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Irish General Election
Topic Started: Feb 27 2016, 06:12 PM (36 Views)
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Counting underway for some time. No clear result.

http://www.rte.ie/news/election-2016/

Fianna Fail outperformed expectations, Fine Gael performed poorly. Labour vote collapsed. Sinn Fein up. Lots of independents and small parties gathering votes.

PR system, so definitely no one with majority or even an obvious coalition. What will the result be? Grand Coalition between FF and FG? Or another election?

Does anyone else here actually know anything about Irish politics?

Zander, who dya vote for?

Other articles:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2016/news/given-a-choice-between-stability-and-chaos-people-wanted-chaos-seven-things-we-know-so-far-34491708.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35674465
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Ireland has a political party with fail in the name?
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Ireland has a political party with fail in the name?
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Feb 28 2016, 01:09 AM
Ireland has a political party with fail in the name?
makes sense since they were the ones in power during the financial crisis and its subsequent mishandling. Not sure why Enda is so unpopular, although granted I'm a yank and don't follow Irish politics that closely. Economic indicators are soaring in Ireland and in spite of years of austerity it still has one of the most generous welfare states in the English speaking world.
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He's hated because a)austerity measures(most dont agree with how it was handled, although I can see how things did need to be done), b)2nd water charge(we already pay for the water being pumped into homes, some of which especially in my area is not drinkable, and a standalone water charge was introduced on top of it. Irish Water, the company incharge of billing and maintaining the infrastructure, gave themselves massive bonuses instead of fixing leaking pipes and making water drinkable in effected areas such as mine. It also lead to the creation of the anit-austerity allaince party) and c)he's from Mayo. No one likes people from Mayo, infact most take great pleasure in seeing Mayo get to all Ireland finals and then losing.

As for the 'Fáil' party, who are the republican party in Ireland, the english translation is soldiers of destiny and pronounced 'fall'. It takes its name after the Lia Fáil(stone of destiny) which is a stone on top of the hill of Tara where the old high kings of Ireland were crowned. But yes, a lot of take the piss out of them since the financial crash.

NES, I went Sinn Fein, Independent, Anti-Austerity Alliance, Independent, Green. Got to my 5th pick and was like 'fuck it, no good independents left and no other party worth picking'. 2/3 of my picks got in so I'm happy.
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There is considerable debate economically over whether austerity works or not.
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