Over Dublin city tonight
Just before polls closed, the average turnout across Dublin county was an estimated 65 per cent and 53 per cent in the Dublin city council area. Turnout in Cork city was above 60 per cent.
Minister for Communications Alex White, the director of elections for the Labour Party, said: “It seems likely that turnout will finish as high, if not higher than in the general election. I think something very big happened in Ireland. A whole new generation has been politicised.”
Those on the No side also acknowledged that the large turnout in Dublin, in particular, was likely to tip the balance in favour of a Yes….
Campaigners believe high turnout will carry Yes vote (Irish Times)
Pic via Sinéad Ryan
Meanwhile..
Bermuda this evening.
Thanks Windum
Lorna writes:
Ted voted early and often today
Dublin tonight.
Via Aodhan O’Riordan
Whooop! Great headline, great quote to remember :)
A brilliant looking overall outcome and a history making day for this country
Go n’eiri an bua againn !
53% in Dublin City?
Ye sure about that lads?
Cause the numbers (averaged over 24 tables/ boxes in 3 polling stations) that I got at 9 9,30 ish said sum’ting different.
The same tables BTW, have consistently been there or thereabouts, with the highest turnouts in DSC since I registered there.
And that wasn’t yesterday.
What was amazing was to see all the youngish people out canvassing, campaigning, hootin, hollerin
Mol an oige agus fupping tiocfaidh se
Indeed.
It even makes me hopeful we’ll get the biggie over the line next week time
Effin phone text
“Over The Line The Next Time*
As I mentioned earlier, I was in the UK for a course this week. My flight home was delayed by 90s minutes, and I landed at Dublin Airport at 9.15, With the aid of a fast-driving taxi, I got to the polling booth at 9:55, and cast my vote. I think I was the last person they had. Ran into a yes campaigner (and was quickly joined by a few more) outside who were greatly appreciative of my effort.
Fingers crossed for an overwhelming Yes result tomorrow.
Hope the gay marraige thing gets passed too, of course.
Good man Lorcan!
+1, fair play Lorcan :D
Awesome work Lorcan you total ledgbag.
Impressive moves Lorcan ;)
Good man yourself !
Fair play! We are so grateful to everyone like yourself who went above and beyond. The next campaign HAS to be for a fair measure of postal voting. The disenfranchisement of Irish citizens has been highlighted by this campaign.
Listening to the news right now, trying not to get too excited, but it’s very hard.
Still, it’s a case of one down, more to go. I’ll be at the Central Bank from 2-4 gathering signiatures for a repeal the 8th referendum if anyone wants to come by and say hi.
Look at me, look at me, look at me…look how great I am.
I’m a big fan of yours alright
Anyway, could you send me some photos? I’ll let you know.
There’s always Grindr…..
“Hope the gay marraige thing gets passed too, of course.”
lol
Making an effort like that definitely deserves a pat on the back, but in saying that, I don’t think that sort of effort should be demanded of people.
I think I recall some poor student over in London on here saying he couldn’t afford to get home for it, and him getting lambasted for it.
Likewise, can’t stand young gobshites in work going on “well everyone, I was up at 7am this morning casting my vote, what were ye doing”.. Just fupp off.
There were plenty of people I talked to where they just couldn’t make it..weren’t arsed..or it just wasn’t really an emotive issue for them. I wouldn’t feel like it’s my place to show disapproval about that.
Fupping busy bodies everywhere though.
Woops.. sorry about the arsed.
Oh you can say arsed..
Was it gobshites?
yeah, it’ll be changed to gobshifts soon enough by BS mods
yeah, annoyingly gobsh ites is banned :/
I agree absolutely, I’m not a fan of hectoring people to vote, and I was lucky I was able to schedule a flight in time. It’s a passionate subject for both sides and tensions can run high so I can understand where the people saying that sort of thing come from even while I disagree with exactly what they’re saying.
Ah yeah, people love dictating to others..
I happen to sit with 20somethings for break on Fri, and two of them tore into one girl who hadn’t registered to vote on time.. fupping know-alls at that age. You just want to clip them around the ear.
Fair enough encouraging people to vote, and giving praise for the efforts the likes of yourself went to, but otherwise I think it’s a personal choice.
Anyway, delighted.. seems like a nice way of giving the two fingers to the Church for me.
Can’t believe this but I agree with you completely, this must be a great day alright :)
Nice to see you seeing sense for a change.. :)
Yous should get married now seeing as you think Anne is a man
Just call me M-Anne.
I even have M-anne boobs.. ha
So i thought long and hard about a witty reply for this one, and decided to go for a backhanded comment that both of us could use to insult the other and be smug about:
“even a stopped clock is right twice a day”
Now that’s a “Fairplay in fairness” if ever there was one!
Fairplay Lorcan!
Go n’eiri leat
It would have killed someone to shell out for an exit poll?! The anticipation is killing me!
Ahh it’s a long wait till torrid afternoon.
Will just have to go for pints that much earlier…
Unbelievably happy I got to come home for it. =]
Fair play NYC.
Did you!? Amazing work!!
Good man! It’d bring a tear to your eye…
Another Fairplay!
Fair play Kieran
Great stuff Kieran ;)
They could easily have done an exit on the stations that have a record of high turnouts
But I wouldn’t be a fan meself
Nowhere near as accurate as the Tally
And if the weather is bad
Or a reluctant / unreliable voter is looking for an excuse
Same for undecideds
Anyway. A good canvas will extract soft numbers
I was consistently trapping 8:2
Apply the Sly Tories adjustment
I’m using 20% for comfort
So 60:40
But they’re all only good if you know your ground from previous campaigns, Previous Turn Outs, and of course, the all important historic Tally data.
Which today. As each box is opened Will be more vital than ever.
street by street
Row by row
I voted yes, hope you guys did too. Hope y’all can enjoy tomorrow all the same.
Whatever the result, Ireland had done itself proud today. The stories of people coming home to do what is right and of people taking time out to help them make sure they get to vote on time is heartwarming. Come on you beautiful things!!! Love is love !
: )
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg
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Would it have killed them to open the ballot boxes and start counting at 10pm last night?? The anticipation is taking years off me :-D
Lads, where online can I best follow the results as they come in for each constituency? Preferably with a few oul graphics?
De oirish times have a graph up…nothing updated on it yet though…
Just step outside, there’s a noticeable Tá in the air.
Any minute now…..
Happy day(s)
looking like its a landslide and I hope it plays out to be true…..not enough for me to barely pass it should be a crushing blow to the RCC uppers OD iona and all the rest, get yer interfering fupping hands out of our lives!!
I’m very very happy that this country has decided it wants a modern dogma-free future
As someone else once said “Young people of Ireland, I love you”.
The vote will be easily passed. The sanctimonious home vote crowd have wasted an air fare. The got a few Facebook posts out if it which was their main intention.
They got more out of it then that, they got a secular version of the ‘oceanic feeling’ (look it up).
They wasted their plane fare as much as like young Polish people wasted travel fare going to the Vatican to see John Paul off.
Fundamentally useless perhaps, but I’d say many off them felt it was money well spent.
A landslide victory with a 60% turnout is far better, and far more democratic than a turnout with 30% turnout. People feeling strongly enough to spend their money to come home and vote shows that they love this country, even if they can’t live here for whatever reason, and even if their vote wasn’t a crucial one it’s just as important as every other vote cast yesterday, be it yes or no.
Plus 60%
When are they saying they will announce the results…..
I wish i could find the post from last year where I predicted a landslide yes and an unbearable few weeks on broadsheet.
I’ll do personal readings for a small fee
How about you just be quiet for a while?
The international media are already making a big deal out of the country being traditionally Catholic conservative which is true to a point but it has always been a top down conservatism, rather than some others where it is bottom up.
It is the ordinary people rather than the leaders who instigate change here because the establishment was always so close to the church. People may have lived by the rules but behind closed doors were always more liberal than you would expect.
But, it is a defining moment in our history. Ireland will now become an attractive destination for gay people to both holiday in and move too. Imagine that? Plane loads of gays. Iona’s worst nightmare.
Exactly, this
Top down? It’s 110% the problem this country has in a good few depts but we can break that & this might be the proper start of it
Glayne loads, even
Cunning linguistics