A high turnout is being reported on Irish TV as polling stations closed at 10:30 local time.
I will update this post tomorrow as counting begins.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0524/election.html

A high turnout is being reported on Irish TV as polling stations closed at 10:30 local time.
I will update this post tomorrow as counting begins.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0524/election.html
when did they start letting the Irish vote? next thing you know, women will want to!

(j/k...who else in Ireland would vote?)

I think the Kennedys were the first to figure out the Irish vote.

I think the Kennedys were the first to figure out the Irish vote. Are you implying that the Irish will vote for any politican as long as they're drunk, the politican and the voter I mean...How rude...

:banana:

I think the Kennedys were the first to figure out the Irish vote.
the Irish ran NYC as far back as the mid-1800s...they were the 1st to be a block vote.

I dont know what a block vote is.
Tho as 500 says, Ive seen blocked voters.

I dont know what a block vote is.
Tho as 500 says, Ive seen blocked voters.
a block vote is a group of voters that tend to all vote alike..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

I thought everyone done that.
Ireland is a very-who you know-country.

there are actually laws agaist that sort of thing here.

Yeah Im sure the Anglo rulers of America must of shit themselves when a million Irish poured in in a couple of years.

Yeah Im sure the Anglo rulers of America must of shit themselves when a million Irish poured in in a couple of years.
don't know...my ancestors didn't get here until the 1900s.

Put all those potato eating, beer drinking, green bellies back on a boat and send em home!

I kid I kid. I'm 25% Irish, bwahahaha.

Between 1845-1850 ish, about a million Irish arrived. So many that they stopped taking them and diverted the boats to the St Lawerence.

Phyrex.
Thats not a bad idea.
Lets see.
20 US Presidents-deported.
40 million Americans-deported.
Notre Dame-bulldozed.
St.Patricks Day-cancelled.
cant think of any more just now.
Gonna get pretty crowed down my street.

Put all those potato eating, beer drinking, green bellies back on a boat and send em home!

I kid I kid. I'm 25% Irish, bwahahaha.
which quarter do you want to send back?

which quarter do you want to send back?
haha damn you. I choked on mah beer. :hahanot:

;)

Neck up

With counting underway early signs indicate that the ruling Fianna Fail Party
under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will win, tho not with an overall majority, so some wheelin and dealin will have to be done with either a smaller party or a few Independants.
Probably tomorrow before a clearer pictue emerges.

With counting underway early signs indicate that the ruling Fianna Fail Party
under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will win, tho not with an overall majority, so some wheelin and dealin will have to be done with either a smaller party or a few Independants.
Probably tomorrow before a clearer pictue emerges.


Haven't they been the ruling party for the last 50+ years?
I can't remember what the name means, though.

Fianna Fail.
pronounced= fay-na foil.

translated=soldiers of destiny.

They are the biggest party in the ROI. Have been in power now for 10 years solid, tho with a minority, usually form a coalition with The Labour Party.
Looks the same again, minority with Labour.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is the leader of Fianna Fail.
Ireland uses a PR system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

What political party would Ahern be more closely affiliated with if he was in the States? Does Fianna Fail lean left, right or down the center?

Like most modern Euro contrys, the ruling Party would see itself as centre left, I guess.
Bertie Ahern has gotton himself anothe 5 years, not surprising as the economy is booming, and when people get money in they're pocket, they're happy.
Not sure who he'll deal with to form a coalition, tho he's ruled out any deal with Sinn Fein,as they're both political enemies,from way back during the civil war,and dealing with the UK would become difficult.
We'll find out this week.

Put all those potato eating, beer drinking, green bellies back on a boat and send em home!

I kid I kid. I'm 25% Irish, bwahahaha.
We'll just chop off a leg and a half or so and send it back with those Hibernians.

which quarter do you want to send back?
Dammit Mike.

Still no sig of a Government being formed.
The Greens and the 2 PDs 'Progresive Democrats' look like the ones Fianna Fail want to deal with.

When I was in Ireland there were signs everywhere with pictures of old men saying VOTE FOR ME!!

Hehe

Yeah, u still havnt told us how u got on over in the greatest country in the world.
No pics either.
U really need to put some effort in girl.

Haha okay I'll put some pics up in the picture post thread as soon as I'm done looking through all the new posts.