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- 2:00 AM Simon McGarr - RT @LE09_PO: I’m a Presiding Officer at a Rural Irish Polling Booth in the Local/European Elections on 5th June 2009. #le09
- 2:00 AM Simon McGarr - Tomorrow, we’ll have a liveblog for voting day. Anything interesting you see happening, tag the post with #le09 and we’ll try to add it in.
- 2:00 AM Simon McGarr - And finally, we’ll have liveblogs of rolling news from the counts. These are only going to be as good as the people who can make them. #le09
- 3:21 AM barratree - RT @sineadkeogh George Lee is standing at some traffic lights in Rathfarnham holding his own poster and waving. Weird. #le09
- 3:23 AM jonathangrimes - #le09 De Burca and McKenna go head to head canvasing at Tara St.
- 3:23 AM colmisainmdom - Oisin Quinn leafleting on Leeson St bridge #le09
- 3:23 AM efferal - Pronsias DeRossa at bottom of malahide road. Seems to be enjoying the morning sun
- 3:23 AM Simon McGarr - DeRossa leafleting at Fairview Malahide rd junction. Hampered by light traffic. #le09
- 3:39 AM brettmirl - Lab were up early this morning. Got a dummy ballot paper through letterbox at 5am-ish showing me where to put my No 1 for the locals #le09
- 3:39 AM eoinmadden - Patrick Creed was silenced yesterday by the presenter on Galwy Bay FM for mentioning corruption on the county council. #le09
- 3:39 AM eoinmadden - #le09 The corruption reference was in regard to Michael ‘The Stroke’ Fahy. We’re not allowed talk about it, apparently.
- 4:14 AM jack_in_dublin - @BrianGreene Was postal voting easy to set up? Do you not have to be a diplomat/student/Garda?? #le09
- 4:14 AM Mark_Coughlan - Loving the fact the liveblog is on frontpage of @irishelection how often does it update over there? #le09
- 4:15 AM ManAboutCouch - Is this year’s theme in Election Posters recycling? Have seen a lot ‘updated’ with stickers – ‘Vote Local’ etc. #le09
- 4:25 AM LE09_PO - @alanhealy S=Special (or Postal) Vote, T=Transferred Vote, L=Non-European national #le09
- 4:25 AM LE09_PO - @midnightcourt Polling stations across the country open at 7.00 A.M. and stay open till 10.00 P.M. #le09
- 4:25 AM LE09_PO - Did u know, If your name in register has a letter beside it, you may not be able to vote? S or T=no vote, L=local only #le09
- 4:25 AM gavreilly - Fair play to the @irishelection gang for keeping up the Moratorium Day liveblog. Nice work. #le09
- 4:34 AM midnightcourt - RT @LE09_PO Did u no, if u make a mistake on ur ballot paper, u can get a replacement? Just ask (Para 15 of Presiding Officer Manual) #le09
- 4:34 AM nonsequitir - RT @TheMikeKelly: Please get out and vote tomorrow its in your hands #le09
- 4:35 AM krayZpaving - @damienmulley Tongue in cheek, of course, drawing on your claim re Labour. But the pact is true! Hardly hidden that I’m Labour. #le09
- 4:42 AM LE09_PO - -@eoinmadden T is for Temporary transferred vote, like a Presiding Officer voting at his own station, not where he lives. #le09
- 4:49 AM LE09_PO - @gavreilly That’s it exactly. eg, I get postal vote for locals (same gen elec constit, diff local area), otherwise I just transfer my vote.
- 4:57 AM LE09_PO - @jack_in_dublin Postal vote avail to Defence Forces, Guards, Students, Prisoners or working outside constit. Need to apply in advance. #le09
- 5:21 AM sharonashambles - Loads of blogs posting about how to vote and the PR system – is this a good thing or an indictment of our education system? #le09
- 5:24 AM ubfid - RT @predict09 Last predictions now up on www.predict09.eu << Childers in, Ryan out
- 5:24 AM conorp - “Fianna Fail created this mess” and “Fianna Fail don’t care about you” posted over Eoin Ryan‘s elevin posters on Gardiner St Lower.
- 5:32 AM covert - Re: 11.24, conorp’s msg, same messages over Ryan’s posters in Drumcondra. Even near St Luke’s!
- 5:41 AM conoro - With the obvious exception of Flouride Sinnott in the last post.
- 5:42 AM dermotcasey - RT @ubfid: RT @predict09 Last predictions now up on www.predict09.eu << Childers in, Ryan out << Mary Lou in, Sinnott in (bad IMHO)
- 5:43 AM IrishIndo - Harkin ‘fending off’ Ganley attacks tinyurl.com
- 5:43 AM LibertasLietuva - “Now let’s make European history” Declan Ganley
- 6:17 AM JL Pagano - anyone have a threshold max number of council seats that would be considered a disaster for FF?
- 6:17 AM JL Pagano - AH, LADS…moderating comments on a moratorium day liveblog? bit of irony there methinks?
- 6:18 AM lostexpectation - p.ie poster claims he’s still voting ff cos they’re more then just a ‘political party’.
- 6:18 AM lostexpectation - …scary, damaging and deluded.
- 6:26 AM LE09_PO - Anyone any thoughts on how the weather will affect the vote? Will hot weather give a high turnout or not? #le09
- 6:34 AM krayZpaving - @LE09_PO Rule of thumb is good weather gives a high turnout. Rain is the worst for turnout. #le09
- 6:38 AM LE09_PO - @krayZpaving That’s what I figured. But a workmate wondered if people wouldn’t be bothered leaving garden/beach if it was too good? #le09
- 6:38 AM fiannafailparty - More photos on flickr now – url.ie
- 6:47 AM JoeLeogue - Anonymous letters attacking Fermoy Town Councillor Michael Hanley circulated to homes throughout the town on Wednesday night #le09
- 6:47 AM greenparty_ie - Testing live streams and finalising details of this evening’s online Q&A with John Gormley and Eamon Ryan. More details to follow… #le09
- 6:48 AM LE09_PO - @brettmirl Glad to hear that. Don’t want it to be too hot, or I’ll bake in the classroom, with no chance of getting out for 16 hours. #le09
- 6:48 AM fiannafailparty - Eibhlin Byrne’s latest blog is online now – url.ie
- 6:52 AM labour - Finally You Tube is behaving, you can see Eamon’s video asking for your vote tomorrow, feel free to pass it on url.ie
- 6:55 AM irishelection - incorrect last post- @LE09_PO will be guest posting at irishelection round 15.00. Meantime the roundup is here is.gd #le09
- 7:00 AM Nosemonkey - Libertas party FAIL. Just had an email urging me to vote for them… Tomorrow. Ha ha ha ha! #ep09 #eu09
- 7:10 AM chrismehigan - Eoin Ryan still fighting. Campaigning on Graftin street. Fair play to him. twitpic.com
- 7:14 AM LE09_PO - Did u no, u cannot be turned away just coz u don’t have ur polling card? It’s not needed, but does help us find you on de register. #le09
- 7:22 AM greenparty_ie - Does the #le09 hashtag preclude plugs for European election vids? If not, here goes; one of Deirdre de Burca’s. short.ie
- 7:23 AM cianflah - Anyone think that the exam mess will impact vote tomorrow? Wouldnt mess with angry mums myself…just a bit of idle speculation dontcha know
- 7:29 AM VoteJoeHiggins - Joe Higgins: “Our Campaign is Best Placed To Defeat Fianna Fail” www.joehiggins.eu
- 7:32 AM faduda - Yes LE09_PO but you can be asked for ID, polling card or not. Bring a driving licence, passport or similar
- 7:34 AM sinnfeinireland - Great response for us. Drumcondra could be the beginning of the end for Fianna Fáil. Gerry Adams.
- 7:34 AM sinnfeinireland - Bertieland had a warm failte for us yesterday. We need every vote we can get if this election is to signal the end for the gov. Gerry Adams
- 7:34 AM irish_romano - Gerry Adams recorded an election video people to get out & vote for Sinn Féin Friday June 5th. bit.ly
- 7:38 AM greenparty_ie - @suzybie Yeah, but not no, but… Does ee09 or ep09, etc get picked up by scribblelive? Does it deserve a different liveblog? Probably not
- 7:40 AM LE09_PO - @suzybie Yeah, me too, that’s (probably) what it means in my username, anyway!
- 8:05 AM VoteJoeHiggins - @UmarAhmed I have to disagree. This is about policies, not precise personalities. Joe winning is a victory for joehiggins.eu
- 8:18 AM VoteJoeHiggins - @UmarAhmed It’s not true. What more do we need to say than that? I take it from ur tweets it’s FF No.1 for u?
- 8:27 AM VoteJoeHiggins - Want to stop the MEP gravy train? Well, if elected Joe Higgins will be a Workers’ MEP on a Workers Wage. So make sure to vote Joe Higgins 1.
- 9:27 AM LE09_PO - Check out my guest post on irishelections.com short.ie
- 9:32 AM LE09_PO - Check out my guest post on irishelections.com short.ie #le09
- 9:57 AM fiannafailparty - Closing Campaign Statement by An Taoiseach – url.ie
- 10:03 AM Stephen Spillane - Doing my first leaflet drop of the campaign tonight. Managed to last until now without doing one. Shocked! #le09
- 10:10 AM susanokeeffe - twitpic.com – Canvassing the One for a number 1 in Sligo:
- 10:10 AM donncha - Cllr Dan Fleming left a “sorry I missed you” letter in our gate. We were here, car was in front. Doesn’t say Fianna Fail anywhere either.
- 10:13 AM Stephen Spillane - @JimDHunt Local FG candidate’s mother. I canvassed for them so it should be assumed! #le09
- 10:13 AM Stephen Spillane - just been canvassed by txt!!! LMAO! #le09
- 10:13 AM gomaonaigh - Doing a quick Cheese shop into town then out to meet 30 canvassers for the final door2door in Rathfarnham for Paddy Cosgrave #le09
- 10:14 AM jenq90 - @awestruckaudrey on reilly, ye he came to our house, but my mammy is not voting fianna fail, good luck in all your exams k
- 10:15 AM MKCComm - Fine Gael drop the ball – www.mkc.ie
- 10:19 AM greenparty_ie - More details on webstream of tonight’s events soon after we’v finalising running order. you’ll be able to follow& interact www.election09.ie
- 10:20 AM greenparty_ie - Tweet us your questions now – or you’ll be able to type them into the chat following the stream @David_Mooney
- 10:27 AM Simon McGarr - <img src=”http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/6leah.jpg” width=”150″ height=”150″ alt=”Eoin Ryan, lonely man”>
When you’re down nobody wants to know you. - 10:30 AM LE09_PO - I’m off out to enjoy the sun for a few hours with family and dog, before tomorrow’s busy day. Talk then. #le09
- 10:38 AM RTE_Elections - Voting has ended on Inis Boffin, off the Donegal coast, 64 people were entitled to vote there, the final turnout was 35 voters, or 54.68%
- 10:38 AM VoteJoeHiggins - RT @BrianGreene Overview from the CWI/Socialist Party</Joe Higgins> campaign. socialistworld.net
- 10:59 AM LE09_PO - Test again.
- 11:11 AM greenparty_ie - our live online chat & Q&A with Green ministers & Euro candidates will start tonight from 8:30 on www.election09.ie #le09
- 11:35 AM aoifecarroll - @The final push for @
ivanabacik begins! We’re with Eamon Gilmore & Joe Costello on Sean MacDermott street #Le09 - 11:35 AM Stephen Spillane - Doing my first leaflet drop of the campaign tonight. Managed to last until now without doing one. Shocked! #le09
- 11:35 AM LE09_PO - @faduda My point was polling card is not ID, just a reminder to u where to vote. See my guest post on url.ie this avo. #le09
- 11:35 AM Simon McGarr - When i was small, there were little caravans parked just outside my NS on polling day. One for each party. Exciting! #le09
- 11:52 AM sharonashambles - Eoin Ryan in Dundrum Town Center looking underwhelmed and underwhelming #le09
- 12:09 PM Christine Bohan - The more I hear about the Dublin Central by-election, the harder it gets to predict the outcome. My guess is that ol’ Maurice will do better than expected, Pascal Donohue will do worse than expected, and the whole thing will come down to last person standing after transfers.
- 12:09 PM Dan sullivan - Anyone know what the turnout in Inis Boffin was last time?
- 12:10 PM cianflah - @christine – ive a sneaky punt on christy burke.
- 12:10 PM boctweet - Polls open in Ireland at 07:00am tomorrow morning. I’m going to vote nice & early #le09 #eu09
- 12:14 PM VoteJoeHiggins - We’ve cut back the capabilities of www.joehiggns.eu in order to make it work faster – lots of people logging on! Is it still slow?
- 1:04 PM RTE_Elections - Not sure what time the polling stations open tomorrow, or what what to bring if you don’t have a polling card tinyurl.com
- 1:08 PM Suzy Byrne - Fishermen on Inisboffin complain about limited polling times. No euro candidates visited islands #le09
- 1:08 PM jack_in_dublin - Paschal Donohoe is running in something called a ‘bye-election’. Is it that he’s resigned himself to failure already?! #le09
- 1:08 PM aoifecarroll - Team @ivanabacik now headed for area around Croke Park #Le09
- 1:09 PM boctweet - Polls open in Ireland at 07:00am tomorrow morning. I’m going to vote nice & early #le09 #eu09
- 1:17 PM aoifecarroll - The final push for @ivanabacik begins! We’re with Eamon Gilmore & Joe Costello on Sean MacDermott street #Le09
- 1:39 PM DeclanFlynn - @seanmccann Alex White is running for Labour so when he adds he includes 10% extra for benchmarking
- 1:40 PM CiaranCuffe - Looking for your vote for Green Party’s Deirdre de Burca & Dan Boyle; locally Ruairí Holohan, Gene Feighery & Tom Kivlehan www.election09.ie
- 1:40 PM sketchfordawn - Best of luck to Sens Boyle and De Burca in the Euro elections tomorrow. VOTE GREEN for a more sustainable Europe! europeangreens.eu
- 1:40 PM handelaar - Quick! Twitter usernames of current TDs and Senators please for addition to KildareStreet.com – I have Senators Boyle, De Burca, Norris…
- 1:41 PM mediabite - Labour Party in the South pursuing particularly vicious smear against Kathy Sinnott. Bang goes Alan Kelly’s N01 vote from this voter.
- 1:41 PM Irishmaestro - When voting on Friday, forget Sinn Fein. And Kathy Sinnott. Unrealistic policies all around. =/
- 1:41 PM bosca - Sinnott urges people to reuse election posters: IRELAND South MEP Kathy Sinnott is urging people who think that .. short.ie
- 1:42 PM conoro - I just clicked through on some “reasons for voting” links from Brian Crowley’s site to EU site. Are they joking? Obfuscated by design.
- 1:42 PM kingkane - @CampaignDaily Does Ned really, really want to be an MEP? And is it vote Brian get Ned? Or will Crowley commit to a full term?
- 1:43 PM conoro - Oisín aged 7 wants to vote for Brian Crowley cos his nephew is in his class. At least he has thought about it.
- 1:44 PM BrianGreene - what is Jimmy McGee doing on the Pat the Cope Gallagher trail <LOL>
- 1:44 PM dermotcasey - @nonsequitir Cope refers to the CO-OP movement. Identifies his involvement and distinguishes from 100 other Pat Gallaghers. Common practice
- 1:44 PM nonsequitir - What the hell is it with Pat The Cope Gallagher, not the man, the name. I mean, it’s not like I call my friend Bob the antichrist murphy
- 1:44 PM fiannafailparty - Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher on RTE discussing the Corrib Gas line now
- 1:48 PM Izzy_O - Ivana Bacik is 5-1 for Dublin Central, crazy odds imo.
- 1:48 PM diarmy - I hate Labour… they’re so old trying to be trendy… nothing worse. Bacik and Gilmore in particular. Yuk!
- 1:49 PM RTE_Elections - The RTÉ Player is now on Twitter, find out the latest about the programmes @RTE_Player
- 1:57 PM Christine Bohan - @Cian A friend was out canvassing in Cabra last night and said there was strong support for SF. Don’t think Burke will get enough transfers though. I’ll go for Bacik but think it’s wide open.
- 1:58 PM Christine Bohan - @Cian Yeah, a friend of mine was canvassing in Cabra last night and said there was really strong SF support. Not much for Maureen O’Sullivan, interestingly. I’ll guess Ivana but could go any way.
- 1:59 PM Christine Bohan - Um, just for the record, I’m not an idiot who double-posts things for no reason. I put that first one up a few hours ago. It never appeared, so re-wrote it just now.
- 2:17 PM krayZpaving - Just dropped a load of leaflets for @rebeccamoy in my apartment block. Good luck tomorrow Rebecca! #le09
- 2:19 PM Glinner - @ecurb135 Irish Election posters should all read “Trust me! I have a face!
- 3:19 PM faduda - @dermotcasey Pat the Cope wasn’t involved with the Co-op movement, his grandfather Paddy the Cope founded a Co-op, and Pat inherited the nick
- 3:21 PM damienblake - Fair played to greens on today’s web cast, great concept and well done so far. #le09
- 3:21 PM Suzy Byrne - Green Party Govt ministers, Senators and candidates are on election09.ie for next hour taking questions election09.ie #le09
- 3:21 PM krayZpaving - FF candidate’s van just drove past playing awful country & western music. It’s inner city Dublin, not Longford. #le09
- 3:27 PM aoifecarroll - Its fierce crowded in Stonybatter with teams for @ivanabacik, Emer Costello, FG & Christy Burke driving randomly in a taxi #Le09
- 3:41 PM cianflah - @christine the two of them will be in to the last think paschal d could struggle for transfers
- 3:41 PM krayZpaving - Pondering who gets my transfer in Dublin. Not Shinners & don’t want FF getting a win, so by elimination it may be Red Joe. Shudder. #le09
- 3:42 PM damienmulley - RT @keithnolan All these people want this from me tomorrow: twitpic.com #le09
- 3:45 PM cianflah - prime time doing a feature on Tiananmen Square – not a bad choice for moratorium day. Powerful story
- 3:58 PM dugdotie - Who do you want, red Joe, me or SF Mary Lou?: European candidate Eoin Ryan has launched a blistering attack on h.. bit.ly
- 3:59 PM conorp - “Send me on the gravy train to Europe slurp slurp”. Another Eoin Ryan classic along the North quays.
- 4:09 PM EoinRyanMEP - I’m asking you to vote for me & other pro-EU candidates tomorrow! The EU is essential for Ireland’s recovery – Vote 1 Eoin Ryan! #le09
- 4:13 PM Suzy Byrne - No Late Debate on Radio 1 tonight due to moratorium. Listeners get Late Date instead
- 4:16 PM garcoen - Anyone know any gay friendly candidates besides Ivanna Bacik?
- 4:16 PM krayZpaving - PaddyPower offering 7/1 for Ivana Bacik in the Dublin Central by-election right now. Great price. #le09
- 4:16 PM krayZpaving - @aoifecarroll Donohoe 8/11; O’Sullivan 11/8; Burke 3/1; Bacik 7/1; Ahern 18/1.
- 4:19 PM cmccann2 - Our FF cllr Peter Savage did his only canvassin in cooley 2nit,- a HQ map of north louth,never uses posters,always tops the poll! #le09
- 4:21 PM dubcilib - View our list of European and Local Election Websites – bit.ly #fb
- 4:21 PM Charlieboi - www.unitedminds.ie Ross O’Mullane’s election address to Dublin South voters
- 4:21 PM tuneraker - Local Elections 2morrow! A mate of mine is running as an Independent in Dublin South – Check him out: Ross O’Mullane (www.unitedminds.ie)!
- 4:21 PM michadaly - Don’t forget to vote for @rossom if u are in South Dublin tommorrow www.unitedminds.ie
- 4:21 PM rossom - people of dublin south – trust yourself: vote for ross o’mullane today – www.unitedminds.ie
- 4:23 PM Aperture11 - # immigration control platform. I photographed a Heron today with a better grasp of the situation than this mob. But as the economy sink …
- 4:23 PM ccrichton - @tchee Well I commend the sentiment. I sent their Irish equivalents (Immigration Control Platform) packing from my doorstep today.
- 4:23 PM Mark_Coughlan - Immigration Control Platform’s email is @iol.ie jesus, didnt iol still existed
- 4:24 PM dickobrien - No canvassers still, but got a leaflet from the Immigration Control Platform. The Irish could be an ethnic minority by 2050! Lol
- 4:31 PM abigailrieley - Just got to run Fianna Fail off the doorstep one last time before the election. Also found a copy of a favourite film hard to find.
- 4:31 PM murphsie - Voting tomorrow in Irish Local & Euro elections – lets kick Fianna Fail asses
- 4:32 PM midnightcourt - The National Question is “Where do you stand in relation to Fianna Fáíl?”# le09
- 4:37 PM SimonHarris09 - So the campaign comes to an end -it’s in the people’s hands now. Thank you for the help, courtesy and time during this election. VOTE HARRIS
- 4:40 PM Christine Bohan - Anyone want to call the third seat in the Dublin Euro election? I’m thinking Byrne’s transfers could put Ryan over, but Higgins could do it
- 4:40 PM gavinsblog - @christinebohan Higgins!
- 4:40 PM AdamMaguire - @christinebohan I’m betting Mary Lou – Higgins will poll well but fall at the last hurdle, but his transfers will push SF over the line.
- 4:42 PM Simon McGarr - My current predictions based on brain miasma only: Joe for MEP. Kathy Sinnott, George Lee. No Ganley. Dublin Central, no clue. Any thoughts?
- 4:54 PM VoteJoeHiggins - Joe Higgins responds to Fianna Fail & the Evening Herald’s Attack www.joehiggins.eu
- 4:55 PM cianflah - @Simon not much of a predictor but i put a tenner on Burke in Dub central at 10/1
- 4:56 PM sinnfeinireland - Polls just closed here in the North, tomorrow back in Dublin to do it all again, yeehaa! Gerry Adams
- 5:02 PM JHigginsMEP - 11 weeks, 11 counties, tomorrow is the day of reckoning, remember to vote Higgins 1 and O’Reilly 2 and dont forget the local FG people
- 5:13 PM bngr - I still think Higgins might win over Mary Lou & E Ryan, but we won’t know that til Mon. Lee is a done deal but Dub Central is wide open
- 5:14 PM hughgreen - Voting Joe Higgins tomorrow.
- 5:34 PM astarmain - And now the canvass is over. Voting early (730) tomorrow and then done until the tally on Saturday morning. #le09
- 5:39 PM boctweet - Polls open in Ireland at 07:00am tomorrow morning. I’m going to vote nice & early #le09 #eu09
- 5:59 PM LE09_PO - G’night all. Up early tomorrow morning for election. Chat then! #le09
- 6:06 PM irishelection - This evening’s web roundup url.ie tomorrow will have another liveblog – url.ie / url.ie #LE09
- 6:13 PM Simon McGarr - To join in go to www.scribblelive.com or add #le09 to the end of your twitter messages.
I just received an unsolicited SMS from Irene Winters (not via a real number, therefore a premium SMS that I probably end up paying for!) asking for my #1 vote tomorrow…. This is ridiculous! You won’t get support by sending unsolicited SMS that the recipient cannot reply to!
Bad move for Fine Geal!