Labour Senator and Dublin Bay South by-election candidate Ivana Bacik (top right) with her party leader Alan Kelly (top left). Ms Bacik is favourite to take the seat left vacant by Fine Gael’s Eoghan Murphy.

Earlier…

This afternoon.

With 100% of the boxes tallied, the indications are that Ms Bacik is on 30% ahead of Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan on 26%, with Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin on nearly 16%.

Tallies, which are not official counts and come with a strong health warning, suggest that Claire Byrne of the Green Party is on just under 8%, with Fianna Fáil’s Deirdre Conroy under 5% and Independent Mannix Flynn on 3%.

Bacik on course to top the poll in Dublin Bay South (RTÉ)

Earlier: Meanwhile, In The RDS

Meanwhile…

This afternoon.

RDS count centre, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Sinn Fein candidate Lynn Boylan (right) with party president Mary Lou McDonald and constituency neighbouring TD Chris Andrews.

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27 thoughts on “Everyone’s Gone Bacik Crazy [Updated]”

    1. Bitnboxy

      Ivana has a very good chance of being re-elected in a general election – DBS is a perfect constituency for her. She ran an incredibly professional campaign although she definitely stole a few votes from disaffected Kate O’Connell voters. As an incumbent she will have a very good advantage next time around. And next time will likely be in a few years. No party in this government is going to be keen to face the electorate any time soon. Death wish.

      1. Jasper

        Agreed. FG are sleep walking into alienating their base .

        I expect a strong reaction, and it won’t come in the form of re-running Geoghegan, he is goosed.

        Kate has a strong chance, but FG be FG and they’d rather ride themselves sideways…

        1. Steph Pinker

          There are die hard FFG voters, and irrespective of how this country is ruined and destroyed it’ll never change, it’s an illness of ideology and indictment of those who are running this country.

    3. DTF

      She has a very good chance, but it will be a dogfight. Ironically, Geoghegan (if he goes for it) is probably the only shoe in – it’s a safe FG seat. Ryan also probably has enough credit in the bank, but you never know. Bacik took a huge vote though, testament to years of very hard work and a positive campaign that ignited a dormant but strong left vote. Andrews may get in too although Bacik did very well in areas like Ringsend and Irishtown. O’Callaghan may be in trouble.

  3. The Dude

    Government parties took 60% of the vote in that constituency at the last election – that’s down to 40%; a serious kicking.

    A year of chronic government, while Dublin was never as badly run.

  5. goldenbrown

    yah sure
    congrats to them but outside of that constituency I think he’s wrong
    it is FFG vs SF

  6. Anton Chigurh

    “Bacik crazy”… with regard to earlier shenanigans, how about “hey masky Taliban, tally, me bananas”… eh? eh? No, it’s ok, I’ll see myself out…

  7. Joe

    Varadkar has lost 5 by-elections along with general elections I hope FFG keep him as leader, who knows what additional damage he will do to them

    To add to the joy the Racists/Fascists/Covidiots have been trounced

    Bacik is likely to keep the seat in a General Election dumping Greenwash Party leader minister Eamon Ryan from the Dáil, excellent outcome

    I wonder will the joke Labour party once again seek FG’s kiss of death in the next election or pretend to be left wing and side with anything but FFG?

    1. Jasper

      I often think her tomes are a little OTT.

      I do have a feeling she has done a great service with her recent article. She isn’t wrong and he’s taken the kicking he quite rightly deserves.

      I’m interested to see how this all plays out. FG with their slick PR machine have gotten this so badly wrong.

      Buttfumble, for the initiated

      https://youtu.be/82RIfy-gRa4

      1. GiggidyGoo

        The FG slick PR machine died with the disbandment of the spin boyos. The Strategic Communications Unit mainsprings. (SCUm for short)
        What we had this time was a schoolboy attempt at promotion of the party. A hand-written, copied onto blue paper, begging letter devised by Harris. 5th class stuff.
        Then the tweet at 9:30pm, again begging, and lordy me, Donohue, Harris et al standing on a traffic island holding up posters. They may as well have declared ‘The End Of The World Is Nigh’ I’m sure some restaurants could use their talents wearing sandwich boards.

  10. max

    i really despise her since her epic loser’s speech in trinity college were she jumped up onto the podium before shane ross and called everybody a bunch on inbreed elitist morons who are afraid of change cause she failed to get 1000 votes then david norris invited everybody around for paintball. shame camera phones weren’t really a thing back then or she would be sunk, that perpetual sneer made it all the more funny

    that and the fact that she wants to close female prisons cause they are mean…

  11. Cathal

    FF put up a weak candidate but I never thought they’d barely scrape 1200 votes, behind the Greens!!

    1. Lilly

      On the brief radio debate I heard, she was the weakest link. Lynn Boylan was the strongest performer on that occasion. I couldn’t take Ivana Bacik’s claims to be an agent for change seriously at all. She sounded as if she had learned her lines off by heart.

  13. Madam x

    A party that reversed stance on water charges in favour. In favour of vultures Kelly housing minister disaster 14 to 16. Now people vote for more??? Just wait. Labour are socialist in name only. when the crunch comes expect more FG propped up by Labour. The voters are either stupid or have short memories or both

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