Tag Archives: General Election 2020

This morning.

Kildare, County Kildare.

You may be interested in [Fianna Fáil TD] Frank O’Rourke’s ridiculous election postering. He’s been on your site before  concerning the mileage allowance scheme and having clamps removed from his van

This afternoon.

P writes:

The perfect analogy for our low bar government: “Sure they’re at it so I will too.”

Meanwhile…

Road Traffic Act 1961, Section 95, Subsection 14.

Previously: In Your Face

Thanks Rob Cross

 

This morning.

Drogheda Garda Station.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Justice and Equality Charlie Flanagan TD visit Drogheda Garda Station today as part of campaigning in counties Louth and Offaly on Day 3 of the General Election 2020.

Mr Varadkar and Mr Flanagan are speaking to gardaí who are investigating the feud between two criminal gangs, which is believed to be linked to the murder of 17-year-old Keane Mulready-Woods earlier this week.

Yesterday: Meanwhile, In Drogheda

Varadkar, Flanagan to meet gardaí in Drogheda (RTÉ)

Sam Boal/RollingNews

This morning.

Ferg writes:

Punching height…

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‘sup?

Last night.

Con Kennedy tweetz:

Hey Emer Currie, this visual eyesore poses a danger to pedestrians & motorists. It’s too low & blocks the view of traffic. Remove it now. This is 200m from a school & crossing. RSA Ireland
specifically warned about creating this danger. Shih Tzu placed for scale.

Meanwhile…

UPDATE

In fairness.

This afternoon.

Sean McDermott Street, Dublin 1.

The formal launch of the Social Democrats #GE20 campaign outside the former Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry were party leaders Catherine Murphy (above right) and Roisin Shortall (left) with Dublin Central General Election candidate, Dublin City Councillor Gary Gannon (top centre), whose campaign saved the site for ‘commemorative’ purposes .

Ms Murphy and Ms Shortall highlighted what they described as ‘four key achievable priorities’ which they intend to campaign on.

To wit:

1. Introduction of a ‘save as you pay’ front-loaded home insulation grant scheme

2. Introduce a right to flexible work – in order to give families more time to care for their children, older people, family members with disabilities and themselves.

3. Establish an Independent Anti-Corruption Agency

4. Deadlines not lip service on Slaintecare implementation; Delivery of social and affordable housing to buy and rent and increased provision of public transport and cycling provision

Social Democrats

Leah Farrel /RollingNews


This morning/afternoon.

Annahagh, County Monaghan.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar with Minister Simon Coveney, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Helen McEntee, Minister of State for European Affairs inspect a forklift factory with Martin McVicar, MD (pic 2) of Combilift at a Fine Gael General Election Campaign Launch/Brexit visit.

Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews

FIGHT!

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

Earlier: Premature Erection

UPDATE:

Sneaky.

This morning.

Castleknock, Dublin 15.

Is this even legal, anyone?

Earlier: Saving The Date

Thanks New Irelander and Paul Donnelly

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Um.

Meanwhile…

This morning.

Merrion Street, Dublin 2

Labour Party’s Kevin Humphreys outside Government Buildings.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

UPDATE:

 

Last night.

On Virgin Media News at 8pm.

The station’s political correspondent Gavan Reilly explained that people who have registered to vote in Ireland in recent months may not be registered in time to vote.

Mr Reilly explained:

“It’s emerged in the last couple of hours that basically anyone who has registered to vote, certainly in the last eight months, will not actually have had their registration processed in time for general election.

“And that is on the presumption that the general election is going to take place on either February the 7th or 14th.

“The reason for that is that, by law, the new Register of Electors takes effect every year, legally, on February the 15th which is just after we expect the election to actually be.

“And that means that anyone who’s registered in the last couple of months, who thought they’d be registered in time for a general election, actually won’t have been because the register that will be in place for the forthcoming general election will be this year’s register and not next year’s one. And they’ll have been added to the wrong one.

“Now, it’s not too late to get added to this year’s one. There is the opportunity to get added to what’s called a Supplementary Register.

“But there’s an extra complication which is you can’t get added to a Supplementary Register until the election has officially been called. And of course, as of now, it hasn’t actually been.

“So only when the election is called will it be possible for people who are already registered on the pretence that they thought they’d be in on time, to get registered for this year’s one. And the time will be of the essence as well because they’ll have to get registered two weeks before polling is actually going to take place.

“And it means you could have tens of thousands of people – 18-year-olds who might be registering for the first time who already thought they were in before they needed to be done who now could have a fairly frantic couple of days, trying to get all the paperwork in on time.”

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