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Fine Gael 34 (no change)
Fianna Fáil 21 – 3
Labour 18 (no change)
Sinn Féin 10 + 3
Greens 4 -1
Independents 13 +1
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Dan Boyle sheds the green jersey. His Sunday Tribune comments (which only got a weblink late in the day) are noted by Reuters.
Ivor the Driver — full Seanad report. It was nice of Bertie to send Ivor’s letter of appointment to his Cork address.
How ossified is Irish politics? In the blink of an eye, Australia — which had no recession — replaces its Prime Minister.
I’m a victim of unique Irish blame culture, says Harney
Things Ministers don't do part 2: Harney is not really responsible for these clinial fuck-ups. Sure kick her over policy but not failure. Typical Irish begrudgerry.
A Sunday Business Post mole on politics.ie is claiming his newspaper is set to suppress regional-figures from tomorrow’s Red C poll on the euro-election, which place Declan Ganley on 16% in Northwest. Apparently, the newspaper will acknowledge the swing, but not it’s scale. Pressure needs to be brought to bear on the newspaper, in the interests of transparency and with due consideration of the gravity of the issues at stake (including the foremost question of the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty), to follow its standard practice with the previous euro-election polls this year by releasing the regional-breakdown. A failure to do so, especially in the context of a critique of Ganley’s stance on neutrality in tomorrow’s newspaper, can only call into question the impartiality of the publication.
Ah give it a rest FT. The conspiracy theory stuff is so ridiculous, not least because at this stage with less than a week to go it would reflect ridiculously badly on RedC if such a divergence were to be seen between what they reflected now and what actually happened. Look, I’m all for loyalty, but there is a point where you should just accept that the IT doesn’t indicate any swing, etc… it’s unlikely that we’ll see an amazing shift to DG. And the problem is, as on the CLR thread you then build these huge castles in the sky from rumour. Why should you believe a person who *claims* to be an SBP mole any more than you trusted KerryNorth?
Because of the greater detail. I have quoted him on my blog.
Okay here the national figures for the locals and euros:
Also, the figures for the locals and the euros differentiate as follows:
Locals:
FF: 20%
FG 32%
Labour 17%
SF 10%
Greens 4%
Ind 17%
Euros:
FF: 20%
FG: 34%
Labour: 14%
SF: 9%
Greens: 4%
Libertas: 4%
Ind 15%
Almost all the Libertas support is in the NW constituency, where Richard Colwell of Red C says he is in with a shout of taking the third seat:
“Liam Aylward is still in with a fighting chance for the third seat in the East constituency…Libertas support does appear to be on an upward trend…Almost all of this support is for the party’s founder, Declan Ganley, who, based on the poll’s constituency-figures, could yet be in with a shout to take a seat in the North West. This is a significant gain in two weeks and means he is a real threat to Gallagher, O’Reilly and Independent Marian Harkin…Harkin does remain in the running for a seat in the North West constituency, but could suffer at the hands of Libertas.”