Stopping Election Fraud: Ireland's Example 6-9th June 2009

How Ireland's
Democracy
Works and Why
Elections Cannot
be Stolen -
the evidence
Countday Live Blog
Irish Elections
6 June-8 June 2009
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In Irish democratic elections a system of 'tallying' has been developed which has the effect of
making fraudulent elections almost impossible. As ballot boxes are gathered together into the count
centres, in full view of the 'tallymen' each ballot box in turn is emptied of its votes. The official vote
counters then assemble, again in full view of the 'tallymen' each ballot paper into neat piles. While
this is done the tallymen note where the votes on each ballot paper have been allocated on a piece of
paper using a simple signage system perfected several centuries ago. Once the vote counters have
assembled all the votes from all the ballot papers into neat piles and reconciled the number of ballot
papers which should be in a ballot box with the number which actually are the real counting takes
place. Normally by this time the tallymen's assembled tallies have been computed together and
provided each ballot box has had at least 50 of its votes counted a relatively reliable outcome to the
election can be provided, usually within an hour of the ballot boxes being opened. Each political
party participates in this process and shares resources so that the Tallies, which provide invaluable
intelligence to political parties as to which streets exactly votes in which quantities for their
candidates (each ballot box will correspond to a known set of streets within a constituency), are
shared. As the counters begin the official votes counting tallying continues usually to work out
where the voters preferences are falling and who therefore among the candidates who has not
reached the quota will get elected next. Way before the official result is known, the tallies become
known and it is these tallies for the Irish local government and European parliament elections which
are included in this document as and when they arrived in real time to a blog.
The following document is evidence of this process as it took place in one election in Ireland
in June 2009. In count centres all around Ireland tallymen and citizen journalists SMSd, twittered
and blogged the tallies as and when they became known to a central live internet based webblog
which was accessed by people all over Ireland and indeed the world. Those accessing the blog
could for the very first time in history have almost real time access to the tallies results as they came
in. I felt the account thus given of how things turned out as they were reported is worth preserving
for several reasons.
First, never before had those who were not at actual vote counting centres all around the
country actually had access to this information.
Second, it is an example of how several forms of new media can coalesce almost
spontaneously (thanks to the vision of those who founded this scribblelive account) to exceed by far
forms of conventional media purporting to offer the kinds of access to information in real time
which today's political anoraks wish and need to have.
Third, it is a witness in itself of the extraordinary and hopefully long to be preserved method
of counting votes in Irish elections which votes are all cast using ballot papers and not electronically
and thus being susceptible to being tallied by people at count centres noting where votes are going
as soon as they are removed form the ballot paper boxes.
Fourth, it tells the story of an election which saw Fianna Fail the right-wing and corrupt (in
all senses of that word) political party which has ruled Ireland practically since independence finally
get their comeuppance from a long suffering and hitherto ridiculously loyal electorate as that story
unfolded.
And fifth it is a witness to democracy in Ireland and using the internet in the new world
which is well worth preserving. Thanks to everyone whose texts and twitter tweets and hard work
made this document possible, and especially to those (including Alexia Golez, cianflah,
SimonMcGarr, Christine Bohan, Suzy Byrne and Fergal Crehan) who not only organised it but also
who worked for no pay over the long hours of the counting of votes between Saturday morning at 9
am on June 6th 2009 and (at least) midnight on Sunday/Monday June 7th/8th).
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• nothing concrete in Cork City yet .. FF had 13 seats on City Council - party people say they
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will be pleased if they hold 10..
by PJ Coogan
• higgins past 1000 after 10 boxes for castleknock #le09
by barratree via twitter
• should mention that thats after the blakestown boxes so very skewed #le09
• Gorgeous George seems to be on to a winner #Le09
by damienmulley via twitter
• A web cam has been set up in the RTÉ Radio centre - watch the election programmes as they
broadcast live from 11am at www.rte.ie/live
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/6/2009 8:44:24 AM9:44 AM yesterday
• #le09 Mary Hanafin admits some FF candidates shrank the FF logo on election posters.
understatement of the week. any FF candidate who didnt
by igaeilge via twitter
• Tallying North Inner City boxes in Central by election-3 horse race in my boxes Bacik,
o'sullivan, Donohue #Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter
• Looks like George Lee is walking home in Dublin South... Gorgeous timing George #FG
#le09
by MickFealty via twitter
• #le09 is there any FF candidate who didn't shrink the party logo? igaeilge.wordpress.com
by igaeilge
• Tally- Ganley & Higgins , 50-50 in Loughrea boxes
by caseyorla via twitter
• counting has begun - early indications not promising
by adam_douglas3 via twitter
• Dub south Lee tally v high with 1/3 boxes open. #le09
by TheEmergency via twitter
• will be reportig from my local count and the new V ex Green result. it should be depressing
either way #le09 at 1pm
by stephencrowley via twitter
• Dublin Central - 45% turn out. Only one box open. FG Paschal Donoghue polling 40% out
of first box.
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 8:29:42 AM9:29 AM yesterday
• 1/3 of boxes open in Dublin South - Lee Polling well - one box is 200plus for Lee, White 91,
Brennan 55. (Newstalk)
• Details of the RTE/Sunday Independent exit poll carried out with Lansdowne research by
will begin to emerge from 11am
• Online from the Wicklow County Council Count Centre, will be posting regular updates
from the Tally
by skearon via twitter
• At the opening of the boxes in Letterkenny, looks like it's going to be a long day and ages
before we even start to tally
by JoeBrennan via twitter
• Mary Hasafin on Newstalk admits some FF candidates shrank party logo as stipulated by
template for posters. #le09
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• Counting is geting under way this morning in the local elections and the two bye-elections
tinyurl.com
by RTE_Elections via twitter
• Mary Hanafin said that some candidates made logo smaller than the FF official template.
• In review of campaign Brendan O'Brien on Newstalk admits to getting out of his car and
measuring the Fianna Fáil election logo to prove it was smaller than in previous years. No
tapes needed we all know it was - if it was there at all.
• That said, I'm not on hand to see so I'd be wiser to hold back judgment! #le09
by eoinpurcell via twitter
• i know lee is going to win, but really 70% of the poll. Those Tallies must be off #le09
• Great stuff PJ - thanks.
• sorry for early typos !! Will get the hang of it - should have a tally pattern for Cork City
Council by 9.45
by PJ Coogan
• At Neptune Stadium .. then moving to City Hall later.. we have reporters at all Cork Ce
by PJ Coogan
• newstalk reporting 7/10 first pref going to George Lee in Dublin South according to very
early tallies
by deebdublin
• Tally: 7/10 1st prefs for Geo Lee in 1st 10 boxes open in Dublin South byelection #le09
• Bye-election in Dublin South - Collective tally - from first 100 boxes 70% going to Lee.
• on data entry duty for castleknock ward. Great collective effort here #le09
• Doors open in the Waterford Election Sorting office. #LE09
by chistorra via twitter
• Morning all - 6 minutes to opening of the boxes. Good luck to all the candidates and tallyers
#le09
by Suzy Byrne via twitter
• Irish Election Liveblog - bit.ly - or tweet using tag #le09 - other content will be found during
day on irishelection.com
• Tis D-day folks. Watch out for @TheEmergemcy throughout Newstalk's results coverage
today. #emer #le09
• For those who want to plan their day - Newstalk Coverage underway from 10am and runs
till 8 pm today. RTE Radio 1 goes on air at 11am. TV beings for one hour at 1 and then from
4 - 6pm.
• Good Morning all - we expect things to start getting busy here from 11 am but of course
we'll bring you anything we get before then. We'll be taking info by text, twitter, and
directing people to blogs, video, flikr, qik and other output.
• ooh ooh forgot the hastag. off to #le09 count
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by squidlimerick via twitter
• Arriving at my first ever count :-) #le09
by niamhvus via twitter
• drill given to all party tally folk fingal count centre north county dublin. its well full here
#le09 we tally Euros too!
by BrianGreene via twitter
• ooh ooh forgot the hastag. off to #le09 count
• Heavy security presence at the fingal count . . . Just in case #le09
• At count centre, good crowd here at neptune #le09
by Stephen Spillane via twitter
• beep beep!
by Simon McGarr at 6/5/2009 11:59:15 PM12:59 AM yesterday
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• Seem to remember you calling @declanganley as having a good shout from way back in
NW @naoisen #le09
• Ivan Yates talking on Newstalk about El Berts shafting of Mary Fitzpatrick, cut off quickly
by the presenters #le09
by fintanr via twitter
• Erk. =>RT @naoisen: Declan Ganley polling ahead of Harkin in Donegal. #Le09
• #le09 Count suspended in Letterkenny - stray votes found
by stevenconlon via twitter
• @krayZpaving Looking good for Eoin Ryan, if those figures persist #ep09
by ubfid via twitter
• @naoisen Looks like I was wrong, then: Ganley may make it after all #ep09
by ubfid via twitter
• In Europe, FF
look in trouble here in Mayo, and may not hold on to their seat. Early predictions are for
Higgins, Harkin and Ganley.
by themayonews via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:45:44 AM10:45 AM yesterday
• Early indications in Westport TC. Martin Keane looks like he is going to top the poll with
new FG man Christy Hyland polling very strongly
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• Kilkenny city: Fianna Fail vote holding up and may match the 34% first preferences the
party received in the city in last local elections
• Michael Kilcoyne looks like he is going to top the poll in MCC Castlebar Electoral Area,
along with doubling the quota in the Cbar TC.
• Fianna Fail vote has completely collapsed in Louth
by cianflah at 6/6/2009 9:30:49 AM10:30 AM yesterday
• Great performance by Kevin Humphreys of @labour in Pearse St & Ringsend - more than
1.5 quotas in those boxes #le09
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by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:26:44 AM10:26 AM yesterday
• 4% of boxes tallied in Dublin Euros: de Rossa & Mitchell home and dry. FF polling 21%
between the two. No geographical info. #le09
• Early days in Pembroke: McCartan 21%, Eoghan Murphy 20%, Dermot Lacey 13% Garrett
Tubridy 6%, Oisin Quinn 7%
• labour could take second seat in Cork City NW .. new FG man Barry Keane also polling
well here..
by PJ Coogan edited by Suzy Byrne
• The tally men do their magic in the bullpens for SWIC, SEIC & Pembroke-Rathmines.
#le09 mypict.me
by krayZpaving via twitter
• Brian Hayes says Lee is on 52 percent of vote - predicts win on first count #le09
• Tom Reilly coming 2nd in Tuam - the man with no FF logo until Irishelection.com pointed it
out.
• Lee on 52% with White and Brennan on 20% roughly. Newstalk say he will romp hme on
first count
• The tally men do their magic in the bullpens for SWIC, SEIC & Pembroke-Rathmines.
#le09 mypict.me
• I have dial up, very slow edge iPhone connection, and the four Irish channels on tv, what's
my best way to keep tabs on the count? #le09
by joescanlon via twitter
• Pascal Donohue looking good in Dublin Central, wtih 18% boxes open, but mostly inner
city boxes opened so far. No Drumcondra boxes yet.
by dickobrien via twitter
• Colm Keaveney (Labour) topping the poll in Galway county. Tuam Local Electoral Area
• Anyone got a tally on FGs pc in central yet? #le09
• Figures from tally of four boxes - Barrett 69; Courtney 17; Crowley 59; Deere 69; Durcan
112; Gavin 87; Guthrie 78; Henaghan 82 #elections
by themayonews via twitter
• First tally on Newstalk gave 7 to 1 in favour of G. Lee. That is impressive
by Robbiecousins via twitter
• SEIC tally, 26% complete: Humphreys 27%; Doolan 15%; Noon 11%; Parodi 10%; Ryan
8%; Uzell 7%; all Pearse St boxes in plus a few #le09
• Pat Rabbitte predicts George Lee's Ascension into heaven before noon...
• Dublin Central On 31 percent of boxes - 21 percent Donohue 20% bacick O'Sullivan on
20% Burke on 9. These are north inner city boxes.
• The ballot boxes have been open for just over an hour
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• Bee Gee Mossy Ahern must be gutted. Tragedy, Maurice, Bertie and Noel won't get to
reform the band
• I want a sound off- everyone who's at a count today is getting auto added. So everything you
say is getting sucked in, hashtags or no. Hands up whose twitter is being given the Royal
Road!
by Simon McGarr at 6/6/2009 9:06:05 AM10:06 AM yesterday
• Dublin Central is proving a lot harder to call, although Fine Gael's Paschal Donohue has
performed very well in some areas
• 10:00pm European votes being split for transfer to Castlebar
by sligococo via twitter
• Donnybrook has huge vote for Ryan + Mitchell in Euros Very heavy Fine Gael in locals.
O'Callaghan + Donnelly reasonable showing for FF #LE09
by monaghanpenguin via twitter
• RTE news - George Lee dead cert to take Dub South seat, #le09
• Early indications suggest Fine Gael’s George Lee is set for a massive victory in the Dublin
South bye-election
• 13% open in South Inner City in Dublin - Humphreys (Lab) on 23% Doolan (SF) 16%
Flynn (Ind) 13% Noone (FG) 12% Ryan (FF) on 10% and Parodi on 8%
• RT @9th_Centre: COUNTCAM One of Sligos main counting centres live cam (not on yet
of course-council) www.sligococo.ie #le09
• RT @BrianGreene: fingalcoco.ie webcasting count #le09
• Sorry, last name on that Rt was Donoghue. So 4 Nth Inner City by election tally it's Labour,
Ind, FG according to tally.
by abigailrieley via twitter
• tallying balbriggan boxes
• sounds like George Lee is doing extremely well [via: Newstalk] #le09
by paul_cawley via twitter
• As George Lee runs away with Dub South we have the live blog here url.ie #LE09
by irishelection via twitter at 6/6/2009 8:56:24 AM9:56 AM yesterday
• On @satedition Olivia Mitchell FG TD in Dub south describes apparent Lee landslide as
boxes open. #le09
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• Any idea Suzy where Dublin Central is with the % boxes counted.
by Bazalini
• #le09 Ivan Yates and Pat Rabbitte predict that this couldd be the worst FF showing EVER
by thusspakeblixa via twitter
• RT @MickFealty: RTE Poll FF 24 Labour 17 FG 34 Greens 3 SF 9 LE09
• @RTE_elections You should keep using the #le09 hashtag.
by swearimnotpaul via twitter
• Fine Gael candidates polling very strongly in Westport Town with a possibility of them
taking five seats.
• @jonathangrimes where can I follow the election count online? #le09
by pedrorq via twitter
• No FF backlash evident in Lismore Town Co. - 1 of 3 candidates tops poll, others strong
#le09
by JoeLeogue via twitter
• FG polling well for the locals in Donegal #le09
by EmilyTully via twitter
• #le09 Limerick- FG up in City and County, could gain 2-3 seats
• Castleconnel Wade and Teefy heading the poll #le09
• Kilmallock Heffernan (labour) and Houlihan polling well after 11 boxes open le09
• Could Maurice Ahern's council seat be at risk? #le09
by kingkane via twitter
• Count & results timetable: www.irishtimes.com MEP results tomorrow at 9p.m. #le09
by clicky_here via twitter
• Dublin South tally sees George Lee taking the Dail seat on the first count with 54%
• The safe seats in Ballina Town Council actually look like Mulherin, Ginty, Johnnie
O'Malley, Barry McLoughlin and Peter Clarke #elections
• George Lee on 54 Brennan 17 (I think) Lee's worst box 42 best 70... first candidate whose
won on 1st preferences since 1984 #le09
• RT @RTE_Elections: Exit poll: Greens will get 3%, Sinn Féin 9%, and Independents and
others 13% #le09
• Isn't this a great day to be following the election count? Perfect weather altogether #le09
by jonathangrimes via twitter
• SEIC tally: 61% tallied; Humphreys 30%; Noone 13%; Flynn 12%; Doolan 11%; Parodi
11%; Ryan 9%; Wheeler 5%. 2 quotas for @labour so far #le09
• Exit poll: Greens will get 3%, Sinn Féin 9%, and Independents and others 13%
• #le09 MOS leading followed by Donohoe, Bacik, Ahern and Burke respectively
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• Really thought Ivana would split Maureen's vote. But doesnt look like it.
by Robbiecousins via twitter edited by Simon McGarr
• Exit poll: Fine Gael is on 34%, 6.5% ahead of 2004, while Labour jumps five and a half
points to 17%
• lord mayor of Cork Brian Bermingham (FG) in trouble ... also Donal Counihan FF... his
immediate predecessor ..
by PJ Coogan
• Listening to Pat Rabitte here, I seem to remember him in previous elections calling results
that no-one ever saw. I'd give alot of credibilty to him.
by Bazalini
• Gerry Ginty looks like he could take the final seat for Ballina County from Johnnie
O'Malley #elections
• Exit poll suggests Fianna Fáil will get just 24% of the vote, 8 points lower than their result
five years ago
• Early indications in Ballina County Council are Fine Gael looking to retain four, Annie May
Reape might take the only seat for FF #elections
• An RTÉ exit poll on the local elections shows a big drop in support for Fianna Fáil, and
significant gains for both Fine Gael and Labour
• Dublin SEIC tally has Humphreys at 28.3%. Mannix Flynn polling very well at 10.7%.
Doolan at 12.1%.
by dickobrien via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:57:24 AM10:57 AM yesterday
• Irish byelection dublin central: tally results. doohan.org
by handylearn via twitter
• FG polling well in cork city south west lea. Buttimer looks like topipng poll #le09
by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:57:04 AM10:57 AM yesterday
• Joe Higgins polling strongly - tally from fingal. Neck + neck with FG. SF way back figs
based on 20% of boxes & it's higgins country #le09
• They'll be bitching in City hall about being there until 4am. their own falt for leaving the
count so late #le09
• #le09 Joe Higgins at 27% in Fingal -Newstalk
• Ivan Yates gets his finglas mixed up with Fingal casting aspersions of FInglas as SF
stronghold #le09
• Joe Higgins coming in on 27% of a fifth of boxes tallied in Fingal - no surprise there #le09
• In Ballina TC, the four who look safe after the early tallies are Mulherin (FG), O'Malley
(FF), McAndrew (FF) and Ginty (Ind).
• Dub central tally Fg 22% maureen o'sullivan 21 lab 19 FF 15.maureen o'sullivan thought 2 b
well placed to get transfers from 1st slims #le09
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• Agreed Bazalini - Phibsboro/Cabra/Drumcondra boxes not opened yet in Dublin Central
• I think its early door to be counting Donohue out. Alot of FG boxes to be open yet
by Bazalini
• 22% Donohoe, 21% O'Sullivan, 19% Bacik from newstalk tallies #le09
• Kilkenny City showing @labour not doing as well as expected, while Fianna Fail holding
their vote from last time. #le09
• Donegal: Tallymen tell me Pat the Cope is polling well as is Declan Ganley who at this point
is polling ahead of Marian Harkin #le09
• watching things nationally, FF poll 15 percent in Dublin Central (estimatye) #le09
• quote of the day Noel Whelan: what looks like Ganley's bald head may be Marian Harkin's
cheek (his health warning on euro tallies) #le09
by damianobroin via twitter
• RTE predict McGuinness & Childers to take seats in Ireland East. Aylward & Phelan
fighting for 3rd. Delighted. #le09
• FG in with a real shout of a gain in Artane - whitehall. #le09
• RT @RTE_Elections EP election: Childers (Lab) & McGuinness (FG) to top poll in East.
Phelan FG and Aylward FF to battle for third seat #le09
• Bye-elections: Dermot Ahern concedes that Fianna Fáil will not win either contest
• Green vote down 60% in some areas - Newstalk #le09
• And it will be a battle royal for the final two seats, internally, between Gavin, Feeney,
Crowley (FF) and McCormack, Guthrie (FG).
• We're thinking of going to the RDS later this afternoon, in the hope of a good old-fashioned,
bloodspattery faction fight. Wanna come? #le09
by janeruffino via twitter
• Cork CC- South Central FF down 11% and Green down 5%. Both down all over Cork City.
Mick Barry of Socialists set to top Northside poll #le09
• @BrianGreene Fair play to Fingal CoCo they've been embracing webcasting for a while
now. Where exactly is the count taking place? #le09
by imurphy via twitter
• poll toppers Cork City Council wards .. Mick Barry SP, John Kelleher Lab, Jonathan
O'Brien SF, John Buttimer FG, Laura McGonigle FG, Lorraine Kingston Lab. Labour in line
for second seat in SW Ward..
by PJ Coogan edited by Simon McGarr
• EP election: Liam Aylward (FF) & John Paul Phelan (FG) in battle for last East seat
• Topping poll: cork south west: buttimer fg, cse, mcgonigle fg, csc kingston lab. #Le09
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• EP election: Nessa Childers (Lab) & Mairead McGuinness (FG) to top poll in East
• In Castlebar MCC area, its looks like Burke and Kenny (FG), McDonnell (FF) and Kilcoyne
and Durcan (Ind) are now safe.
• New blog post: What The Tallyman Saw (Kildare #le09) faduda.ie
by faduda via twitter
• Did the rap video hurt or help Alan Kelly? If we send Ganley to Europe will they kick us
out? #le09
• Donegal Town Council count has been suspended as stray votes have been found in
Letterkenny? #le09
by paulmullin via twitter
• In Castlebar TC, new FG candidate Caroline Heston has polled very well and looks like
taking a seat.
• #le09 Dun Laoighaire/Ratdown - Joe Higgins picking up a lot of votes in Dundrum (!)
Richard Boyd-Barrett polling well in Dun Laoghaire
• #le09 Big FG gains in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. People Before Profit doing well in
Ballybrack.
• #le09 Euro tallys: Inishowen Donegal box: 1st FF, 2nd SF, 3rd Harkin, 4th Ganley, 5th FG
• Boyd-Barrett showing strongly in Dun Laoghaire and may make it this time. #le09
• EP election: Declan Ganley (Libertas) polling better than expected in North-West
• FF on 7% in Dundalk, FG on 19% SF 23%
• EP election: Marian Harkin (Ind) set to top poll in North-West
• #le09 Labour, FG and Labour up in Dublin. Labour go up to 24% in Artane, FG at 27%.
27% in SE Inner-City, SF also up.
• Early calls for O'Sulllivan in dub central. Seems tiny bit previous but wud be achievement
#le09
• Live 95FM : coming with health warning euro vote looks like Crowley (FF) Bourke (FG)
and Kelly (Labour) #le09
• Some of Ahern's will go to Donohue but more to O'Sullivan. I would presume SF go to
Sullivan more but could Bacik catch her? #le09
• De Udder Brudder's voters would all need to be closet Ivana fans to carry her into the lead.
#le09
by Simon McGarr via twitter
• Ganley on 31% in Sligo - Pat the Cope on 6% #le09
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• Ahern's transfers could be everywhere - though they were encouraging on the doors to
support O Sulivan I hear since they think they can get it bck off her next time.
• RT @EmilyTully: Ganley polling strong in Galway, Sligo and Donegal - could take a seat
#le09
by EvertB via twitter
• Burke will break for O'Sullivan more than Bacik. Any guesses on Ahern's transfers? #le09
• illigan expected to top poll in Limerick City East. Scully (FG) leading in City South #le09
• Dublin Central: FG's Paschal Donohoe polled strongly to top 24% - Tallies
• #le09 No Green councillors?
• @Unarocks I have €20 at 7/1 on IB so I'm particularly exercised on her behalf. But the early
tallies point to Maureen O'Sullivan win #le09
• 30% tally in Fingal: E Byrne 5%, De Burca 5%, De Rossa 19, Higins 23.5%, Mitchel 18%,
Simons 3%, Ryan 11.5%,
• #le09 BIG gains for Socialist Party in Fingal. Could quadruple seats - Newstalk
• Dermot Ahern - not denying its time to panic..........
by Bazalini edited by Simon McGarr
• Figs from Muhuddart LAb: 25, SP: 20, SF: 13, FG: 16, FF: 19, 1k betwe three african
candidates
• Maureen O'Sullivan (Ind) predicted to win Dublin Central to succeed Tony Gregory
• Central 74 %tally Ahern 13%, Bacik 18%, Burke 12%, Donohue 24%, Geary 3%,
O'Sullivan 25 %#Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 10:15:44 AM11:15 AM
yesterday
• John McGuinness son will top poll in Kilkenny - 2 quotas
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 11:08:44 AM12:08 PM yesterday
• Patrick Nulty set to get in on first count in mulhuddart - first time candidate swept in with
party support
by cianflah at 6/6/2009 11:07:47 AM12:07 PM yesterday
• @suzybie That erectile dysfuncion advert was a bit unnerving so close to the Angelus... Or
am I just gettin old? #le09
• @SimonHaden any news on Enistymon? Anne Marie?
• Green seat on Ennis Town Council looks safe. But Ennis Co Co seat will be down to the
wire.
by SimonHaden
• Looks like a battle between Indepedent Gerry Ginty and FF duo Michael Loftus and Johnnie
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O'Malley for the last seat in Ballina. #elections
by themayonews via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:05:04 AM12:05 PM yesterday
• RT @nmcgivney: Follow the real deal here. It's 100% live 100% of the time.
www.irishelection.com #le09
• We pause for the Angelus at blogger hq and reach for the jellies #le09
• SEIC 100% tally: Crosby 3%; Doolan 12%; Flynn 15%; Humphreys 27%; Noone 13%;
Parodi 10%; Ryan 8%; Uzell 3%; Wheeler 6% #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:01:07 AM12:01 PM yesterday
• Sitting in the haidresser, absorbed by tweets on #le09
by RachelMorrogh via twitter
• Mitchell, De Rossa to take Dublin seats, Higgins, Ryan and McDonald in battle for third
spot #le09 #ie09
by Campaign_Watch via twitter
• Therese Ruane and Harry Barrett also have polled respectably and could be involved in the
race for the final seat in Castlebar.
• Final Tally for South East Inner City: Quota will be 1854
Doolan on 1096 11.8%, Flynn on 1,364 14.7%, Humphreys 2,500 27.4%,
• Will any local election see a lower first pref count than Prendeville (Ind) in lismore town
who tallied a total of 5? #le09
• Topping poll: cork south west: buttimer fg, cse, mcgonigle fg, csc kingston lab. #Le09
• RT @emilytully Ganley on 31 %in Sligo - P|at the Cope on 6/% #LE09
• Waiting on the master tally but numbers so far are not good.
by Killian2009 via twitter
• This is more intense than a full body wash with wire wool and dettol! #le09
by Jnisbet via twitter
• De Udder Brudder's voters would all need to be closet Ivana fans to carry her into the lead.
#le09
• Ganley on 31 %in Sligo - Pat the Cope on 6 %#le09c
by EmilyTully via twitter edited by cianflah
• Clare Daly will top swords poll for SP some day for them in Fingal
• Dublin South West Inner City tally: Ardagh FF 9%, Byrne FG 17%, Connell NP 3%,
Gallagher LAB 19%, MArtin Hogan GP 8%, MacVeigh (PBP) 8%, Moynihan LAB 18%, Ni
Dallaigh SF 12%. Anita Reilly FF7%, SZCZECINSKI 1%
• EP election: Joe Higgins (SP), Eoin Ryan (FF) & Mary Lou McDonald (SF) in battle for
final Dublin seat
• EP election: Proinsias De Rossa (Lab) & Gay Mitchell (FG) to take seats in Dublin
• Dublin SE: looking like Humprhies stays, Mannix ousts SF, and Parodi could be in, despite
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stupidly coverage of her in the media. #le09
• SP set to take balbriggan seat with tery kelleher
• Dermot Aherne doesn't think that actual electoral results are a good indication of how FF is
doing. But... but... what other yardstick are we using?
• Mannix Flynn predicted to take Daithi Doolan's seat in Dublin South Inner City #le09
• On my way to Blogger HQ. #le09
by lexia via twitter
• FF likely to take no seat in CSW ward..
by PJ Coogan
• Buttimer, fg south west, kingston lab south central have passed quotas on tally. #le09
• George Lee at 54% Dub South and is incredibly also pulling ahead in Dub Central, in Meath
and Cavan/Monaghan and as MEP NW cand. #le09
by nmcgivney via twitter
• Jim Higgins, Marian Harkin and Declan Ganley topping polls in Mayo #le09
• Fianna Fail polling well in rural Roscommon, new canditate Laurance Fallon FG polling
well in the area. Tally results show that Independent HAC Pau|la Mc Namara will top the
poll in Mid Roscommon Electoral Area.
• Buttimer, fg south west, kingston lab south central have passed quotas on tally. #le09
• Jim Glennon says that Maurice Aherns' Council Seat is under threat
• Pat Leahy, Conventional Wizard, Tips Eoin Ryan for MEP seat Pfft. #le09
• Nessa Childers topping polls, followed by Mairead McGuiness and Brian Aylward #le09
• v. poor Dublin Central turnout, 45% reported. Disappointing so few people choose to vote -
don't complain if you don't vote #le09
• Drogheda North- FF set to lose both seats on council. FF holding seats in Kells. Labour
looking good in Navan. #le09
• @CllrJoeRyan Well done Wexford Labour! #le09
• FG forecast Labour to hold 5 seats on Wexford Borough Council & Lawlor 2 gain in County
by CllrJoeRyan via twitter
• @spiller2 Any news on SF in Cork City SE? #le09
by samuelbowman via twitter
• Joe Higgins topping polls in Balbriggan, Lusk & Rush. #le09
• Abandoning Newstalk for RTE radio. #le09
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• I wonder if even the most hardened FFer really believes the poor showing is a typical mid
term blip? #le09
by JL Pagano via twitter
• owencorrigan Maureen O'Sullivan there on Newstalk bigging up her parish pumpery over
blow-in Ivana. PFFFFFTT! #le09
by owencorrigan via twitter
• RT @naoisen McGuinness machine looks set to retain 4 seats for FF in Kilkenny city
holding party vote at 34% and eating into Labour's
by irishelection via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:46:24 AM12:46 PM yesterday
• Mark Mortell getting very worked up about FG on 34% shouldnt they be doing better
though?
• In Youghal TC, Beecher (FG) and Coyne (FF) well ahead on tallies.#le09
by rianomurchu via twitter
• #le09 ahern concedes defeat... tee hee. heard rumours he might be in trouble for the council
seat too!
by keatingciara via twitter
• Final Central Tally: O'Sullivan 26, Donohue 22, Bacik 17, Burke 14, Ahern 12, Geary 3
by aoifecarroll via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 11:44:44 AM12:44 PM
yesterday
• RT @naoisen: McGuinness machine looks set to retain 4 seats for FF in Kilkenny city
holding party vote at 34% and eating into Labour's #le09
• tony fitzgerald may now hold out for FF in Cork NW .. his tally came back in later boxes but
my number-cruncher here is predicting a worrying night for Damian Wallace FF in North
Central ..
by PJ Coogan
• Dublin Central tallies: O’Sullivan 26%, Donohoe 22%, Bacik 17%, Burke 14%, Ahern 12%,
Geary 3% #le09
• Maurice Ahern concedes defeat in Dublin Central #le09
• @davidcochrane Figured, but the tallies (incomplete as they are) suggest some higher
Ganley support than expected! #le09
• SBrennan's not that bad, tbh, I am a bit sorry it was him that got a beating. His dad was a
gent and he's not the worst of FF at all #le09
• is liveblog picking up the twitter posts correctly #le09
• #le09 EP elections tally Letterkenny area have FF at 32.1%, SF at 22.87%, Harkin in 3rd (no
numbers), Libertas 11.30%
• Shay Brennan congratulating Lee already on Radio 1
by Elrobo
• RT @TheEmergency: Greens might have no councillors. Will they get the hint finally? #le09
by jonathangrimes via twitter
• #le09 EP elections tally Letterkenny area have FF at 32.1%, SF at 22.87%, Harkin in 3rd (no
numbers), Libertas 11.30%
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• Ballyfermot tallies anyone?
by Iceman
• LOL @Conor Lenihan just arrived and kissed Shay Brennan on the forehead. Odd.
by wendylimerick
• local independent vote is completely unsustainable in a GE... does this render a large part of
local results irrelevant for analysis? #le09
• shay brennan on radio 1 the election "was a fantastic experience" - he's clearly into S&M
#le09
by politicalthicko via twitter
• Vincent Jackson was around D12 yesterday in a bus owned by Cathloic Youth Care (CYC)
that was sponsored by AIB. Wonder was the driver also employed by CYC. Did not think
the use of youth service facilities funded by one of our wonderful banks could be used to
support an election campaign.
by Dublin 12
• Anyone who says FF are not in meltdown are living on Cloud Cuckoo land
by Bazalini
• Michael Martin saying his Brothers are on a knife edge to win seats in Cork. A good day.
by Iceman
• Conor Lenihan just arrived and kissed Shay Brennan on the forehead. Odd.
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter
• @mark_coughlan pic? :)
by irishelection via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:35:44 AM12:35 PM yesterday
• No i do not think so. No meltdown for FF, pity. Now the Greens will possibly fall apart.
by Iceman
• Coughlan on Highland Radio "great to see our two people doing strong" "expectation that
JHiggins would do better, but has not transferred and Ganley coming through.. quite a mix
between Local Elections and FG doing well, but not transferring to the Euros"
by Alexia Golez at 6/6/2009 11:34:45 AM12:34 PM yesterday
• Bye-elections: If Fine Gael's George Lee wins Dublin South on the first count, it will be the
first such victory for the party since 1975
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:33:44 AM12:33 PM yesterday
• #le09 Mary Coughlan "reduction in FF vote in Letterkenny expected, taken aback by Pat the
Cope's votes so far and surprised by Ganley"
• Former PDs are doing well though, according to RTE
by Elrobo
• Stop whinging David. Lol.
by Iceman
• Are my comments coming up?
by davidcochrane
• A right kick in the teeth for FG if they do not win DC bye-election.
by Iceman
• How is Ballyfermot Jackson doing
by Dublin 12
• are there any fianna fail councillors being elected who aren't a TDs son or daughter? #le09
• Local elections: Labour is doing well in some urban areas like Dublin city, and county
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Waterford
• Party vote in south west: fg 36.44%, ff 25.49%, lab 22.64%, sf 10.91%, gp 4.52%. 75%
Tally #le09
by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:31:04 AM12:31 PM yesterday
• Any updates on macroom area vote count? #le09
by sarahphelan via twitter
• Local elections: Fine Gael are polling well over 30% in places such as Cork city, Waterford,
Limerick and Galway
• Cork's 96fm are saying Cork SE (my ward) might return only 1 FF cllr. Never been so proud
to be from Ballintemple! #le09
• Rte news are wrongly reporting that mark deareys wife took a town council seat. Its his
sister in law
• A boat fair play but will hw get elected?
by Iceman
• Any news on Rebecca Moynihan (Lab) in Dublin?
by wendylimerick
• Ganely doing well in Clare and Galway city-Newstalk
by wendylimerick
• Newstalk on radio in kitchen and on itunes upstairs. Half minute delay on iTunes. Kitchen
getting results before upstairs. #le09
• Caatelconell - 72 percent of boxes open - Egan, J. (F.G.) 1,116 11.40%, Forde-Brennan, T.
(G.P.) 190 1.94% Gleeson, N. (F.F.) 1,060 10.83%, Harty, M. (F.G.) 981 10.02% Jackman,
M. (F.G.) 1,127 11.51%, Keating, S. (S.F.) 171 1.75% Meagher, J. (F.F.) 466 4.76%, Secas,
E. (L.P.) 696 7.11%, Sheehan, M. (F.G.) 635 6.49% Stokes, B. (F.F.) 457 4.67%
Teefy, B. 1,276 13.04%
Wade, E. (F.F.) 1,614 16.49%
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 12:10:26 PM1:10 PM yesterday
• FermoyTC 1st count: Bowes (Ind) 67, Hartnett (FF) 66 Douglas (Green) 65, Hughes (Ind)
48, Hutton (Ind) 28, Carey (Ind) 22 #le09 - long day!!
• At least one Tubridy has had a good month ;) #le09
• Applause for Kevin Humphreys as he arrives in count centre. Topped poll in SEIC. #le09
• Live 95 FM estimate Adare FF1 FG 2 Lab 1 #le09
• On lunch at the Sth Dublin count. From casually overhearing tallymen here, it looks like
Eoin Ryan got a healthy share of 1st prefs. #le09
by gavreilly via twitter
• Live 95 FM estimate Adare FF1 FG 2 Lab 1 #le09
• At least one Tubridy has had a good month ;) #le09
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• Hanafin says exit polls 'disappointing' yet 'not entirely unexpected' #le09
• Tallies Kilmallock Heffernan (lab) 23 percent Donegan (Fine Gael ) 18 percent #le09
• @aoifecarroll #le09 woohoo! apart from Tubs'n'Tiles dismal showing any other numbers?
• greens set to take 2% of euro votes. How's planet bertie for you now gormley? #le09
• Hanafin says exit polls 'disappointing' yet 'not entirely unexpected' #le09
• Shay Brennan gives his reaction ot George Lee's win over at Irish Election #LE09 url.ie HT
@mark_coughlan
by irishelection via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:02:44 PM1:02 PM yesterday
• Tubridy on 4.4% in Pembroke! Looks like 3 Labour hold there #Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:02:24 PM1:02 PM yesterday
• RTE TV Elections 2009 has just gone on air. Watch it or listen to RTE Radio One coverage
on line at www.rte.ie
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:02:04 PM1:02 PM yesterday
• FF's Shay Brennan concedes defeat to FG's George Lee #le09
• Who says Shea Brennan gets to concede George's win? He wasn't even 2nd. #le09
• Eoin Ryan on 14% to Mary Lou's 13.5%, Joe only on 11% - with FF transfers to come,
ooh... #le09
by owencorrigan via twitter
• @pedrorq Fast growth followed by faster collapse ≠ good econ mngmnt. FF never looked
past their next election for economic plans. #le09
• Garret Tubridy on 4.4%
• Sinn Féin councillor Dave Keatiing will have a real battle to hold on to his seat on Westport
Town Council.
• @samuelbowman I'm far from smug or happy. I haven't said anything about these very very
disappointing results. #le09
by sendboyle via twitter
• Glencullen LEA: Lettie (Lab) 26%, Joyce FG 16%, Richmond FG 16%, Murphy FF, 12,
Byrne FF, 9%, O Sulivan Lab 7%, Wyse 6%
• No surprises in Westport Electoral Area, Fine Gael will take three seats easily, Flynn and the
two O'Malleys, with Margaret Adams.
• Local elections: Tallies suggest Fianna Fail could lose up to 40 council seats nationwide,
pundits say
• Dermot Ahern knifing candidates left right and centre on RTE today as if it is down to them
that the party cant muster a vote. Intimating that Ahern machine didnt want to put maurice
forward.
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• Honestly innocent question - why are electors so disappointed at FF after so many years of
growth? #le09
by pedrorq via twitter
• Fine Gael candidates set to top polls in both Newcastle West and Rathkeale, while Hannon
(labour) leading in Adare #le09
• Maureen O'Sullivan starts to refer to herself in the 3rd person on radio 1 "It's the Maureen
O'Sullivan thing to do"... how humble #le09
• RT @naoisen: McGuinness machine looks set to retain 4 seats for FF in Kilkenny city
holding party vote at 34% and eating into Labour's #le09
by PoliticsIE via twitter
• Bye-Elections watch Lee (Fine Gael) and O'Sullivan (Independent) set to take the two Dail
seats #le09
seats #le09
• Any estimate yet of what time the George Lee 1st count will be at? #le09
by aoifac via twitter
• Local elections: Brid Smith (People Before Profit) expected to take seat in Dublin City
Council
seats #le09
• Right taking a break to digest the tallies and have lunch. Still waiting to hear about
Killorglin tallies #le09
• Yes, Bacik did badly. Always a mistake to run in Dub-C but she's the most offputting
candidate imaginable without a FF after her name. #le09
• Maureen O'Sullivan is waiting on her students to come out of the English Exam before
going to the count.
• Bye-elections: Fianna Fail's candidate in Dublin South bye-election, Shay Brennan, has
conceded defeat to Fine Gael's George Lee
• Maureen O'Sullivan starts to refer to herself in the 3rd person on radio 1 "It's the Maureen
O'Sullivan thing to do"... how humble #le09
• Fine Gael candidates set to top polls in both Newcastle West and Rathkeale, while Hannon
(labour) leading in Adare #le09
• McHugh to squeeze ahead of Ardagh in Crunlin-Kimmage? Please? #le09
• Carrigaline tally. Forde fg 16.8%, mcgrath ff 16.6%, lombard fg 14.3%, collins fg 12.35%
#le09
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by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:37:24 PM1:37 PM yesterday
• @cianflah @suzybie @irishelection is the site down? Doesnt seem to be loading for me...
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:36:44 PM1:36 PM yesterday
• Jim Fahy predicts slugfest for Euro seats in North & West #le09
by marloft via twitter
• Exit polls are good for FG, Ganley and Higgins url.ie #LE09
• Eric Byrne to top poll in Crumlin Kimmage, Henry Upton well placed for another Lab gain
#Le09
• Gallagher & Moyinhan to win in SWIC, another Labour gain #Le09
• #le09 #EP09 First item in advisory booklet for FF candidates in General Election handbook:
Decreased party logo leads to increased vote.
• #le09 Any more news from Crumlin-Kimmage?
• #le09 seriously are they opening any boxes in clare????
• #le09 #EP09 #gaeilge bit.ly for breis eolais.
• Gallagher & Moyinhan to win in SWIC, another Labour gain #Le09
• @marloft How many votes have been seen in Ire NW, do you know? Is there potential for a
big swing when eg Clare comes in? #le09
• Just saw some school uniforms. Spare a thought for Leaving Certs running through the rain.
Tougher than any count. #le09
• Off for a smoke...lunch being taken at counts around the country - thanks to everyone for
sending info #le09
• New blog post: What The Tallyman Saw II (Kildare /Celbridge) #le09 faduda.ie
• Labour gain in Mulhuddart-O'Donovan & Nulty to win, Hamill to hold in Castleknock
#Le09
• Labour gain in Mulhuddart-O'Donovan & Nulty to win, Hamill to hold in Castleknock
#Le09
• Fianna Fail's Maurice Ahern, seen as out of contention in the Dublin Central bye-election,
may also lose his Dublin City council seat
• Loving my first count. Great for a politics information junkie :-) #le09
• #le09 Tally for EP in Donegal / Inishowen / Letterkenny FF: 31.92, SF: 29, Harkin 12.44,
Ganley: 10.9
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• @spiller2 Where's best place to get local results. Want to see Co Council Skibb district
#Le09
by ann_donnelly via twitter
• Protest Vote going too SP & PBP but not SF. RTE.
by Iceman
• FG in trouble on northside of cork. Could loose 2 seats. Gosch and o'callaghan in trouble
#le09
• FG in trouble on northside of cork. Could loose 2 seats. Gosch and o'callaghan in trouble
#le09
• Cllr. Paddy Cosgrave is topping the poll with one box remaining to be tallied #le09
by gomaonaigh via twitter
• Per RTE Apparently Ciaran Cuffe TD has questioned if the Greens should stay in Gov with
FF!! Bring on the Vote of No Confidence!! #LE09
by omegar24 via twitter
• what about galway county
by joe
• Correction imerick City SOUTH [95fm) Fahey Byrne Scully Kennedy, set to be elected.
Long (FG) Houlihan (independent) in trouble #le09
• RTE: Euro Election Exit Poll
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FG 30%
FF 23%
Lab 16%
SF 12%
Libertas 4%
Socialist 3%
Green 2%
Ind 10%
Sample: 3,000
moe 1%c
by Bazalini edited by Suzy Byrne
• Follow Irish local election results this weekend by monitoring #le09 as the political
landscape shifts to the left.
by ireland via twitter
• @Jennyjeffer - Clare Daly topping poll in Swords - and Socialists doing very well in Fingal
and other places!
• Any news on Clare Daly?
by JennyJeffer
• Joe 28% and eithne loftus 23% elected on first count. Quota is 20% Going home for lunch.
Transfers will be interesting. #le09
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• Go on George Lee! Declaration in five minutes on RTE #le09
• Limerick City North [95fm) Fahey Byrne Scully Kennedy, set to be elected. Long (FG)
Houlihan (independent) in trouble #le09
• Live tallies from Limerick Local elections counts reckon.constructsoftware.ie
• FF In Cork City only polled 22.66% local election
by wendylimerick
• Labour win 3 seats on Naas Town Council. Fianna Fáil down to one from three. LE09
by Riven
• Limerick City East - 92 percent of boxes open Collopy, T. (S.F.) 296 6.60%
Daly, J. 232 5.17%
Gilligan, J. 918 20.46%
Hannan, N. 380 8.47%
Mason, P. 41 0.91%
McCarthy, D. (F.G.) 526 11.72%
McInerney, C. (F.F.) 166 3.70%
McLoughlin, G. (L.P.) 731 16.29%
O'Hanlon, K. (F.F.) 733 16.34%
Shanahan, J. 178 3.97%
Vereker, C. 286
• Brian Stokes FF in Castleconnell is Peter Power right hand man
by wendylimerick
• Ferris doing much better than expected in Cork city! Details to follow.
by Iceman
• Tally %: Arklow - 67, Bray -74, East - 75, Greystones - 94 & West - 74; coming in slowly
• Looks like an fg 1, 2 in south east. Des cahill topping, mcgonile 2nd. Fight on for 3rd fg
seat. #le09
• Looks like an fg 1, 2 in south east. Des cahill topping, mcgonile 2nd. Fight on for 3rd fg
seat. #le09
• Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin says Brian Cowen's leadership will not be
challenged
• #le09 Maurice Ahern on RTE. its disappointing... understatement of the year!
• Qikking live - #le09
qik.com
• Bye-elections: Final Dublin South tally confirms FG's George Lee tops the poll on 53.4%
• Crowe & King safe for SF on SDCC. Any word on O' Connor in Clondalkin?
by Iceman
• Joe higgins tells Sean O'Rourke on radio 1 not to count him out in Dublin Euro seat
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• Ahern could lose Cllr seat. Averaging about 20-30 votes per box for the 12 boxes I watched.
Labour's Clancy was about the same/better #le09
• How's Joan Collins doing in Crumlin-Kimmage? #LE09
• #le09 George Lee on 53.4% in the 100% tally
by brianpcleary via twitter
• Dublin Central Tally complete - Lee on 53.4 Brennan on 18 and White on 19% #le09
• server issues at the moment have let @blacknight know its down, fingers crossed we are
back quickly liveblog is humming nicely
• Local elections: Hurler Brian Whelehan fails to win seat for Fine Gael in Offaly, but John
Shaw does it for Fianna Fail
• John Buttimer outpolled @jerrybuttimer!!! Fair play! :)
• Confusion about whether @declanganley doing well enough to get seat. Green seat on Clare
CoCo likely gone. #le09
• RT @stephencrowley: I can't believe the electorate is using this to force an alternative gov. It
will probably happen. #le09
• #le09 lot of spoiled votes for the euro election in clare, apparently
• #le09 #EP09 #gaeilge bit.ly
Comhairle do FF short.ie
by giolchairithe via twitter
• Highest turnout in Drumshanbo- 90%! #LE09
• @sheehanpaul I thought so (maybe Euros?) but then why is Martin in city hall? #le09
• @Tupp_Ed: The XanuFF response is not surprising. #le09
• Crumlin/Kimmage & SWIC could see Lab, PBP gains. DSC Prediction. SF 2 -1, FF 0 -1,
FG 2 O, PBP 2 +1, IND 1 O, Lab 5 +2.
by Iceman
• SF's Ray McHugh appears to have lost out in Crumlin-Kimmage. -Tallaght Echo #LE09
• @lexia Cabra is maurice ahern let us know how he is doin
• Qik's from RDS www.qik.com
• Local elections: Labour could gain up to three seats on Kildare county council
• @ann_donnelly Skibb dont have the foggiest, im sorry!
• hey sorry for not interacting with people. didnt have access.
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• Some problems with @irishelection I stuck up a post on www.markcoughlan.com in the
meantime #le09
• #le09 Nicky Kelly's vote down in Arklow town from 1355 to 537!!!
by paudok via twitter
• Some problems with @irishelection I stuck up a post on www.markcoughlan.com in the
meantime
• Arklow TN Final Tally: Fitz 1346, Demp 848, Annsl 567, Kelly 537 #le09
by paudok via twitter
• Any overall tallies for Dublin City Council floating around yet?
by dickobrien via twitter at 6/6/2009 12:44:27 PM1:44 PM yesterday
• Just waiting on last box Wicklow CC East Tally
• Ardagh 400 votes ahead of Upton. Eric Byrne got 3,500 and Upton looks like he may gain
huge from Byrne.
by Iceman
• Granard LEA (Longford) Tally Stokes (Ind) 111, Maura K-h FG 99 PJ Reilly 85 quota 61
• Minister Micheal Martin: 'This is not a good day for Fianna Fail in electoral terms.'
• Sligo: Harkin 49%, Ganley 31%, The Cope 6%, Higgins 5% Haven't hear anything about
O'Keefe #le09
• Aodohan O'Riordan to win in Clontarf, Andrew Montague, Paddy Bourke will hold in
Artane #Le09
• Pen Rathmines - murphy 15, Quinn 11.5, Lacey 10.5, Freehill 10.2, Wynne 9.7, mccarten
9.4, donnelly 7.8, O'Callaghan 7.7 #le09
• FF have their line set out by now: These elections don't count. #le09
• 27% of Dublin Euro boxes opened and its a dogfight for the 3rd seat with SP, FF & SF.
by Iceman
• Crumlin/Kimmage Eric Byrne, Joan Collins, Ruairi McGinley in. Ardagh and Upton fight
last seat as SF loss.
by Iceman
• Lenihan getting his pants in a twist on Radio1 @ SeanOR..."you let everyone else speak for
sometime". Lenihan is adamant that FF will stay put until 2012
by Elrobo
• @sendboyle - Dan - You going to give us an official response or can we use this one - "I'm
far from smug or happy. I haven't said anything about these very very disappointing results"
by Bazalini
#le09
• RT @suzybieRT @lexia: Qikking live - #le09 qik.com <= maureen o'sullivan
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• Any word on tally for Dublin CC Clontarf? Sorry from this newbie if this has already been
answered but can't find search field here.
by Samuel
• Whats up with FG leaking seats all over Cork?
by Iceman
• FG may loose seats in Kanturk, Bandon and Skibbereen. #le09
• RT @lexia: Qikking live - #le09 qik.com <= maureen o'sullivan
• RT @owencorrigan Eoin Ryan on 14% to Mary Lou's 13.5%, Joe only on 11% - with FF
transfers to come, ooh... #le09
by UmarAhmed via twitter
• City South Fahey (FG) Leddin (lab) Scully (FG) Scully(FG) McLoughlan (lab) kennedy
(ind) Wallace, Houlihan (ind) Long (FG) in trouble #le09
• FG may loose seats in Kanturk, Bandon and Skibbereen. #le09
• Lexia has maureen o sulivan interview on qik www.qik.com
by cianflah at 6/6/2009 1:17:31 PM2:17 PM yesterday
• thanks suzie
by Samuel
• I'm watching Count Day Liveblog #le09 on @scribblelive scrbliv.me
by dannyburke via twitter
• 100 percent of city east boxes open. Gilligan, (independent) O'Hanlon (FF) McLoughlan
(labour) McCarthy (FG) look safe #le09
• Food bein put in front of me. Love the buttimers!! :)
• Deaglan De Breadun on newstalk thinks FF are doing better than we thought, classic
expectation game stuff here - we have no idea how FF have done yet. They have not won
either by election and we have no idea on councils or MEP seats
• thanks to the fantastic @blacknight the site is back up with a post from the RDS by
@mark_coughlan url.ie #le09
• Rouri Quinn says civil war over. Votes simply moving from one centrest party to centre right
party #le09
by Johnp63 via twitter
• Hanifin looking really uncomfortable re Cowen Leadership
by wendylimerick
• @rodericogorman Was just reading that, shame. Never know, you might get Mahony's
transfers ;) #le09
by conorp via twitter
• RT @Campaign_Watch: Greens set to lose all four Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown council seats,
FF may lose five of seven #le09
by PoliticsIE via twitter
• Heading out to ballsbridge in torrential rain, @ghook in my earphones #le09
by Fergal via twitter
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• WatchPeople Before Profit's Richard Boyd Barrett tops poll in DL ward, colleague Hugh
Lewis in the mix for seat in Ballybrack ward #le09
• #le09 well done newstalk webcam for george hook
• New blog post: Gilroy tops Blarney tally bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter
• @samuel should be back
• Is irishelection.com dead?
by Samuel
• I was looking a complete county breakdown. Looks like Labour remains a WH stronghold. I
even think FG might be down
by Bazalini
• #le09 Clonmel Borough Council tally suggests Healy (Ind) Ambrose FF) Ryan (Lab) Dunne
(FG) Molloy (FF) with Healy's transfers dictating rest
• Polish McGuinness candidate Anna Michalska in with a shout for 5th FF seat in Kilkenny
city.
by naoisen via twitter
• Anyone hear how Vincent Jackson of Ballyfermot is doing
by Dublin 12
• Heres hoping RT @lexia: Ahern could lose Cllr seat.
by endamadden via twitter
• Fitzpatrick 18.1, Clancy 15.1, Perry 14.4, McGrattan 9.9, O'Shea 9, Kearney 8.1, Ahern 8.4,
Keegan 6.5, Fitzgerald 6.4,mcNab 4.3
• How do Fine Gael lose three seats in cork spiller?
• FG to loose 3 seats in Cork County Council and 2 on City Council #le09
• FF 'holding its own' in Roscommon - RTE Local Election Results #le09
• Bazalini - see whexaminer website ?
• @ann_donnelly 3 will be elected on first count!! :) all happy here
• @WHExaminer What is the party share in Iarmhi
by Bazalini
• RTE: FF vote falls by 40 percent in Nenagh (estimate) FF set to lose 3 seats #le09
• Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin says local candidates have taken the
brunt of people's upset and anger
• Madness as Maureen O'Sullivan arrives #le09
• Any word on how Donie Fell is doing in Waterford?
by Paddy
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• Sligo County Council East Ward - Declan Bree Tops poll with 1.5 quota - results
www.sligoborough.ie
• #le09 RT @sligococo Result for Sligo Borough Council East ward twurl.nl
• RT @WHExaminer: preliminary tallies up on Westmeath Examiner site bit.ly #le09
by keithnolan via twitter
• Dublin City Local - Cabra /Glasnevin Tally - 50 percent boxes open - Maurice Ahern on 8 .3
percent - Mary Fitzpatrick on 21%
• paddy no news from waterford I've seen anyway
• So nothing about Waterford?
by Paddy
• Suprised Ganley is polling well in Clare...any data on Susan O'Keeffe?
by wendylimerick
• Heading to carrigaline count #le09
• Any news of Carmichael in Whitehall artane? #le09
by Alanpwoods via twitter
• Heading to carrigaline count #le09
• #le09 #ep09: Will FF suffer transfers deficit due to candidates reducing size of party logo on
posters? bit.ly
• Outgoing councillors Pat McHugh and Harry Walsh together with newcomer Ger McHale
look doomed in Claremorris. #elections
by themayonews via twitter at 6/6/2009 1:38:04 PM2:38 PM yesterday
• New blog post: Sinn Féin could take three city seats bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/6/2009 1:37:44 PM2:37 PM yesterday
• Still waiting for first count result in galway city east #le09
by UnaRocks via twitter
• It will be three from four for the last three in Claremorris with Ml Burke, Damien Ryan, Ml
Carty and Tom Connolly all close.#elections
• Have heard I was named & shamed on RTÉ by Ruairi Quinn as responsible for the Childers
campaign. Deny everything! #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/6/2009 1:37:24 PM2:37 PM yesterday
• Newstalk : Declan Ganley (Libertas) polling well in Clare #le09
• heading off shortly to City Hall. Will be tweeting via phone unless i find a plug.
• In Claremorris the indomnitable Patsy O'Brien looks set to top the poll with John Cribbin
and Richard Finn next in line. #elections
• Longford town council tally - Nolan, Sexton, Warnock, Connellan, Mitchell, Keogh,
Connell, Flaherty, Gilmore bit.ly #le09
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• Any news from Lucan, DMW?
by Iceman
• Anything from Kerry yet? In particular Dingle
by wendylimerick
• Any on air comments yet about SF's poor performance? Appear to be losing council seats
right across the land. Ireland says no to foreign party!
by Samuel
• FG's Enda Kenny hails 'spectacular' victory for George Lee and 'historic' performance of
party across Ireland #le09
• Lee is stressing economic responsibilty and he's in a centre right party? wtf? #le09
by g3sicht via twitter
• Bye-elections: George Lee says 'to be put down as number one by so many people is an
amazing achievement'
• New blog post: Good results for Kieran McCarthy in tally bit.ly
• Eugene McCormack could, conceivably, win a county council seat and lose his town.
#elections
• Outgoing Mayor Kevin Guthrie is in a real battle to hold onto his Castlebar TC seat with
party colleague Eugene McCormack. #elections
• Local elections: The Green party faces potentially serious losses among the 18 city and
county council seats won in the last local elections
• The nine Castlebar Town cllrs look like Kilcoyne, Durcan, Henaghan, Heston, Deere,
Ruane, Barrett, Gavin and McCormack #elections
• Longford town council tally - Nolan, Sexton, Warnock, Connellan, Mitchell, Keogh,
Connell, Flaherty, Gilmore bit.ly #le09
• Castlebar Town Council first count due in 30 minutes. It looks like FF might only get one
seat from nine - Blackie Gavin. #elections
• Lee next leader of FG worth a bet
by wendylimerick
• George Lee says he anticipates a change in government
• George Lee is being absolutely mobbed
• FF Tom Reilly tops poll in Tuam Town Council
by cymorg
• Jesus how boring is Kenny to listen too.
by Iceman
• They sang George Lee to the tune of Olé Olé #le09
• FG's Enda Kenny hails 'spectacular' victory for George Lee and 'historic' performance of
party across Ireland #le09
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• Ballybrack, 100% tally. FG 29.8%; FF 11.4%; Lab 34.2; GP 5.4; PBP 15.5%; SF 3.6%
by eoinwilson via twitter
• @lexia is must watch Qiking - now presser with Enda www.qik.com #LE09
• Alexia has Enda on qik qik.com
• New blog post: HSE worker leading Mallow tally bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter
• RTE NEWS reports the final Dublin South bye-election tally confirms FG's George Lee tops
the poll on 53.4%
by dinglenews via twitter
• Cork FG vote on northside of Cork is collapsing - going to Labour/SF/Ind - tallies and
reports are welcome!
• The George Lee media scrum is 100 bodies fucking wide. Jesus. #le09
• George "i effin told yous" Lee arriving at count centre. The story of the election??? #le09
• how is jim higgins doing in euro NW#le09
• First count in in Castlebar, Michael Kilcoyne exceeds quota by a whopping 479, and Frank
Durcan make a swift return to Marsh House.
• Lions winning at present with two Irish Tries. Just thought i'd add that.
by Iceman
• Tally Room: Europe 2009 - Irish results tinyurl.com
by benraue via twitter
• RTE TV has decided that showing a profile of Margo is more important than covering the
election. #le09
by ManAboutCouch via twitter
• Brian Meaney (green) still may hold seat in Ennis West. James Breen deffo in from Clare
FM #le09
by froodie via twitter
• EP election: Declan Ganley of Libertas has also polled v well in the NW, standing in second
place with nearly 3,500 votes
• First count in Westport Town Council sees Ind Martin Keane topping the poll and elected
and newcomer, Christy Hyland for Fine Gael also ...
• any word on how Frank Gallagher SP is doing in Drogheda?
by Paddy
• EP elections: Outgoing MEP Marian Harkin has enjoyed a landslide victory in Sligo, polling
nearly 15,000 votes.
• Limerick city south Leddin (lab) Fahey (fg) byrne (fg) scully (fg) kennedy (ind)
McLoughlan (lab) long (fg) #le09
• Sean Griffin (sf) 342 votes (tally) #le09
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• First count in in Westport TC, where Martin Keane and Christy Hyland are elected and Fine
Gael's five candidates should take five seats.
• Stuck in Belfast - No TV or Radio. A fecking delight to have this Scribble here and all the
other online media.
by Bazalini
• Lucan looking like, got word from count centre that Keating will poll over 4,000
Looks like
Keating
O'Connell
Tuffy
Lavelle
Jones
The three FFers on about 1,300 votes altogether
Keating on 1.6 quota with circa 1,500 to distribute

about 30-40% will go to Lavelle which should bring him in
Fifth seat will be a dogfight

by Iceman
• The DL figure for FF is stunning, curious about the Blackrock LEA since they are Min
Hanafin strongholds - the scale of meltdown in one of FF most efficient machines is a pretty
strong signal
• By @igaeilge #le09 #-ep09 #gaeilge Laghdaigh an lógó, méadaigh an vóta: Mír 1 i
lámhleabhar FF d'iarrthóiri Olltoghcháin i 2012 (nó roi ...
by _ep09 via twitter
• New blog post: Count begins at City Hall bit.ly
• Ged Nash (lab) tops North Drogheda poll, also on course for Louth Co Co seat. #le09
by morsolutions via twitter
qik.com
• Fg have 2 quotas in macroom electoral area. FF going to loose a seat to lab. #Le09
• Fg have 2 quotas in macroom electoral area. FF going to loose a seat to lab. #Le09
• Dundrum 100%: FF 18%; FG 33%; Lab 19%; GP 8%; SF 4%; Fox (Ind) 10%; two other
Indos on 6%. #le09
• New blog post: Counting to commence at Parochial Hall bit.ly
• Alexia qik's Lee's arrival to talk to George hook qik.com
• Tally for north sligo i came second thanks to every one
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by marblefire via twitter
• @aoifac #LE09 dlr tally :RT @eoinwilson FG 28.2%; FF 10.6%; PPB 22.8%; Lab 16.5%;
GP 5.9%; SF 1.3%; plus 4 indos
by proinnsias via twitter
• Boyd Barrett at 23% in DL; it's worrying how well the Socialist Workers Party can do with a
simple change of name. #le09
by OwenRooney via twitter
• FG's George Lee says he is "absolutely delighted and humbled" by his election victory #le09
qik.com
• How are Fianna Fáil doing in Cork North Central (Dáil constituency) Flemming, Sheehan
and Brosnan? Barry Keane in the south side...#le09
by GregHiggins via twitter
• Dan Boyle set to be blown out of the water going by Limerick boxes .#le09
• Any idea of who will get in in Dun Laoghaire ward? #LE09
• #le09 Strong independent showing on ennis town council according to m guilfoyle.
• New blog post: Midleton tally results bit.ly
• Boxes missing in Roscommon and Clare.
by Iceman
• RT @eoinwilson Dun Laoghaire 100%: FG 28.2%; FF 10.6%; PPB 22.8%; Lab 16.5%; GP
5.9%; SF 1.3%; plus 4 indos. #le09
• Irish election is back.
• Newstalk at RDS img36.imageshack.us
• New blog post: Creed topping Macroom tally bit.ly
• PM - see faduda.ie for reports
• Whats the from the Kildare CC tally?
by PM
• NEWS: 1315PM – Town council tally points to Mae's return: The tally numbers from the
Longford Town Council .. tinyurl.com
by Longford_Leader via twitter
• New blog post: the 'swing to the left' - bit.ly
#le09
• #le09 FG swing 42% in clare, SF 11% vote.
• Labour to take additional seats on Kildare CC
by Melanie Peters
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• @dermotcasey last i heard mannix had a seat #le09
by clareconway via twitter
• #le09 Kilrush Prendiville, Williams, Moroney, Klein, elected
• #le09 FF holding on tight to council seats in Donegal
• Object 1

• Dublin Full tally (expect South Dublin) FG 24.6% Lab 19.7 Ryan 14.2% SP 13.7 SF 10%
GP 5% Patrica McKenna 4% Byrne 4% Simmons 3% #ie09
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/6/2009 2:33:04 PM3:33 PM yesterday
qik.com
by lexia via twitter at 6/6/2009 2:31:44 PM3:31 PM yesterday
• Tallaght Echo updates from count - bit.ly
#le09
• Limerick N: Conor O'Donoghue (Christian Solidarity) has but 0.54% of vote. God
reportedly going mental. #le09
by fustar via twitter
• Are the Rush/lusk boxes open yet in Fingal?? #le09
• How are SF Minihan and NíDailaigh polling in SWIC & Ballyfermot?
by Iceman
• Gallagher is ok from last reports ~Waterfire
• Any news re john gallagher in dublin swic and labours farren in blackrock? would b
grateful.
by Waterfire
• Congrats to Rebecca Moynihan
by wendylimerick
• Green Party to lose both it seats in Malahide Howth. 2.7 & 4.3% each (full tally) #le09
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• Waiting for dart to landsdowne. Anyone in blogger hq, or should i go straight to the count?
#le09
• New blog post: Bantry's O Shea in trouble bit.ly
• Green Party to lose both it seats in Malahide Howth. 2.7 & 4.3% each (full tally) #le09
• SWIC Gallagher and Moynihan are only confirmations I have
• Oops.... Last Qik was too early
• Any word on SWIC & Ballyfermot?
by Iceman
• here we sit in view of the Team Aer Lingus hanger which has lost its SR Technics signage.
#le09 Fingal Count Centre
• Dan Neville congratulates "Ballingarry man" George Lee #le09
• #LE09 Mary Jackman set to top poll in Casteconnel, strong FG showing
by Mergito via twitter
• Talk now that there are Dub City Council boxes missing (newstalk) #le09
• @Paulo Blackrock ?
• Where Michael Kilcoyne's surplus of 479 votes go will decide so much. Kilcoyne himself
expects them to go in every direction. #elections
• Breaking news of 1 seat each for FG and Labour with Labour, FF & Inde fighting for the last
two sets
by Paulo
• Clare Co Co Ennistymon area. FF vote holding up very strong with 25/32 boxes open.
Probably 3 FF; 1 FG and last seat between FF, FG and Green.
by SimonHaden
• #le09 Kilkee Town Council complete is 4FF, 4FG and 1IND (5women for 1st time) from
Clare FM
• the radio is talking of tallies that put joe higgins in the running for 3rd seat #le09 #ie09 im
still in Fingal Count
• Can anyone get an estimate of spend from the MEP candidates in Dublin? Joe approx 30k.
#le09
• the radio is talking of tallies that put joe higgins in the running for 3rd seat #le09 #ie09 im
still in Fingal Count
• Just heard Joe McCarthy on the radio on Dublin Tally figures. Its thanks to Joe and a few
others that we're having count we can watch.
by dermotcasey via twitter
• RT@emiltullyAnyone notice that web savvy candidates are doing better? Those with Twitter
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accounts smelling sucess?- Joe Higgins! #le09
• hello balbriggan TC results being webcast at www.fingalcoco.public-i.tv
by lostexpectation
• Sounds very close between @EoinRyanMEP & @VoteJoeHiggins in Dublin Euro vote.
According to Newstalk tho Joe could yet win. Early tally tho.
• Not sure on percentage iceman
• Inviting all of you to work out who gets Dublins 3rd seat on the tally figures posted url.ie
#LE09
• What % is that Euro Tally?
by Iceman
• 3:08 : RDS: South West Inner City updateLabour's Rebecca Moynihan was congratulated by
a passer-by near the tally counting area but she r..
by tallaghtecho via twitter
• Tally suggests higgins to take last dublin euro seat #le09
• Tally for Dublin Euro - fingal, DLR and dublin city - Mitchell 24.6%, De Rossa 19.7 Ryan
14.2 higgins 13.7, McDonald 10, Byrne 4.2, De Burca 5.4, McKenna 4.1, Simons 3.2%
(Newstalk)
• anyone know anymore about wicklow
by joe
• Ennis West (4 seats) Clare Co Co prediction from Clare FM: 1. J Breen (IND); 2 T
Mulqueen (FG); 3 T McNamara (FF); 4 B. Meaney (Green)
by SimonHaden
• due to forgotten templeougue box it now looks like three labour cllrs from Tallaght (incl
Looney) with SP scrapping for final seat
• Fine Gael's George Lee has been elected to the Dáil for the Dublin South constituency with
more than 27,600 votes
• @jonathangrimes Corr should hold, he has ~1600 fpv's on tally #le09
• Jesus the tallys for DCC are slow?
by Iceman
• Just looking at Paddy Power's list of potential successors to Brian Cowen... Jesus they are
fucked. bit.ly #le09
• I need power, the 12v type..
• Lee exceeds quota on first count in Dublin South byelection. Lee elected #le09
qik.com
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• Object 2

• George Lee TD has just been declared elected. #le09
• RT @krayZpaving George Lee TD has just been declared elected. #le09
• My staffers are telling me to put on a brave face #LE09
by TommyCarcetti via twitter
qik.com
• Still nothing about Galway County? Anyone alive out there?
by cymorg
• listen to cork counts online www.c103.ie from 6pm till late :)#
by PJ Coogan
• Close that one, Lol.
by Iceman
• George Lee TD has just been declared elected. #le09
• Local elections: FG looks likely to gain seats in Carlow, Louth, Clare and Donegal at the
expense of sitting FF councillors
qik.com
qik.com
• Mulhuddart - 1st count
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LP 1 - 1,898
SP (Ruth Coppinger) - 1,705
LP2 - 1,696
FG - 1,649
SF - 1,517
by Paddy
• Anyone know how the Christian Solidarity fella that ran in 10 consituencies got on?! #le09
• Caveat re. North-West tally - I think tallying has been v patchy. Nothing comprehensive was
done in Longford: no one cared about Euros #LE09
by eoinbannon via twitter
• Heading to city hall. Count under way in county and city. #Le09
• New blog post: Big changes expected at City Hall bit.ly
• Thanks for nothing Mannix. He's too busy.
• Minister Micheal Martin says the election fallout will not raise questions for the FF party
over Cowen’s leadership
• Heading to city hall. Count under way in county and city. #Le09
• New blog post: Count underway at Parochial Hall bit.ly
• well done Noel McCarthy (Lab) - elected Fermoy TC - 3 quotas #le09
by corkdavid1970 via twitter
• Blackrock 100% opened. FG 40%; FF 17.5%; Lab 22.6; GP 6.8%; Ind 13.1%. #le09
• New blog post: What The Tallyman Saw III (Kildare / Naas) #le09 faduda.ie
• Fermoy TC 1st Pref vote (continued)
5. Corcoran (FF) 5.7%
6. Dolan Moore (FF) 5.6%
7. Pyne (FG) 5%
8. Murphy (Ind) 4.8%
9. Coleman (SF) 4.6%
• Fermoy TC 1st Pref vote
Labour 35%
Fianna Fail 17.4%
Fine Gael 17.3%
Sinn Fein 4.6%
Green 2.2%
Independents 23.4%
• Fermoy TC 1st Pref vote (continued)
10McLaughlin (FF) 3.8%
15.Hartnett (FF) 2.3%
16.Douglas (Green) 2.2%
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19.Carey (Ind) 0.8%
• First count finally arrives here in Castlebar, it for Ballina Area, quota is 1,731; Michelle
Mulherin is elected with 1,921. # elections
• Watch out, gays: @RTE_Elections Declan Ganley of Libertas has polled v well in the NW,
in second place with nearly 3,500 votes #le09
• Joe Higgins has entered the building #le09 he will top the poll in Castleknock, circa 2500+
votes :)
• Joe Higgins has entered the building #le09 he will top the poll in Castleknock, circa 2500+
votes :)
• Birr offaly tally: ormond 1506 carroll 1045 mcloughlin 1003...#le09
by spacemandc via twitter
• Longford full tally: FF 34.7%, FG 40.6%, SF 4.7%, Lab 1.4%, Others 18.4%. Caveat:
couple of boxes were missed. FG may lose 1or 2 seats #LE09
• wishing twitter had an edit function so I could put the hashtag #le09 in my irish election
posts... ah well! :)
by chiarraigrrl via twitter
• Dublin City Council tallies: South Inner City – Humphries (Lab) 27.4%, Flynn (Ind) 14.7%.
North Inner City: O’Sullivan (Ind) 24.4%. #le09
• New blog post: Counting at City Hall bit.ly
• George Lee says that in voting for him, the people in Dublin South are sending a message
that they are not happy with the Govt in power
• New blog post: Cork North West – Early Tallies bit.ly
• Castlebar first count in, Michael Kilcoyne elected, surpassing the quota by some 600 votes,
with Henry Kenny also elected.
• www.indymedia.ie/attachments/jun2009/eoin_ryan.jpg
by Paddy edited by Fergal Crehan
• Follow Alexia qiking in RDS qik.com
• The Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North-Central, Noel O'Flynn, has said the elections have been
disastrous for his party.
• Lee on RTE yfrog.com
• Ennis Town Council (9 SEATS) 1st Count: CONSIDINE (FF) 529; BRENNAN (IND) 1015;
COOTERYAN (FG) 421; FLYNN (FG) 1314; FOX (FG) 227; GLYNN (FF) 388;
GUILFOYLE (IND) 676; HAYES (SF) 234; MATTHEW (IND) 252; NEYLON (IND) 615;
MEANEY (GREEN) 587; OSHEA (LAB) 385; KELLY (IND) 24; MOYLAN (FF) 145;
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OBADEYI (IND) 128; HOWARD (FG) 791.
by SimonHaden edited by Fergal Crehan
• Fine Gael's Henry Kenny, a brother of the party leader, has also been elected on the first
count in the last few minutes.
• FG tallying top 3 places in newcastle west in limerick. #Le09
• Cork CoCo Fermoy - Patrick O'Driscoll FG is set to top the poll #le09
by brettmirl via twitter
• Independent candidate Michael Kilcoyne has been elected to Mayo County Council on the
first count.
• George Lee says ‘I think the people were trying to send a message as far as they are
concerned the Government has broken the economy'
• Cork City SW - Tally result: Two FF cllrs look safe. Labour may gain extra seat at FG Lord
Mayor's expense. SF likely to gain seat. #le09
by alanhealy via twitter
• #le09 tommy brennan, Johnny flynn, Mary Howard elected to the Ennis town council.
• SF may lTHe THe springs are back in politics as tallies from TRalee sugest he tops poll in
Tralee electoral areade ose only seat on Fingal Mulhuddart Paul Donnelly need transfers
from the African candidates that are beneath him in vote count #le09
by BrianGreene via twitter edited by cianflah
• so cowen is ignoring it
by lostexpectation
• @irishelection epic confusion ;) was from Ahern camp
• SF set to make gains in Donegal, Wicklow, Limerick, Waterford, Kerry and Kilkenny.
Battles and good polls in Dublin constituencies. SF
by sinnfeinireland via twitter
• @Lexia who was that on your qik? #LE09
by irishelection via twitter
• @irishelection FF on the ground of Cabra
Mayor's expense. SF likely to gain seat. #le09
• SF may lose only seat on Fingal Mulhuddart Paul Donnelly need transfers from the African
candidates that are beneath him in vote count #le09
• "and the people had spoken but it was now time to move forward"
by lostexpectation
• who was that lexia was talking too
by lostexpectation
• Ennis Town Council 1st Count
by SimonHaden
• RT@deanwhitbread it's terrible the way the Irish Greens f*cked up the Green reputation by
propping up the Irish Govt. - awful! // here here
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• @irishelection nope it wasnt him
• @irishelection maurice ahern I think - atlwast that's what I called him before and after
• SF may lose only seat on Fingal Mulhuddart Paul Donnelly need transfers from the African
candidates that are beneath him in vote count #le09
• @Lexia who was that on your qik? #LE09
• New blog post: Cork North Central - Early Tallies bit.ly
• Early tallies for the European elections indicate that Libertas' Declan Ganley is in with a
fighting chance in the North-West
qik.com
• #le09 UPDATE figures for EP09: Donegal TALLY: 44% boxes open: FF 32.49, SF 23.65,
Harkin 11.34, Ganley 10.21
• Fianna Fáil TD Noel O'Flynn has said the elections have been disastrous and the
Government should consider reversing some of the cutbacks
qik.com
• The Taoiseach has said the elections were a disappointing result for Fianna Fáil and a poor
result by the party's standards.
• Well @suzybie's friend simon harris got elected to greytowns town council with 4 quotas &
county with a quota and a half #le09
• RTE: Worst FF result since 1927 #le09 Off to ensconse myself in City Hall.
• The Taoiseach has said that the election results are disappointing for FF, and the people had
spoken but it was now time to move forward
• Final tallies for Clare CoCo in next half hour - Clare FM
by SimonHaden
• By @giolchairithe #le09 #-ep09 #gaeilge bit.ly
Comhairle do FF short.ie
by _ep09 via twitter
• Me phone might die soon!
Mayor's expense. SF also likely to gain seat.
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• Damn. Missing the other half of the lee interview. Reckless?
• Ennis Town Council Prediction: FG 3 (+1); IND 4 (+1); FF 1 (-2); GREEN 1 (-). Fianna Fail
way down in Clare urban areas but holding in rural.
by SimonHaden
• Ursula looks on yfrog.com
• And like Fine Gael, they have the wind at their backs in the second half!
• #le09 any results in cabra glasnevin locals yet?
• For anyone interested in hurling, Mayo are just a point down at half time in the Christy Ring
semi-final...
• On Drivetime, FG's Alan Dukes has said the success of Independent Maureen O'Sullivan in
Dublin Central was due to the Tony Gregory effect
• Lee on a soapbox? yfrog.com
• Speculation on RTE that the FF vote didn't come out in Dublin Central. Not even with the
vaunted Bertie Machine?
by Fergal Crehan at 6/6/2009 3:22:11 PM4:22 PM yesterday
• Joe - Simon harris 4 quotas in town council was what I heard last
• Major win there for sf in Listowel
by wendylimerick
• The Taoiseach congratulates George Lee on his victory but says Fianna Fáil's Shay Brennan
defended his father’s seat with honour.
• does anyone know anything about greystones?? im dying to know
by joe
• A few tallymen took some time out to back Sea The Stars in the Derby, correctly ignoring
the advice of The FInal Furlong in The Mayo News!
• Live streaming from Killarney! elections.kerrycoco.ie #le09
• Make sure to tune in to UCC's Liam Weeks on Newstalk! #le09
• Oh thanks for that Cian Fitzgerald (ff) anywhere son of ex senator tom Fitzgerald
by wendylimerick
• @wendylimerick ask and you will receive!
• SF wins 2 out of three in Listowel - that is a first time SF candidate topping poll. Going by
tallies. Wow.
• The celebrities are now arriving as the counts get interesting, the great Willie Joe Padden is
out mixing with masses in the TF Cafe Bar!
• Dingle Electoral area - Griffin (FG) top of tally at the moment, Cosai second with O Shea in
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third. Milltwon boxes to be opened so O Shea could jump to second
• Anyone know why the DCC tallies are so late? Full Tipp South tallies here -
www.dtmorris.com
by Samuel
• pat carey always brought out for bad news for ff
by lostexpectation
• New blog post: Cork North East – Early Tallies bit.ly
• Cian any news on Dingle in Kerry?
by wendylimerick
• In Dublin @labour looks set to go from 15 to 20 or 21 seats on Dublin City Council. #le09
• Taoiseach Brian Cowen has said he is confident that Eoin Ryan can win a European
Parliament seat for Fianna Fáil in Dublin.
• The grumbling begins. O'Flynn on Newstalk blames leadership for the sufferings of FF
candidates
• yes thank u all so much for keeping us who are far away up to speed.
by Waterfire
• Alan is Alan Shatter
• NEWS: 1600- Fianna Fail vote holds up: With all of the tally figures in, it's clear the much-
anticipated co.. tinyurl.com
by Longford_Leader via twitter
• THe Springs are back in irish politics as Arthur Spring tops the poll in the Tralee electoral
area for Kerry Co Co. He beats Ferris into second place for the area tho she has polled
strongly in Euros.
• LOL. RTE AV lady asks Alan for interview, he stands in rain she ignores while awaiting Lee,
he gets huffy.
• First time I've seen George Lee without makeup or a tie. Tut tut. #le09
• A collated tally for Dublin City, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown shows FG's Gay
Mitchell leading with almost 25% of first preferences.
• 4:09 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthTendai Madondo has also lost her seat in Tallaght
South. The Green first-timer got 600 first prefe..
by tallaghtecho via twitter at 6/6/2009 3:14:24 PM4:14 PM yesterday
• #le09 might just pop out to the RDS in a bit. This stuff is kinda addictive.
• @MickFealty Eamon O'Cuiv or Dempsey.
• In Dublin @labour looks set to go from 15 to 20 or 21 seats on Dublin City Council. #le09
• Why are we not getting DCC Tallys?
by Iceman
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• Turnout in Dublin South: 57.7%, Total Poll: 52,479 Quota 26,019. Lee secured 27,768 first
preference votes #le09
• Any news on Galway City Co? #LE09
• Not feeling too hot.
• Mini-Dev on @vincentbrowne now telling spinfibs. Blaming people who bought too many
houses. The bastards. #emer #le09
• FG tallying top 3 places in newcastle west in limerick. #Le09
• RT @spiller2: Carrigaline tally. Forde fg 16.8%, mcgrath ff 16.6%, lombard fg 14.3%,
collins fg 12.35% #le09
by darran via twitter
• Enda Kenny says that in voting for FG the people have voted for change
• All male academics on RTE panel bloody feck sake
by wendylimerick
• www.kildarestreet.com
by John Handelaar
• KK CoCo Ballyragget - Tally - FG 37.8%, Lab 25%, FF 21.6% #le09
• Is Daithi Doolan's drop in votes down to local "problems" with his former army pals?
by Samuel
• Eric Byrne of @labour becomes the first person elected to Dublin City Council. #le09
by tallestdwarf via twitter
• surprising amount of areas 'bucking the trend', including possible second FF seat in Galway
city, Cameron and P.Conneely look safe. #le09
• FG's George Lee has said he's convinced that the party will hold onto its three seats in the
constituency in the next general election
• Mannix Flynn likely to take a seat in South Inner, probably at expense of SF's Daithi Doolan
• New blog post: Aileen D Pyne could lose seat bit.ly
• Any figuyess Suzie?
by Iceman
• €2.50 for a small bottle of 7up. RDS is taking the piss.
• Eoin Ryan in trouble again behind joe higgins. Does Donagh diamond sound like a pole
dancer? #le09
• Eric Byrne elected - first councillor @ Iceman.
• New blog post: Mark O’ Keeffe in trouble bit.ly
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• Still no tallys for DSC?
by Iceman
• PBP likely to get two seats, including one for Boyd Barratt
• Leitrim County Council - changes ahead www.irishtimes.com
• FF are aiming to gain a seat the Taoiseach's home area of Tullamore after a strong
performance by his brother Barry Cowen
• DL Rathdown - all four Greens may lose their seats
• New blog post: O'Flynn attacks government bit.ly
• Election Count 09: Tally counts of the Athy Area votes indicate that Mark Wall (LAB) has
headed the poll, with t.. short.ie
by bosca via twitter
• Tally figures suggest that Fianna Fáil could lose four seats on Louth County Council and see
their seats drop from nine to five
qik.com
• LOL I love the woman on RTE right now for Labour. "the public is furious at how you blew
the boom", "decisions were right is nonsense" #le09
• The Greens look set to lose a seat in the Borris area of Carlow, which is the base of Green
deputy-leader Mary White
• Asked if the election results would bring a change in policy, Brian Lenihan said there was no
alternative to Govt policy on the economy
• Noel Flynn on RTE
by wendylimerick
• Thanks to everyone providing tweets from around the country
by Niall001
• Eric Byrne of @labour becomes the first person elected to Dublin City Council. #le09
• In Kildare, the Green Party councillor JJ Power could lose out to an Independent.
• Tally figures suggest that Fianna Fáil could lose four seats on Louth County Council and see
their seats drop from nine to five
• Newstalk: Higgins, MLM and Ryan all ~12% in Dublin, the three of them are roughly tied
for the third seat. #le09
• Drumshanbo had a 98% turnout and hundreds waiting to vote yesterday morning. Awesome
#le09
• Brian Lenihan said Fianna Fáil had brought forward a plan but that the opposition had just
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criticised
qik.com
• The Minister for Finance has said the bye-election results are looking disappointing for the
Government
• Suzy Byrne- any news on dereck mitchell in greystones after the abwood controversy??
by joe
• The 3rd seat in Dublin MEP will come down to transfers! If the Greens & FF had asked their
voters to give their following numbers to each other Ryan may have been saved!
by Elrobo
• Rough Dublin Europe constituency tally: Mitchell 23.3%, De Rossa 23.3%, Higgins 13.5%,
Ryan 13.25%, McDonald 13.1% #le09
• joe higgins winning in the 3 person dog fight by a quater of a percent to eoin ryan
by joe edited by Suzy Byrne
• Eamon Ryan going off on a green economy rant on rte1 avoiding the obvious election crash
by wendylimerick
• Fine Gael has just joined George Lee #le09
• Brian Lenihan on RTE. Says 24% of the vote in locals isn't too bad. Sign of the times.
• The Final Battle for the last seat Kilrush Town Council #le09 bit.ly 7 elected 2FF 3FG 2Ind
by machinenation via twitter
• Id say GE
by wendylimerick
• Gerry didnt have much to say for himself
by Samuel
• Crackin' up to be a tide-turning election in Ireland- Libertas set to take a seat in Ireland-NW
#LE09
by davgreene via twitter
• New blog post: Government under fire bit.ly
• GE anyone?
• Donegal Euros latest 32.67% FF Pat the Cope, 21.9% SF McLoughlin, 12% Ind Harkin,
10.56% Lib Ganley, 9.79% FG Jim Higgins #le09
• Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny T.D. will be joined by new FG T.D. George Lee at Party
headquarters, where he will make an important announcement following today’s historic win
and rejection of the FF Government by three out of four of the population.
Date: Saturday 6th June 2009
Time: 7.30pm
Location: Fine Gael Party HQ, 51 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2.
• Gerry Adams on RTE now.
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by Iceman
• RT @electionsirl Results as they come bit.ly #le09
by handelaar via twitter
• RT @RTE_Elections: The Govt's handling of the economy influenced the voting decision of
more than three quarters of voters,
by EmilyTully via twitter at 6/6/2009 4:02:04 PM5:02 PM yesterday
• Still nothing on Ballyfermot.
by Iceman
• Eamon Gilmore of @labour has just arrived at the RDS count centre. #le09
• The Govt's handling of the economy influenced the voting decision of more than three
quarters of voters, according to an RTÉ exit poll
• KK CoCo Piltown - Tally - FF 26.5%, FG 49.4%, Lab 15.7%, SF 3.2%, Ind 4.6% #le09
• Any word on how Dave Keating second SP candidate in cork is doing?
by Paddy
• SWIC will see 2 Lab and 1 FG but nothing on the 4th seat yet.
by Iceman
• First count from galway city east announced in a few mins #le09
• Fair play to Mick Barry (SOC), who's about to be re-elected in Cork City NC - the only pol
in town who canvasses between elections #le09
• Swinford could reverse the trend by giving FF a gain with Jimmy Maloney and Michael
Smyth in line for a seat if transfers go as expected.
• Upton & Byrne (Lab) in now for Crumlin/Kimmage Labour gain. Collins should be next
followed by FG or FF.
by Iceman
• Sam she seems to have done OK Kerry wise and polled decently in Cork city, she is in the
mix alright but all the figs ive heard are quite vague
• In Wicklow, the Fianna Fáil vote appears to be holding up reasonably well in three out of
five electoral areas
• GAA star Brian Whelehan (FG) does not look like he's going to take a seat in Offaly
• In Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown it is very possible now that all four outgoing Green councillors
will not retain their seats
qik.com
• I very much hope that Toireasa Ferrorisst fails to win a seat. Looks like Sean Kelly stole
some of her Kerry thunder #le09
• KK CoCo Piltown - Tally - FF 26.5%, FG 49.4%, Lab 15.7%, SF 3.2%, Ind 4.6% #le09
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• I want to shout "out of the way shitheads" to the rude photographers
• FInal tallies in Swinford show that Cathaoirleach of the council, Joe Mellett, is in serious
trouble!
• New blog post: Cork South East – Early Tallies bit.ly
• Fianna Fáil in Kildare is privately conceding that the party could lose as many as five (50%)
of its 10 seats.
• The Fine Gael leader says the next general election will be a lot sooner than people imagined
• Gilmore on the way
• OMG - Forde's vote held up despite switching party! #le09
by athtrasna via twitter
• Eamon Gilmore of @labour has just arrived at the RDS count centre. #le09
• Greens in Clare may buck the trend with a possible additional seat on Council from Ann
Marie Flanagan. FG to make gains. FF almost wiped out in Ennis & Shannon. Independents
polling strongly. Labour no change.
by SimonHaden
• Enda Kenny says FF made wrong choices, with no coherence to how it went about its
business
• GE on the cards?
by Iceman
• Speaking in Tullamore, Brian Cowen says FF had to take decisions that were necessary for
the country
• Why don't you ask him Samuel.
by Iceman
• Fine Gael leader says local issues were blown off the map by people’s concerns for their
futures
• Clare Co Co - Shannon Area Prediction: 2 FG; 1 FF; 3 IND.
by SimonHaden
• wondering where the Castleknock tallies are?#le09
• Enda Kenny now on
by wendylimerick
• Clare CC Ennistymon area - On final tally it now looks like it will be 2 FG & 3FF. Ann
Marie Flanagan may not now make breakthrough for Greens even though vote slightly up.
by SimonHaden
• @Suzy Byrne - Thanks for link to Westmeath Examiner Site. Looks like Kilbeggan Man
Paul Daly will save a Seat for FF which he has held since he was co-opted onto when long-
standing FF Councillor Tom Cowley died 2 years ago.
by Michael Ryan
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• In Roscommon, tallies put Independents topping the poll in three out of five electoral areas:
Athlone, Castlerea and Strokestown.
• first time in Irish political history that a party has more cabinet ministers than councillors?
(@andrewmurphy) #le09
• Spotted Cormac Hurley's posters being taken down in the rain in Limerick North. Looked
like the man himself, can't be 100% #le09
• In Galway Central tallies show two Independents topping the poll: Declan McDonnell
(12.8%) and Terry O'Flaherty (12.5%)
• @iceman - i'm a spin-free zone. That's how RTE reported it. Maybe take it up with them?
RTE, Donnybrook, Dublin 4
by Samuel edited by cianflah
• Kells tally likely to come in within half an hour
• #le09 South Tipp CoCo count starts soon. Votes have been transferred to Pat O'callaghan
Complex. FG tallying at 30%
• Tereasa McGuire is elected to Westport TC, with colleague Myles Staunton also on the verge
of making it 3 out of 4 for Fine Gael.
• Cassidy and Yore both to take FF seats in Meath. Oliver Fox FF and John Farrelly FG
fighting over a seat
• After round 5 in Tuam Town Council (9 seats) the following 5 are elected... Tom Reilly (FF),
Sally-Ann Flanagan (FG), Peter Warren (FG), Mary Loftus (Lab) & Eamon Kitt (FF).
Breda Mullarkey and Grainne Morahan are eliminated. FG look set for another 1 or 2, Lab.
could land one.
by cymorg
• Anyone else finding twitter sluggish today? #le09
• There's something of the night about Pat Carey, is their not? #vinnieb #le09
• Crumlin/Kimmage- Joan Collins 371 away from quota, Henry Upton 815. 5 votes separate
Ardagh and McGinley -Tallaght Echo #le09
• my phone is dead.. hello dongle #le09
• In Galway City, early tallies show that Labour's Billy Cameron has topped the poll with
20.7% of the vote
• Any news on Blackrock, apart from Party Tally totals?
by Excited
• Yes i agree and i thik Crumlin/Kimmage thw sasme.
by Iceman
• Sam no spin just thought you spun it that way.
by Iceman
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• Any word on Patton in Dl/Rathdown? #le09
by clareconway via twitter
• Trim: FG likely to pick up an extra seat
• If Charlie Ardagh does lose his seat Dublin South Central will have no FF Councillors but
the odd thing is DSC has 2 FF TD's, work that one out why don't you.
by Iceman
• @iceman - apologies, I was talking about full numbers, not individual contests. You can't
spin that one
by Samuel
• Navan 2 seats assured for FG, a real possibilty of a thitd. 2 FF seats
• Sinn Fein need to run someone else in South East Inner City Daithi has too much baggage
by Karl Nolan
• Mitchell, de rossa and higgins 123 after first full tally #le09
• New blog post: Cork South Central – Early Tallies bit.ly
• New blog post: First results expected in next hour bit.ly
• The Taoiseach tells RTÉ: ‘Obviously the tide of public opinion is against us at the moment’
• Both of Micheál Martin's bros are "facing a major uphill struggle" to get elected in Cork.
#le09
• Early evening roundup wit tales of the day thoughts welcome url.ie #LE09 Also looking 4
crystal ball gazers url.ie
• @MichaelRyan FF have miraculously increased their vote in Mullingar and Westmeath -
you could look at Westmeath Examiner site?? www.westmeathexaminer.ie
• 5:14 : RDS: General update If Charlie Ardagh can't hold off McGinley (FG) then Fianna Fail
will be as smoked as a salmon in Burdocks
• Any word from Kilbeggan in Westmeath?
by Michael Ryan
• any more news on wicklow??
by joe
• The first member elected to MCC, Michelle Mulherin has just arrived at the count in
Castlebar to raptorous applause.
• New blog post: Cork South West– Early Tallies bit.ly
• Heading to the Limerick city north count. Tallies show FG romping home. #le09
by alan_mccormack via twitter
• Yes Samuel but the SF loss where to an Ind and Lab not PBP.
by Iceman
• Independents have polled well in Co Meath. In Navan, Francis Deane topped the poll and
Independent Brian Fitzgerald was top in Dunshaughlin
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• Daithi Do-Little
by Oisin O'Brien
• Dub City Council - RTE giving PBP + 2, SF - 2
by Samuel
• Mulhuddart - After 3rd count LP (Patrick Nulty) 1,965 SP (Ruth coppinger) 1,795, LP
(O'Donovan) 1,758, FG (Dennison) 1,707. Quota 2210 with SP (Denis Keane) 667 votes to
be redistributed. SP could get in on next count if there is a big transfer to coppinger
by Paddy
• Lansdowne Market Research poll for RTÉ and the Sunday Independent finds 77% of voters
said the Govt's handling of economy influenced vote
• @spiller2 Are there any MEP results for South? #Le09
• According to NewsTalk, George Lee "literally blew his opponents out of the water." Anyone
have footage? #le09
• box went missing wicklow and everyone was locked in till it was found - hence delay.
• Sitting in the middle of frustrated FFers. Apparently the only thing that could have stopped
Lee would have been saying he worked for Anglo.
• any news in wicklow??
by joe
• Let's hope this is the beginning of the end for this discredited government. They have no
mandate. This was a vote on their record. #le09
by irlef2009 via twitter
• What's the story with Euros in Sligo, Galway and Mayo anyone??? #le09
• RT @oisincoghlan "Rathmines: murphy 15, Quinn 11.5, Lacey 10.5, Freehill 10.2, Wynne
9.7, mccarten 9.4, donnelly 7.8, O'Callaghan 7.7" #le09
• #le09 anyone seen tallys from the Dublin Clontarf ward ?
• After round 6 in Tuam Town Council Owen Ward (Ind.) is eliminated, no additional
candidates elected this round.
by cymorg
• SF could have 2 DCC Councillors in the NIC & SWIC. What more do you want from two
candidates?
by Iceman
• hello to our 293 watchers - remember to have a look at Irishelection.com for latest posts and
analysis and photos also!
• Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan tell Drivetime he believes Fine Gael is moving to the
right
• Ruth Coppinger Socialist Party elected Mulhuddert
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• Fianna Fail in total denial. Pat Carey on Newstalk thinks public anger is about what they are
DOING NOW and not what they DID BEFORE! #le09
• FG's joe o'callaghan ahead of tony fitzgerald of FF by 50. Fighting for last seat. Maybe no
FG loss? #Le09
• why are tallies even allowed in the European elections, a day before counting begins?
Shouldn't that be against rules somewhere? #le09
by eolai via twitter
FG loss? #Le09
• why didn't sinn fein do better in inner city dublin north & south ? isn't this their heartland ?
by Emer Doherty
• Any reliable tallies from South?
• Gilmore on RTE1
by Elrobo
• Ruth coppinger just elected in mulhuddart
by Paddy
• hmmm Wonder if Labour Can turn there good results into actual General Election Results.
Hope so. would be better than FF or FG in Gov. #le09
• The People Before Profit Alliance looks set to win two Dublin City Council seats
• SEIC Announcement - humphreys elected - bit.ly
• #le09 KilrushCoCo Garry 1560, Kelly 1440,Curtin 1439
keane1245,Keating 1075, Chambers 1016, o'dea 825, prendiville 776, breen 587
• The Labour party is set to remain the largest party on the Dublin City Council, with at least
15 seats
• New blog post: What The Tallyman Saw V (Kildare / Clane) #le09 faduda.ie
• Kevin Meenan SF elected in Meath
• In Trim, FG look likely to take the first two seats, while in Cavan FF may lose three or four
seats
• In Meath, tallies indicate that the former PD candidate Serena Campbell, who is standing in
Slane for FG, is topping the poll
• daithi moved out of pearse street and forgot us , labour rule the roost
by Dave Cleary
• @vincentbrowne lashing into gerry adams. Adams says party to focus on "rebuilding". Bank
security teams, please note
by Samuel
• John Feehily of @labour becomes first Labour member of Leitrim County Council. Now
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that's one for the records! #le09
• Announcement of Count 1 of South East Inner City www.youtube.com. Humphreys on
shoulders alert
by Alexia Golez at 6/6/2009 4:33:58 PM5:33 PM yesterday
• Minister for Finance tells Drivetime it is time all parties put on European jerseys and worked
together towards the Lisbon Treaty referendum
• Video of Kevin Humphreys in South East Inner City getting elected currently uploading - to
come!
• @ann_donnelly Those come tomorrow night. All of Europe reports tomorrow night
• Reacting to FF's election performance, the Minister for Transport said decisions in the
current circumstances were never going to be popular
• Labour's Eric Byrne and Kevin Humphries have been elected to Dublin City Council
• What's the story with Euros in Sligo, Galway and Mayo anyone??? #le09
• New blog post: Results of RTÉ European election exit poll bit.ly
• How many wards will return zero FF councillors? I know that in the last local elections,
Lucan (South Dublin Co. Co.) elected no FF councillor. Will this phenomenon occur
elsewhere?
by Tomfoolery
• Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams says there is a need for the 'broad left' to work together to ensure
that core values can be put into policy
FG loss? #Le09
• Fine Gael's Eddie Staunton has been elected to Mayo County Council on the third count in
the Ballina electoral area
• Fine Gael's Eoghan Murphy has been elected to Dublin City Council for the
Pembroke/Rathmines area
• rte first full tally. Mitchel 23.3 De Rossa 20.9 Higgins 13.45 Ryan 13.25 McDonald 13.1
#le09
• Carlow Town Council Tally - FF 34%, FG 23%, Lab 16%, SF 8%, Ind 9% #le09
• Terry Prone making good point on vincent browne ... Oh hang the volume's down ... That's
Hooky #le09
• Confirmed local election results at 17.45: FG 2, Labour 2, Others 2, Sinn Fein 1, FF 0,
Greens 0 #le09
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• FF could loose up to half of their seats on Dublin City Council, while Labour, FG, and the
PBP Alliance could gain 2 each.
• After round 7 in Tuam Town Council Paul Osikoya, the only Green on the ticket, is
eliminated, no additional candidates elected.
by cymorg
• Anyone know how Mannix Flynn is doing ?
by Tom Foley
• H/M: quota 2653, PC 3715; AF 26999; O'B2267; COC 2195; JG 1762; AP 1634; JW 1299
no figures for JM yet i hr ago any update on jm
by lostexpectation
• cork city council.. worst case for FF 7 seats ..
by PJ Coogan
• @eolai Nope. Because they're not 'official' #le09
by adrianweckler via twitter
• People suffering from Republican Derangement Syndrome in the US - any thoughts on what
we can do with that re FF & GOP, sorry GP? #le09
by J_Ketch via twitter
• Enda Kenny’s brother Henry elected to Mayo County Council for Fine Gael #le09
• First count for Rathfarnham due in 5mins. #le09
• @eolai #le09 its because they are sorting the votes face up as opposed to face down as they
did the last time , hence the tallies
• Given FGs vote in DS, there is a real chance of them holding 3 seats in a general. At 27K
votes they would have nearly three quotas #le09
• FF TD Timmy Dooley has said that candidate selections for local elections should be made
locally and not by party headquarters
• Gallagher's team in North and West not happy with the way things are panning out.
• I love the fight in Dublin Central between the Aherns & the Fitzpatrick's. In the end
Fitzpatrick will win #le09
• LExia is posting some great photos from down in the RDS www.flickr.com
• Slow, slow in Fingal, which I'm covering for SBP. Only Mulhuddart has returned a count.
Socialist, Labour gains are big the story here #le09
by adrianweckler via twitter
• @eolai why would they be against the rules ? Votes have been cast, they can't alter anything
by tallying #le09
• In Dublin Central, Independent Maureen O’Sullivan stands at 7639 votes after the first count
and is tipped to take the seat
• Cork North Central looks set to make first declaration, adjudication currently taking place
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#le09
• @declanganley on @ghook "quietly confident"... That's half a first... #le09
• In Dublin Central, Independent Maureen O’Sullivan stands 7639 votes after the first count
and is tipped to take the seat
• RTE TV just turned off the cameras and gone home. Meanwhile, Noel Dempsey waving his
hands around on tv3
by Samuel
• RT @RTE_Elections"The People Before Profit Alliance looks set to win two Dublin City
Council seats" excellent #le09 :)
• If Ganley wins his seat, then we've witnessed a 'Bradley effect': people lying to pollsters
because Libertas have a bad rep #le09
• Lenihan on RTE: "We decided ... to put the future generation above the future election."
What a load of bull when they sold us all out #le09
• Dublin Central FF 3483, Labour 4926, SF 3770, FG 6439, GP 203, CSP 203, IND 7639, WP
519, IND 614
by Samuel
• Labour leader Eamon Gilmore tells Drivetime these are the best ever local election results
for Labour
• Tallies in Carlow show the Green Party securing just 6% of first preference votes, and it
looks likely they'll have no seat on Carlow CoCo
• Ind Michael Kilcoyne, FG’s Henry Kenny and Michelle Mulherin elected to Mayo County
Council #le09
• Pa o'driscoll (FG)second past the post in Fermoy town council and looks certain for a county
council seat #le09
• In Kilkenny, Andrew McGuinness (FF), son of former Junior Minister John McGuinness,
looks set to win a seat
• Greens Party candidate Fergus McAllister's votes distributed after 7th county in Westport, as
Fine Gael's Myles Staunton elected.#elections
• I am reliably informed that Maurice Quinlivan will not be the first SF councillor in Limerick
City, but the Second #le09
• @suzybyrne - hello back. Fabulous service. Well done to all involved. Specially like the TV
advice updates as to who is on. Very orange woman current on @vincentbrowne
by Samuel
• What about some analysis about Joe Higgins in 3rd place for euro elections. We need
transfer analysis
by Paddy
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• Suzy Byrne - oh i see has it been sorted yt??
by joe
• The Socialist Party's Ruth Coppinger has won a seat on Fingal County Council
• Mark Deerey likely to take a seat for Grrens in Dundalk South
• Anyone have any news from Dunshaughlin area of Meath CoCo??? #le09
• Just back from interesting powwow over disputed ballots. Very educational re voter literacy.
1st count expected in 5 #le09
by dlooney via twitter
• Expecting Dunshaughlin info in about 20 minutes.
by Po Neill
• New blog post: Mallow results imminent bit.ly
• Retweeting @RTE_Elections: Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party has been elected to Fingal
County Council
• Dun Laoghaire-Ballybrack ward First count in total valid poll of 14010 quota of 2336, no.1
ocallaghan (lab) 2543 (elected); no 2 bailey (fg) 2298; no 3 smyth (lab) 2210; no 4 lewis
(people before profit) 2175; no 5 marren (fg) 1957. Labour surplus of 207 to be distributed
therefore all 2543 votes to be counted for number twos and proportionlly allocated
by irishanorak
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by Smcgarr via email at 6/6/2009 5:28:31 PM6:28 PM yesterday
• New blog post: Coleman elected in Bandon bit.ly
• P O'Neill - can we ask you to find out what is going on in Dunshauglin?
• Meath CC Trim area 4 seats tallymen expect butler (fg) fegan (ff) then carey (fg) murray
(ff), lab, ind battle for 3rd and 4th.
by Po Neill
• Gilmore says no - again - to going into government with FF (@vincentbrowne, tv3) after
next GE
by Samuel
• is there now an economics editor job going in RTE. Must dig out my abacus #le09
• New blog post: Adjudications on spoiled votes bit.ly
• Cllr Andrew McGuinnenss, FF, has over two quotas in the Kilkenny Borough Council
election, increasing his vote by 4% on 2004. #le09
• 3 candidates elected to the Muinebheag Town Council Denis Foley FG, Arthur McDonald
FF, Thomas Dermody FF. #le09
• The RTÉ/Sunday Independent Exit Poll is available on the RTÉ elections website. Click
tinyurl.com to view
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• where is best place online to see results of Local elections #le09
• 3 candidates elected to the Carlow Town Council: Jennifer Murnane FF, Michael Abbey FG,
Tom O'Neill FG #le09
• Anyone know how Lab's farren in blackrock & Lab's McDowell in Donaghmede are doing?
Fabulous news for Dublin if Charlie Ardagh is NOT elected - a less inquisitive and critical
mind in a public representative would have been hard to find.
by Waterfire
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by Smcgarr via email at 6/6/2009 5:23:19 PM6:23 PM yesterday
• "the Greens in meltdown" according to RTE. Growth in left-wing parties, people before
profit probably 2 seats in the city. #le09
• Can anyone confirm that the current tally in Dublin Euro Constituency includes Dublin
South? #le09
• Joe Higgins just elected to Fingal with a surplus of over one thousand #le09
by Christine Bohan via twitter at 6/6/2009 5:22:59 PM6:22 PM yesterday
• Veteran Eddie Staunton becomes the second councillor elected in Balina area, while Al
McDonnell is third elected in the Castlebar area.
• Loughrea electoral area Fianna F 20.88%, Greens 0.91%, Fine Gael 40.42%, Labour 2.89%,
Independents 34.90%, #le09
• Gilmore wants election that's 3 way contest lab v fg v ff. No interest in sf as part of
coalition. Speaking on@ghook #le09
• Gormley's policy adviser 2 lose seat RT @BrianGreene Green Party to lose both it seats in
Malahide Howth. 2.7 & 4.3% each (full tally) #le09
by OisinCoghlan via twitter
• Seems Fianna Fail have lost 11 of their 12 seats on Dublin City Council. Mad. #le09
• The Greens have spent 2 decades painstakingly building up and in only 2 years in
government with FF have almost lost it all, for what? #le09
• @patmull - Tipp South tallies here - www.dtmorris.com
by Samuel
• Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party has been elected to Fingal County Council
• Maureen O'Sullivan looks good in dublin central. Several minor counts will ensue as low
polling candidates eliminated #le09
• Cork North Central looks set to make first declaration, adjudication currently taking place
#le09
• Clare County Council Ennistymon EA, 1 elected - NO FF backlash here !!!! bit.ly #le09
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by TheAngelOfDebt via twitter
• After round 8 in Tuam Town Council Pat O'Hora (Lab.) is eliminated, no additional
candidates elected.
by cymorg
• Meath CC Trim area rest of tally golden (ind) 976 lynch (sf) 466 mcelhinney (lab) 1189
murray (ff) 1189
by Po Neill
• Any news of South Tipp
by Pat Mull
• #le09 Maureen O'Sullivan in first place in count 1 #dublincentral
• any news in greystones been waiting for the result all day????
by joe
• Candidates starting to show up here in advance of impending result #le09
#le09
• By the way, first SF councillor in Limerick was Paddy Mulcahy, ht limericknewswire.com
#le09
• 28412 is tvp in DC, 14207 is quota #le09
• Meath CC Trim area tally 1st count butler (fg) 1822 cantwell (ind) 613 carey (fg) 1441
fegan (ff) 1543 (cont'd)
by Po Neill
• elected in castleknock
joe higgns sp 3878
eithne loftus fg 3028
by lostexpectation
• Ballyfermot 4th seat news, anyone?
by Iceman
• Fianna Fáil's Al McDonnell has been elected to Mayo County Council on the fourth count
for the Castlebar electoral area
• #le09 Sligo Borough East seats awarded (4 seat ward): Bree IND, McGarry LAB,
McLaughlin FG, McManus SF. 1 FF casualty
• South west result imminent! Well try to get results after celebrating!!! #Le09
• News on FG no confidence vote came via Ursula Halligan on @vincentbrowne
by Samuel
• South west result imminent! Well try to get results after celebrating!!! #Le09
• Labour party candidate Nessa Childers has polled 26% of the 1st preference votes in the
Kildare North and South constituencies
• Overheard, Mary-Lou McD saying it had been a big ask. #le09
• Balbriggan town council - one FF and one FG elected so far. Next 3 are Ind, SP and LP
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by Paddy edited by Suzy Byrne
• Enda Kenny to make announcement later that next week, Fine Gael will be making a vote of
no confidence in the Government #le09 #eu09
by YouthNovel via twitter
• Cowen biographer doing some half-assed cheerleading on tv3. "Came into the job at a very
bad time".
by Samuel
• In Leitrim, FF my lose a seat to Labour's James Feeley, who has a a good chance of winning
the last seat in the Carrick-on-Shannan area
• RE: Fine Gael to move motion of no confidence in Government next week. What's the
source, please, Suzy?
by John J
• SF in a battle for last seat in SWIC & Ballyfermot.
by Iceman
• Sinn Fein not in touch with the people , growth in the North is down to Catholic numbers
by Sean O'Toole
• @irishanora I know that. But he started his Oireachtas career as a Taoiseach's nominee to the
Seanad. Didn't mind the nod from head office then!
by John J
• In Sligo, Veronica Cawley (Labour) has topped the poll in the Strandhill area
• Pat the Cope in the house - about to be interviewed on Highland Radio #le09
• Larry Bane (FG), Sean Cunniffe (Lab) and Martin Ward (Ind.) elected in Tuam Town
Council. I'm signing off now as all results are in.
by cymorg
• Fianna Fail's Mary Fitzpatrick has been elected to Dublin City Council in Cabra/Glasnevin
on the first count
• Lucan Ahmed| 447 = 2.9%
Balesty 561 = 3.7%
Cooley 734 = 4.8%
Dowling 518 = 3.4%
Doyle 553 = 3.6%
Farrell 727 = 4.8%
Finnegan 700 = 4.7%
Jones 846 = 5.5%
Keating 4132 = 27.1%
Lavelle 1287 = 8.4%
Moynihan 862 =5.6%
O'Connell 2096 = 13.7%
Tuffy 1797 = 11.8%
by Iceman edited by Suzy Byrne
• Labour's John Gallagher has been elected to Dublin City Council in the South West Inner
City area
• Labour candidate in Dublin Central Ivana Bacik has said it is most likely that Maureen
O'Sullivan will take the seat in the bye-election
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• Gerry Adams: ‘I think we've had a good election, we took a hit in the 2007, I think we have
recovered from that.’
• Fine Gael to move motion of no confidence in Government next week
• Eamon Gilmore: ‘Any day Labour beats FF in a bye-election is a good day for Labour.’
• Sitting MCC in Ballina, Johnny O'Malley, has just lost his seat, while Killala man Jarlath
Munnelly, makes it three for FG in Ballina.
• RDS awash with Labour, triumphant. Other parties circumspect. #le09
• RE: Balbriggan town council - one FF and one FG elected so far. Next 3 are Ind, SP and LP
>> Can you say who was elected? #le09
by John J
• dooley is a TD now!
by irishanorak
• Any word from Finglas-Ballymun or Artane-Whitehall? #le09
• Fair play to John McGuinness. The only FF-er thats doing something right! #le09
by martin_mills via twitter
• photo on the front of the Irish Times is officially my favourite photo of the election-
newlyweds voting: tinyurl.com #le09
• people explaining on newstalk about why they 'love' george lee
by lostexpectation
• Labour get both their FermoyTC candidates Elected within 3 counts, 1st & 3rd Place
respectively - a tactical error in not running more?#le09
• Tim Dooley said that candidate selection for local elections should be made locally & not by
party HQ - Who made him senator? Bertie! #le09
• Limerick City East result imminent, Limerick City South result due 2000 hrs #le09 John
Gilligan expected to top poll in East
• Cllr Tim carey has become the first candidate Eliminated from the Fermoy TC Election
#le09
• Fianna Fail's Margaret Adams is the first of her party to be elected to Westport Town
Council after surplus votes from Dave Keating push ...
• RT @Emilytully Frank| McBrearty Jnr looking likely to get a seat on Donegal Co Council
for Labour #LE09
• Limerick City results from 1990 fro #le09 m Irishelection.com
• Frankt McBrearty Jnr looking likely to get a seat on Donegal Co Council for Labour #le09
by EmilyTully via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/6/2009 5:33:03 PM6:33 PM yesterday
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• Joe higgins elected. .......... To fingal co co. Good man joe. 1 down 1 to go #le09
• Right then. 2007 Electoral math now no longer in effect. Time for GP to start talking to the
other parties? #le09
• @martin_mills McGuinnes (john) is well liked around KK. He does a lot for the place in
fairness. Plus his "maverick" ways help too #le09
• Gilmore on #vinnieb: mold has been cracked in #le09 lab job to widen the crack [six] Lab
will not enter electoral pact. Won't coalesce w/ FF
• Gilmore on #vinnieb : no left wing alliance ahead of gen. election. #le09
• heading into the count in Mullingar for a bit ; elections are being announced #le09
• New blog post: Non-party candidate secures first Kanturk seat bit.ly
• yup we are down again but @blacknight are helping. Back soon. Meantime go to the
liveblog ppl. url.ie
• So busy updating results that there's no time for Twitter.
• am i right in thinking that if Joe Higgins won a euro seat he would then have to give it or
fingal co co seat up? #le09
• South Dublin County Council First Counts www.southdublin.ie
• Labour's John Lyons and Sinn Féin's Dessie Ellis have been elected in Ballymun/Finglas
• Labour's Michael Conaghan has been elected in Ballyermot/Drimnagh
• A recheck has been called for the Kilkenny Borough Council just when an annoucement was
due. #le09
• Video - Result of the first count in Dublin Central Byelection bit.ly
• @Jnisbet Looking like Quinn should retain his Pem/Rath seat though, aye? #ie09
by natural20 via twitter
• if all the parties organised in the north the sinners wouldn't do aswell up there
by sfinnegan
• 7:07 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthSecond count in....still no-one elected. Madondo
(GRN) out, her votes are being distributed. Malon..
• coverage bows to sport -this is my sport, where the elections channel, there must be one
going on somewhere in the world at all times! #le09
by Jnisbet via twitter edited by cianflah
• 6:52 : RDS: Simpsons memory to cheer me upWhen they are discussing which film should
win the Springfield Film Festival.Krusty is being pu..
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• #le09 FG Daniel McGarrigle granted recount in Sligo Ciity Nth Ward cliffhanger - 4 votes
between him and party colleague for elimination
• New blog post: Daly elected in Skibb bit.ly
• SWORDS Electoral Area
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Electorate= 35652
Total Poll = 15742
Invalid = 157
Valid = 15585
5 seats, Quota= 2598
Butler = 1487
Daly = 3192 [elected]
Devitt = 1364
Diviney = 253
Dowling = 1234
Duffy = 514
Hennessy = 932
Kelleher = 1561
Kelly = 721
Lawless = 939
McCamley = 262
McGuire = 1572
O'Neill = 733
Ward = 821
by Iceman
• Fianna Fail Westport Town Councillor Declan Dever has lost his seat after the 10th count
• New blog post: Creed elected on first count bit.ly
• New blog post: Buttimer elected in South West bit.ly
• almost finished sorting and verifying here in Donegal - papers will now be bundles off to
various count centres #le09
• buttimer on 96fm shortly 102.6fm 103fmc
by PJ Coogan edited by Alexia Golez
• 1-1
by Iceman
• @ghook definitely is the best election coverage - well done to all, streets ahead
• Buttimer elected with a surplus of 803! :D #le09
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• Fine Gael's Jarleth Munnelly has been elected to Mayo County Council on the fourth count
in the Ballina Electoral Area
• @irishanorak It was the principle I was referring to. But then I suppose I am being a bit
stupid to mention FF and principles. They don't really go together.
by John J
• clare daly SP elected in swords 3192 votes
by lostexpectation
• Dunne greart header from a free cross
by John J
• Yes Richard Dunne scored not Keane.
by Iceman
• sworsds result now www.fingalcoco.public-i.tv
by lostexpectation
• We're hearing Richard Dunne on the Irish goal :)
• @john j i know that as well just mean he has a different constituency to cater for now
by irishanorak
• TV3 now gone home too. Ho-hum
by Samuel
• ulgaria 0 - 1 Ireland. Richard Dunne 24th minute.
by Iceman
• ireland 1-0 up robbie keane !!
by PJ Coogan
• Joe Higgins on TV3 #le09
• DLRCoCo so far - Baker in Blackrock. McCarthy in Glencullen. O'Callaghan in Ballybrack.
#le09
• Did terry prone utter a single word on tv3 tonight? #le09
by colmisainmdom via twitter
• Joe Higgins spoke very well on TV3- glad he's most likely in for EP. Good man :) #le09
• @Fergal back in blogger HQ - ran out of power
• RT @damienmulley: RT @jakobyte So much for the tv license. #News talk and #tv3 giving
RTE a schooling in compelling election coverage.
• In Greystones, the FG vote is up almost 23% and the party may take one seat from FF on
Wicklow County council
• RT @suzybie Fine Gael to move motion of no confidence in government next week #le09
by davidcochrane via twitter
• #le09 - is there any twitters at the louth county council count?
by denisefay via twitter
• 16 of 52 seats filled in Dublin City. Lab 9, FG 1, FF 1, SF, 2, PBPA 2, Ind 1
• Hmmm, 12 hours of election work fuelled only by coffee, muffins and smokes may not be
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best preparation for the Wicklow 200 tomorrow.
• It's a recount in Castlebar, only three votes seperate FF's Mickey Feeney and Labour Harry
Barrett. Count adjourned until Sunday at 5pm.
• Green Party leader John Gormley says today's election results are a clear indication that
some Govt decisions have been deeply unpopular
• Audio of John Gilligan's election uploaded to Limerickblogger.ie also press gaggle #le09
• After count 5 in the Dublin Central bye-election, candidates Paul O'Loughlin, Malachy
Steenson and Patrick Talbot have all been eliminated
• Brid Smith of the People Before Profit Alliance has been elected in Ballyfermot/Drimnagh
• New blog post: Three elected in Cork South East bit.ly
• Labour's Rebecca Moynihan has been elected in South West Inner City on the 5th count
• We are back - mark has a post from the RDS up. Thanks everyone @blacknight for help
today. url.ie #LE09
• Cahill, mcgonigle fg & o'flynn lab elected on 1st count in south east!! #le09
• @RebeccaMoy takes 2nd seat in SWIC! #Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/6/2009 6:42:03 PM7:42 PM yesterday
• Thanks Suzy
by aoifac
• how many no confidence votes has he done or threatened?
by lostexpectation
• New blog post: Nobody elected on first count in Fermoy bit.ly
• Westport TC is the first finished - FG take 5 amazingly, with FF 2, Adams and Mulroy,
Keane Ind, and Keith Martin , Labour takes last seat.
• @rebeccamoy SWIC just declared elected #le09
• Aoifeac - it was on TV3 - Vincent Browne- we'll have the press release shortly :)
• still haven't read any reports about Kenny's call for a no confidence vote on the likes of Irish
Times or RTE. Anyone have a reliable report on it? Only place I have seen anything was
here.
by aoifac
• Come on. Hurry up and eliminate me!
• Anna Mae Reape elected in Ballina for FF, Gerry Ginty looking likely to take a seat.
• I need food.. I'm off to grab something
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• Patrick Nulty, Michael ODonovan(both Lab), David McGuinness (FF) and Kieran Denison
(FG) elected in Mulhuddart #le09
• Congratulations to Cllr. Patrick Nulty.
• Very pleased with the results so far in these elections. My faith in the electorate is restored.
#LE09
by robnubis via twitter
• I'm uncomfortable with the amount of George Lee photos I snapped.
• #le09 Anyone got any info on how things are going in Drumlish, Longford?
by philipmurphy via twitter
• Labour's Sean Kenny elected on first count in Donaghmeade
• Video - Results of the second count for Crumlin Kimmage bit.ly
• New blog post: Gilroy elected bit.ly
• North east 1st count: lab, ff, & fg all within 13 votes. recount just granted #Le09
• North east 1st count: lab, ff, & fg all within 13 votes. recount just granted #Le09
• Joan Collins from the People Before Profit Alliance and Henry Upton of Labour have both
been elected in the Crumlin/Kimmage area
• Irishelection.com is down so bear with us as we get it working.
• recount of first count in cork city NE
by PJ Coogan
• New blog post: Recount in North East bit.ly
• Drowned rats dodged in for eats twixt count and blogger hq #le09
• TALLAGHT CENTRAL 1ST COUNT Duff (LAB) 3125, Brophy (FG) 3085, Crowe (SF)
2715, Kearns (LAB) 2643, Looney (LAB) 2329, Murphy (SOC) 2159 #le09
• First count in Tallaght Central finally in. Polling 5th with 2329 votes or 9.8%. Gonna be
close! #le09
• irishelection.com is crawling.... #le09
• New blog post: It's great to be first bit.ly
• And Labour having a storming time in Dublin City. 7 of the 12 seats filled so far.
• People Before Profit Alliance doing surprisingly well. 3 seats so far that I can see.
• Fianna Fail is set to lose its seat in Thomastown area of KK CoCo for the first time in the
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history of the State. #le09
• RATHFARNHAM 1ST COUNT Cait Keane (FG) and John Lahart (FF) elected #LE09
• Mgar TC 2nd count, no-one elected through Dollard's surplus, Harkin, 29 votes, elim.
#LE09
by WHExaminer via twitter
• McDermott FG in in Coole with 1335; quota 1315; in 2nd count, distrib of SFein votes, Hill
FF up to 1,259, McCarthy at 1230 Mullen out #LE09
• Did that girl with the facebook pictures get elected? Don't remember her ward.
by aoifac
• New blog post: McCarthy and O’Brien elected in North West bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:23:43 PM06 June 2009 20:23:43
• officially received 3.1% of the vote and polled 10th out of 11. beat a FF. I am happy... ish
• Cáit Keane(FG) and I think John Lahart (FF) over the line in the 1st in Rathfarnham. Coburn
(FG) and Cosgrave (Lab) to follow I'd imagine?
by brenflakes
• Checked out the Joe Higgins MEP/Cllr conundrum last week: seems certain he can co-opt
replacement without even attending first meeting #le09
by ryano via twitter
• Maria Bailey and People Before Profit candidate Hugh Lewis elected in Ballybrack. Just one
seat left, looks like FF may not get in in that ward.
by aoifac
• Showing my civil servant friend the latest technology
by wendylimerick
• @aoifac He was like that in the GAA too, I wouldn't worry about it, it's nothing personal.
by brenflakes
• Enda Kenny has declined to say if he has a particular role in mind for George Lee
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:17:43 PM06 June 2009 20:17:43
• fianna fail was annihilated in drogheda north according to tally men :-D :-D (via
@acidnation)
by barjames via twitter
• Irish Government Battered in Elections: Ireland's ruling Fianna Fail party was battered in
local elections and t.. tinyurl.com
by WSJEurope via twitter
• @philipmurphy Fianna Fail: 22% Fine Gael: 39.3% #le09
• Sheilds ff elected on 2nd count in south west. Murphy gp eliminated #le09
• 7:56 : RDS: Crumlin/Kimmage singing The People Before Profit supporters broke into song
after Joan Collins was elected.
They belted out ..
by tallaghtecho via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:15:23 PM06 June 2009 20:15:23
• Thanks for that P O'Neill
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 7:15:23 PM06 June 2009 20:15:23
• Dunshaughlin tally source says Mick McLoughlin has no hope of seat.
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by Po Neill
• Fine Gael's Ruairi McGinley has taken the last seat in Crumlin/Kimmage on the 6th count
• Sinn Féin's Larry O'Toole has been elected on the second count in Artane/Whitehall
• Andrew McGuinness of Fianna Fail and Martin Brett of Fine Gael have been elected to
Kilkenny Borough Council on the first count.
by brenflakes
• Wicklow County Council, East Area - 98% Tally
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One box missing
Casey FF 1536
Dignam FF 913
Dunne FF 648
Kavanagh,C LAB 1344
Kavanagh,P GP 720
O'Neill FG 1256
O'Shaugh LAB 1767
Snell SF 1426
Winters FG 1686
FF % 27.41%
FG % 26.04%
Lab % 27.53%
GP % 6.37%
Oth % 0.00%
SF 12.62%
by Iceman
• Sheilds ff elected on 2nd count in south west. Murphy gp eliminated #le09
by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:12:23 PM06 June 2009 20:12:23
• New blog post: Sheilds elected bit.ly
• RTÉ/ Lansdowne exit poll: Fine Gael is biggest party with 30% of the European Parliament
vote (and 34% in the local elections). #eu09 #le09
by garymckeown via twitter
• @poneill thanks - Mick McLoughlin not running in Dunshaughlin?
• mary sheilds FF elected 2nd count cork sw
by PJ Coogan
• The difference in the council websites is irritatin!!? Some have count figures, some don't
even seem to know there's an election on! #le09
• Enda Kenny to table a motion of no confidence in government url.ie #LE09
by irishelection via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:05:23 PM06 June 2009 20:05:23
• Pat the Cope Gallagher: "Paschal's (Mooney)votes will be important to me" #le09
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• @brettmirl cheers! Think FG will get Brennan, Connery and Kavanagh in? #le09
• Woohoo! Clare Daly got in! Fair Play to her 3192 first preferences... Wowzers #le09
by YouthNovel via twitter
• New blog post: North East recount abandoned bit.ly
• Enda Kenny says the election results show that the days of Fianna Fáil dominance are over
• New blog post: Creed honoured with win bit.ly
• Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny says he will move a motion of no confidence in the
Government when the Dáil meets on Tuesday
• Pat the Cope Gallagher: "Paschal's (Mooney)votes will be important to me" #le09
by EmilyTully via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:00:23 PM06 June 2009 20:00:23
• @denisefay Seems there are no counts in for Louth. Just checked RTE site. #le09
• Pat the Cope Gallagher: "Its been a bad day for FF - we expected that" #le09
by EmilyTully via twitter at 6/6/2009 6:58:43 PM06 June 2009 19:58:43
• In a bizzarre tactical error, Enda Kenny announces a motion of no confidence in the
taoiseach. Way to kill the story by Tuesday. #le09
• In a bizzarre tactical error, Enda Kenny announces a motion of no confidence in the
taoiseach. Way to kill the story by Tuesday. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/6/2009 6:58:23 PM06 June 2009 19:58:23
• @brettmirl how's it looking for FG and FF in Ballyragget? #le09
• And so begins the recount in Dundrum. #le09
• Looks like we'll have no FF in Fingal Balbriggan #le09
• Tis on rte, just slightly hidden bit.ly
#le09
• ~ @Bazalini Dublin city returning officer seems less technically aware than his colleagues
in Sligo, Fingal, South Dublin Co. Council etc.
• Anyone got a link to the breakdown on the Dublin Central distribuitions. Nothing on RTE
by Bazalini
• @aoifecarroll He will be, but the count here isn't until tmrw. That's based on tally figures,
which are usually very good here #le09
by damienblake via twitter
• I think there is a string chance that Paschal Donoghue my actually retain the runner up spot
in DC though it'd be a close thing #le09
• New blog post: Kelly and Burton elected bit.ly
• Fine Gael to table motion of no confidence in Government: Fine Gael are to propose a
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motion of no confidence in .. short.ie
by breakingnewsie via twitter
• @Jennyjeffer - hi to Stevie...
• Audio added to limerick blogger. Interview Jan O'Sullivan and City North Count 1 result
#le09
• rumours abound that FF are to finally start pronouncing the fail in their name correctly.
#le09
• Wendy = Ian is fighting for last seat was last I heard - between him and his running mate?
• Frank McBrearty Jr elected for Lab in Donegal! #Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:55:23 PM06 June 2009 20:55:23
• New blog post: Forde , McGrath and Lombard elected bit.ly
• #le09 would you believe Malahide Howth ward has not declared a 1st count 12 hrs after
starting. I will have 1032fpv when they do call it
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:54:23 PM06 June 2009 20:54:23
• Johnny 'Porridge' O COnnor not looking good for his Kerry Co Co seat in Killorglin. Losing
to running mate
www.irishtimes.com
by cianflah at 6/6/2009 7:50:36 PM06 June 2009 20:50:36
• Boxer Moran elected in Ath wid 1771, quota: 1505; his surplus being distrib now. Lookin
gd: J Whelan M Cooney F Keena #LE09
• Fine Gael director on Highland Radio talking recount for the Town Council. Donegal
County Council counts taking place tomorrow. #le09
• Limerick City North Hourigan (FG) Elected #le09
• Clonakilty's Jim Daly Fine Gael, returning County Councillor, elected in first count. Wonder
where the transfers r going. Great game.
• Looks like there will be a full recount in Limerick City South #le09
• Maria Parodi and Felix Manning look set to grab two seats in South East Inner City - all
updates from Tallaght Echo #le09
• @ray #le09 Meath Duns Tally 1.Fitzgerald Ind 2359 2. Killian FF 2041 3. Doh|erty FG 1625
4. Bonner Ind 1534 5. Leonard FF 1052 6. O'Connor FG 1043c
• Ballyfermot/Drimnagh-Vincent Jackson(IND), Louise Minihan(SF) and Philip Nolan (FG)
in battle for last 2 seats. Jackson & Minihan lead #le09
• Fine Gael vote in Letterkenny Town Council up by approx 40% to 2.5 quotas - likely to go
from 1 seat to .... 1 seat. #le09
• Dublin Central FG candidate Paschal Donohoe is on 7,412 and Ivana Bacik is on 5,774, both
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trailing Maureen O’Sullivan
• New blog post: Hegarty elected in East Cork bit.ly
• #le09 Meath Duns Tally 1.Fitzgerald Ind 2359 2. Killian FF 2041 3. Doherty FG 1625 4.
Bonner Ind 1534 5. Leonard FF 1052 6. O'Connor FG 1043
by PaulJMcMahon via twitter
• BBC coverage of election: bit.ly Nice pics of count and of Dublin south ballot paper with lee
no 1 #le09
by deebdublin via twitter
• Tom Kivlehan eliminated in Ballybrack #le09
• @barratree It's raining down here in Skerries! Snowing up in Balbriggan? Typical June
weather! ;-)#le09
• @barratree It's raining down here in Skerries! Snowing up in Balbriggan? Typical June
weather! ;-)#le09
• Maureen O'Sullivan (IND) is the front runner in Dublin Central with 9,352 votes - she's
expected to benefit substantially from SF transfers
• Why have FG made the obvious schoolboy error of tabling a no confidence motion? Way to
give FF back the power
• is it just me or have the ex-PDs done well today? #le09
• Sein Féin candidate in Dublin Central Christy Burke has been eliminated and his 4,420 votes
are now being distributed
• cool, thanks
by aoifac
• Full exit poll on the RTE site on PDF www.rte.ie
• @johnmayo - certainly not Irish Times. Most disappointing coverage, they just shouldn't
have bothered.
by aoifac
• @NeoLiberalScum congratulations and hope you are getting fed!
• I'm tired, hungry, feel like I'm coming down with flu and absolutely bolloxed. That is the
result of a well run election. (Plus some elected reps)
by NeoLiberalScum
• #le09 what is the best site to follow local elections ie following transfers. rte not doing it for
me
by johnmayo via twitter
• 10 people sorting votes using pigeon holes is a lot more interesting to watch than an e-vote
#le09
• There is another recount, this time in Ballina MCC area. Gerry Ginty is 19 votes clear of
FF's Michael Loftus for the last seat. Weir in 4th
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by themayonews via twitter at 6/6/2009 7:32:43 PM06 June 2009 20:32:43
• Just shows you: your vote counts! VIA @themayonews: Recount in Castlebar, only three
votes seperate FF and Labour
by finkeegan via twitter
• Crumlin/Kimmage result:
Eric Byrne (Lab), Joan Collins (PbP), Henry Upton (Lab) and Ruairi McGinley (FG) #LE09
• Congratulations to Eddie Ryan from Galbally for getting elected to Limerick County
Council #le09
by pathfinderpat via twitter
• RTE are a disgrace. Not one mention of all the @labour gains. #Le09
• RTE poll, 37% want neither cowen or kenny as next taoiseach. Proof we need a "none of the
above" on the ballot papers #le09
• @SDDesign Higgins has said he will also contest the next general election and co-opt his
Euro seat to a colleague if elected #le09
by Maldini via twitter
• RTE are a disgrace. Not one mention of all the @labour gains. #Le09
• New blog post: Michael Martin out of the race bit.ly
• Any word on Maria Parodi ?
by Sarah Brenna
• New blog post: Canty elected to Macroom area bit.ly
• New blog post: Kelleher and Murphy elected in North East bit.ly
• Rté seem to think there was only Dublin South by election. No mention of @labour historic
gains in rural areas. Leitrim, Donegal, etc #le09
• Liveblog team watching television online for first time today - far too busy online up to now
for telly watching :)
• Good to see Martin Miley Jnr get elected. I hope he is not so shy in future that he is a FF
councillor
by Bazalini
• Marren got the least seat in Ballybrack - 2 LAB, 2 FG & 1 PBP. Sitting FF and GN lost out.
by Anonymous
• Any idea what Donohue is behind MoS
by Bazalini
• Thans for that info Dick. It's good to get the bigger picture
by Justin
• castleknock final result, j higgins sp,e loftus fg, peggy hamill lp, m murray ff, elected
by lostexpectation
• Limerick City South Leddin (Lab) Byrne (FG) Elected #le09
• George Lee got more than 27k first preferences- well ahead of the next candidate at 10k...
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#le09 hurrah!!
• Barry Ward elected, 2nd seat in Blackrock (Dun Laoghaire) so a great result there, FG first
two past the post in the ward.
by aoifac
• Donal Marren got the last seat in Ballybrack - 2 LAB, 2 FG & 1 PBP. Sitting Cllrs to lose
out were FF and GN.
by aoifac
• 26 of 52 seats filled in Dublin City [Lab 11, FG 4, FF 1, SF, 5, PBPA 2, Ind 3]
by dickobrien via twitter at 6/6/2009 8:20:03 PM06 June 2009 21:20:03
• Ivana Bacik has been eliminated. Her 6.537 votes will be distributed to the two remaining
candidates, Maureen O'Sullivan & Paschal Donohoe
• Following the 7th count in the Dublin Central bye-election, Independent candidate Maureen
O'Sullivan now stands on 11,062
• New blog post: Kildare (Athy) Martin Miley Jnr (FF) elected #le09 faduda.ie
• What about town councils?#le09
by michaelpkelly via twitter
• New blog post: Kildare possibly slowed count in country #le09 faduda.ie
• 9:04 : Basketball Arena: General update Yes Pat, the count is taking that long, longer
perhaps!! We're heading into our thirteenth hour, ..
• Kingston lab elected in south central. O'halloran fg outpolling the 2 ff candidates. #Le09
• Rté exit poll in East: McGuinness 25, Childers 20, Aylward 16, Phelan 13. #le09
• New blog post: Second count in South East bit.ly
• New blog post: Walsh eliminated bit.ly
• In Ballina, Independent candidate Gerry Ginty was elected, but a recount has been called by
Fianna Fail's Michael Loftus
• Cheers P & Suzy.. it's my old ward...now all I need is Fingal to get their finger out!
by Ray
• Thanks Suzy!
by wendylimerick
• declan gnaley still only on 10%
by lostexpectation
• Thanks - dead right its hidden - Thanks for link
by Bazalini
• RTE says 113 seats have been filled. Does anyone have a party breakdown - including
smaller parties - for this figure?
by Justin
• Suzy - Any news from Fingal count?
by John J
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• Fine Gael's Seamus Weir has taken the 5th seat in the Ballina electoral area. He was elected
to Mayo CoCo on the 6th count
• Labour's Aine Clancy has been elected on the fourth count in Cabra/Glasnevin
• New blog post: Kingston elected in South Central bit.ly
• Fine Gael's Gerry Breen and Independent Damian O'Farrell have both been elected on the
first count in Clontarf
• Dublin Central Count www.rte.ie
• The man @MannixFlynn is in. #le09
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/6/2009 8:03:23 PM06 June 2009 21:03:23
• Sinn Féin's Christy Burke has been elected on the second count in North Inner City
• FG Martin Conway of Ennistymon topped poll + elected in North Clare, Ennistymon....
publican + Independent Eugene MacNamara + Obama looka like been eliminated
by PatrickSaint
• tks Suzy , so that's Katherine, Mannix and Kevin who's looking like the last seat ? tell me it's
Maria please
by eamon o'donnell
• Maureen O'Sullivan has said she will be a community committed TD who will serve
ordinary people
• Maurice Shorthall, Lab & Mary Hilda Cavanagh, FG elected in Ballyragget LEA KK CoCo
#le09
• Still waiting for first of Co Co counts in Longford! Town council going at snail's pace too.
FF still on cards to gain 1 Co councillor #le09
• New blog post: Burns out of the running bit.ly
• bit.ly
www.kildarestreet.com #le09
• howhmalahide others JG NP 1814, AP FF 1659, JW SSP 1319, BG SP 1032, DH GP 962,
COM SF 638, RK GP 616, EMcK 341, JS NP 237, PJ NP 202 #le09
by lostexpectation via twitter
• For anyone interested in how the Westmeath elections are going, follow @WHExaminer for
the live results #le09
• New blog post: McMurry eliminated bit.ly
• @Eamon - she was elected www.rte.ie
• is katherine noone doing well ?
by eamon o'donnell
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• anyone know how Michael Stroke Fahy is doing in South galway/ Loughrea? #le09
by PatrickSaint
• @suzybie FF will have three highest pollers in Letterkenny LEA tmrw. This likely to be
repeated anywhere else?! #le09
• 10:14 : Basketball Arena: General UpdateHi again Pat, you must be reading our
minds...there is rumours circulating that the count may be ..
• Back from the Mullingar count - could all do with some tea down there - a long night ahead.
Great to finally meet @WHExaminer too ! #le09
• Dear Lord, I love the 5th 6th and potentially 7th counts! here 'till midnight and sleep
tomorrow! Well done the counters! #le09
• Kilkenny bucking the national trends, Green candidate Noonan doing very well and should
be returned to both Borough and Co Councils #le09
• I'm watching Count Day Liveblog #le09 on @scribblelive scrbliv.me
by irishauthor via twitter
• 10:04 : Basketball Arena: RathfarnhamOver and out RDS reporter...enjoy your freedom!No
one elected on second Rathfarnham vote, Labour's C..
• Bhreathnach in for Lab in Blackrock, last seat left. Farren only got 936 first prefs, not sure
he is even still in the running. May go to Victor Boyhan former PD now Ind (obviously
didn't tell people he used to be PD:) )
by aoifac
• Independent Maureen O'Sullivan elected to Dublin Central.
by randomirishnews via twitter
• Maureen O'Sullivan (Ind) succeeds colleague Tony Gregory in Dublin Central by-election,
while George Lee secures Dublin South for Fine Gael.
by stratagemni via twitter
• Independent candidate Maureen O'Sullivan has been elected in the Dublin Central bye-
election
• New blog post: Lombard delighted with FG success in Carrigaline bit.ly
• Latest on Athlone: Boxer Moran's 266 distributed, no-one elected, so now underway is
distribution of the 505 votes of Jack Moran Ind #LE09
• Joe Malone, FF has been elected on the 2nd count of KK Borough Council. So far 2 FF, 1
FG #le09
• how's daithi do-little doing , doing little no doubt
by eamon o'donnell
• Howhth Malahide 1st count. Coyle 3781. Farrell 2739. Maher 2372. O'Call 2256. Power
1659. Guiren 1814. Wolfe 1319. Total poll 22251. Quota 3709
by lostexpectation
• Brian Meaney for Greens still on course to hold seat in Ennis West. Breen (IND) and
Mulqueen (FG) elected. Other seat will go to McNamara (FF).
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by SimonHaden
• Any tally (not exit poll) news re Ferris down Kerry way would be appreciated? Lab Farren
in Blackrock or Lab McDowell in Donaghmede.
by Waterfire
• O'Sullivan elected in Dublin Central
by aoifac
• Home. Picked up the Trib and Sindo on the way :)
by lexia via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:07:23 PM06 June 2009 22:07:23
• Independent candidate Maureen O'Sullivan has been elected in the Dublin Central bye-
election
• New blog post: Deputy McGrath congratulates his brother on win bit.ly
• The full RTÉ/Sunday Independent Exit Poll is available on the RTÉ elections website. Click
tinyurl.com to view
• New blog post: Connolly eliminated bit.ly
• New blog post: Ahern elected in Cork South West bit.ly
• @RTE_Elections I'm with @ireland - it's a good idea to use #hashtags, in this case #le09 -
that way more people will see your tweets.
by DaraghLally via twitter
• RT @aoifecarroll: RTE are a disgrace. Not one mention of all the @labour gains. #Le09
• michael ahern elected cork sw
by PJ Coogan
• @RTE_Elections I'm with @ireland - it's a good idea to use #hashtags, in this case #le09 -
that way more people will see your tweets.
by DaraghLally via twitter
• 55% of people in an exit poll want a general election this year, according to RTE, with 35%
wanting Enda Kenny as Taoiseach. #le09
• Rod not elected on sixth count in castleknock. Murray gets it. Politics not meritocracy. Over
and Out. #le09 #fb
• Ballyfermot/Drimnagh FINAL RESULT- Conaghan (Lab), Smith (PbP), Jackson (Ind),
Minihan (SF) #le09
• tks Suzy
by eamon o'donnell
• Greens call recount in Bray Town Council West - 1 FF and 1 FG and 1 SF elected - between
2 Labour and Green for last seat.
• Clarification regarding Westport Town Council: It was Fianna Fail's Brendan Mulroy who
took the last seat, with Labour's Keith Martin in ...
by themayonews via twitter at 6/6/2009 10:03:23 PM06 June 2009 23:03:23
• Frustrated that RTE's Dublin SE page says only one seat's been filled, while overall site says
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they all are. Which is correct? #le09
• New blog post: MacIntyre eliminated bit.ly
• Searched Twitter for #le09: tinyurl.com
by tommycooney via twitter
• Spring and Ferris both elected to Kerry Co Co fpr Tralee on first count (yup were still only
on first count) adjourned till tomorrow
• Eamon - see this - trusted source confirms election of Noone and Parodi twitter.com
• hi Suzy any update on SEIC ?
by eamon o'donnell
• South Dublin Co. Council Count Results are available (including transfers!)
www.southdublin.ie
• Cllr Mick Duff elected. Gonna be right to the wire for us #le09
• #le09 SligoCoCo: Sligo/Strandhill (7):Bree (IND), Healy McGowan (FF), Henry (FG),
McGarry (LAB), McLoughlin (FG), McManus (SF), O'Grady(FF)
• mullingar town council rashid butt elim. #LE09
• Limerick City North : no one elected in 4 . Natt Larkin (Ind) eliminated #le09
• Kilbeggan Coghill elim; Athlone, Lisa Bourke elim; Mgar Towm Council Higgins elim;
Mgar East, Leonard elected; West Casey elim. #LE09
• Wicklow results including Town Councils indytech-dev4.com
• Object 3
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• New blog post: Barry tops the poll in North Central bit.ly
• New blog post: Mulvihill elected to Midleton area bit.ly
• New blog post: Kildare (Celbridge) second count results #le09 faduda.ie
• Meabh Cody just eliminated on fourth count #le09
• New blog post: Second Carrigaline count fails to elect a candidate bit.ly
• In Dublin NIC, what happens to O'Sullivans seat now that she has won the Central by-
election? #le09
by Elrobo via twitter
• New blog post: Heydon (FG) elected on fourth count (Kildare / Athy) #le09 faduda.ie
• Miriam Lords' election awards bit.ly #le09
• Neal Richmond FG now in Glencullen - Sandyford
by aoifac
• New blog post: Brosnan elected, Coughlan eliminated bit.ly
• Trying to write something for @irishelection but I'm fecking knackered. 50 words in.
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/6/2009 9:37:43 PM06 June 2009 22:37:43
• @ryano according to bit.ly 3 down O'Sullivan IND, Costello LAB & Burke SF, 3 more seats
up for grabs. #le09
• Fergus Byrne (SF) and Stephen O'Connell (FF) eliminated from Fingal-Balbriggan. Byrne
on 3rd count and O'Connell on 4th. #le09
• Mick barry (soc) tops poll in cork north central #le09
• Anyone know the latest on Dublin North Inner City? #le09
by ryano via twitter
• New blog post: O' Grady eliminated bit.ly
• Final seat in the SWIC anyone?
by Iceman
• New blog post: Berminingham makes it bit.ly
• Facebook candidate Emma Kiernan has been elected to Newbridge Town Council #le09
• Ennis East and West shuffling on. FF losing seats in both EA s. bit.ly #le09
• Limerick City North Count 3 Pat McCarthy (ind) eliminated. No one has been elected #le09
• @iceman www.rte.ie
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• Obama comment on previous quote refered to canditate's style, material + campaign style
and not meant in anyway racial!
by PatrickSaint
• That's Kilkenny
by brenflakes
• Second count: distributions of McGuinness's surplus of 604
Malcolm Noonan +26 = 636

John Coonan +84 = 652
Joe Malone +131 = 695 ELECTED
Betty Manning + 26 = 536
Marie Fitzpatrick + 35 = 511
Kathleen Funchion +27 = 501
David Fitzgerald +14 = 444
Paul Cuddihy + 10 = 430
Sean O hArgain +9 = 366
Mick Greene +5 = 349
Jimmy Leahy +18 =362
Joe Reidy +99 = 418
Frank Kavanagh +17 = 289
Anna Michalska +58 = 291
Darren Murphy +8 =221
Sean Butler +10 = 190
Eugene McGuinness +24 = 200
Noel Frawley +2 = 109
Roger O'Reilly +1 = 27
by brenflakes
• @RTE_Elections It would be hard for him to see it, alright. :)
• Eamon - rte website has changed again - am looking for verfication elsewhere. Will be back
to you
• Maureen O’Sullivan said it was sad Tony Gregory was not here to see her victory, but she
said he would have a wry look on his face
• #le09 if rte is to be believed they are still on the 1st count in many of the wards in the dublin
city council.....arrggghhh
• Many thanks to everyone for their input today from around the country - we'll be running the
liveblog again tomorrow to cover the European Parliament Counts (and for a while yet
tonight!)
• New blog post: Cork South West – Final Result bit.ly
• Award-winning Cork City website doing its usual sterling job with election updates, I see.
Apparently there's to be an election soon. #le09
• Tom Joyce (FG) & Tom Murphy (FF) in Glencullen. So far Murphy is FF's ONLY elected
Cllr in DLRCoCo. 9 seats left to fill.
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by aoifac
• Wicklow County Count - spoilt votes now being shown to candidates, 1st count is getting a
little nearer....
• Any Loughrea/South Galway results?
by PatrickSaint
• @patricksaint It's not FF who are surrounded in North Clare it's us who live here ! Nagle
was one of those who hid FF name on his posters.
by SimonHaden
• Wicklow County Count - spoilt votes now being shown to candidates, 1st count is getting a
little nearer....
• Boyhan in Blackrock - IND formally PD. IND & FG win, FF &GP lose.
by aoifac
• New blog post: Fleming elected in Blarney bit.ly
• RTE seem behind the curve...twitter + bloggers on the ball
by PatrickSaint
• New blog post: Count five in Macroom bit.ly
• @irlef2009 by the way www.fingalcoco.ie has an election area that seems to update quicker
than RTE #le09
• How many councillors will the Greens end up with ? So far probables are Deary (Louth);
Meaney (Clare); Noonan (Kilkenny); Corr (Fingal). Any news from O'Brolchain in Galway
City ?
by SimonHaden
• 11:09 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght South Hot!RE- COUNT for Tallaght South due to 15
votes in it between Fianna Fail's John Hannon and Fin..
• New blog post: Dennehy loses seat bit.ly
• 10:45 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght Central FIRST candidate elected in Tallaght Central,
Labour's Mick Duff. The Tymon North community wor..
• Fourteen hours later and the count continues @ DLRCC count centre. Feighery and Corish
hanging in there, just! #fb #le09
by syzygial via twitter
• Townsend first past the post in Muine Bheag Carlow County Council election url.ie #le09
• Labour rule in SEIC, daithi do-little is out
by Cliona Ryan
• Thanks Ennistymon — I was hoping she'd do it...Eugene didn't help either...had the
impression that FF are 'surrounded' there...was surprised Nagle made it
by PatrickSaint
• New blog post: Minister O' Keeffe says FF expected to take a hit bit.ly
• Clarification regarding Westport Town Council: It was Fianna Fail's Brendan Mulroy who
took the last seat, with Labour's Keith Martin in ...
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by themayonews via twitter
• South west count finished. 2 Fg, 2 lab, 1 ff, 1sf dennehy looses seat #le09
• @patricksaint Ann Marie Flanagan (ENNISTYMON) increased her vote slightly to 757. But
entrance of young new FF female candidate and mopping up of retired IND Laffertys votes
by FG Conway kept her out of the running.
by SimonHaden
• we'll have a long hot summer (hopefully) and an autumn election...chaos for a while...see
Ireland: Boom, Burst…Revolution? —http://is.gd/QO8X
by PatrickSaint
• henry cremin SF elected cork SW... fergal dennehy FF goned
by PJ Coogan
• Aodhain O'Riordain of Labour has been elected in Clontarf and Independent Ciaran Perry
has taken a seat in Cabra/Glasnevin
• Paddy Bourke of Fine Gael has been elected in Artane/ Whitehall
• @RTE_Elections Andrew Montague is a Labour Party Candidate #le09
• Forde, McGrath & Lombard elected. Looks like Collins then Desmond for the next 2.
Anyones guess for the last seat! url.ie #le09
• Maria Parodi of Labour and Independent Mannix Flynn have taken seats in the South East
Inner City as has Fine Gael's Catherine Noone
• #le09 Looking at Limk South voting.. FG and Lab looking good
by AislingK7 via twitter
• Thanks to Suzy Byrne and @niamhvus I got some clarity: Mannix, Parodi and Humphreys
all elected. Regret not making it to RDS now. #le09
• Will we soon have a general election folks
by Dublin 12
• How did Flanagan do in Ennistymon?
by PatrickSaint
• Clare Byrne of Fine Gael has been elected in the South West Inner City as has Sinn Féin's
Criona Ni Dhalaigh
• Roscommon Co. Co. - counts are projected to go on until 3am in the morning - just 4 out of
26 seats have been filled
• Independent Vincent Jackson has taken a seat in Ballyfermot/Drimnagh and Louise Minihan
has taken a seat there for Sinn Féin
• Andrew Montague of Fine Gael has been elected on the fourth count in Artane / Whitehall
• New blog post: Crowley eliminated bit.ly
• Athlone: Kieran Molloy eliminated, 4th count, 864 votes for distribution. Mullingar West
Frank McIntyre elim #LE09
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• Audio City East Count Six has been added to Limerickblogger.ie #le09
• Ennistymon final result Hillery, Nagle & Kelly (all FF); Conway & Arkins (all FG). FF
54.7% of vote !!! Are they all asleep in North Clare ?
by SimonHaden
• What a day. Gutted and so proud at the same time. Ended up with 10,198 votes.
by Paschald via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:07:03 PM12:07 AM yesterday
• @Mark_Coughlan - Euro count starts tomorrow am - results not announced til 9pm when
voting finishes across Europe #le09
• @Mark_Coughlan count begins at 9am - first count not allowed to be announced until 9 pm
#le09
• New blog post: Nobody elected on third Carrigaline count bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:05:23 PM12:05 AM yesterday
• RT @mannixflynn: Thanks for pressing the buzzer, i'm in x #le09
• Drogheda Borough Council Frank Gallagher SP looking good for seat on COUNT 7 url.ie
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:03:43 PM12:03 AM yesterday
• Break in Rosfm coverage with Diana Ross' "Chain Reaction". Gift.
by lexia via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:03:23 PM12:03 AM yesterday
• The count for the Euro elections only STARTS tomorrow right? As in nothing has been
counted as of yet in Ireland? Right? #le09
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:03:03 PM12:03 AM yesterday
• Joe Higgins, Clare Daly, Ruth Coppinger top the poll for SP in Fingal. #le09 Terry Kelleher
elected to Balbriggan Town Council
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:02:23 PM12:02 AM yesterday
• Mick the Quill has been eliminated in the City North after Count 7 #le09
• Fg's neville held the seat from lab's buckey in bandon #le09
• Colm Brophy about to be elected for FG for the second seat. We are looking good for seat 5
• according to RTE exit poll 81% dissatisfied with how country being run, 55% want general
election this year.
by PatrickSaint
• @CiaranCuffe Sorry your candidate didn't do well in Cork County Council Skibbereen
district. Not enough exposure for party here #LE09
• What is happening in Pembroke-Rathmines? #le09
by boredsahm via twitter
• RT @CiaratnCuffe We're calling this a "crisitunity" here in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
#LE09
by sharoncasey via twitter edited by Simon McGarr
• Kilmallock Count 8 Creehan (FF) Eliminated #le09
• brettmirl, dunshaughlin tally is a few hours old but source was firm on its reliability. bad
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showing for McLaughlin (lab) stood out.
by P O'Neill
• New blog post: Coughlan and Moynihan elected in Macroom bit.ly
• Kilbeggan: Arthur, FG, elected, and COrcoran, Lab, without reaching quota. Kilbeggan
completel. #LE09
• @Fergal Sincerity: once you can fake that, you've got it made :-) #le09
• New blog post: Linehan-Foley out of Midleton race bit.ly
• RT @CiaranCuffe We're calling this a "crisitunity" here in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown #LE09
by syzygial via twitter
• Brian Meaney (Green) RE-Elected for Clare County Council (Ennis West) even though
electoral area was split in two. Congratulations Brian !
by SimonHaden
• New blog post: Gallagher eliminated bit.ly
• Betty Doran ! Thats another EX-GREEN councillor thats lost their seat (Bronwen Maher)
by SimonHaden
• bit.ly
Tallies are very high for Ratoath candidates. Are all boxes open? #le09
• Larry Dunne, FG, eliminated in Fingal Balbriggan. That might do it for Skerries candidate,
Tom O'Leary, of FG. bit.ly #le09
• @CiaranCuffe Elsewhere they're calling it an electoral disaster due to coalition with an inept
and corrupt party. #LE09
by leotraynor via twitter
• Hugely impressed by Highland Radio and Roscommon's Rosfm
by Alexia Golez at 6/6/2009 10:46:28 PM06 June 2009 23:46:28
• Betty Doran elim in 7th count Mgar West #LE09
• Uh Oh. George Lee says he's "humbled". I've always thought that only the pathalogically
insincere claim to be humbled by success #le09
• Wonder where RTE got all that attendance and other information for Euro MPs? Here: Your
MEPs : By country/region ow.ly #le09
• Betty Doran elim in 7th count Mgar West #LE09
• Frankie Keena elected in Athlone. Surplus of 98 to be distributed. #LE09
• Tubbercurry #LE09 Colleary, FF 754; Fleming FG 748; Gormley Ind 2,117; Lundy FF 956;
McCarrick Ind 344; Murray FG 879 bit.ly
• New blog post: Cork North East – Final Result bit.ly
• Tally NW: Harkin 85k; Higgins 79k; Gallagher 75k; Ganley 67k; McLoughlin 45k Mooney
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43k O'Reilly 37k O'Keeffe 25k #LE09 bit.ly
• Ennis west 4 seats filled - Ind FF FG GP - Meaney GP elected for his work rate bit.ly #le09
Breen elected as thorn in side
• Meath counts very slow; collected tallies for Trim and Dunshaughlin here tinyurl.com
by P O'Neill edited by Christine Bohan
• Fingal County Council have a live link to there election count, leave it run and you can catch
updates from returning officers on counts. They are also updating there website on counts
also. well done Fingal.:-) www.fingalcoco.public-i.tv
by John
• New blog post: Re-count in Bandon Electoral Area bit.ly
• New blog post: Daly (FG) elected on 5th count in Kildare (Athy) #le09 faduda.ie
• New blog post: Tynan elected bit.ly
• Mgar East Georgina Bagnall elim; Kilbeggan Paul Daly elected, Mullingar Town Council
Corrigan eliminated; Mgar West, Sorca Clarke elim #LE09
• Mullingar West completed: In are Penrose Lab, Troy FF Cornally Lab, Cooney FG, and
Gynn. Mullingar East: McLoughlin elim #LE09
• #le09 sligo/Drumcliffe CoCo FINAL (6 seat): Cawley (LAB), Leonard (FG), Barry (FF),
Devins (FF), Keaney (FF), Lyons (FG)....1 FF casualty
• I found there was a firehose approach to #le09 live count twittering online and on national
radio today, ended up reverting to local radio.
by miguelpdl via twitter
• @abigailrieley Dublin North Inner City Count result #le09 bit.ly
• @suzybie jayzuz didnt realise that ICP had out-polled Malachy Steensen - that's a dam
shame.
• Labour's John Mulvihill Snr has been elected to Cork County Council after the third count in
Midleton
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:33:03 PM12:33 AM yesterday
• Fingal-Balbriggan - If Murray (FF) does not get in, looks like both Byrne (Lab) and Corr
(GP) will make it. #le09
• Does anyone know if Tom Stafford (FF) got in with the Dub Central local poll? #le09
• If Murray (FF) gets in, looks like others will be O'Leary (FG), O'Connor (Ind), and a fight
between Byrne (Lab) and Corr (GP). Agree? #le09
• @suzybie Liveblog really coming into its own now. Results are coming in, nobody else is
covering them. #le09
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• 6 seats left to fill in DLRCOCO - 4 in Dun Laoghaire & 2 in Dundrum. So far FG 10, LAB
6PBP 2, IND 2 & FF 2
by aoifac edited by Simon McGarr
• FF have a multi-headache in the Dáil constituency of Dublin Mid West. In the Clondalkin
end, (1) they lost a sitting councillor and the councillor who was elected (on the last count)
is a vocal critic of (2a) the sitting FF TD (and juvenile minister) John Curran and (2b) party
HQ. In the north end of the consitiuency, Lucan, they are heading to having no councillor
(again).
by Essekane edited by Suzy Byrne
• @AllanCavanagh Didnt know that, I've heard little from Euros. Surprised though, thought
he would getting more rural votes than townish.
• Patrick - No its Clare County Council. Dont have Ennis Town Council result but probably
only 1 FF seat there out of 9 so also a loss. No idea of Killaloe count.
by SimonHaden
• New blog post: McGinley (Lab) elected in Kildare (Celbridge) third count #le09 faduda.ie
• Latest Count in City North No one elected . Tina O'Gorman (Ind) eliminated #le09
• Fine Gael’s Catherine McLoughlin has been elected to Tipperary South Riding County
Council after the fifth count in Cashel
• New blog post: Two eliminated in South Central bit.ly
• @damienblake So those sources might be right? Ganely will be in with a shot? He's only at
10% acc to Exit poll with Cope at 21%/top...
• Spoiled vote figures in Sth Roscommon (Athlone) were under serious scrutiny. Two sitting
Cllrs were watching the votes under scrutiny (some 300) very, very closely. Rosfm is not
reporting which Cllrs these were, but it turned out that only 74 votes were spoiled.
by Alexia Golez at 6/6/2009 11:27:11 PM12:27 AM yesterday
• at 00.24 counts are still being updated from everywhere on the liveblog bit.ly
• @corkpolitics Any update on Kanturk? #le09
• 2nd Count - Sth Roscommon (Athlone) Tony Ward's (IND) Surplus of 319 votes dispersed.
1144 - Quota. Trevor Finneran (FF) +20 (676) / Anthony Geraghty (FF) +33 (485) / Dermot
Kelly (FG) +67 (622) / Jim Kenny (IND) +65 (1072) / Alma Keogh (SF) +31 (393) / John
Keogh (FF) +39 (744) / Paddy Kilduff (FF) +36 (711 ) / Ollie Moore (FG) +38 (870)
• #le09 all very tight in Fingal-Balbriggan. Transfers from party-mate make Murray a
potential FF gain. Not many of those around today.
• several sources say The Cope was struggling to get non-Donegal votes, Harkin was looking
good and Higgins was in. So it was Gan vs Cope. WTF
• New blog post: Coughlan says government need to give more funding to council bit.ly
• New blog post: Counhiahn gone bit.ly
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• Mary Bohan and Francis Gilmartin (both Fianna Fáil) have been elected to Leitrim County
Council after the fifth count in Dromahair
• 27% of Libertas voters would vote Yes to Lisbon 2... WTF, according to Lansdowne Stats on
today's exit poll.
• Mid Roscommon Second Count:
LEYDEN, Orla FF 1012 Elected
Paula Mc Namara's surplus now been distributed.
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Athlone (Roscommon) Count 1:
Tony Ward IND and John Naughton FG both elected on count 1
Tony Ward's Surplus now been distributed.
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Stll awaiting vote counts for Strokestown, Castlerea & Boyle.
by cianflah at 6/6/2009 11:17:53 PM12:17 AM yesterday
• 2nd Count for Roscommon (Athlone) coming soon.. Returning officer about speak. Jimmy
Kenny (IND - former FF) is expected to do well. Tony Ward's (IND) surplus will be
dispersed.
• Simon— I assume that's Ennis Town council...how're they doing in Killaloe ED? Hear FG
topped the poll
by PatrickSaint
• @PJCoogan thanks so much for all your updates today
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 11:15:56 PM12:15 AM yesterday
• FF will only have 6 seats on new cork city council.. down from ten
by PJ Coogan
• Banko (FF) eliminated in City South #le09
• 0:12 : Basketball Arena: Lucan updateSixth count is in and still no further seats filled.Guss
O'Connell (Ind) only needs 45 votes to secu..
by tallaghtecho via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:15:03 PM12:15 AM yesterday
• FF CLARE - Peter Considine & Bernard Hanrahan have both lost their seats.
by SimonHaden
• McLoughlan (Labour) elected in City North #le09
• @paschald Good things come to those who wait, and you won't have to wait long. Well done
on your amazing vote! #le09
• Councillor Mary O'Shea elected. Thank God!
by Paschald via twitter at 6/6/2009 11:10:03 PM12:10 AM yesterday
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• New blog post: The wait continues bit.ly
• Election coverage too addictive. Can't go to bed yet. #le09
by TheRealAmz via twitter
• Proud of you too Pascal and hold on to those posters
by aoifac
• how're FF looking in Clare? Any casualties?
by PatrickSaint
• In Carlow, @labour returns a gain of 1 with patton, Quinn, 2 x Townsend& hurley. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/6/2009 11:08:23 PM12:08 AM yesterday
• New blog post: Final result for Fermoy bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:04:03 AM1:04 AM yesterday
• Fergal it really could do, but it depends on how the scale of rural vote translates into GE
seats. Current rural votes could mean only 1 seat in 3/4/5 seaters and a de facto FF
implosion so it might be wait and see on that front.
• New blog post: Final result for Bantry bit.ly
• RT @Patrick_DCC: Dublin City Council - 39 of 52 seats filled. 16 Lab. 7 FG. 7 Ind/Other. 6
SF. 3 FF. 0 GP. #le09
• New blog post: Final result for Skibbereen bit.ly
• Keyboard cat plays Shay Brennan off the stage url.ie and a look at tomorrow's Euro poll
url.ie #LE09
• Notion: Will FFs collapse in the cities and relative strength in rural areas lead to a Blue
State-Red State type divide? #le09
• Is the general picture an FF wipe out?
by PatrickSaint edited by Suzy Byrne
• Keyboard cat plays Shay Brennan off the stage url.ie and a look at tomorrow's Euro poll
url.ie #LE09
• @essekane - count complete...reload the the site to update it. Walsh last to be elected.
• It appears to me that Suzy is now the national source of election news.
• @Suzy Byrne on Looney election in Tallaght Central: Where is FF's Eamon Walsh? SDCC's
website is lagging on the reporting. Will Tallaght Central be another ward without a FF
councillor?
by Essekane edited by Suzy Byrne
• % Of First Pref Votes by Party Mid Roscommon:
Fianna Fail 47.5%,

Fine Gael 28.6%,
People before profit party 1.9%,
Independents 22%.
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% Of First Pref Votes by Party Athlone Roscommon:
Fianna Fail 31.2%,

Fine Gael 33.4%,
Sinn Fein 4.5%,
Independents 30.9%.
• A recount in the Kilmallock area of Limerick County Council will commence at 9am
• Galway City West - O'Brolchain (Green) will be fighting for last seat but reasonable chance
of making it. Big looser here is IND Callanan (ex Sinn Fein).
by SimonHaden edited by Suzy Byrne
• Any news from Galway or did all the counters go to wave goodbye to the Volvo boats
today?
by greenwithenvy edited by Suzy Byrne
• fingal count center calling it a night
by lostexpectation edited by Simon McGarr
• Any news of SOuth Galway/Loughrea?
by PatrickSaint
• farm4.static.flickr.com
by Simon McGarr edited by Christine Bohan at 6/6/2009 11:56:49 PM12:56 AM yesterday
• Two former PDs – Terry O’Flaherty and Declan McDonnell – have won seats in Galwat City
East as Independent candidates
• @abigailrieley Yeah, just be thankful ICP are too stupid to realise they might have been
elected to the council with that amount #le09
• Simon, that's great news!!
by PatrickSaint edited by Simon McGarr
• Dublin Central might be the most left leaning constituency in the country but we've our fair
share of racist reactionaries! #le09
• So want to go to bed but want to wait and see if DLRCOCO is finished.
• Fingal Co CO: Swords LEA Final results: Five seats: Clare Daly (SP), Gerry Maguire(Lab),
Tom Kelleher (Lab), Darragh Butler (FF), Anne Devitt (FG).
by John edited by Simon McGarr
• Disgusted to see that the bloody Immigration Control Platform got 600 plus votes in Dub
Central. #le09
• @dlooney Oi Dermot! I'm delighted to point out that your Twitter profile is out-of-date.
• imerick City North ... James NIx (Green) Eliminated #le09
• wow at Tom Stafford's vote, a vital cog in the bertie machine about to fall off. That will not
be a source of happiness and light for the mafia.
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• City South (Count 5) Jack Bourke Eliminated. loses deposit #le09
• @damienmulley there was a few screens in the press room where I spotted the live blog
today.
• Ind Sean Canney, Fine Gael’s Tom McHugh and Labour’s Colm Keaveney have been
elected to Galway Co Council after the first count in Tuam
• Dermot Looney Elected in Tallaght Central - @dlooney #le09
• great day... interesting hearing all the #le09 data all day... off to bed
• #le09 Donaghmede count over 1.Kenny (Lab) 2. Forde (SF) 3. Brabazon (FF) 4. Crimmins
(FG) beats out 2nd Lab candidate McDowell for last seat
• New blog post: Shannon holds his seat bit.ly
• What the heck. Crazy Roscommon people. They can't decide. Counts for Castlerea (1st) and
3rd Count for Sth Roscommon (Athlone) to go ahead tonight.
• Fine Gael’s Sean McKiernan Jnr has been elected to Cavan County Council after the sixth
count in Bailieborough
• anyone know if they have stopped counting in the Kilkenny for the night? 23 seats yet to be
filled according to RTE. #le09
by viddythis via twitter
• Damn. Count has been adjourned in Roscommon for the night and will be resumed at 9am.
• terry shannon FF elected cork SE
by PJ Coogan edited by Simon McGarr
• South Dublin Co. Council Clondalkin Complete - Elected - Dowd, Delaney, Kenny, Ridge,
Gilligan, McDonagh - details on www.southdublin.ie
by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 11:37:52 PM12:37 AM yesterday
• New blog post: The longest day bit.ly
• @abigailrieley Dublin North Inner City Count result #le09 bit.ly
• Happy to see Labour take a second seat in Galway, at expense of FF #le09
by funferal via twitter
• Fg just won the 2nd seat in cork south central! Well done emmet! :) #le09
• Off to bed, having heard Oisin Quinn & @dlooney are elected. Have to be in Punchestown
for 0900 for Euro count. #le09
• Fine Gael’s Noel Buckley has been elected to Cork County Council on the sixth count in
Kanturk
• SoutH Dublin posted here www.southdublin.ie #le09
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• tense times as battle between Davitt and Bourke FF on for final Mullingar East seat #LE09
• SoutH Dublin posted here www.southdublin.ie #le09
• Kelleher (SP) eliminated in Fingal-Balbriggan. #le09
• Limerick City North ... Cormac Hurley (FG) Elected #le09
• New blog post: John Sheehan eliminated bit.ly
• Mullingar Town CounciL Sorca Clarke elim and Bourke FG in; Athlone final: Cooney,
Whelan, McFadden n Allen in; Mgar East, Bourke FG in #LE09
• of course, I meant Ming not Mick.. damn tired fingers
by lexia via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:19:23 AM1:19 AM yesterday
• oh fingal is still going ithought they were all leaving
by lostexpectation edited by Suzy Byrne
• Any news on dublin south tallaght
by AshDob edited by Suzy Byrne
• Councillor Jim O'Callaghan elected tonight third on the poll after Michael Donnelly's
transfers. I'm broken but so happy. #LE09
• Limerick City South (Count 6) O'Calaghan FF) Eliminated no one elected #le09
• At Aoifeac - many thanks for all the DLRCoCo results!
• Ashdub - southdublin.ie have the latest on Tallaght - reload page to get latest results
• Full results for Castlerea (1st) - 7 seats - 1162 Quota - Liam Callaghan (FG) 743 / Michael
Creaton (FG) 771 / Paschal Fitzmaurice (FF) 647 / Luke Ming Flanagan (IND) 1556 /
Micheál Frain (FG) 501 / John Kelly (IND) 2230 / James Kilcoyne (FF) 550 / Michael
McGreal (FG) 909 / Padraig Morris (IND) 244 / Michael Patrick Mulligan (SF) 695 / John
Murray (FG) 430 - Ger O'Brien (IND) 23 // John Kelly's surplus of 1068 to be dispersed.
Count begins again at 10am
by Alexia Golez at 6/7/2009 12:18:15 AM1:18 AM yesterday
• Off to bed now. Back tomorrow /later today.
• Great service folks. But are there really only 129 election junkies in the land still
Up?
by Tommy edited by Simon McGarr
• New blog post: Count continues in Carrig, Kanturk and Midleton bit.ly
• Good one Fergal. I hope not. More Ind canditates will appear. It will be chaotic for a while
I'd say
• @Tommy and the ones watching liveblog on Irishelection.com - plus people coming in and
out of scribble live site - not same 114 at all!! (she says to herself to prove her sanity!)
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• Left looking less loony: congratulations to our good friend, Aine Clancy [LAB], who took a
Dublin City Council seat in #le09
by finkeegan via twitter
• Still waiting to post my final IE content of the day.
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:15:44 AM1:15 AM yesterday
• I'll ask again..any news on South Galway, cant find anything online
• 1:13 : Oisin Quinn and Eoghan Murphy are definitely in for Pembroke-Rathmines
by tallaghtecho via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:15:04 AM1:15 AM yesterday
• 1:01 : Basketball Arena: Sobbing Granny update...We feel for you, hope you get everything
sorted sooner rather than later!!
• New blog post: Neville retains last Bandon seat bit.ly
• Brilliant to see Ming elected.
• New blog post: No joy in latest Midleton count bit.ly
• Luke Flanagan once ran in Galway under the name Ming The Merciless on a Legalise
Cannabis platform, simply in order to piss off his former landlord Frank Fahy. Now he's
topping polls. Brilliant.
by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 12:10:21 AM1:10 AM yesterday
• New blog post: Donnelly out of the race for Carrig seat bit.ly
• Labour’s Mary Freehill and Fiann Fail’s Jim O’Callaghan have been elected to Dublin City
Council after the ninth count in Pembroke/Rathmines
• Castlerea Electoral Area First Count:
John Kelly IND 2230 Elected
Luke Ming Flanagan IND 1556 Elected
John Kelly's surplus to be distributed this will not happen until 9.00 AM tomorrow morning
when the count will continue.
• Can you make slideshows with Flickr Pro?
• Luke Ming Flanagan elected in 1st Count of Castlerea, Roscommon.
by lexia via twitter edited by Alexia Golez at 6/7/2009 12:07:43 AM1:07 AM yesterday
• if only all the councils had them online. Cork & Kilkenny don't seem to have noticed that
there was an election! #le09
• LOL. Luke Ming Flanagan (IND) on Rosfm. His wife spoiled her vote for him by putting a
loveheart on it. :) He was elected in the 1st count
by lexia via twitter edited by Alexia Golez at 6/7/2009 12:07:03 AM1:07 AM yesterday
• Fair play to the local councils who did put results online, and the local papers also - now to
get them all online for GE! #le09
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• Mary Mitchell O'Connor (FG) returned in Dun Laoghaire. 3 seats still to fill there
• @krayZpaving agree - will be very interesting to watch DCC in action #le09
• Labour seem to be picking up seats in all sorts of surprising places around the country
• New blog post: Final result for Mallow bit.ly
• @suzybie that's as close to a landslide for @labour as can be achieved in our system. #le09
• they may get 1 in Galway...O'Brolochain?
by PatrickSaint
• @ashdub - been liveblogging for over 14 hours now - it's all a blur! But Louth, Kilkenny etc
were mentioned today. Mark Geary? Noonan?
• so they have 1 so far? whata shambles... poor Gormley and Co...it certainly is no longer
green...but grey the rain is washing away the greens....Suzy any idea where these 6/7 greens
will be elected? #le09
by AshDob
• gp will have 6/7 two many, they lost two cllrs in the newly merged howth malahide ward
by lostexpectation
• Swinford sees Murray home as he likes, Maloney and Lavin look safeish, but big battle for
last seat, with Mellett in big bother it seems!
• Labour seems to excel at vote management, Pembroke/Rathmines is proof of that! #le09
• 6/7 Green councillors out of 18 will be relected
• 1 green in clare co co....
by PatrickSaint
• New blog post: Kildare Co Co (Celbridge) 4th count #le09 faduda.ie
• The Castlebar TC final was FG 4, Heneghan, Heston, Deere, McCormack; FF, Gavin; Lab,
Barrett; SF, Ruane; Ind, Kilcoyne, Durcan early on.
• any predictions for post election ireland?
by PatrickSaint
• How many seats have the Greens won. and Where??? Anyone?
by AshDob
• End of the Roscommon counts. Rosfm team collapse!
• Audio : Final result for Limerick City East uploaded to Limerickblogger #le09
• 3nd Count - Sth Roscommon (Athlone) John Naughton's (FG) surplus of 143 votes
dispersed. 1144 - Quota. Trevor Finneran (FF) +7 (683) / Anthony Geraghty (FF) +4 (489) /
Dermot Kelly (FG) +15 (637) / Jim Kenny (IND) +21 (1093) / Alma Keogh (SF) +11 (404) /
John Keogh (FF) +16 (760) / Paddy Kilduff (FF) +9 (720) / Ollie Moore (FG) +60(930). No
candidate reached the quota in this count. No surplus to disperse. Excluding Alma Keogh
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and her votes will be dispersed. Count resumes at 10am. Supporters are shouting and want to
see another count. "Finish it out", they shout out. CoCo people are ignoring the shouts and
pick up their jackets to leave.
• Looking at Dublin on a constituency by constituency basis. FF's Dublin collapse is striking.
• Last blog post of Saturday now up on @irishelection www.irishelection.com #le09
• Local government has always been important to the Greens. Being flattened in Local
Elections is an even heavier blow to them than to, say, the Christian Solidarity Party.
• New blog post: O’Driscoll gone, O’Halloran elected bit.ly
• Fianna Fáil's Mark O’Keeffe, son of Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe, has lost his seat on
Cork County Council
• yeah, seems the poor old greens got sprayed with the weedkiller...pity, but that's politics
• Pembroke Rathmines decided Lacey and Wynne elected? #le09
by boredsahm via twitter
• Denis McCarthy takes final seat in Limerick East #le09
• New blog post: Cork South East – Final Result bit.ly
• Fine Gael’s Mary Mitchell O’Connor has been elected to Dun Laoighaire/Rathdown County
Council after the eighth count in Dun Laoighaire
• 3rd count - Sth Roscommon (Athlone) expected in a matter of moments
• neiljung - its Brian Meaney for Clare County Council (Ennis West)
by SimonHaden edited by Simon McGarr
• New blog post: Three elected in Cork South East bit.ly
• Hello again! Patsy O'Brien romped home in Claremorris, unbelieveable performance, it is
going to go late though for the rest...
• RTE Count Results here: www.rte.ie
• poor greens back to the drawing board...
by AshDob edited by Simon McGarr
• What council is the single Green elected so far in?
by neiljung edited by Simon McGarr
• Keating and O'Connell elected in Lucan Ward - onto 9th count there now
• Audio added to Limerickblogger.ie City South Count Six #le09
• FF buck national trend in Fermoy electoral area, retaining their two co co seats and adding
two town co seats #le09
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• Fingal-Balbriggan. Byrne (Lab) 300 ahead of Corr (GP) so could be safe. Interesting if
Brown (Ind) transfers to McKeon (Ind) first. #le09
• Just got very tight in Balbriggan. O'Connor (Ind) within a shout of getting there. O'Leary
(FG) looks safe. Murray (FF) falling away #le09
• Longford Election Update.
Just one seat filled in Longford County Council.
Larry Bannon FG 925 votes Elected
Count will continue in the morning.

• Mark Coughlan has captured some great photos from the RDS count centre today – check
them out tinyurl.com
• Talk of a FF-IND coalition on Roscommon CoCo according to Rosfm. John Kelly (IND and
elected on 1st count) denies all knowledge of a pact. Kelly says that independents worked
well with FG. Kelly: "You know what they say about the devil you know"
• New blog post: Kavanagh eliminated bit.ly
• SDCC putting info on twitter now @sdccelections they should probably put the #le09 on to
get more viewers though
• @patricksant you looked at analysis posts on Irishelection.com to leave longer comments
etc.?
• Looks like Greens will be left with only 4 or 5 city or co council seats and possibly a few
town council seats.
• Fingal. Kelleher will probably transfer enough to O'Connor to get him elected. Then
depends on how many go to the Independents & Corr #le09
• Limerick City South (Count 9) No one elected .. Cathal McCarthy (independent) Eliminated
#le09
• Recount due on Monday for Muine Bheag Town Council election. Just 5 votes between 9th
and 10th. 3 FF 3 FG 2 Lab 1 Ind.Now I'm to bed. #le09
• There has been a full recount called for the Belturbet area of Cavan County Council.
Counting has been postponed until 10am on Monday
• Jane Dillon-Byrne & Stephen Fitzpatrick elected in Dun Laoghaire!! #Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter at 6/7/2009 1:38:23 AM2:38 AM yesterday
• What we do know is that Swiford is still extremely unpredictable! #elections
• New blog post: Cork South Central – Final Result bit.ly
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• Were that to happen then Smyth's votes would probably put Caulfield over the line - a most
unlikely outcome. Just a whisper tho! #elections
• A whisper - only a whisper - that in Swinford Caulfield could get enough transfers to
overtake Smyth from C Henry's transfers! #elections
• New blog post: Martin survives in South Central bit.ly
• Independent Charlie Murphy and Fine Gael’s John Murphy have been elected to Carlow
County Council after the sixth count in Borris
• New blog post: Cork North West – Final Result bit.ly
• Limerick City North (Count 12) No one elected .. Ryan (Lab) eliminated #le09
• best result for Greens in Galway County - congrats and hard luck to Paul, Patrick & Tom
#le09
by AndrewTMurphy via twitter
• Fianna Fáil’s Deirdre Heney and Fine Gael’s Naoise O Muiri have been elected to Dublin
City Council after the sixth count in Clontarf
• I think Fergal's earlier tweet about the significant rural-urban divide is the best place to
begin analysing today's results. Dublin has gone left, with Labour and left-wing candidates
dominating (even as the Greens imploded and SF declined). Meanwhile, rural areas are
predominantly FF and FG.
by Christine Bohan at 6/7/2009 1:22:51 AM2:22 AM yesterday
• Just checked the stats, today busiest day for blog hits since I began measuring. Who knew
there were so many election geeks out there? #le09
• Lucan - Count 9 now available on www.southdublin.ie
by sdccelections via twitter at 6/7/2009 1:21:04 AM2:21 AM yesterday
• Fianna Fail's national problems may not be reflected in Swinford where they could take 2
from 4 - a gain of 1. Maloney and Smith.#elections
• Any further update on Westmeath count? #le09
by Fifibellemeara
• Off to bed too. By Sunday evening we should have some proper info on North-West euro.
Details so far are a bit too patchy to call it. #le09
• Labour’s Eoin Holmes has been elected to Meath County Council after the first count in the
Slane electoral area
• New blog post: Fitzgerald elected, O’Callaghan eliminated bit.ly
• 1:58 : Basketball Arena: Lucan update Still no closer to deciding the final three Lucan seats.
I'm sure I've seen a few of the supporter..
• Counting in Longford suspended til 12noon tomorrow.Town Council elected: ex-PD Mae
Sexton is back as Ind. Only 1 CoCouncil seat filled #le09
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• 1:35 : Basketball Arena: Lucan update Jim Doyle (Ind) has been eliminated. His 1088 votes
are now being redistributed. HOLD THE PRESSES -..
• New blog post: Shepperd eliminated bit.ly
• Fianna Fáil’s Siobhan Ambrose has been elected to Tipperary South Riding County Council
after the fifth count in Clonmel
• John Cribbin and Richard Finn both in on 4th count in Claremorris. Big battle for last three
seats between four candidates. #elections
• After two o'clock at the count and we look like we'll be here until four am at least#elections
• Cribbin and Finn elected in Claremorris, four big names left for three seats!
• New blog post: O’ Byrne out if the running bit.ly
• New blog post: Co Kildare town council results (unconfirmed) #le09 faduda.ie
• Counting in Roscommon Finished until later this morning some angry exchanges by
canditates who wished for the count to continue. #le09
by Roscommon LE09 via twitter
• Got home from the Kanturk/Mallow/Fermoy count about and hour ago. totally wrecked,
been there since 9. The Man incharge of the Kanturk counting was a disaster!!!! Mallow
were on their 7th count and Kanturk hadent even started its 4th!!!!! unreal! I knew it would
be long like, but this was ridiculous. And it was a real Shame FG lost 4 seats in cork
county!!!
by sazzybm
• Fine Gael’s Siobhan McGloin has been elected to Leitrim County Council after the fifth
count in Manorhamilton
• New blog post: corkpolitics.ie
• New blog post: Desmond elected bit.ly
• New blog post: O’Connell elected bit.ly
• Before I go - I love this picture of Joan Burton! www.flickr.com
by lexia via twitter edited by Christine Bohan at 6/7/2009 12:54:03 AM1:54 AM yesterday
• RT @suzybie: RT @Patrick_DCC: Dublin City Council - 39 of 52 seats filled. 16 Lab. 7
FG. 7 Ind/Other. 6 SF. 3 FF. 0 GP. #le09
by wesg via twitter
• Thanks Suzy....And so nothing for the greens in Dublin...wow!
by AshDob
• New blog post: Spillane eliminated bit.ly
• A recount has started in the Bailieborough electoral area of Cavan County Council
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• Labour won three seats in both Pembroke-Rathmines and also Tallaght Central.
Unprecedented. #le09
by Christine Bohan via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:49:29 AM1:49 AM yesterday
• what's the general picture out here? any comments for a blog, anyone?
by PatrickSaint
• Indo reports (tho it does give u a plug as well):"The new media are immediate and useful
and fun and, perhaps, an indication of the future. But, for now, they lack the overall
coherence and perspective that a Sean O'Rourke can bring to a barrage of information." Tosh
to that - u're great scribblers and thanks for all ur hard work.
by Waterfire
• Mary White - Deputy Leader of Green Party - says that the Green Party have taken a kicking
yesterday and party will come through this result.
• Hello and welcome to McKenna FM. Have a better pic in the vid camera yfrog.com
• Patrick is this any use to you? Nobody I know in Galway count at moment. www.rte.ie
• can't find anything from South Galway...any inof out there?
by PatrickSaint
• Listening to Shinners talk about seeing Gay Mitchell's wife
• Trollies full of ballots. You've got to love it. #le09 mypict.me
• Cavan County Council first preference votes online: bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter
• FF veterans are grey, morbidly obese and wear sports jackets
• Story of Green Party council losses: Dundrum Ward. Former FF now Ind Tony Fox retains
seat, Aoife Brennan FF gains bit.ly #le09
by deebdublin via twitter
• Candidate tensions boiled over in Rathnew on polling day: url.ie (via @finkeegan and
@Imaginemaker) #le09
• Have arrived at Punchestown for the Ireland East Euro Count. Seems it's just me, the
counters & Newstalk at the mo. #le09
• And so the sorting starts at the Ireland East count. #le09 mypict.me
• FF veterans are grey, morbidly obese and wear sports jackets
• howth malahide Elected, Pc lp, coc lp, eob ff , af fg, jm fg
by lostexpectation
• Liveblog comment moderating will recommence at 9am - some updates through twitter will
get through automatically from other bloggers and local papers/other media outlets etc. See
you in the morning for the European Parliament Elections Counts which commence at
9am.
• Fine Gael now looked locked on for an overall majority for FG on Mayo County Council!
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Tomorrow is another day...
• At 4.38am, Joe Mellett creates a Lazurus style comeback, and along with Eugene Lavin
creates a remarkable comeback for FG in Swinford!
• New blog post: Final Midleton count bit.ly
• New blog post: Boyle scoops final Carrigaline seat bit.ly
• Smyth looked like gaining a seat for FF against the odds but he is now up against it, needing
a substanial transfers from Caulfield...
• Another count in in Swinford, Caulfield out, and advantage lies with the sitting councillors
Lavin, Maloney and Mellett, but only just!
• New blog post: Martin eliminated from Carrigaline battle bit.ly
• 3.30am and no end in sight! Swinford is turning into a pivotal area with Fine Gael praying
for 2 seats to secure majority on MCC...
• is jimmy guerin going to win a seat over both ff rivals
by lostexpectation
• New blog post: Noel Collins elected in Midleton bit.ly
• New blog post: Coveney delighted with FG success in Carrigaline bit.ly
• 3:09 : Basketball Arena: Final updateWell guys, end of the road for tonight. It has been a
real experience. Thanks for keeping up with us..
• Lucan - Count 11 now available on www.southdublin.ie and is now complete
by sdccelections via twitter at 6/7/2009 2:13:43 AM3:13 AM yesterday
• New blog post: Collins elected in Carrigaline bit.ly
• Claremorris counting staff allowed go home - lucky them! Two more counts should sort
Swinford. Very unpredictable. #elections
• It now means FG have taken 4 from 6 in Ballina and Claremorris and look set for 3 from 4
in Westport. Overall majority looks safe.#elections
• Claremorris over. Damien Ryan reaches quota. Ml Burke and Tom Connolly elected without
reaching the quota.Ml Carty loses out. #elections
• A few counts are still continuing. Most have adjourned and will resume later today #LE09
• Ray McAdam elected in North Inner City ward. Wonderful end to a fine day.
by Paschald via twitter at 6/7/2009 1:59:23 AM2:59 AM yesterday
• RTÉ Elections Twitter will resume later this morning
• Independent Michael N Clarke has been elected to Sligo County Council after the first count
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in the Dromore electoral area #LE09
• New blog post: Recount in North Central bit.ly
• A recount will commence at 2pm for the Tipperary electoral area of Tipperary South Riding
County Council
• Lucan - Count 10 now available on www.southdublin.ie
by sdccelections via twitter edited by Christine Bohan at 6/7/2009 1:48:03 AM2:48 AM
yesterday
• Claire O'Regan just elected in North East Inner City for @labour #Le09
• New blog post: Connolly eliminated in North Central bit.ly
• Fianna Fáil’s John Foley has been elected to Offaly County Council after the first count in
the Edenderry electoral area
• What a slate of young @labour victories. Yes, i'm biased but Moynihan, Parodi, Upton,
Fitzpatrick, Nolan & O'Callaghan are fab! #Le09
• Fine Gael’s Willie Aird and Sinn Féin’s Brian Stanley have been elected to Laois County
Council after the first count in Portlaoise
• RT @RTE_Elections: The Green Party has lost all its city and county council seats in
Dublin, where most of its TDs are based #LE09
• @Paul so I learnt from all the commenters on the liveblog yesterday!
• daithi didn't do well as he's known locally as daithi do-little
by paul o'dwyer
• That is some mess for the Green Party
by wendylimerick
• Has anybody done any "equality" analysis of the local elections outcomes yet? Do we know
the numbers or percentages of the councillors who are: women and men; who are
immigrants or from minority ethnic groups or backgrounds (including, perchance,
Travellers); who have a disability; who are gay or lesbian?
by Tipster
• shinners totally out of touch on the ground , FF vote gone and SF barely see any of it they
need to ask themselves some questions
by paul o'dwyer
• Gerry Adams blames Daithi Doolans' defeat on Evening Herald 'scurrilous' story.
• THE Green Party has been wiped out on Fingal County Council, losing all its 3 seats Joe
Corr, David Healy and Robbie Kelly all gone #le09
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/7/2009 9:31:03 AM10:31 AM yesterday
• "If John Gormley, the Greens' leader, was capable of humility, he would be a deeply troubled
man." url.ie #le09
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• The Green Party has lost all its city and county council seats in Dublin, where most of its
TDs are based #LE09 (via @RTE_Elections)
• The Green Party has lost all its city and county council seats in Dublin, where most of its
TDs are based #LE09
• Tally men keeping a close eye on the transfers in Belmullet area, they will be
crucial.....might have the first count in an hour
• FingalCoCo: 24 seats. Lab 9, FG 6, Ind 5, FF 4. Possible Lab/FG alliance. FF -5%, FG -2%,
GP -2%, Lab +7%, Ind +3% on 2004 1st pref. #le09
• European election: A large number of blank ballot papers have been report from early tallies
in the South Constituency.
• its de alan ruddock article headline 'a nation speaks out', suzy. it'll b interesting to see if your
traffic spikes considerably today after u're mentioned in de article.
by Waterfire
• Just looking at figures for LE's - FG - 31.97%, FF 24.58%, Labour 16.08%, SF 7.59%. I am
still amazed FF polled so high. It ainn't as bad as many thought. I'm FG btw before anyone
starts
by Bazalini
• @themayonews - great work yesterday
by Bazalini
• Counting has resumed in the local elections and begun for the European Parliament
elections.
• Westport looks a certain to go with 3FG and 1 FF while in Belmullet McNamara will top the
poll with Quinn in trouble
• Maurice Ahern still in with a shout of his seat in Local Elections
• Count is underway in the European and local elections here in Castlebar.
• Great Photos from Kilkenny Count last night on Flickr Moorepat - www.flickr.com
• farm4.static.flickr.com
• hmmm Labour have won 102 seats Local seats Nationally, so far though Don't think there is
many more for them to win. Good Result! #le09
• Just woke up to the great news that Fingal-Balbriggan LEA uncontaminated by either FF, GP
or SF councillors. Good start to the day. #le09
• I thought FF would take a big hammering, but its not as big as I thought!!!! Does anyone
know whats happening in the North Tipp locals? My mam wants to know how Lowery is
doing!!! Why, I dont know!!!!
by sazzybm
• Barely seeing DeBurca at all
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• Watching DeRossa and Mitchell ballots. Seeing more Simons than Ryan. This scares me.
• Pretty amazing that when FF are supposed to be 'in meltdown' and universally hated they
still pick up almost 25% of vote #le09
by paul_m_hayes via twitter
• Do any of the papers have detailed count breakdowns from the locals? RTE.ie is not great
for working out patterns in specific wards #le09
by villa81 via twitter
• Watching Alexia's Qik's from RDS I'm struck by how nice the counters are being to tallyers
in terms of slowly displaying ballots! www.qik.com/alexiagolez
• Youghal Online on the Youghal Town Council Results www.youghalonline.com
• Ballyhaunis Blog reflects on the Claremorris Local Electoral Area ballyhaunis.blogs.ie
qik.com
• Oh baby. I successfully predicted Cork SE exactly, what a result! #le09
• If you want to know what's happening in Limerick have a look at
www.limericknewswire.com and www.limerickblogger.ie
• hmmm Enda Kenny is basically with himself, saying that what they people are saying is
important, but refusing to go near SF! #le09
• FF has lost 2 and maybe 3 former lord mayors in Cork
• All quiet here at Punchestown as the Euro count is underway. Newstalk, RTE & INN here,
but nothing much to report. #le09
• thanks suzi...they haven't posted the EDs yet, just the overall county stats.
by PatrickSaint
• @Waterfire many thanks for that - we're having fun directing the traffic and getting the
information out. Who says we have to be the same as Sean O'Rourke? A sort of compliment
from the Indo for online media? This I have to see and frame!!
qik.com
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• Object 4

qik.com
• Votes being sorted yfrog.com
• le09 party health warning: coalition with fianna fail can seriously damage the junior partner.
PDs Labour & Greens
• Local elections: Complete recount in Oranmore (Galway CoCo), only five votes separate
two candidates battling for last seat #LE09
• George Lee on Marian Finucane
• Local elections: LAB’s James O’Shaughnessy & FG’s Irene Winters elected to Wicklow
County Council after the third count #LE09
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• Object 5

• Dublin Central FG 09: 3 public representatives. DC FG 04 : 1 public representative. So
proud.
by Paschald via twitter at 6/7/2009 10:03:23 AM11:03 AM yesterday
• any galway county tallies or results?
by PatrickSaint
• SF doing bad all over Dublin negative press will affect all their candidates but they been
threading water for some time now, need some new fish in the think tank.
by Declan O'Kane
• @damienmulley @wendylimerick yfrog.com
• Local elections: LAB’s Robert Ireton, FG’s Michael Kinsella, IND Declan MacPartlin
elected to Wexford County Council #LE09
• Fingal CoCo 3SP 9LAB / 6FG 4FF / 2NP wonder what the balance of power is? Will
Labour turn right or left? right or left? right left? #le09
• Local elections: FG’s John Hegarty, FF’s Malcolm Byrne have been elected to Wexford
County Council #LE09
• Gerry Coyle has arrived and after looking over the tally figures he looks relaxed and
confident #elections
• BAck in a very empty RDS #le09
qik.com
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• Object 6

• #le09 Gormley to take power away from councillors. I think the electorate took power away
from the Green Party! kicked where it hurts.
qik.com
• Local elections: FG’s Ray McAdam, LAB’s Claire O’Regan, IND Nial Ring elected to
Dublin City Council after eleventh count #LE09
• @AdamMaguire but do they have many more candidates left to win a seat? I think they are
reaching the end of what they will win #le09
• So Mary has the new Green Vision of local government reform now been rejected
by wendylimerick
• Maurice Ahern wearing Dublin GAA shirt under sports jacket
• Labour have more seats now than in 2004 & there are still 333 to be won; this looks like
Gilmore's election, not Kenny's #le09
by AdamMaguire via twitter
• Mary White on Newstalk
by wendylimerick
• Mary White on newstalk live
by PatrickSaint
• Local elections: SKIA’s Michael Gleeson, IND Danny Healy-Rae & IND Michael Healy-
Rae all elected to Kerry County Council #LE09
• Ah
by wendylimerick
• Clareman McNamara picked up some votes as protest in South
by PatrickSaint
• Local elections: FF’s Tom Fleming & Michael Cahill elected to Kerry County Council
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#LE09
• #le09 oddity in Howth Malahide. FG lost a seat only standing 2 when they had 3/7. FF held
their 1/7 seat. GP lost 2/7 (now a 5 seater)
• So, the @sendboyle and Donal Geoghegan vanity project has come to fruition for
@greenparty_ie. Well done the pair of ye. #le09
by AllanCavanagh via twitter at 6/7/2009 9:45:58 AM10:45 AM yesterday
• Looks like only 2 Green Councillors (not including a few town council seats). It's so
depressing but a clear message to the Green leadership. However are FG really any different
to FF at local or national level ? What exactly is the difference that the electorate are
seeing ? There was as much corruption as in FF and even Lab councillors were taking
money. For goodness sake what short memories we have and the briber is only in jail two
weeks.
by SimonHaden
• @wendy - no I heard something on spoilt votes yesterday ?
• Protest Vote -To who-Ganley?
by wendylimerick
• Any word on protest vote in Clare about being included in North-west constituency?
• European election: Estimated turnout said to be 500,000 in South Constituency
• Paul that's not quite right Daithi did do something he got out of Pearse St. when he was
linked with some local trouble ran down to Ringsend and into Labour's back yard.
by Oran Kelly
• FF's Leonard Enright has been elected to Limerick County Council after the eight count
#LE09
• LOLing at the fact my zi6 camera is distracting all the tallymen.
• can't help thinking that had Green Party not gone into govt with FF, that they would have
cleaned up this time instead of wiping out #le09
• Kayleigh decides not to vote for fianna fail bit.ly #le09
• The Greens are ones suffering now, for doing a deal with the devil. I think it is a clear
message that their supporters don
by sazzybm
• newstalk giving good programming...RTE will roll out Maid Marion soon
by PatrickSaint
• cork NC ward recount underway - called at 2am on behalf of Jackie Connolly WP.. who has
no chance of election! Smart money giving SF Thomas Gould the last seat .. Mick Barry SP
headed poll .. Catherine Clancy Lab also elected, FG and FF to take a seat each.. Damian
Wallace of FF losing out.. State of parties Cork City Council to date before NC completed ..
FF5 FG7 Lab7 SF3 SP1 WP1 NP4
by PJ Coogan
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• Object 7

• top story in the Louth Leader. Sunday 8am - A LAWN bowls competition has been
organised to help keep people in Louth fit this summer.
• Local elections: After been re-elected in Sligo's Dromore area FF councillor Joe Queenan
has criticised party leadership in Dublin #LE09
• Very Few Fianna Fail members at RDS according to RTE - and very few requests for count
passes over weekend from FF members. Tally in Dublin will be sporadic - Labour and FG
doing a tally of sorts of Euro count.
• Sinead Shepard of FG was elected to Cobh Town Council. is.gd #le09
• Wicklow County Council yet to report a first count #le09
• FF have lost 4 seats on Cork City Council and maybe a 5th if Wallace cant hold his seat in
North Central. #le09
• So on Cork City Council the FG representation looks to stay at 8. Seat lost in North West,
balanced out by gain in South East. #le09
• Cabra Glasnevin ballot watching tense. Party supporters spotting errors. Eagle eyes!
yfrog.com
• RT @seanmck09: All 3 FF Cllrs. in Bailieborough LEA lost their seats, replaced by 2 new
FF candidates - Wow!! #le09
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• Object 8

• Patrick Hanafin eliminated: new standings GRIFFIN-2227, O'Shea-2140, COSAI-1946,
O'CONNOR-1488, FITZ-1252
by dinglenews via twitter at 6/7/2009 10:41:03 AM11:41 AM yesterday
• So FG only lost on seat in Skib. Predictions of collapse in West Cork, didnt come through.
qik.com
• For Dingle will be 2FG 1FF
by wendylimerick
• RT @dinglenews: New tally estimates for dingle this morning:GRIFFIN-2112, O'Shea-
2051, COSAI-1659, O'CONNOR-1315, FITZ-1115,HANAFIN-813
by wendylimerick
• great stuff Mayo News...wish the rest of the print media were on the ball
by PatrickSaint
• Local elections: Full recount in Cabra/Glasnevin area of Dublin City Council where Maurice
Ahern fights to hold his seat #LE09
• Serious discussions going on among agents and candidates in the Belmullet area over
spoiled votes #elections
• george lee has lured me to rte —he sounds good
by PatrickSaint
• @ Stephen Spillane - Cork Nth Central recount started at 10am - Mick Barry, followed by
Catherine Clancy - the one FF, one FG and one SF - Damien Wallace (FF) to loose out
by Peter Kelly
• the JoikuSpot wifi hotspot named 'socialist' was invaluable to the team in FCCcc yesterday.
nearly lost it twice :) #LE09
• That will be some win for FG if they get the 2 Euro Seats in South
by wendylimerick
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• @suzybie I was on the crash barrier tallying Balbriggan LEA some Euros there were not
tallied;Joe Higgins ahead in Skerries Rural Balbriggan
• Hearing grat things for Colm Burke in with a chance of the 3rd seat! #le09
• Morning all - G.Lee on Marian while Dermot Ahern spins his ass off over on Newstalk. Best
of luck to candidates today, heres hoping we have as much fun as yesterday.
• in North East Tony Fitzgerald FF, looked like he was going to beat O'Callaghan of FG for
the last seat. #le09
• North Central was still going when i left the count last night. Pat Gosch seemed safe #le09
• morning all! apologies for not reponding to people yesterday. I believe Sinead Shepard got
elected. #le09
• Juicing up my phone!
• Watching "The Office" (US) to kill time at the Ireland East count. Glad I brought the laptop!
#le09
• Any news on Roscommon? I've become obsessed with it all :)
• @Suzy C/G is certainly where the news will break before the Euros. Gonna pop back once
I'm done here
• @sinnfeinireland We're hearing there were no RTE tallies for South Dublin Council area?
#le09 #EU09 How are yours for there?
• @Suzy According to him, he's in with a shout. There's a count happening atm.
• Sitting down for a couple of minutes. Going to upload some video and pictures.
• Will Enda Kenny now finally bite the bullet and talk to Sinn Fein because the numbers
dictate that an alternative Govt. must include them ?
by SimonHaden
• @Alexia - We're wondering if there is news on a tally or news on Maurice keeping his
council seat in Cabra/Glasnevin :)
• JP - It's going to be a long day on that one and the last seats in all the other Euro
Constituencies. We'll have news later today from the tallies.
• Hello from the RDS. It's going to be a long day ahead!
• any word on who will take the last euro seat in dublin ?
by JP O'Brien
• 11:11 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght South update Morning abhaille, how's things? I was lucky
enough to make it home for half one unlile my..
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• Local elections: FF first preference vote in Dublin down 6.6% since the last local elections
in 2004
• #le09 Mary White on Newstalk. Who could have predicted the global/national bubble
bursting, she asked. Who indeed but the Greens!
• Local elections: FG’s Vincent Blake elected to Wicklow County Council after third count
#LE09
• Joe Higgins on the Wide Angle on Newstalk. #le09
• 12:08 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthNEWSFLASH! Tea-break time here in the arena for
the count-staff!
by tallaghtecho via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:14:23 AM12:14 PM yesterday
• Local elections: IND Christy Curtin & FG’s Oliver Garry have been elected to Clare County
Council #LE09
• Object 9

• Jimmy Kenny IND also elected in the Athlone (Roscommon Electoral Area) the last two
seats should be between Trevor Finneran & Paddy Kilduff both FF, it will be a tough fight.
by Roscommon LE09
• Local elections: FG’s Joe Cooney elected to Clare County Council with 2,780 votes,
believed to be a record vote in that area #LE09
• #LE09 BTW its always helpfull to shout out who is appearing on what media outlet for the
channel hoppers. thanks in advance.
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:12:43 AM12:12 PM yesterday
• 1st Belmullet count in McNamara tops poll followed by Holmes, Coyle and Conway-Walsh.
Tim Quinn looks like losing his seats #elections
• @clooncashel www.rte.ie
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qik.com
by lexia via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:12:03 AM12:12 PM yesterday
• RT @FionaAshe: George Lee TD on Today FM now - Love the sound of that, George Lee
TD... :)
• Ahern will wait until 3:30 before deciding on anything
• @AdamMaguire It's about being "in there right to the end, and just lost" instead of "was
hammered". #le09
• where is pat the cope based on the exit polls in the North West
by Roscommon LE09
• Still Qikked though :)
• Object 10

• Cabra Glasnevin counts expected to go all day long. Also some of the counters object to
their image being videoed or photographed. Fabulous.
• @spiller2 en.wikipedia.org an area of largest growth in HowthMalahide ward. It had a v.low
turn out :( Haughey land too
• @clooncashel - would doubt harkins will top poll in NW based on exit poll etc. #le09
• Right now only Labour, SP, PBP are in a position where they are already ahead of their 2004
total. That is before 300 seats are finally handed out
• Declan Ganley could be the dark horse in the north west, Marian Harkins looking set to top
the poll #le09
by Roscommon LE09
• I see Mary Burke, Hospital (Fianna Fail) and Willie Sister has asked for a recount in the
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Kilmallock area
by wendylimerick
qik.com
• @BrianGreene fair play! thats a good result. whos kinsealy??
• @spiller2 1032 4.7% 9/15 on fpv. in 5 seater. haven't dissected the tally but the most
excellent tally was shared effort.did Kinsealy vote?
• @Mark_Coughlan ganley?? :P
• One has heard that a candidate in the NW is purposefully supplying wrong tallies. Dunno
who. #le09
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:02:43 AM12:02 PM yesterday
qik.com
• Dispersal of Fitzpatrick's surplus. Don't see the carry through to Ahern. Qik coming.
• Does anyone have details for Lucan electoral area?
by aoifecarroll via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:00:43 AM12:00 PM yesterday
• RT@garymckeown The Green Party has lost all its city and county council seats in Dublin
#le09 // they got a Balbriggan Town Council seat.
• Local elections: IND Jimmy Kenny elected to Roscommon County Council after fourth
count #LE09
• Still Awaiting count from longford count centres
by Roscommon LE09
• Local elections: FG’s John Naughten, IND Tony Ward elected to Roscommon County
Council #LE09
• Poetry Corner .. heard on Newstalk... " Lie with dogs, Wake with fleas.. Go in with FF .. end
up like PD's "... :)
by PJ Coogan
• Local elections: FF’s Pat Casey elected to Wicklow County Council after fourth count
#LE09
• RT @joej: Ray McAdam wins a seat for FG in North Inner city - first FG seat since 1985.
FF win none url.ie #le09
• just got text obituary for FF. It will be a big funeral with so many casualties. No flowers
please, send them to the Greens.
by PatrickSaint
• Local elections: A full tally of Donegal Co Council suggets FG is set to gain two seats, SF
one #LE09
• Local Election count continuing in Roscommon Electoral area still awaiting the first count
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for Strokestown & Boyle Electoral Area
by Gerard Roscommon
• that was Louth Lincolnshire www.louthleader.co.uk not Louth Ireland :)
• Local elections: A full tally of Donegal Co Council votes indicates that Fianna Fáil will lose
three or possibly four seats. #LE09
• The Green Party has lost all its city and county council seats in Dublin #le09
by garymckeown via twitter
• FG didnt lose a seat in Kanturk either! So only down 1 seat in County! Phew! #le09
• Local elections: FF had 10 seats on Sligo County Council but it looks like they will lose
three by the time the count is over #LE09
• @BrianGreene how did you get on??
• Suzy Mary came to me and said she was going to help all the women of Kilmallock she was
against 11 men
by wendylimerick edited by Suzy Byrne
• any word from galway South/loughrea?
by PatrickSaint
• Sean Kelly now on Marian
by wendylimerick
• @wendylimerick - great feminist was Mary O'Dea?
• Local elections: IND Thomas Welby & FG's Sean Kyne elected to Galway County Council
#LE09
• Great to see Tom Shortt (Labour) (brother of Pat) get elected in Limerick City North
by wendylimerick
• Mary Burke (Willie Sister) has failed in her quest to help the women in Kilmallock
by wendylimerick
• KK Borough Council Update: 1FG, 3FF, 1Lab, 1Grn. 6 more to be elected. #le09
• Cork County Council roundup: bit.ly How Fianna Fail managed to get 39.8% of the vote
boggles and infuriates. #ABFF #le09
by MabroIRL via twitter
• @Mark_Coughlan Why is he called the Paul McGrath candidate? Forgive my ignorance!
#le09
• Mary Fitzpatrick tops Cabra/Glasnevin while Maurice Ahern struggles hold on; if FF have
sense they'll be making urgent changes at St Luke's.
• george lee doing the rounds...he's up next on newstalk
by PatrickSaint
• Just saw that the Paul McGrath candidate (Victor Boyhan) in Blackrock beat two FFers to
last seat. #le09
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• European election: FF says it accepts it will be fighting for its seat in the North West
constituency
• former councillor Pat Kilbane is eliminated in Belmullet #elections
• Johno' and peter flynn are elected in Westport. Flynn is hoisted high by supporters and hits
his head on the low ceiling #elections
• Just saw that the Paul McGrath candidate (Victor Boyhan) in Blackrock beat two FFers to
last seat. #le09
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:33:03 AM12:33 PM yesterday
• Eibhlin Byrne on Newstalk 'loss of Ryan worse for Dublin than for FF' #le09
by cianflah via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:30:50 AM12:30 PM yesterday
• Local elections: FG’s John Crowe elected to Clare County Council #LE09 www.rte.ie
• New blog post: European count underway bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:29:43 AM12:29 PM yesterday
• was going to go to Croker today to watch the Dubs in hurling and in football. Have decided
to watch the elections by @lexia instead
• Local elections: There are 12 independents across the Dublin local authorities #LE09
• Libertas founder Declan Ganley has arrived at the count centre in Castlebar, counting for
Europe is well underway. #elections
• Local elections: Dublin - The People Before Profit Alliance have five representatives and the
Socialist Party three #LE09
• Limerick City Council Full results are in. Trends and council Seat details by party available
bit.ly #le09
by browne_jp via twitter
• Down the street in Cashel Town Council we have 3 people chasing 2 seats after eleven
counts. #le09
by topgold via twitter
• Local elections: The Greens have lost all 8 seats they held and do not now have a single
representative in Dublin #LE09
• @themayonews More info please. RTE just covered the constituency and said Ganley had
meeting with his team but not taking action.
by aoifac
• Local elections: FF can only expect to get 19 out of a total of 130 seats on the four Dublin
councils #LE09
• Local elections: Labour has 45 seats across Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin and Dun
Laoghaire/Rathdown councils #LE09
• Local elections: Labour has emerged as the biggest party in the Dublin local authorities
#LE09
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• Seriously loving Qik. It's confusing all the trad journalists.
• Object 11

• Word on RTE seems to be that Euro tallies, especially in NW, are very inconsistent and
unreliable. Sounds reasonable. #le09
qik.com
qik.com
• Qiking the Eiblin Byrne press gaggle in RDS @lexia bit.ly
• Local elections: FG’s Mary Barrett & Dara Mulvey elected to Sligo County Council after
fifth count #LE09
• Local elections: So far, 119 FF councillors elected, compared to 205 for FG, 108 for LAB, 2
Greens, 34 SF, 88 others #LE09
• The live blog is prioritising reports of result and tallies and not comments at the moment
Sile
• RTE Large Number of spoilt votes in Euro South as well
by wendylimerick
• is d blog working rite can't see my comments cuming up ?
by Sile Flannnery
• @AdamMaguire It's all about the spin. A day's worth of talk will influence the story for the
rest of the week. #le09
• Local elections: LAB’s Nicky Kelly elected to Wicklow County Council after fourth count
#LE09
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• Ganley applying for an injunction because it appears boxes opened before 9am. Stay tuned
for more details #elections
by themayonews via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:14:23 AM12:14 PM
yesterday
• Sylvia Cooney-Sheean(ff), Margret Croke(FG) and Denis Landy(LAB) only 3 seats in
Carrick-on-Suir so far, recount continues #le09
by sorcha_ni_dhuin via twitter
• Adjudicating of spoilt votes in RDS qik.com
• Object 12

qik.com
• Local elections: FF’s Martin Connaughton, Orla Leyden, FG’s Dominick Connolly, IND
Paula McNamara elected to Roscommon Co Council
• (genuine*) left unity more crucial now than ever. there was no slate for these elections.
2ndNo2Lisbon organisation will be key. #LE09
• Off to adjudications !
• George Lee on NewsTalk gives "learning curve" speech re his job ahead and asks us to give
him some "leeway". Funny guy. #le09
• RTE Election music is high on the drama
• On Newstalk now, 18 year old Leaving Cert student who took a seat for FG on Tramore TC.
Missed his name. #le09
• Ireland East turnout reported as 56.8% here, according to briefing sheet given to me by the
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Returning Officer. Very high. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:58:23 AM12:58 PM yesterday
• I may have scared Proinsias!
• RTE Television coverage of elections will recommence shortly running until 2.45pm
• Indication is joe higgins on 11% in dublin euro election
by dinglenews via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:57:24 AM12:57 PM yesterday
• HJearing that lots of YFG'ers are getting elected!! Delighted for em all! #le09
• If I had to choose between my beloved Dubs beating arch-rivals Meath 2day and Declan
Ganley NOT getting a seat I'd say GO MEATH!!! #le09
• Counts for Clare EAs updated as they happen. Kilrush Killaloe Shannon #le09 bit.ly
• Object 13

• Gerry Coyle and Ml Holmes should be 2nd and 3rd home - they will benefit reasonably
from McAndrew's votes. #elections
• Tim Quinn is now 353 votes behind Rose Conway Walsh for the last seat. He will need a big
swing from Ian McAndrew's elimination. #elections
• The Sunday Times have trouble determining exactly what city yesterdays bye-elections
occurred in
by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 11:53:48 AM12:53 PM yesterday
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by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 11:53:45 AM12:53 PM yesterday
• Michael McNamara elected in Belmullet on the third count. The next count will see his
surplus of 77 being distributed. #elections
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• New blog post: Kildare (Celbridge) sixth count #le09 faduda.ie
• Anybody able to computer pictures and colour the map of FF-Free zones so far (mid-day,
Sunday)
Electoral areas where the counting has been completed, Fianna Fáil have zero councillors in
the following electoral areas in Dublin and the immediately surrounding counties:
Ballbriggan Fingal County Council 0/5 seats
Lucan South Dublin County Council 0/5 seats
Ballyfermot-Drimnagh Dublin City Council 0/4 seats

Crumlin-Kimmage Dublin City Council 0/4 seats
North Inner City Dublin City Council 0/6 seats
South-East Inner City Dublin City Council 0/4 seats
South-West Inner City Dublin City Council 0/4 seats
Ballybrack Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council 0/5 seats

Blackrock Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council 0/4 seats
Baltinglass Wicklow County Council 0/3 seats

by Tipster
• Two post-election (de)motivational posters bit.ly #le09
by Laughing_Lion via twitter
• -Local elections: FF has lost 2 seats to FG, leaving FF on 8 and FG on 10 on Leitrim County
Council #LE09
• Anyone have any updates from Dunshaughlin LEA of Meath CoCo? #le09
• From 38 Migrant candidates running in local elections it looks like only 3 will win seats.c
• @suzybie FG threw everything at it, ran too many candidates. No vote management from
us. Our vote is down here but from high base. #le09
• heading to Euro count now .. my spies are trying to get me an accurate tally.. health
warnings on everything so far , I believe
by PJ Coogan
• Indication is that Cosai to be elected after Breandan Fitz elimination.
by dinglenews via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:45:43 AM12:45 PM yesterday
• Final lineup Cork City Council .. FF6.. FG8.. Lab7.. SF4.. SP1.. WP1.. Ind4... north central
count continuing but won't alter these.. lineup there FF1 FG1 Lab1 SF1 SP1..
by PJ Coogan
• Libertas leader Declan Ganley says he is "quietly confident" of taking a
seat in the North West constituency #le09
• RT @RTE_Elections Local elections: Dublin - The People Before Profit Alliance have five
representatives and the Socialist Party three #LE09
by ianjamesjohnson via twitter
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• Final lineup Cork City Council
by PJ Coogan
• European election: An RTE exit poll puts Joe Higgins and Eoin Ryan jointly on 11% and
Mary Lou McDonald on 15%
• European election: SF’s Mary Lou McDonald, Socialist Party Joe Higgins & FF’s Eoin Ryan
battle for the third seat in Dublin
• From Newswire-Castleconnell(1st):Mary Jackman(FG) and Eddie Wade(FF) elected,
Jackman surp Distributed
by wendylimerick
• Seats according RTÉ: FG 210, FF 120, Lab 109, OTH 89, SF 34, GP 2 #le09
• Libertas founder Declan Ganley has arrived at the count centre in Castlebar, counting for
Europe is well underway. #elections
• @Suzy I loves it :D Club together and buy me a tractor!
• Letterkenny TC recount ended. 4FF, 2Ind. 1xFG,SF,other. FG take 1 seat on a vote of 2.5
quotas. #le09
• @ Alexia Next Election we may send you to Roscommon to cover the count :) You are our
local expert!
• Roscommon, Roscommon, Roscommon... How are the numbers?
• RT @b2dac: - mantra from govt spokespersons is an insult to the intelligence of the
electorate. #le09
• BlogWatch: Irelands Award Winning Politics Blog - Cedar Lounge Revolution on the Green
Party in this Election cedarlounge.wordpress.com
• Need to find power. Time to decamp!
• Green leader John Gormley says the electorate has given the Green party a kicking as a
consequence of unpopular Govt decisions
• Lenihan in cloud cuckoo land too!
by sazzybm
• Brian Lenihan, Eamon Ryan, Joan Burton and Olivia Mitchell are political guests on RTE
TV
• John Gormley philosophising on RTE News. In cloud-cuckoo land, methinks. #le09
• FF tallies show Pat The Cope trailing Harkin, Higgins in North West, with Ganley in fourth
#ie09 #le09
• None of the main parties are tallying in the NW? #le09
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• Dermot Ahern "politicians of every hue & cry... colour " [news@1] #le09 Hue&Cry (Latin,
hutesium et clamor, "a horn and shouting") D. Ahorn
• None of the main parties are tallying in the NW? #le09
• The Labour candidate in the European elections in Dublin, Proinsias de Rossa, says he is
reasonably confident he will be elected
• fg now on 222, ff 128, l 111, green 2, sf 38, 90 to others. (Local Authority Seat Count)
by sazzybm edited by Suzy Byrne
• Lab leader Eamon Gilmore has told RTE that the party has done better than initially hoped
and this has been their best ever local election
• RTE totty shows Ahern the RTE site. He leaves like a lost schoolboy.
• Object 14

• #LE09 So far, 121 Fianna Fáil councillors have been elected, 211 Fine Gael, 109 Labour, 2
Green, 34 Sinn Féin and 89 others
• Fact - the RDS is prejudiced against white bread sandwiches! They are all that icky,
wholewheat type!
• New blog post: Kildare (Celbridge) 7th (final) count #le09 faduda.ie
• FF will have 18 out of 130 seats in the 4 Dublin Councils
• Gerry Adams now on Newstalk #le09
by Elrobo
• The new way of getting FF candidates elected according to John Bowman is to deselect
them and then they will get elected and come back in!
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• "We suspected Geogee Leee's Fine Gael leaning two years ago." Dermot Ahern on RTE
News! What a laugh. He is pathetic. #le09
• Harris is very young. Another YFGer!!!! Come on the young ones!!! Well done Harris!!
by sazzybm
• SImon harris officially a name to watch says John Bowman on RTE as Donagh Diamond is
stunned by his 55% of vote.
• RTE saying that Maurice Ahern will hold on in Cabra...wonder if its FG or SF who loses out
• one quarter of all electoral areas in Dublin will not have FF representative. RTE say Maurice
Ahern will just make it.
• New blog post: The countdown is on in Euro South bit.ly
• Meath CC Trim area. Ray Butler (FG) elected after 2nd count. Now has strong base to look
for Meath West nomination in GE.
by P O'Neill
• RT@spiller2 <Mick Barry SP> highest vote in Cork. Beat John Buttimer FG South West by
26 votes
• @BrianGreene highest vote in Cork. Beat John Buttimer FG South West by 26 votes
• 1:04 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght Central update For anyone just joining us, two existing
councillors Mick Murphy (Soc) and Joe Neville (..
• Mick Barry Socialist Party Cork City North Central Ward on almost 2 quota. Highest vote
on Cork Northside again? #LE09
• 12:31 : Basketball Arena: General UpdateLeaving Tallaght South out of the equation...this is
the low down on how many seats each party ha..
• Meath CC Trim Area -- corrected. Quota 1960. 2nd count: Butler (fg) 2013, cantwell (ind)
718, carey (fg) 1535, fegan (ff) 1656, golden (ind) 1179, Mcelhinney (lab) 1360, murray (ff)
1260.
by P O'Neill
• Patrick O'Dricoll, former YFG president got elected to Cork County Council last night. Fine
Gael look after the young enthusiastic people. thats why I think they are more appealling to
younger voters. FF is just full of old foggies!
by sazzybm
• I can't even imagine how Bertie would think of running for Dublin mayor next year after
FF's decimation in Dublin #le09
by fearraigh via twitter
• Meath CC Trim Area. Quota 1960. 2nd count: Butler (ff) 2013, cantwell (ind) 718, carey
(fg) 1535, fegan (ff) 1656, golden (ind) 1179, Mcelhinney (lab) 1360, murruy (ff) 1260
by P O'Neill
• The Supermarket Trolley - An essential tool in the conduct of Ireland's Participative
Democracy! #le09
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• #le09 #EP09 Léargas i nGaeilge ar na dtorthaí go dtí seo. Buaiteoirí FG, Neamhspleaigh,
Lucht Oibre. Cailteoirí; FF, SF, Glasaigh
• After lunch heading into city hall to check on north central count. Still 3 seats up for grabs.
#le09
• RTE are turning into sky news with their drama. good graphics though.
by sazzybm
• This makes me think this country will never change RT @suzybie Mary O'Rourkes son was
elected to town council - dynasty continues #le09
by Clarabel via twitter
• Uploading pics from yesterday's count in the RDS www.flickr.com #le09
by labour via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne
• #le09 #EP09 Toghchán na dTurcaí bit.ly
• Labour’s Proinsias De Rossa has said that the message from this election is that the Govt
should go
• Rose Conway-Walsh's supporters have the tri-colour ready, they are confident she will get in
#elections
• McGuinness second prefs going everywhere says her election manager. not good news for
JPP #LE09
by cianflah via twitter at 6/7/2009 12:58:46 PM1:58 PM yesterday
• Athlone (Roscommon) Electoral Area: Trevor Finneran son of Minister of State Finneran
may find it hard to keep his seat it will be possible that he will be in a fight with fellow party
Cllr
by Roscommon LE09
• RT @eolai: RTE TV news reporting Ganley to just miss out - that top 3 poll toppers will
take those seats #le09 FINGERS, TOES & EYES CROSSED
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) first count #le09 faduda.ie
• Wicklow CC, West Result: Cullen Ind, Ruttle Ind, Timmins FG
• Wicklow CC, East Result: Casey FF, Kavanagh Lab, O'Shaughnessy Lab, Snell SF, Winters
FG
• Wicklow CC, Arklow Result to Date - Blake FG, Kelly Lab
• Wicklow CC, Greystones Result to Date - Harris FG
• New blog post: Cork North Central – Final Result bit.ly
• Predictions that Liam Aylward will take third seat in East
• FG remains largest party on Cork City Council with 8 Seats. Lab have 7. FF and Oth have 6,
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SF have 4 #
• McGuinness will not have a big surplus to help John Paul Phelan
• Quota in East will be about 110,000 votes
• RTE says no tally from the South. Suspense remains high all the way to the end so. #LE09
• RTE's Cork Correspondent Pashcal Sheehy has gone stripey on the Tie and Shirt front
• RTE TV news reporting Ganley to just miss out - that top 3 poll toppers will take those seats
#le09
• Canditates Elected in Mid Roscommon: Martin Connaughton FF, Paula McNamara IND
HAC, Orla Leyden FF, Dominic Connolly FG, Laurance Fallon FG
by Roscommon LE09
• New blog post: Recount finishes bit.ly
• Byrne is northside of the city so other 40% must be up for grabs by Higgins or even SF?
That kills Ryan
• Count in Mid Roscommon Complete, Laurance Fallon FG Elected on final count.
by Roscommon LE09
• Meath CC Navan area 1st count quota 1958. Deane (ind) 1813, reilly (sf) 1612, holloway
(fg) 1351, reilly (ff) 1225, jamal (fg) 1189, cassells (ff) 1059, tobin (sf) 822, mchugh (lab)
822, duffy (fg) 785, oneill (fg) 773
by P O'Neill
• Mick Barry of the Socialist Party was re-elected on the first count in Cork North Central
• 50 to 60 percent of Byrnes tranfers are going to Ryan <- RTE
• #LE09 Three former FF Lord Mayors have lost their seats on Cork City Council with all 31
councillors now elected
• Higgins, McDonald and Ryan are within 1 and 1.5 percent of each other according to tally of
about 10percent of votes tallied - differing from Exit polls. Katie Hannon on RTE
• Libertas’ Declan Ganley said he feels quietly confident of taking a European seat
• New blog post: Wallace loses seat bit.ly
• Labour leader Eamon Gilmore has told RTÉ that the party has done better than initially
hoped
• Meath CC Navan area. 7 seats. Currently 3FF, 3FG, 1 SF. FF hoping to keep 3 seats with
better vote management than last time ...
by P O'Neill
• FG’s Brian Hayes says the election results show that the Irish people do not have confidence
in the FF/Green Govt
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• With the SF team.. robbing their electricityz
• Great to see Joan Burton smiling on RTE! #le09
• Gormley: 50% of jobs created since March are green jobs!?!
by JennyJeffer
• Brian Lenihan implies we shouldn't be worried by the recession because life is about more
than material things
• Green Party's Eamon Ryan says party retains 'core vision' despite election results #le09
by kilian_doyle via twitter
• @Fergal EUROs theres talk of Exit Pols from Friday on Sunday. Tallies from Saturday
spoken of on Saturday, We need Sunday Tally&Counts #LE09
• Brian Lenihan on RTE - "this is not a numbers game it is about leadership." #LE09
• Blogwatch:Newstalk's online feed could not cope with traffic according to Blogger
Eteanga ? www.eteanga.ie
• Gormley needs to listen to his members. They gave the greens a thumping to tell them they
dont want them proping up FF anymore, thats what I gleen from the whole thing!!! youd
wonder what goes through these people's heads!!!
by sazzybm
• Gormley on RTE rightly sayes general election now will solve nothing.
by SimonHaden
• Eamon Ryan is talking about staying strong and coming back on RTE, but will they go down
the route of the PDs #le09
by Elrobo
• Updates on Dublin Euro tallies? Last night it looked like Higgins for third seat - this
morning everyone is saying McDonald #le09
• "Your party organisation is just crumbling beneath you"- Brian Dobson to Eamon Ryan on
RTE. :) #le09
• Cora Harvey, SF, tops poll in Stranorlar LEA of Donegal County Council #le09
• Looks like it could be some time
• Catching up on the aftermath of the elections, finding #le09 to be really helpful.
by Thaedydal via twitter
• At the Cabra-Glasnevin count area!
• John 'Masheen' McInerney, FG Clare lost his set.
by PatrickSaint
• State of the parties so far nationally: FF(133) FG (235) Labour (112) Greens (2) Sinn Fein
(39) Others (92)
by Roscommon LE09
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• State of the Parties Nationally:
by Roscommon LE09
• Now watching The West Wing to pass time at Ireland East count. (the black Vera Wang)
#le09
• PJ Kelly, FF Clare co co just re-tainted his seat
by PatrickSaint
• it just shows that the greens should not be in goverment when they cannot take a few petty
insults forn FG
by Roscommon LE09
• Luke Ming Flanagan & John Kelly Both Independents elected for Castlerea Electoral Area
by Roscommon LE09
• Eamon Ryan fighting back on RTE1. Good to see a bit of passion and fight-back, he can be a
bit priestly sometimes. At least it sounds like greens stay in govt bcoz they believe in
something #le09
by deebdublin
• FG's Betty Manning elected to KK Borough Council after count 11. Five more places to be
filled SF will take next seat I think #le09
• Very glad to see Ganley & Libertas aren't going to get in. Impossible to trust a group so big,
also hated his attacking negative politics
by MarkBagnall via twitter
• #LE09 Eamon Ryan says he is very disappointed with the Green's performance in the local
elections but added the party was going to survive
• @MickFealty LIbertas vote would be very small in Dublin? It's McKenna and De Burca's
transfers that would be more important to watch?
• Libertas transfering to Mary Lou strongly, accordingly 2 RTE ticker. Anyone know more?
#le09
• 2:07 : Basketball Arena: General UpdateThe turn-out for Rathfarnham was actually 54.50%
not 53.50% as reported above.Not much happening h..
• All of the SFer here have Macs. They even brought an iMac.
• #LE09 Only 12 of the 34 local authorities have so far completed their elections. Within those
12 councils, FF has lost 24 seats
• Minister Eamon Ryan said he was surprised yesterday at the insults and contempt coming
from FG towards the Green party
• Eamonn Ryan is losing his cool on RTE, not a good sign #le09
• Laois must be the slowest county in Ireland for counting votes..... #le09
by clairehearty via twitter
• Joan bruton is actually a very effective attack dog. She sounds very reasonable #le09
• Cabra/Glasnevin count continues - Seaghan has been eliminated (Sinn Fein) Waiting still to
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see if Maurice Ahern will keep his council seat.
• Eoin Ryan is distraught on RTE. Talk about tired and emotional
• Count in Mid Roscommon Complete, Laurance Fallon FG Elected on final count.
Canditates Elected in Mid Roscommon:

Martin Connaughton FF,
Paula McNamara IND HAC,
Orla Leyden FF,
Dominic Connolly FG,
Laurance Fallon FG
• Anyone got anything on latest in Castlerea, Co. roscommon??
by Mossy
• Summary of 4 Dublin councils #le09
(3 seats outstanding in DCC)
45 Lab
36 FG
17 FF
12 Ind
9 SF
5 PBP
3 SP
0 GP
by Patrick_DCC via twitter
• Has Eamonn Ryan been out singing last night? He's lost his voice. Certainly isn't from
celebrating #LE09
by boctweet via twitter
• Seats Held: FF 130 - FG 230 - LAB 112 - GP 2 - SF 39 - OTH 91 #le09
• Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Fianna Fáil now has to move on and to work hard in
continuing to get the economy right
• An RTE exit poll has shown that 55% of voters said there should be a general election
before 2012
• The Greens looked shocked & dismayed on tv. Did they really think the people were behind
their support for FF? #LE09
by boctweet via twitter
• News from Donegal: McBrearty from Tribunals to take a seat for Labour; Labour also
showing well in Glenties; Battle on in Letterkenny area.
• Cheers Suzy
by Bazalini
• @Bazalini - my last 'sighting' was Highland radio yesterday!
• The Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern, says there will be no heave against the leadership of
the Taoiseach
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• Thats not good for JP Phelan. Pity. I like him!!!! lenihan is a fool. talking through ahe
behind
by sazzybm
• any idea where Mary Coughlan has been? Has she been seen in the North West?
by Bazalini
• DeRossa telling Lenihan how it is on RTE...Anyone but FF! #le09
• Counts for Clare EAs as they happen. Kilrush Killaloe Shannon #le09 bit.ly Nationally
FG223 FF128 Lab111 Ind90 SF38 GP2
• Is it now possible that Ganley was inflating his chances yesterday by throwing around bogus
tally figures? #le09
• Labour's De Rossa says election a "message to Government that they should go" #le09
• Brian Lenihan says election 'not a referendum on Government' and insists it retains a
mandate to continue in office #le09
• Meath CC Dunshaughlin 1st count quota 2112. bobbett (ind) 746, bonner (ind) 1574, brooks
(ff) 890, doherty (fg) 1636, fanning (fg) 876, fitzgerald (ind) 2410, killian (ff) 2066, king
(lab) 486, leonard (ff) 1070, long (ind) 157, mcgowan (lab) 947, mcloughlin (lab) 532,
murphy (fg) 1050, o'connor (fg) 1050, tormey (ff) 938.
by P O'Neill
• "It's the margin of error we operate in" - Dan Boyle on Newstlk re GP decimation. Methinks
the errors were made in govt, not margins! #le09
• RT@martin_mills Great to see Joan Burton smiling on RTE! #le09 // is that a 4:3 or 16:9
widescreen smile?
• FF’s PJ Kelly, FG’s Tony Mulcahy and IND Patricia McCarthy have been elected onto Clare
County Council
• Bourke FG and Doran (semi-FF) elected in Wicklow CC Arklow area on final count
• RTE really should have worked out their coverage plan better, none now until later evening -
stuck with Newstalk #le09
• Trevor Finneran son of Minister Michael Finneran has lost his seat in the Athlone
(Roscommon) Electoral Area, John Keogh & Paddy Kilduff both FF have been elected that
concludes the count for south Roscommon. #le09
by Roscommon LE09
• RTE are a bit like FF...they don't get it...out of step with the people a bit with their patchy
coverage
by PatrickSaint
• FG’s Seamus Cosai and Brendan Griffin, Michael D. O’Shea, FF, and Robert Beasley, SF,
have been elected onto Kerry County Council
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• Trevor Finneran son of Minister Michael Finneran has lost his seat in the athlone electoral
area.
by Roscommon LE09
• Newstalk and the Live Blog now the only player in town again. RTE TV off air and the
kerry game on the radio.
• Pat Leahy described this as "political revolution". From what, FF to FG-Lab? Hardly
revolution. #le09
by lennyantonelli via twitter
• From Roscommon Local Election blogger on www.irishelection.com "Sen: Terry Leyden on
Shannonside FM has said, "Tuesdays FF party meeting will be an inquest on the elections",
he also said that he will stand by Taoiseach Brian Cowan all the way as he is the best man to
run the country."
• [object String]
by Simon McGarr at 6/7/2009 1:42:17 PM2:42 PM yesterday
• RTE coverage ending now. John Bowman says this is a tsunami hitting FF and a triumph for
FG.
by EmilyAM
• Maurice Ahern and team posing for photogs.. The pretend looking at tallies
• O Shea (ff), Cosai and Griffin (fg) deemed elected in Dingle area
by dinglenews via twitter at 6/7/2009 1:39:43 PM2:39 PM yesterday
• There goes the Artane Whitehall posse
• New blog post: First candidates arrive at Neptune bit.ly
• People are gathering around the podium here. An announcement is coming!
• i heard a few chastened FF stalwarts on ClareFM moaning about lack of understanding by
electorate and poor communication by HQ...god help us...
by PatrickSaint
• Sen: Terry Leyden on Shannonside FM has said, "Tuesdays FF party meeting will be an
inquest on the elections" LE09
by Roscommon LE09
• Trolley full of Childers votes just overturned. Decided not to demand a full recount yet. ;-)
#le09
• RT @juanbehrend: 1st prognosis Austria: Soc 24%; Conserv 30,6;%; HPMartin 18,1%;
GREENS 9,1%; Freedom Party; 12,7%; BZÖ 4,5% #ep09
• RT RTE1 (TV) 10 mins ago "Fianna Fail have take a battering in Sligo due to the 'Save
Sligos Cancer Services Campaign" WELL DONE EVERYBODY
by not_JimmyDevins via twitter
• Lenihan saying on RTE that Cowen wants to be a chairman & not a chief...we need a chief
& leader in this country #le09
• Speaking of cabals on RTE reminds me to ask, "Where is Mary Coughlan?". Has anyone
heard her speak her jewels of down-home wisdom? #le09
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• a friends fb status reads: "The Greens are the new PDs". couldnt agree more! #le09
• Jubilant scenes follow Rose Conway-Walsh's election as she joins McNamara, Coyle and
Holmes in the Council for Belmullet #elections
• Now Lenihan - and Dempsey earlier - is attributing their problems in part to poor
communications. Another one from the spin doctors? #le09
• Artane Whitehall recount announcement. Candidates and agent are being invited to talk
about adjudications on changes in the last recount . Candidates invited - Flanagan / Rock /
Carmichael / Mahon.
by Alexia Golez edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 1:32:27 PM2:32 PM yesterday
• Lenihan accepts that party have not communicated reality of economy effectively
• Brian Lenihan says party will have to reflect on candidate selection process after election
• No tally going on in South so no point in heading to neptune till later. Id say first count
result will be in ar about 10pm. #le09
• FF’s Jimmy Maloney, and FG’s Eugene Lavin and Joe Mellett have retained their seats on
Mayo County Council
• I see Election 2009 on RTE will be followed by "Carry On Cabbie". From the ridiculous to
the sublime, perhaps? ;-) #le09
• Labour should hold seat in East Clare, scrum for last seat
by PatrickSaint
• KK CoCo - Piltown - 1 Lab, 1 FG. 4 more seats to be decided. On 4th count, very slow!
#le09
• KK CoCo - Kilkenny - No additional candidates are elected on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th
counts. Only FF McGuinnes in so far #le09
• Gossip around that Mary Lou is doing better than Eoin Ryan on transfers, but is neck and
neck with Joe Higgins. SFers don't see this as good though, as Higgins could very well pip
her on transfers later.
by Alexia Golez edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 1:29:20 PM2:29 PM yesterday
• Noel Whelan suggesting on RTE that Eoin Ryan won't make it back to Europe. #le09
• Noel Whelan points to interview process and the problem that it caused to FF organisation as
supporters who did not get selected did not come out to support the party on canvass.
by Suzy Byrne edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 1:27:47 PM2:27 PM yesterday
• Killorglin LEA:5 seats: 2FG, 2 FF and 1 Healy Rae #le09
by DiarmaidONeill via twitter
• KK CoCo - Callan -B. Ireland FG, P. Crowley Ind, M. Doran FF, T. Maher FG elected, all
seats filled. #le09
• According to Shane Coleman on RTE - 20 out of 27 LEA's in Dublin - A left candidate
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topped the poll
• -Local elections: FF’s Micheál McNamara, Michael Holmes IND, FG’s Gerry Coyle, and
Rose Conway-Walsh for SF elected to Mayo County Council
• Excellent vote management by FG in Clare. 12 seats on 34.2% of vote while FF have 9 seats
on 35.5% of vote. 4 seats left to fill #le09
• Object 15

• @suzybie i thought only parties could nominate to seats. We had an independent die here
and it went to next on the ballot
qik.com
qik.com
• posters posters posters wet warped flapping posters, need to come down and be stored for
the General Election in 3 months :) #LE09
• 3:08 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthThe intensity on the floor is unreal! The eagle-eye
supporters watching the count should be ammen..
• The Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan has said the Govt will have to reflect on the
candidate selection process after this result
• @lexia i know the feeling I was taking video of reaction to poll toppers declarations, photo
guys wanted be out of the way, share lads #LE09
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• Object 16

• Chief Whip Pat Carey says they'll face down the no-confidence motion next week...all guns
are loaded, high noon theatre again
by PatrickSaint
• Trevor Finneran "Im disappointed but I wish Paddy & John all the best, I dont know whwre
by Roscommon LE09
• Cheerio, Green Party, the Irish language of Irish politics.
by twentymajor
• My predictions for Glenties LEA: O'Domhnaill (Ind-FF); Gallagher (SF); Slowey (FG);
Doherty (Ind-FG); Alcorn (FF) #LE09
• RTE have perferomed notably badly this election. This afternoon they continued to rely on
their exit poll, a full 24 hours after tally information had become available.
qik.com
by lexia via twitter edited by Christine Bohan at 6/7/2009 2:10:03 PM3:10 PM yesterday
• RT @RTE_Elections: Govt Chief Whip Pat Carey has said the Green party has affirmed its
commitments to Govt with FF - but for how long???
• "Communication" is always the solution trotted out after a defeat like this. To say anything
else would be an admission that the voters just aren't that into you.
• Govt Chief Whip Pat Carey has said the Green party has affirmed its commitments to Govt
with FF
• Uses*
• Séan Haughey used an old Sony Wricsson. It all makes sense now.
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• Hannifin in beige yfrog.com
• I swear to god, if I get trampled on one more time or get told to get out of the way..
• Trevor Finneran & Michael now been interviewed on shannonside radio listen live
www.shannonside.ie#le09
by Roscommon LE09
• New blog post: Final results for Cork County Council in local elections corkpolitics.ie
• FF’s Paddy Bracken and FG’s David Goodwin have retained their seats on Laois County
Council after the seventh count in the Mountmellick area
• Fine Gael strategy across Donegal a disaster. Party HQ imposed its will on the local
membership, results not great across Donegal. #le09
• FF Chief Whip Pat Carey communication comment translates to: We ran out of spin
by PatrickSaint
• 14 of the 34 councils have filled all their seats. On those 14, FF have lost 32 seats, while FG
and Labour have both gained 17
• Newstalk back at 8pm with Hook, that is the end of their coverage #le09
• Chief Whip Pat Carey says the strengths and weaknesses of how Govt policies are being
communicated need to be examined
qik.com
• While we wait ... France euro turnout at 15% at midday. Low turnout would help Libertas
allied MPF (de Villiers) tinyurl.com
by P O'Neill
• Thanks, Suzy. Come on, Joe.
by twentymajor
• Mary Hannifin is here!
qik.com
• @TwentyMajor - In Dublin? Too close to call between McDonald and Higgins - Ryan being
discounted by many pundits at moment and from reports from sporadic tally in RDS. Alexia
may know more shortly. She's embedded with SF (Sharing electricity!)
• Photo op yfrog.com
• Of the 14 Councils which now have all seats filled, FG and Labour have gained 17 seats
each
• Who's likely to get the 3rd European seat?
by twentymajor
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qik.com
• Cllr Paddy Kilduff FF who gain seat at the loss of Trevor Finneran confirms on Shannonside
Radio that he was asked by Fianna Fail HQ in Dublin to step aside for this election and not
to run.#le09
by Roscommon LE09
qik.com
• @cianflah South will have first count around 10pm id say
• Joe Higgins gets highest vote in Fingal beating Peter Coyle (Lab) by 6. #LE09
• They should swap the #gaa panelists and the #le09 analysts....just for the craic.
• people with hearts and brains round the country rejoice at election results, until they
remember FGs belief system #le09
• Thread entitled 'How did the Blacks do?' on politics.ie has been renamed 'How did the
foreign-born candidates do?'. Concerned lulz.
by Christine Bohan at 6/7/2009 2:46:41 PM3:46 PM yesterday
• @aoifeac - Maurice is still in - and hopeful - Alexia is keeping an eye on the count there.
• via @dkellyj "RTE’s ‘celebrity’ candidate former economics correspondent George Lee,
takes Belfast South with ease" is.gd #le09
• TV3 reporter totty looks all the same. Clones?
• I'm so relieved Mary Hannafin isn't worried about next week vote of no confidence!
by PatrickSaint
• Malcolm Noonan in Kilkenny has become the third Green Party councillor to be elected
• Any update on Maurice Ahern yet? Has he been eliminated?
by aoifac
• Many thanks to P O'Neill for the Meath Count Coverage - Also to our various contributors
for coverage of the other sport this weekend - Kerry vs. Cork in Fitzgerald Stadium!
• Minister Hanafin has said the abinet has full confidence in the Taoiseach and she isn't
worried about the vote of no confidence in the Govt
by RTE_Elections via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 2:43:03 PM3:43 PM yesterday
• Meath CC Trim electoral area. Seamus Murray (FF) who had Noel Dempsey's old council
seat eliminated. Seat likely to be picked up by Labour.c
by P O'Neill edited by Suzy Byrne
• RT @lexia: Epic.. Simons wants to shake hands with DeRossa. He refuses. Missed the fight.
#le09
• @BrianGreene Fuck 'em. I'm only small ;)
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• Kerry 0-13, Cork 1-10, draw in Munster SFC at Fitzgerad Stadium Killarney
• Counters for Artan Whitehall are destroyed. Zzzzz yfrog.com
• 74 mins Sheehan keeps his nerve at the other end to point a free and ensure the game ends
all square after an absorbing contest. 0-13 1-10
• Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin says the results of the elections do not
show that the people want a change of Govt
• SF has thanked everyone in the South Dublin County Council area who voted and elected
three councillors for the party
• FG Pat O'Neill first person elected in Thomastown LEA of KK CoCo #le09 Six candidates
left for 3 seats
• kerry have injury time free to draw game ...
by PJ Coogan
• a draw in killarney..
by PJ Coogan
• Epic.. Simons wants to shake hands with DeRossa. He refuses. Missed the fight.
• Meath CC Trim Area Quota 1960. 3rd Count Carey (fg) 1799, fegan (ff) 2472, golden (ind)
1494, mcelhinney (lab) 1679. Fegan FF elected
by P O'Neill
• Object 17

• 72 mins Declan O'Sullivan put the ball behind for a Cork 45, and Colm O'Neill holds his
nerve to point 0-12 1-10 Cork lead
• FG’s Ollie Moore, Ind Jimmy Kenny, and FF’s John Keogh and Paddy Kilduff have been
elected to Roscommon County Council
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qik.com
• Cooper holds off two Cork defenders and point at a critical time and pull Kerry level for the
first time since the tenth minute. 0-12 1-09
• Any count from South Galway?
by PatrickSaint
• FG Pat O'Neill first person elected in Thomastown LEA of KK CoCo #le09 Six candidates
left for 3 seats
• Object 18

qik.com
• Pat Hayes (elected) FF Clare says FFHQ got it wrong...deposed FF Tony O'Brien moaning +
chocking up on Clare FM
by PatrickSaint
• Kerry 0-11 Cork 1-09 64 mins It's back to one point as Sheehan adds another well taken free
to his tally, this time from the left.
• Tallies for Euros all over the shop. The tallies are not being done properly
• I suppose if you use public transport, have kids in school or are a public servant the time to
kick Green-A-Fáil was Friday. #LE09
• I spell Hanafin wrong every fucking time
• Pat Carey walks with Hannifin. They see the coffee shop. She says Hallelujah. I shit you not.
• Mary Hanafin, Minister for Social Welfare press gaggle in RDS - thanks to @lexia bit.ly
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#le09
• Cathal Crowe FF, Michael Begley Ind + elected in East Clare. Tony O'Brien FF is out
by PatrickSaint
• Fortune Lab elected on 5th County Greystones area WCC, now distributing his surplus of
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• @suzybie ohh i know no bye-elections but that didnt happen in cork as there is no party.
• Counts for Clare EAs completed. Kilrush Killaloe Shannon #le09 bit.ly Nationally FG247
FF145 Lab114 Ind97 SF38 GP2
• RT @juanbehrend: Germany first trends: CDU 36-39, SPD 24-26 Greens 11-12, FDP 10-
11, Left 7-8. Greens 3rd's! #ep09
• Is there any place on the web to look up detailed count information for the locals yet. RTÉ
doesn't have it and electionsireland.org hasn't been updated
by dfg
• Well, it is a European election, after all. The vast majority of candidates are alligned to
Europe-wide groupings
• greens or no greens the way forward is renewable energy and green technology, we all need
to get behind campaigns such as the Spirit of Ireland
by Sinead O'Kelly
• O I thought I read in the news that they had results. My mistake. But we're all voting for
different candidates so how would the Irish results affect the other countries.
by sazzybm
• Cabra Glasnevin recount starts!
• Paddy Belton FG, Mick Cahill FF, Mark Casey IND, Sean Farrell FG, and Barney Steele FF
elected to Longford County Council
• It was the Netherlands who released their results and the election/count has been suspended
there while under review by the EU for breaking the clearly set out rules.
by aoifac
• Caroline Lynch SF, Eoghan Farrell IND, Ray Butler FG, and Jimmy Fegan FF have taken
the four Trim seats on Meath County Council
qik.com
• polls close in France and Germany at 22.00 CET no announcement of results until all polls
shut.
• Is Maurice hanging around for the count or heading to Croker, cos the Dublin match is
starting? #LE09
• @sazzybm Denmark is still voting as far as I know. The 9pm embargo is because that is
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when the last votes are being cast. It doesn't do to announce results while the election is still
happening.
by Fergal Crehan edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 3:07:47 PM4:07 PM yesterday
qik.com
• Wonder if the impressive www.irishelection.com will be next year's Best Political Blog in
Irish Blog Awards #euni #LE09
by alaninbelfast via twitter
• Well At least you have access to a computer/internet. Yesterday I was at the count in Mallow
and had no contact with the outside world for the whole night. We were relying on the
newcomers for info!!! Ha ha!
by sazzybm
• is that the rules? I think thats silly. Denmark already have their results out.
by sazzybm
• @lexia The world is still turning :)
by aoifac
• Live Donegal coverage as Gaeilge on RnaG...hopefully they'll bring in other centers
by PatrickSaint
• Mark posts on the long running Ahern council seat count url.ie and Lexia is Qikking like
mad qik.com #LE09
• Oh sweet Jesus. Adjudication for Artane Whitehall is recommencing. Candidates and their
agents have been called again.
• No counts are to be announced until 9, and I understand there is no tally in South, so I would
be very surprised to hear concessions from any candidates this early
• Green leader John Gormley says his party plans to stay in coalition with Fianna Fáil, despite
their wipeout in the local elections
• The great thing about being at a count is its immersive nature. It's also the biggest drawback.
I have no clue what's happening outside.
• :sassybm - count not permitted to be announced until 9pm
• Does that mean there might be a 1st count in the South soon
by sazzybm
• Just posted on @Irishelection off to get food. Haven't eaten properly since Friday. 1.50 for a
pack of crisps in the RDS! #le09
• @Stephen Spillane that would be great news. Colm Burke?
by aoifac
• New blog post: Ireland East turnout - sorry, no tallies #le09 faduda.ie
• 1st count will be announced at about 9pm. Count will be finished by 7. #le09
• @SimonHaden ..... there are of course differences between FF & FG but not for arguing it
out here main thing to point out is thatt the Greens do not need to be, and shouldn't be, in
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Govt. They are as bad as the PDs in accepting they are just numbers to FF and do not have
any say.
by aoifac
• I dont think FF and FG are the same. maybe if you go back 50 years. FG want to put the
country right, FF are hell bent on running it into the ground. FF are old fashioned and
backwards. FG have young bright candidates,with great new ideas and people who actually
know what they are talking about!!!
by sazzybm
• Many thanks to D4 Hotels for the great Blogger HQ yesterday - image below is of Cian and
Myself and jellies, coffee and laptops which kept us going.
• KK CoCo - Kilkenny - FG Martin Brett and Green Malcom Noonan elected on 6th count.
O'Hargin Lab and Kavanagh Ind eliminated #le09
• New blog post: Ireland East turnout - sorry, no tallies #le09 faduda.ie
•
• The division of seats across the country stands at: FF 149, FG 252, Lab 115, Greens 3, SF
42, and Others 99
• Meath CC Trim Area sees great showing by Tracey McElhinney (Lab), seems to have rebuilt
old Labour support. FG and Lab both benefit from FF weakness and independent vote not
buoyant outside Trim town.
by P O'Neill
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) third count - two FG candidates elected #le09 faduda.ie
• there is no difference between FG & FF so I dont know what everyone is getting so excited
about. If the Greens are to be in Govt. it has to be one of these so there is no point pulling
out now.
by SimonHaden
• Adjudications have ended for Artane Whitehall
• Pat O'Neill and Martin Brett for Fine Gael have both been elected to Kilkenny County
Council
• KK CoCo - Kilkenny - FG Martin Brett and Green Malcom Noonan elected on 6th count.
O'Hargin Lab and Kavanagh Ind eliminated #le09
• Jerry Lundy FF and Michael Fleming FG have been elected to Sligo County Council
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) second count #le09 faduda.ie
• Any news from tipp north yet? wasnt there counting starting there at 2?
by sazzybm
• bookmaker Paddy Power slashed the odds on a FG/Labour coalition forming the next
Government from 4/7 to 1/2. Spokeperson said: "We’ve cut the odds on a FG/Lab coalition
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and Enda Kenny being the next Taoiseach who clearly think there’ll be big changes - and
soon."
by PatrickSaint
• @Fergal he'll set up his own continent using Kryptonite, flood Europe and make a killing on
property values.
by AllanCavanagh via twitter at 6/7/2009 3:35:34 PM4:35 PM yesterday
• @cianflah s 125 Electoral Act 92 allows certain recount requests at end of any single
count.Surely impossible to proceed w/o notice #le09
by macsithigh via twitter
• In south Tipp, Fianna Fáil has dropped from 10 seats on the council to six
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) fourth count MacNamara (Lab) elected #le09 faduda.ie
• In Wexford and Waterford, Fianna Fáil has been reduced to 5 seats on each county council,
with gains for FG and SF
• @Fergal He'll split his time between stalking the EU even though he didn't get a mandate
and he'll go back to making money through dodgy work process/war/guns and god knows
what else.
by aoifac
• Pat the Cope sounding a bit shakey on Radio na G...he'll need Paschal Mooney's
transfers...he hopes to scrape in with Harkins and Higgins
by PatrickSaint
• @cianflah yea, but a long fecking night and another day for me!
• I think Sketchy is the operative word there
by sazzybm
• <JUST IN> Drogheda Borough Council >Frank Gallagher< Socialist Party ELECTED
• Greens doomed if pull plug, FF doomed if enter GE with Cowen. FF usually need longer
between heaves. (Very Stale)mate? #le09
• Borough Council in Kilkenny looks like 3 FF, 2 FG, 1 Lab and 1 Green at the moment #le09
by kenmcguire via twitter
• @Fergal Probably both, judging by what I'm hearing from Castlebar! #le09
• If ganley loses, will he dispute the result and just turn up in Brussels every day? Or will he
set up his own Parliament instead?#le09
• @cianflah sorry! but its what im hearing!
• Candidates clash over accuracy of 'sketchy' tallies in North West short.ie #le09
• I'll tell you one thing I didnt think waiting around could be so tiring!!!!
by sazzybm
• The term 'Green Shoots' is taking on a whole new meaning...
by PatrickSaint
• Hearing from RDS authorities want to count and eliminate and get to result without telling
candidates. Objections being lodged. #LE09
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• Blogwatch: Kilcullen Diary keeps an eye to local counts in Kildare
kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com
• well said sinead wind, wave , solar and geothermal power are the future and Ireland can be
one on the lending nations in these new industries but it takes all parties making this a
priority
by Colm O'Rourke
• @Spiller2 dont tel me things like that! ITs tiring work this waiting!
• @cianflah we arent expecting a more then one MEP elected tonight in south. Counting
expected to go on till tomorrow. #le09
• Exit polls suggest a poor turnout across the EU which could favour extremist parties, though
it would not upset the balance in the assembly
• Greens take only third seat as Malcolm Noonan elected in Kilkenny #le09
• Dublin 0-3 Meath 0-3 after 15 minutes...
• @sazzybm Local counts could drag on until tomrrow if recounts take ages. Midnight before
final MEP makeup is known
• i met my old school teacher Roddy Doyle at the count y'day. He is writing a serial about an
African FF candidate url.ie #LE09
• Limerick County Council Party Trends 99 to 09 with 4 of 5 areas with 1st counts declared
available bit.ly #le09
• old lady needs a sit down.. Ahern is more concerned with watching the GAA than the
recount!
• My brain is mush. sorry.
by sazzybm
• Limerick County Council Party Trends 99 to 09 with 4 of 5 areas with 1st counts declared
available bit.ly #le09
• Its a long auld wait. Im tired. should be nearing the end of the locals counts surely!!!
by sazzybm
• @sazzybm Not just libertas. All major parties are members of pan-European groups
qik.com
• KK CoCo so far...6 FG, 2 FF, 2 Lab, 1 Grn, 1 Ind. 14 left to fill #le09
• @RedDave14 its all about geography. Sinnott & ned could transfer well to Burke keeping
him ahead of ferris #le09
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• i met my old school teacher Roddy Doyle at the count y'day. He is writing a serial about an
African FF candidate url.ie #LE09
• you mean like Libertas. I suppose if people saw they getting a hammering in other countries
they might not vote for em.
by sazzybm
• sorry that should be DO NOT VOTE...
by aoifac
• 3:56 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthCounting officials are currently going through Brian
Lawlor's votes. Had a word with John Hannon (..
• @sazzybm So that other countries to do vote based on other countries results as far as I
know. Just the way it applies in local and general elections, just wider as it is European.
Fairness for all etc.
by aoifac edited by Fergal Crehan
• The RTE twitter item for Trim is confusing the Trim town and county council results.
by P O'Neill
• CSU = Christian Democrats in Bavaria
by Tim Buktu
• Kinda hungry. But I shall not waste any more money here!
• 5:07 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght South update No news yet on recount, still a fair few
people watching the count with bated breathe.
Ev..
• Thanks. Do ye think Burke could get the last seat?
by sazzybm
• What is CSU again? so many abreviations!!! I cant remember them all!
by sazzybm
• New blog post: European election coverage corkpolitics.ie
• #LE09 Local election update just before 5pm FF (157), FG (264), Lab (118), GP (3), SF (44)
and OTH (102) - more at www.RTE.ie/elections
• Radio coverage on newstalk at 8pm and RTE Radio 1 at 9pm. TV3 news is at 5.30pm and of
course RTE have Six-One news.
• RT @Campaign_Watch: Fine Gael take 12 seats in Clare to be largest party for first time in
council's 81 year history #le09 - wooooooooo! :)
• he introduced himself yesterday and it was okay, and now today he did the very same!
• @Tupp_Ed im told Crowley, S.Kelly, through on 2nd and 3rd counts roughly. Burke and
Ferris fighting out for last seat. No tally. #le09
• Sociopathic FFer keeps talking to me. PFO
• New blog post: The Euro South count continues bit.ly
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• so there is no more election coverage on telly til 9:30, right? is there any good coverage on
the radio?
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Seosamh Ó Cuaig (Ind), Tomás Ó Curraoin (Ind) and Séamus Walsh (FF) all elected
to Galway County Council
• Greens can't pull out they need to inflict water/property/carbon taxes & 4bn more cuts in the
budget before they go the way of the PDs #LE09
• RT @stefanhapper: Erste Prognose aus Deutschland: CDU 31,0%, CSU 7,5%, SPD 21,0%,
Grüne 11,5%, FDP 11,0%, Linke 7,5% #eu09
• CSU are on 6.5% in Germany from prelimary polling according to @teamdeutschland
• #LE09 Left out that David Naughton is FG and Kevin Sheahan is FF in that last tweet!
• #LE09 Stephen Keary (FG), David Naughton, and Kevin Sheahan all elected to Limerick
County Council on the fourth count - Rathkeale completed
• #LE09 Hughie McGrath (Ind), Séamus Mosrris (SF) and Virginia O'Dowd (Lab) all elected
in Tipp North on the ninth count
• New blog post: Kildare (Athy town council) summary to date #le09 faduda.ie
• WCC Bray Count 6, Meaney FF eliminated and his 544 being distributed
• #LE09 Molly Buckley (FG) has been elected to Offaly County Council in the Tullamore
electoral area
• It looks like a long night ahead for the recounts in Ballina and Castlebar. We'll keep you
posted regardless. #elections
• #LE09 Brigid Teefy (Ind) has been elected to Limerick County Council on the sixth count
• #LE09 Aidan Murray (FG) and PJ O'Hanlon (FF) have both been elected to Monaghan
County Coucil in the Carrickmacross electoral area
• I see @RTE_Elections are finally tagging tweets with #le09 - welcome to the party!
• -Minister Brian Lenihan has told RTÉ it would be catastrophic for Ireland to bring forward
the general election from 2012 because it would disrupt the country's economic recovery
programme. It would be catastrophic alright — for FF anyway.
by PatrickSaint
• #LE09 for more detailed local elections results take a look at www.RTÉ.ie/elections
• #LE09 Austin Francis O'Malley (FG) has taken the last seat for the Westport area of Mayo
County Council
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• Seat numbers: FG 264, FF 157, Lab 118, OTH 102, SF 44, GP 3 #le09
• is there any word on the No of spoiled votes yet. RTE reported that there were loads in the
South. What about the other constituencies?
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Labour's Tracy McElhinney has been elected to Meath County Council in the Trim
election area on the fifth count
• @cianflah in Fingal y'day there were full checks before 1st pref announcements not called
re-counts, there were issues re Euro split #LE09
• Ganley not to get elected, via @TheEmergency: Gallagher, Higgins and Harkin to get
elected is.gd
• WCC Greystones Count 7, Roche FF transfers 44% to Kelleher FF, Maloney Ind eliminated
and 895 being distributed
• WCC Greystones Count 6, Roche FF eliminated, her 803 now being distributed
• SF camp in RDS deny hearing anything about counts in Euros proceeding without
Candidates being told results #le09
• correction 11 points to 5 at half time
by sazzybm
• @cianflah s 125 Electoral Act 92 allows certain recount requests at end of any single
count.Surely impossible to proceed w/o notice #le09
by macsithigh via twitter
• @macsithigh well at the moment its only what I am hearing hoping to confim soon and Ill
bow to your legal knowledge! #LE09
• looking at a pic of mo ahern clutching his unused GAA tickets in his football top, as he
watches the recount. #le09
by keithbelfast via twitter
• Dublin 0-10 Meath 0-5 for those of you who care
by sazzybm
• Sinn Fein camp in RDS deny hearing anything about counts in Euro Constituency
proceeding without Candidates being told results - 'Democracy Rocks Man' was the
response given.
• #LE09 Fine Gael’s John Egan, Mary Harty and Michael Sheahan all elected to Limerick
County Council
• Signficant correction from tv3 to figs for Dublin - joe higgins on 50k *leads* Mary lou mcd
on 48k #le09
• No figures on First preferences for De Burca or McKenna
• Eibhlin Byrne polled well at 19,000 votes - she may be saving Private Ryan - still looking
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for info on McKenna and De Burca's FPV #le09
• #LE09 FG candidates George Jones and Derek Mitchell have been elected to Wicklow
County Council
• #LE09 Paddy MacNamara (Lab) and Seamie Moore (IND) have been elected to Kildare
County Council in the Naas electoral area
• RT @TheEmergency: De rossa & Mitchell on 90k Ryan on 55k, mary lou 50k higgins 48k
#le09
• on behalf of @votejoehiggins thanks to Don Baker & Dermot Byrne 4music a cast of 100's
non party that helped in the Joe Higgins campaign.
• are they not allowed to tell anyone what the 1st count is?
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Ben Brennan (IND) and Padraig Fleming (FF) have been elected to Laois County
Council after the first Luggacurren count
• TV3 saying Eoin on 55k 1st pref votes, Mary-Lou on 50k and Higgins on 48k on first count
#le09
• First count Results have been given to candidates in Dublin
• FG’s Jim Higgins said he is confident of retaining his seat and predicts seats for Pat the
Cope Gallagher (FF) and Marian Harkin (IND)
• News coming from RDS related to conduct of count. Confirming sources at moment.
• @Suzy Ganley has a bank of psychic tallymen! Excellent. Do they specialise in cruel and
unusual terror?
• I'm off for a walk and some food. Back in a bit.
• Declan Ganley says his tallymen know more than anyone elses
• @lexia i've been asked to go so I might poster 7-9 and pop over. 9pm 1st Count or the
winners? anyone?
• Jim Higgins saying that Ganley getting very few transfers
• On now: RTE 1- Hyacinth f*cking Bucket Tv3 -election special. Public service broadcasting
my arse. Well done 3 #le09
• #LE09 Hughie McGrath (Ind), Séamus Mosrris (SF) and Virginia O'Dowd (Lab) all elected
in Tipp North on the ninth count
• Sean Kelly FG was at Cork vs Kerry Match - will now proceed to count #le09
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• TV3 news 'election special' is only all of 30 minutes and no Vincent Browne... (yet) #le09
• Flares on the Hill - Dublin beat Meath by 2 points.
• Chatting to a very, very old voter and political hawk. After niceties, I ask him who he voted
for. "Libertas", he replied. "Why?" "I know Simons' mother". How very honest. He, of
course, wants Ganley to do well. He'll get things done. Apparently.
• Outgoing FF East MEP Liam Aylward has said he will hold onto his seat when the votes of
FF's Thomas Byrne are transferred later this evening
• This is exciting now. If Ganley and Mary Lou get shafted this will make my weekend #le09
by twentymajor via twitter
• The place to watch results come in across europe www.elections2009-results.eu (via
@zenlaura)
• #LE09 Ray Cribbin (FF), James Deegan (FG), Paul Mitchell (IND), and Tom Mulhall (FG)
have been elected to Laois County Council
• The more exciting thing happening in the RDS at the minute is the GAA. Bringing people
from all sides together. :) Forget about democracy. Football cures all ills! And it's on a tiny
telly!
• New blog post: Kenny to call for Dáil vote of "no confidence" in government corkpolitics.ie
• @BrianGreene You coming down to the RDS?
• Lowry Team candidates take four seats, doubling representation on North Tipperary County
Council #le09
• @Mark_Coughlan It will be M. Ahern if he loses his
• Very positive vibe - got a call from the RDS the tx's are good, and the FPVs for Joe Higgins
are great. can't say more #LE09 :)
• The biggest name Fianna Fáiler to lose a seat? #le09
• Tallies show Harkin, Higgins and Gallagher winning seats in North West #le09
• twitpic.com - #le09 1 of only 2 election posters remaining in the village is Green party. What
irony.
by psneeze via twitter
• @spiller2 Wow, that would be one for the books. I'm shocked that A Kelly isn't in with a
better chance, he was a good candidate. #le09
• Anyone heard Ganley cheekily suggest a re-run of the election yet? #le09
• @sazzybm Fine Gael
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• thanks. what irish party would they be the equivalent of?
by sazzybm
• Blogwatch: Twenty Major twentymajor.net
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) fifth count #le09 faduda.ie
• North-West candidate Marian Harkin (Ind) has said she is very hopeful that she will keep
her seat
• A sub-plot to the count is that, arguably, we shouldn't really be counting at all. EU law
forbids announcements until after 9pm, but our own electoral law and tradition requires us to
tell candidates of their figures, in order for them to seek recounts, etc. I have my doubts as to
whether the fudge of "unofficially" announcing figures gets us off the hook under EU rules.
The sensible thing to do would have been not to even start counting until 9pm. But then
everyone just wants to get this over with.
• Just realised that I misread the FPV figures (or were they edited?) and that Higgins is on 50k
to McDonald's 48k. He'll stretch that lead over the next two counts and should be safely
ahead of McDonald after Byrne is eliminated. He will take McDonalds transfers and jump
ahead of Ryan to take the third seat.
• Heartattack time yfr, not the other way aroundog.com
by lexia via twitter edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 5:25:23 PM6:25 PM yesterday
• thanks... very frustrating up here awaiting news. glad something like this is available to keep
up to date
by philomenaf
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) final results: 2 FG, 1 Lab, 1 Ind, 1 FF #le09 faduda.ie
• @philomenaf it's all too close to call at moment - we'll bring news as we get it.
• does it look likely that mary lou is out of the running? #le09
by philomenaf
• Gay Mitchell looks like topping the poll in Dublin according to rte
by sazzybm
• local results very slow out of Roscommon? #le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Naas) 7th count Callaghan (FF) elected #le09 faduda.ie
• @aoifecarroll Ahern was elected over the Sinn Féin candidate and the other FFer
• Outgoing FF MEP Eoin Ryan has said he is still in with a chance for a seat and is likely to
get a significant transfer from Eibhlin Byrne
• Re-count underway in the Castlerea electoral area Roscommon.#le09
by Roscommon LE09
• @suzybie who lost out in Cabra?
• Adrian Farrell FG from Lanesboro Co Longford has lost his seat in the Ballymahon electoral
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by Roscommon LE09
• Prime Time's Mark Little has a blog with really good analysis of the RTÉ exit poll and the
election results tinyurl.com
• Am interesting possibility re Dublin. Joe Higgins will do better on transfers from McKenna
and De Burca and will likely be ahead of McDonald when it comes time to eliminate Byrne.
But where do Byrne's transfers go? 10-12k are expected to go to Ryan. But will the
remainder make the difference into whether Higgins or McDonald is in fourth place? It's
hard to know where Fianna Fail transfers would travel, except to other FF candidates.
• 8,000 spoilt votes in East
• Early dublin numbers are in with tally estimates of transfer at url.ie #LE09
by irishelection via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 5:16:23 PM6:16 PM yesterday
• All 12 candidates have now been elected to the Kilkenny 2009 Borough Council. They are
represented by 4 FF, 4 FG, 1 SF. 1 Green #le09
• Obviously a few Cantona fans voted for him!! Not mentioned anywhere else yet but was
mentioned for one second on RTE news.
by aoifac
• 5:39 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght South update Still here....told first preferences for Tallaght
South recount will be announced before s..
• Totals and tally estimates from Dublin on www.irishelection.com numerate watchers might
help to crunch the elimination of De Burca and McKenna (mckenna elimination processing
now)
• how did ahern manage to hold on??? Unreal!!! I think there are still 168 seats left to fill
by sazzybm
• think Dublin 3rd seat will be an interesting excercise in transferable vote PR. It will all be
about whose 2nd Prefs transfer first #le09
by demosuzki via twitter
• right gone! laters
• Looks like we will have 3 results at 9pm. Dub, East and South all going well. #le09
• Potential spoils being adjudicated on at the Ireland East count. First count to be announced
in 3 hours. #le09
• waiting for cab to count centre! Will be txting results so cant @ or dm me sorry. #le09
• #LE09 Pat Millea (FF) has been elected to Kilkenny County Council in the Ballyragget
electoral area
• @suzybie Damn. Missed it!
• SF wins 7 of 20 seats on Monaghan County Council. FG takes 6, FF wins 5 and
Independents take 2 #le09
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• Maurice Ahern holds council seat - Elected on last count Cabra/Glasnevin #le09
• Thanks @AoifaC
• Didn't see it mentioned already, Ahern got in on the last count.
by aoifac
• #LE09 Niall O’Brolcháin (Greens) has said he thinks it's clear that Green voters have great
difficulty with the party being in Govt with FF
• Dublin Euro Count - Liveblog sources confirm that Sweeney and Simons have been
eliminated - count ifAs proceeding but not being officially announced. Some candidates are
very unhappy about this.
by Suzy Byrne edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 5:05:24 PM6:05 PM yesterday
• Dublin European Count First Count approx figures from TV3 - Quota is 101,000 - De Rossa
on 95, 000, Mitchell on 95,000, Ryan on 55,000 MaryLou McDonald on 48,000 joe higgins
on 50,000, byrne on 19,000
• McKenna now eliminatede
• @Cian Concerns from some that the manner in which count is proceeding without
transparency of eliminations is as bad as e-voting debacle.
• Ryan will get 10-12k from Byrne TAlly has: Higgins getting 11.8 from McKenna and 8.9
from De Burca M Lou getting 9.8 from McKenna and 5.7% from De Burca. RYan gets 8%
from De Burca and 4% from McKenna. Aim of game for Higgns / M Lou is stay in ahead of
the other and overtake Ryan on the eliminees transfers.
• no news on South yet???
by sazzybm
• elimination of simons should bump MCDonald over higgins but elim of McKenna and De
Burca are vital to keep higgins or mcdonald ahead of each other
• Eibhlin Byrne polled well at 19,000 votes - she may be saving Private Ryan - still looking
for info on McKenna and De Burca's FPV #le09
• @suzybie boom boom!
• 7:09 : Basketball Arena: General update Nothing more to report as of yet....if Warren not
happy can ask for re-check but not another re-c..
• Ireland East update: 1st count complete, but no announcement until 9. 2nd count not started.
Cowen & Gilmore both due soon. #le09
• Slow moving in the Ballina count. One Loftus vote ruled as spoiled then likewise for one of
Ginty's. #elections
• Following this in New York. Thanks everyone for great updates. Am I right in thinking there
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is a left(ish) majority on Dublin City Council now? Lab + SF + PBP + SP?
by scow
• btw its annoying how irishelections title banner doesn't click to the home page
by lostexpectation
• Wow. @labour now has two seats on Donegal County Council! Well done Cllr McBrearty &
Cllr Carbin. #le09
• #LE09 Peggy Nolan (FG) and Padraig Loughrey (FF) elected to Longford County Council
• @waterfire - thanks! and I can confirm John was the first councillor elected to Leitrim Co.
Council for the Labour Party - he was elected last night
• Thnks again guys. This is like totally riveting. In belfast but i feel like i'm in de rds. Go Joe!
He's gotta win on basis on McD's transfers. Anyone with news of Lab's john feely in
Leitrim?
by Waterfire
• Cowen emerges to East count - Aylward must be safe so :)
• Cowen on his way to the Ireland East count, so leaving the local election count for a while to
take a break and have a gander #le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Kildare) first count #le09 faduda.ie
• KK CoCo so far...9 FG, 3 FF, 2 Lab, 1 Grn, 1 Ind. 10 left to fill #le09
• On my way back to RDS. Four Seasons is no fun yfrog.com
• Newstalk using our tally transfer figures or else we are bang on the money - neither are
impossible :) www.irishelection.com
• #LE09 Jim Ryan (IND), Micheál Lowry (IND), John Kennedy (Lab), and Billy Clancy
(IND) all elected to Tipp North Riding County Council
• Eoin Ryan is the most depressing and uninspiring thing to happen this election. Just on
Newstalks news now. Awful
• #LE09 Eamonn McGinty (IND), Patricia McCafferty (IND), and Seamus Carbin (Lab) all
elected to Donegal County Council
• KK CoCo - Ballyragget - 3 FG, 1 FF, 1 Lab. All seats filled #le09
• @irishelection I'm not short of results to follow! Hard to make a positive story out of it.
Good work releasing results in Ireland. #LE09
by jonworth via twitter
• grma. so we could have 3 sf women in europe!!!!! miracles do happen then.....once again
thanks#le09
by philomenaf
• ALDE MEP Marian Harkin set to upset Declan Ganley in the Ireland North-West
constituency tinyurl.com
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by ALDEgroup via twitter
• #LE09 Fianna Fáil's Willie Callaghan elected to Kildare County Council
• No problem at all Philomena - More than welcome here and glad you found us - we'll keep
you uptodate as we can on Mary Lou et al - Ferris is holding up well in South so I heard.
• sorry suzy, just wanting kept up to date.. new on this...apologies.#le09
by philomenaf
• Ok I'm back from putting the curry on and going to stop the chatter and get more links and
data up on the liveblog - we're answering questions but not going to do the chat much here -
you can check www.irishelection.com to comment on posts and argue the toss there!
• #LE09 Jim Cuddy (IND), Jarlath McDonagh (FG), Malachy Noone (FF), and Liam Carroll
(FG) all elected to Galway County Council
• Philomena - most of us are non- party aligned political nutters... :)
• #LE09 Catherine Connery and John Brennan, both Fine Gael, have been elected to Kilkenny
County Council
• grma cian. any of you for any particular party? #le09
by philomenaf
• Do ye think Mary Lou will get alot of simons transfers? the whole anti lisbon thing?
by sazzybm
• Clare County Council first preference votes online: bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter at 6/7/2009 5:53:43 PM6:53 PM yesterday
• Philomena most are at count centres twittering and posting - suzy and I (mostly suzy) are
moderating while some are just at their laptops :)
• are many of you at the count centres?#le09
by philomenaf
• Wicklow 200 done in 8 hours 5 minutes. Off to shower the dried salt off me.
• @spiller2 Adjudication eh? #LE09
• #LE09 Frank McBrearty Jr has been elected for the Labour party to Donegal County
Council
• Ajdudication underway in south, result by 9pm looking doubtful #le09
• New blog post: Adjudication of spoiled votes commences bit.ly
• thanks fergal.... some news i didnt really want to hear ..haha
by philomenaf
• @twentymajor He got only 4.4% of the vote in Pemb/Rath #le09
• FG takes three of four Wicklow County Council seats in Greystones ward #le09
• @twentymajor last I heard he was on about 5% #le09
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• #LE09 Sligo cllr Joe Queenan (FF) has been critical of the party leadership in Dublin,
saying the elections were a referendum on the Govt
• What happened with Tubridy Jr? #le09
by twentymajor via twitter
• on irishelection.com it says "Maurce Ahern Far from Safe in Cabra Glasnevin". I thought he
was already elected?
by sazzybm
• sorry correct quota ireland south 124K
by PJ Coogan
• I heard his victory speech on Galway Bay FM a few minutes ago. Sickening. And the
presenter on GBFM was as sweet as pie to him. #le09
by eoinmadden via twitter
• And there we go - Séan Paul Mahon eliminated in Artane Whitehall after 7th vote. Recount
likely
• #LE09 Eddie Fitzpatrick (IND) elected to Offaly County Council
qik.com
• Awaiting announcement of Cabra Glasnevin. C'mon!
• Rough tally south: crowley 117k, s. Kelly 91k, ferris 64k, a. Kelly 63k, sinnott 57k, burke
54k #le09
• #LE09 Padraig MacLochlainn (SF) has been elected to Donegal County Council in the
Inishowen electoral area
• #LE09 Padraig MacLochlainn (SF) has been elected to Donegal County Council in the
Inishowen electoral area
• That last Qik was an accident. Ooops
• RT @RTE_Elections: #LE09 Clarification: Eamonn McGinty (IND), Patricia McCafferty
(IND), and Seamus Carbin (Lab) all excluded in Donegal LEA
• 134 yet to be filled#le09
by philomenaf
• Cowen isnt making waves on Newstalk saying 'the tide is out'. Cliched already #LE09
• #LE09 Clarification: Eamonn McGinty (IND), Patricia McCafferty (IND), and Seamus
Carbin (Lab) all excluded in the Donegal LEA
• Last I checked on RTE website still 140 council seats to be filled in the following:
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Francis Deane (Ind) has been elected to Meath County Council
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• #LE09 Jim Finucane (FG) has been elected to Kerry County Council
• KK CoCo - Thomastown - Labour's Ann Phelan just been elected on 6th count. #le09
• So we're down to irishelection.ie agus TG4. Scrub that. TG4 imithe anois. #le09
• Full recount coming for Artane Whitehall
• #LE09 Brian Collins (Lab) has been elected to Meath County Council
• 0n DART to RDS #le09
• Pic yfrog.com
• any updates from South???
by dfg
• @damienblake bit.ly
#le09
• Object 19

qik.com
• @krayZpaving I'd prefer to say "bye"
by Fergal via twitter at 6/7/2009 6:28:03 PM7:28 PM yesterday
• @damienblake bit.ly
#le09
• Full recount called in Wexford for the Borough Council. #le09
• The current Taoiseach, Mr Biffo, just walked past me in the Ireland East count. Say "hi"
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twitterland. #le09
• RTE Radio will be broadcasting at 9pm - Newstalk.ie begin at 8pm. RTE television have
news at 9 and then election programme for 2 hours at 9.30 pm.
• There's no huddle like a Socialist huddle
• #LE09 John Bonham (FG), John King (FG), Brendan Phelan (FF), and Marty Phelan (FG)
all elected to Laois County Council
• would i be right in thinking that tv3 is better for election news than rte? just wondering
where i can watch and keep up to date #le09
by philomenaf
• Full recount called in Wexford for the Borough Council. #le09
• @damienblake RTE are reporting it. #le09
• @krayZpaving I've not been tuned to the radio - but Seamus Carbin sounds like a bit of a
stretch. You sure? bit.ly #le09
• Hello to everyone in count centres reading the liveblog - we hear you've been keeping in
touch with goings on around the country!
• For in-depth analysis and features check out RTÉ’s full election coverage on
www.rte.ie/news/elections/
• #le09 Newcastlewest (Count 1) Scanlon (FG) O'Donnell (FG) Elected
• Socialist Party candidate for Europe Joe Higgins has expressed reservations over the way the
count is being handled at the RDS
• Only 149 seats left, were getting there slowly but surely!!!!
by sazzybm
• @scow you are right - don't have figures to hand at moment but will find you a link.
www.rte.ie
• only estimated 43% turn out!!! thats bad isnt it!
by sazzybm
• So 46K available transfers, & a heavy Cork bias to influence the 3rd seat. S. Kelly soaks up
loads, but Stafford 2 trend 2 A. Kelly #le09
• @sazzybm actually research shows women don't vote for women. especially older voters for
younger candidates. UCC L.Weeks from 2004 #le09
• Cork City Council first preference votes online: bit.ly
• harry magee calling it for joe higgins? www.irishtimes.com
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• Brian Cowen has said he is not aware of any criticism of him personally by cllrs and he
would face down any vote of no confidence by FG
• Hanifin just said people dont vote for a woman because she is a woman! What kind of a
statment is that for a female politian to make???? btw Eu records record low turn out for EU
elections
by sazzybm edited by Suzy Byrne
• ireland south .. good source on count floor .. quota 125,000
Crowley .. 117,000 sean kelly.. 92,500
ferris.. 64,000
alan kelly.. 63,000 sinnott.. 57,800
burke.. 53,000 o'keeffe.. 16,000
boyle.. 15,000
stafford.. 11,000
sexton.. 4,000
• #LE09 Val Smith (FG) takes a seat on Cavan County Council after the seventh count in the
Cavan electoral area
• KK CoCo - Kilkenny - all seats filled: 3 FG, 2 FF, 1 Grn, 1 Lab #le09
• Only rugby union beats politics as a spectator sport, opines. @ghook on newstalk #le09
• After the recount it looks like Harry Barrett will be eliminated and his votes will hugely help
Ruane with B Gavin losing out.#elections
• Sinn Féin's Thérése Ruane looks like she could take the final seat in Castlebar, signalling a
remarkable SF total of 3 seats.#elections
• 8:12 : Basketball Arena: Tallaght SouthThe counters have been sent home. At the moment
the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael camps are going thro..
• It's at the discretion of the returning officer, not a set margin per se #le09
• A pity to see Sean Paul Mahon go as he was a nicer, more level headed rep than Carmichael.
God I'm saying good things about a FFer! #le09
• oh look - @ghook, Leo V, Hanafin And Pat Rabbitte in the front yfrog.com
• Stop watching the count now! National public service broadcaster has fair city omnibus on.
#le09
• If ure some sick pinko right wing activist, go off with you to @ghook on Newstalk live from
count centre. WTF is he thinking of? #le09
• George Hook picks up the Mainstream Media coverage on Newstalk - there's a webcam
pointed at him on newstalk.ie
• Whats the min margin of diference to be able to call a recount?
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by sazzybm
• I think the 3rd is still too close to call because of the uncertainty about transfers.
by sazzybm
• That was Mahon who was eliminated in Artane
qik.com
• A 2 vote margin between the FFers in Artane-whitehall, what is it with DNC local seats and
2 vote margins? Clontarf last time #le09
• Hopefully it she is smiling to mask the tears
by aoifac
• anyone care to make an educated call on the third based on those figures ????
by PJ Coogan
qik.com
• France euro exit poll shows Libertas (MPF) at 5% tinyurl.com
by P O'Neill
• Looks like there will be another By Election in the North West, Pat the Cope almost certain
to get an MEP seat.
by Roscommon LE09
qik.com
• And Gerry too... Looksbad for Ahern
• Mary Lou on da house with McGrattan. And she is smiling
• #LE09 FG's Patrick O'Donovan and Jerome Scanlan elected to Limerick County Council in
the Newcastle electoral area
• yeah stephen .. 125 it is.. just got that clarified
by PJ Coogan
• why a recaount in Artane Whitehall?
by sazzybm
• where do you think sextons transfers will go??? Hopefully to Burke
by sazzybm
• 6 O'Clock News on RTE 1 said that Ahern "had had to hang on to get the last seat" it which
is what I posted here. I have been keeping an eye on the sites and none show him as elected
so RTE obviously were incorrect or phrased it badly.
by aoifac
• Been told that quota is about 125k, no one will be elected on 1st quota #le09
• So no recount announced for Artane Whitehall, but it is likely
• Looks like we will have a declaration @ 9pm in south #le09
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• #LE09 FF's Jerry Lodge and FG's Mary Sweeney have been elected to Laois County
Council
• I wouldnt go but the tallys to be honest. they wont be accurate enough
by sazzybm
• Tom Crosby IND elceted
by Roscommon LE09
• Tom Crosby IND Elected on the first count in the Strokestown (Roscommon) Electoral Area
Tom's Daughter Vicky Crosby ran for FF in Dublin South Inner City but she was
unsuccessfull.#le09
by Roscommon LE09
• Micky Martin has a big rearguard action smell off him on newstalk. #le09
• whopping load of something that can only be described "glee" coming across in pat rabbitte
voice #le09
by viddythis via twitter
• Your right about the electorate having a short memory, sure look at the last GE. Hook can
barely get a word in on his own show coz Rabbitte and Martin are having a go at eachother.
by sazzybm
• RTE Radio still intent on telling me things I knew hours ago - in some cases, over 24 hours
ago.
• Fergal you might be right but I dont think that level of nous now operates in a party who are
absolutely shell shocked.
• M Martin loosing rag with Pat Rabitte on newstalk. First time u heard Martin crack today
#le09
• @ Cian Does a recount not sharpen the focus on that issue? Even if De Burca squeaks a win,
she might end up wishing she'd gone quietly.
• It will be interesting to see what the "new" difference will be between DeBurca & McKenna
after the new count #le09
• DeBurca calls for recount? Must want to ensure that the entire process is conducted in full
view, not behind doors as at present. #le09
by ManAboutCouch via twitter
• 40K from McK and DdB to transfer if DeR 20K shy of quota doesn't see him reach it. Is he
87K or 97K post byrne? #le09
• RTE Election's Tweeter is understated and late in the extreme - early days for them and
social media still!
• Pat Rabittee talking rubbish on Newstalk. Sorry Pat but the Irish electorate have the worst
memories in the world and will vote in droves for FF at next election.
by SimonHaden
• Martin just said it was very difficult running 2 candidates, sure crowley had a clean sweep
and O'Keeffe didnt get a look in, whats he on about. They're trying to make out that they ran
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a fantastic campaign. I didnt hear a thing from either candidate.
by sazzybm
• An early tally suggests that Mairead McGuinness (FG) will retain her MEP seat
• No she wants a recount to recycle the paper!
by Anonymous
• Very understated analysis there Fergal - it is all about ego here. McKenna win would cement
a party in total mltdown and push the whole green in government question front and centre
• Based on those more recent tallies, if De Rossa is still looking for transfers when MLM goes
then Ryan could, just could hold on. #le09
• New blog post: Tension mounting in Euro South count centre bit.ly
• Has de Burca called recount because of personal pride or to try to save Ryan?
• Important to bear in mind that McKenna is a figurehead for those Greens who never wanted
to get in government with FF in the first place. Bragging rights might have some
significance in the Green debates to come
• RT @RTE_Elections Green Euro candidate Déirdre De Búrca has called for a recount in the
Dublin constituency #le09
• Newstalk and TV3 have really shown RTE how to do things this weekend... #le09... public
service broadcasting how are ya!
• Michael Martin (FF) not sounding confident about Ryan on Newstalk
• #LE09 Paddy Kennedy (IND) elected to Kildare County Council in the Kildare electoral
area
• RTE report de Burca calling for recount...she's behind McKenna by 400 votes
• FF keep it in the Family dont they! martin had two brothers running, one got re-elected and
one didnt.
by sazzybm
• Deirdre De Burca has demanded a recount. No idea why - possibly to do with reaching the
threshold to retain her deposit. Or maybe she just doesn't want to be beaten by McKenna.
Either way, the whole thing starts again. It will now probably be tomorrow before we know
the destination of the final seat
• Deirdre wont be going out before PAtricia if she can help it?
• #LE09 IND candidate Dervill Dolan has been elected to Offaly County Council
• Recount in Dublin - this will cause a 4 to 5 hour delay.
• Green Euro candidate Déirdre De Búrca has called for a recount in the Dublin constituency
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• Wst Lmk - 4 seats. 3FG + 1FF.#le09
by 26twit via twitter
• Mary Hasafin just said "not in the interests of winning this general election" #freudianslip
#le09
• #LE09 Michael Fahy (IND) has been elected to Galway County Council in the Loughrea
count
• Byrne Simins Sweeney - all eliminated
• Recount must still be going on in Greystones .... #le09
by JimserM via twitter
• Crowley is probably one of the youngest FF candidates! Unintentionally I associate FF with
old people, no offense to anyone. FG and Labour have young candidates. Thats just my
opinion, though.
by sazzybm
• Very tight for last seat on Wicklow Co Council between Greens O'Brien and Labour's Nevin.
• #LE09 Joe Reilly (SF) has been elected to Meath County Council
• @Suzy compensation for loss of medical card = heart attack food.
• #le09 Newcastlewest (Count 2) No one elected.
• @Cian Brian Crolwy while singing to old folks told them that they might get free chips from
Dino instead of the xmas bonus.
• Brian Cowen has said he was not aware of any criticism of him personally by cllrs and he
would face down any vote of no confidence by FG
• Hanafin on Newstalk being emollient about Crowley and how he sings to old people. A rare
good moment for FF and the elderly
• #LE09 Tom Crosby (IND) and John Cummins (FF) have been elected to Roscommon
County Council
• Another new blog post from Prime Time’s Mark Little on the RTÉ exit polls – lots of new
information to mull over tinyurl.com
• #LE09 John Hannon (FF) and Brian Lawlor (FG) elected to South Dublin County Council
• Irl South Numbers!!!!! yfrog.com
• McGuinnes and Childers will get in but JP Phelan won't get in #le09
by CarlowWeather
• Boyle 15499 Burk 53721 Crowley 118 258 Ferris 64671 Kelly Alan 64152 Kelly Sean 92
579 O Keefe 16 596 Sexton 2 474 Sinnot 58 485 Stafford 11 692
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• European Election results are imminant - declarations are expected shortly, watch now on
RTÉ One or www.RTÉ.ie/live
• 498127 valid poll
• 509963 total poll - South
by cianflah edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 8:03:25 PM9:03 PM yesterday
• #le09 Crowley hasn't exceeded quota 6000 off
by CarlowWeather
• Few mins for numbers. will post a pic as soon as I can.
• @twentymajor @suzybie the only face that can be saved by the Greens is about a quarter of
a badly singed eyebrow. #le09
by AllanCavanagh via twitter at 6/7/2009 8:00:28 PM9:00 PM yesterday
• Website would add 5 hours to the counting process - if allowed in Dublin
• That exit poll was mad. By the time it was published we already knew better real figures.
by Simon McGarr edited by Suzy Byrne
• Rabbitte says that Kelly is in 3rd #le09
by CarlowWeather
• RTE completely dismissed the tallies, even though some tallies are very accurate!!! Their
poll should have had more of a health warning. Id trust the pundits before RTE. Well Done
News Talk. great coverage.
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Bryan Reilly (FF) and Catherine Yore (FG) elected to Meath County Council in the
Kells area count
• DCU politics lecturer Eoin O'Malley just suggested Higgins gets the 3rd EUP seat #le09
#eu09
• Joe is in a good mood. Poses for a pic yfrog.com
by lexia via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 7:56:43 PM8:56 PM yesterday
• RTE's Exit poll has been entirely inaccurate. Tallies were available yesterday morning but
they persisted in using the poll figures right up until this evening, presumably on the ground
that they'd spent good money on them
• Getting ready to see/hear my first non-liveblog election news of the day on RTE. Imagining
that it will be full of novel and exclusive news. Or that it will be pretending that nothing has
happened.
by Simon McGarr
• #LE09 A complete recount has been called for the Tralee electoral area of Kerry County
Council
by RTE_Elections via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 7:53:43 PM8:53 PM yesterday
• Me legs are about to fall off. Better not stop walking. :)
• RTE have had a FAILection except for their twitter
• Rabbitte says that Alan Kelly has done better than exit poll and is still in with a chance in
South.
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• New blog post: Sherlock delighted with Labour’s election success to date bit.ly
• #LE09 Julia Carmichael (FF) and Declan Flanagan (FG) both elected to Dublin City Council
• New blog post: Kennedy (Ind) elected in Kildare (Kildare) 4th count #le09 faduda.ie
• #le09 de burca calling for a recount w/mckenna? wanting her deposit back... green/ex-green
pride on display
• Deburca would get money back if she reached a quarter of quota but there is also face to
save in greens #le09
• Pat Rabitte says he prefers to hear an election called rather than "On the one hand this and
on the other hand that". He must have been listening to RTE then
• Whats the atmosphere like in cork?
by sazzybm
• Does the recount make much of a difference? If they are that close one is going to be
eliminated after the other. Sake of pride between green and ex-green??
by Anonymous
• @ Suzy that pundit is Eoin O Malley of DCU of the Limerick O'Malleys and lecturer at
DCU.
• New blog post: Kennedy (Ind) elected in Kildare (Kildare) 4th count #le09 faduda.ie
• Centre filling up for declaration. Not long to wait. #Le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Kildare) 2nd count #le09 faduda.ie
• Pundit on Newstalk calling it for Higgins
• DeBurca asking for a recount - typical. #Le09
• Flanaghan and Carmichael elected in 8th and final count of Artane Whitehall
• 390 votes between McKenna & DeBurca according to Newtalk. She is on her way with the
Green heavies - Gormley & Ryan #le09
• #LE09 Update just before 9pm FF (180), FG (293), Lab (123), GP (3), SF (48) and OTH
(118)
qik.com
• Newstalk reports recount - 390 votes between De Burca and McKenna
qik.com
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• Hook is putting martin in his place
by sazzybm
• McGuinness - FG - Euro elected 110'000 #le09
by 26twit via twitter
• Mary Lou looks sad but dignified. All over for her #Le09
• Folks, the exits were not as bad as is being said. Just looking @ exit results for South, they
were nearly spot on all well within Margin for error. FG EX: 33%, 1st: 29.4%, FF EX: 27%
1st: 27.1, Lab EX: 10%, 1st 12.9%, SF EX: 14%, 1st 13%, GP EX: 4%, 1st: 3.1%, Ind EX:
13%, 1st: 14.6%. Seems pretty good prediction of first preferences to me!
by eoinpurcell
• How did she manage to get that amount?-De Burca 19086
by wendylimerick
• Mary Lou looks sad but dignified. All over for her #Le09
• #LE09 John S. Ryan (FG) and Pat Vance (FF) elected to Wicklow County Council
• Dublin First Count - Byrne 18956 DeBurca 19086 De Rossa 83471 higgins 505010 Mary
Lou 47928 mckenna 17521 mitchell 96715 ryan 55346 Simons 13514 Sweeney 3583
• voted 412664 - 6054 spoilt tvp 406630 - quota 101.658
qik.com
• First Count in Dublin being announced on Radio 1.
• Looking for a hotel in London. One place advertises itself with the fact that Pete Doherty
was arrested there.
• #LE09 Rotimi Adebari (IND), Catherine Fitzgerald (FF) and Kathleen O’Brien (FG) all
elected to Laois County Council
• Deirdre de Burca will add 5hours to Dublin count with her recount demand. I 'd like to see
that costed. #le09
• @cianflah oh epic ?!!
• De Burca not getting recount - a check of mckenna's votes and where they transfer to is what
she got.
• De Burca on RTE Radio
by aoifac
• Thanks sazzybm thats a good showing for him
by wendylimerick
• according to RTE FG got 34% of EU vote
by sazzybm
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• Fine Gael’s Mairead McGuinness has been re-elected to her MEP seat in the East
constituency
• Ireland East numbers !! Still waiting on some numbers yfrog.com
• 8:59 : Basketball Arena: TALLAGHT SOUTH FINAL RESULT Following the recount for
Tallaght South the returning officer declared that while t..
• New blog post: First count results bit.ly
• May have changes in Cabra/Glasnevin race for last seat...#Le09
• Euro EAST 1st count in: bit.ly
Mairead McGuinness elected
• FF’s Brian Crowley has topped the poll in the South Euro constituency but failed to reach
the quota on the first count
• May have changes in Cabra/Glasnevin race for last seat...#Le09
by aoifecarroll via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 8:13:23 PM9:13 PM yesterday
• Stafford got 11692
by sazzybm
• Maurice ahern - yes still a local election going on - very likely to lose seat in Cabra
Glasnevin now.
• Fergal he is in pole position as long as Toireasa doesnt shock on transfer front, thing is she is
set to surprise on transfer front according to some counts - i have nothing to back this up bar
anecdotal evidence so it is wait and see. Limerick vote of STafford will be v interesting in
terms of Ferris - Kelly
• how many first preferences did Stafford get?
by wendylimerick
• MvGuinness elected in east - 3k surplus to be distrbuted in2nd count #le09
• Across Europe, no sign of Libertas candidates being elected yet in other member states,
apart from France
• Is this the first time Bran Crowley has not reached the quota on first count? #le09
• As always you have been a star Suzy.
by Bazalini
• Quota 124,532. Sexton & stafford excluded. People calling 3rd seat for alan kelly
• On those figures Alan Kelly looks stronger than expected for seat three in South. Sinnott is
transfer-friendly, but has quite a bit of ground to make up.
• South MEP candidates Maurice Sexton (IND) and Alexander Stafford (IND) eliminated after
the first count as no candidates reach quota
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• Those tallies are after Byrne's ballots were dispersed
• McGuinness Elected in East
• Newstalk call South seat for Kelly? And this is not just Pat Rabbitte calling it
• Bazalini it's Joe Higgins seat so everyone is now saying... de Burca is looking for a recount
as coming in behind McKenna in 7th place by 390 votes.
• 3rd South called for Kelly (Alan) on Newstalk
• Who is getting the 3rd Dublin seat folks - Just in - have not seen anything in last 6 hours
by Bazalini
• RTE not telling us the whole story re De Burca recount. The 300 votes won't bring her to a
quarter quota - actually, they will bring her ahead of McKenna and keep alive her chances of
reaching the quarter
• So de Burca looking for a recount
by wendylimerick
• #LE09 Eamon Aylward (FF), Fidelis Doherty (FG) and Cora Long (FF) all elected to
Kilkenny County Council
• 70,638 for ganley - 84813 harkins 80093 higgins,
• outside closed cafe RDS as recount continues #le09
• FF’s Pat The Cope Gallagher has said bad election results highlight the need for the party to
better understand the electorate's concerns
• First Count in North West delayed by phone calls to returning officer - bet he is being told to
wait for the telly to start...
• Oh now wait, we have the silly people line. They didnt understand why so much had to be
done. Quite the opposite minister - they understood you took shag all hard decisions in
advance to get the place in order. You got the result of that.
• One theme on France 24 TV election coverage is prospect for Lisbon ratification; their
correspondent in Castlebar noted that Libertas can't be taken as sole indicator of anti-Lisbon
given strength of Joe Higgins.
by P O'Neill
• RTE TV = Weather. My licence fee at work today. Radio has childers and gilmore on. Why
did Eamon spend money on indo ads for Nessa and none of the others? 'we did' Gilmore also
says Govt should go. Hanafin says nothing really all mushy 'we are staying'
• Wow 15 votes................
by Bazalini
• Dublin Exit Versus 1st count. Clearly they did less well here:
by eoinpurcell
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• Tallaght South - Count 8 now available on www.southdublin.ie and is complete after a
recount
by sdccelections via twitter at 6/7/2009 8:36:04 PM9:36 PM yesterday
• Byrne18956
De Burca 19086
DeRossa 83471
Higgins 50510
McDonald 47928
McKenna 17521
Mitchell 96715
Ryan 55346
Simons 13514
Sweeney 3583
Quota – 101,658
by aoifac edited by Suzy Byrne
• "aoifecarroll wow that is close
by aoifac
• Maurice ahern - to lose seat by 15 votes in recount.
• RTE has full 1st count figures up www.rte.ie
by eoinpurcell
• #LE09 FG candidates Liam Callaghan, Michael Creaton, Michael McGreal, and Ernie
Keenan all elected to Roscommon County Council
• #LE09 Michael Mulligan (SF) and Paschal Fitzmaurice (FF) elected to Roscommon County
Council
• In pub while they distribute the 14k votes. #Le09
• Ahern to lose by 15 votes #Le09
• Mary Hanafin will not concede defeat of Eoin Ryans seat yet! #le09
• Is Joe Higgins now looking certain in Dublin? #LE09
• Lexia who is the dude in the flag supporting?
by wendylimerick
• There are extra live feeds from Europe available on the RTÉ website, watch them and RTÉ
One’s election coverage at www.rte.ie/live
• Whose that Lexia????
by Bazalini
• Exits have a plus or minus margin of 3.4% at the constituency level. As for Alan Kelly and
Sinnot's poll they were spot on Labour South Ex: 10% 1st Count 12.9% within margin and
independent South Ex: 13% 1st Count: 14.6%, also within margin! I'll check the Dublin
numbers but I think dissing the exit is a tap unfair. They were only ever going to be rough
estimates for the Euro level given the complexity of the constituencies.
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by eoinpurcell
• I couldnt catch all the Dublin No's but for 2nd count I think Higgins got 52457, McDonald
50,097, McKenna 21,523, Mitchell 99,098, Ryan 56,317. correct me if im wrong
by sazzybm
• Can't believe the pussyfooting by the papers and RTE around the third Dublin seat. It has
been obvious that Ryan was a loser for over a day, and obvious that McDonald was a loser
for almost as long.
• Gerry Ginty has been elected in Ballina - Michael Loftus conceded after a recount. A big
blow for FF and Dara Calleary. #elections
• Euro Dublin 2nd count in: bit.ly
• On RTE FF refuse to concede Ryan is out of the race and Shane Coleman backs them up.
Insert easy joke.
• Dear God yfrog.com
• Leo says Garrett Fitz stopped Mitchell from going over Quota on first count speaking on
RTE
• kudos to newstalk on the great election coverage! #le09
by PMCC via twitter
• Euro DUBLIN 1st count in: bit.ly
• I wouldn't call the exit poll "well within" the margin of error so much as right at it's limits, or
over it. Look at the figures for McDonald and Higgins yesterday. Gave a completely
incorrect picture of the dynamic of the race. Likewise Alan Kelly and Kathy Sinott.
• @suzybie its very very tight but i'm told SF think they'll win. Could be this year's Clontarf
• Dublin tallies. Mitchell 100k, DeRossa 87k, Ryan 66,205, Higgins 53,036, Mary Lou
50,980, McKenna 22,380, de Burca 21,991
• South, crowley 118k, s.kelly, 92k, ferris 64671, a.kelly 64152, sinnott, 58k, burke 53k,
o'keeffe 16k #le09
by Stephen Spillane via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/7/2009 8:25:58 PM9:25 PM yesterday
• Dublin numbers !!! yfrog.com
• Exit poll got it wrong with DeRossa. Interesting to see where byrnes transfers are going to
go.
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Fine Gael's Liam Galvin has been elected to Limerick County Council in the
Newcastle electoral area
• @dermotcasey :)
• They're on 3rd count so in Dublin.
by sazzybm
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• Euro SOUTH 1st count in: bit.ly
• @BobTheCorkDwarf count centre screen
• Sazzy - Clare voters not amused at being included in North West constituency...
• The tallies don't seem to have been any more accurate either, several commentators both on
air and on location were skeptical of tallies. Even the parties urged caution. I think the
caution was smart. It didn't stop speculation though!
by eoinpurcell
• The Stroke Fahy (xFF) tops poll in South Galway/Loughrea EDc
• How did Ganely get that many votes and now he wants a recount? What?
by sazzybm
• is ryan kelly doing that also lexia? haha#le09
by philomenaf
• what is the whole Clare protest thing about?
by sazzybm
• Oh, Miriam O'Callaghan, you are in your element aren't you? Just look at her there -
enthusiastic, smiling, happy. Positively glowing. #le09
• Fergal, the listed margin for error was 3.4% its written in the introduction to the poll. The
poll had good and bad parts, North West seems very weak (see figures below) I suspect
because the constituency itself makes little sense and must be tough to poll accurately.
by eoinpurcell
• @lexia Is Gerry around to help her? #le09
• #LE09 Eugene Cassidy (FG), John V Farrelly (FG), and Oliver Fox (FF) have been elected
to Meath County Council
• Mary Lou is putting her lipstick on
• Northwest Exits versus first count. Bad result for the pollsters here! I think the worst
prediction across Euro constituencies. Heavily underestimated both Ganley & Harkin vote
and overestimated Higgins!
FG EX: 29%, 1st: 23.8%, Diff: -5.2% (Outside Margin)
FF EX: 26%, 1st: 25.4%, Diff: -0.6% (Within Margin)
Labour EX: 8%, 1st: 5.8%, Diff: -2.2% (Within Margin)
SF EX: 9%, 1st: 9.2%, Diff: +.2% (Within Margin)
Libertas EX: 10%, 1st: 14%, Diff +4.0% (Outside Margin)
Ind EX: 18%, 1st: 21.6%, Diff +3.6% (Outside Margin)
by eoinpurcell
• There is such a thing as using too much of your margin of error in too many cases. Only a
tiny number of exit poll figures were within 1%, and far too many of them were out by 3%
or more. More importantly, RTE persisted in using the figures for almost a day and a half
after they had actual tallies available.
• KK CoCo so far...12 FG, 6 FF, 4 Lab, 1 Grn and 1 Ind. 2 seats still to be filled #le09
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• Ganley got 6% more than the polls were predicting. I too can't believe he got so many first
preferences.
by aoifac
• Simmons said she feels 'stellar' about her performance.
• #LE09 Gerry Finnerty (FF), and FG's Peter Feeney, Michael ‘Moegie’ Maher, Jimmy
McClearn and Bridie Willers all elected to Galway Co Council
• Alexia is qiking the Ahern 'huddle' on the Cabra/Glasnevin recount qik.com
• #LE09 Barry O’Neill for Fine Gael elected to Donegal County Council
• Ganley is asking for recount?? - statement in next 10-15mins
• almost 600 seats filled in local elections.
• I can't believe 70 thousand people were dumb enough to put Declan Ganley down as a first
preference. #eu09
by IRLConor via twitter
• De Burca stated on RTE Radio that it was about the money and about 1,000 votes would
make the difference.
by aoifac
• Maurice Ahern now behind by 12 votes candidates being consulted on the next stes
• Object 20

• Looking at North and West Ganley only hope is to target Harkin and hope that he pulls in a
lot of transfers from one of McLoughlin or O Keeffe. Looking tenuous though.
qik.com
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• Ireland East first count shows Nessa Childers will be elected MEP for @labour #le09
• NW Quota 103k #le09
by CarlowWeather
• Euro NORTHERN IRELAND count starts on Monday morning
• Green Party have lost their seat on Wicklow Co. Council - Previous held by Senator Deirdre
de Burca
• Marian Harkin has topped the Euro poll after the first count in the NW but has failed to
reach the quota
• McKenna says de Burca recount call is about more than money
• Trevor! yfrog.com
• Ireland East first count shows Nessa Childers will be elected MEP for @labour #le09
• McKenna having a go at Greens on News Talk
by sazzybm
• lexia - was that guy in the Euro flag... Steve Staunton?!?
by scow
• McNamara's transfers will be interesting in NW....they may go nowhere he got a big Clare
protest vote...
by PatrickSaint
• Didnt hear a quota for North West
by sazzybm
• 5 eliminated in North West 1st count. JF Higgins, King, McCullagh, McNamara,O'Luian.
by sazzybm
• Euro NORTH WEST 1st count in: bit.ly
• Dublin Exits versus first count not too bad, but less accurate than south:
FG EX: 21%, 1st: 23.8%, Diff: +2.8% (Within Margin)
FF EX: 16%, 1st: 18.3%, Diff: +2.3% (Within Margin)
Labour EX: 25, 1st: 20.5%, Diff: -4.5% (Outside Margin)
SF EX: 15%, 1st: 15%, Diff: -3.2% (Within Margin)
GP EX: 4%, 1st: 4.7%, Diff: +.7% (Within Margin)
Libertas EX: 3%, 1st: 3.3%, Diff +.3% (Within Margin)
Ind EX: 16%, 1st: 17.6%, Diff +1.6% (Within Margin)
Note:
Ind included:
Ind Ex: 5% 1st: 5.2%, Diff +.2% (Within Margin)
Higgins: 11% 1st: 12.4%, Diff +1.4% (Within Margin)
by eoinpurcell
• 123815 is quota in North West - Pat Cope on 82k
• You never see Mark Little and Alan Partridge in a tv studio at the same time. Allamsayn.
#le09
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• Mooney 42985 Okeefe 28658 OLuain 3510 Oreilly 37564
• Ganley straight into a meeting with Returning Officer #le09
by stretchneil via twitter
• Just wanted to say well done to all the bloggers and tweeters etc. for all the info on counts
around the country today. This site is the best!!!! Great work!
by sazzybm
• At least Ó Brolcháin is being honest. Burton wants Ryan Report discussed befor e motion of
no confidence
by sazzybm
• @Baz - I'll stay up till 1am probably.
• When are youse expecting to finish up here tonight btw?
by Bazalini
• O'Brolochain's support base evaporated completely....volunteers deserted over the past
months...
by PatrickSaint
• Wouldnt rule out Declan Ganley as of yet Sinn Fein will have a number of transfers that may
just go his way.
by Roscommon LE09
• On the liveblog now - grabbing power and juicing up.. Some sources think it'll be 30 mins
before Cabra Glasnevin is called. Others think a couple of hours. The non-transferable votes
are being recounted. Maurice & Co. are going to great pains to examine each and every
ballot!
• If the Greens really do leave it up to their party membership rather than leadership, then we
could be in election territory sooner rather than later
• Oh he did wow
by wendylimerick
• Did Ó Brolcháin lose his seat in Galway?
by wendylimerick
• Delivered iIn a Dunnes Stores Fridge
by aoifac
• ex Green Councillor o brolchain on RTE says Greens can't continie as they have been and
talking about crossing floor #le09
by CarlowWeather
• Niall Ó Brolcháin (Greens) has told RTÉ that voters said they but could no longer support
him due to connections with FF in Govt
• Lowry 'delivers 4 Co Co and 3 Urban Cllrs'
• Sorry for not replying to comments made in the liveblog - I'm tweeting and can't seem them
at all..
• I'll take the exit conversation elsewhere but for info East Exits versus first count. Good
result for the pollsters here!
FG EX: 38%, 1st: 40.1%, Diff: +2.1% (Within Margin)
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FF EX: 23%, 1st: 24.6%, Diff: +1.6% (Within Margin)
Labour EX: 20%, 1st: 18.3%, Diff: -1.7% (Within Margin)
SF EX: 12%, 1st: 11.1%, Diff: -0.9% (Within Margin)
Libertas EX: 3%, 1st: 4.3%, Diff +1.3% (Within Margin)
Ind EX: 4%, 1st: 1.6%, Diff -2.4% (Within Margin)
by eoinpurcell
• musical FF chairs in South Galway...Regan (auctioneer) lost to Finnerty (cattle mart
announcer and local publican)
by PatrickSaint
• I think it is more than refusing, he seems to be giving a no.
by aoifac
• Lowery not certain if country could survive more uncertainty of an election
• says public voted against gov but dont seem to want a general election and the uncertainty
going to take soundings on confidence motion
• Lowry refuses to be drawn on motion of no confidence. Speaking on radio 1
• This weekend just gets better. Joe probably in Dublin, Childers in East and no Ganley.
Wonder if Kelly can hold out against Ferris. #le09
by astarmain via twitter
• #LE09 Ann Dillon-Gallagher (FG), Wayne Harding (FF), and Seamus O’Neill (IND) all
elected to Meath County Council
• Sorry to my non-political friends. It'll be over soon!
• #LE09 IND candidate Valerie Byrne has been elected to Roscommon County Council
• @Suzy - Apology accepted. I shall just pretend you are lying, Bazalini! It's still good for a
laugh. Mind you, not as much of a laugh as seeing Ryan & McDonald knocked out...fingers
crossed!
by Anita McGarr
• wendy thinking of running myself....haha#le09
by philomenaf
• Some of the Libertas votes from around Europe are just breath-taking in how low they are -
see search.twitter.com - they're the new Monster Raving Loony Party
by Samuel
• New blog post: Final results for Cork City Council in local elections corkpolitics.ie
• glad you said that suzy....#le09
by philomenaf
• Id say Mairead McGuinness will run in the next general election
by wendylimerick
• I might be lying.......
by Bazalini
• @Anita I'm really sorry - we've been including other affecting events during last two days to
show world stills turns...hides under sofa
• Maurice Ahern has asked for a recount of the non-transferables. SF ahead by 13.
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• Why would anyone bother with a Europe wide exit poll (according to RTE a greek group
did) to determine party makeup in EP? ITs all local!
• Ok Fergal and Eoin take the analysis to a post somewhere near you - or a pint!
• Ah here!! I have the Apprentice recorded so that I can follow the election results. Thanks a
bleeding lot.
by Anita McGarr
• Update on first prefs of the Euro national vote - Libertas (5.6%), FF (24%), FG (29%), Lab
(14%), Greens (2%), SF (11%), OTH (14.2%)
• The tallies were in fact extremenly accurate. Where available (Dublin and East - there were
no tallies to speak of in South and NW) they have been accurate predictions in every single
case.
• Clare voters laughing in the pubs, playing music and dancing at McNamara's 12k. They're
amused now...
by PatrickSaint
• Bazalini - thank you for that :)
• Farewell Declan Ganley - and good riddance
by Samuel
• jasmina wins the Apprentice
by Bazalini
• ahh theres nothing as bad as an amused clare man .....#le09
by philomenaf
• RT MickFealty RT @
NathanWurtzel: In Sweden, the Pirate Party may have won a seat. Sadly, their name relates
to copyright laws, not wh ...
qik.com
• De Burca 21991
De Rossa 87274
Higgins 53038
McDonald 50980
McKenna 22380
Mitchell 100810
Ryan 66205
De Burca distribution now

by aoifac
• (sazzybm) Apparantly Ganley is looking for a recount because the boxes were opened to
early this morning in the count centre.
by Roscommon LE09
• O'Brolachain now on rte radio, at least it stops Hanafin's rant
by aoifac
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• FF lost 4 seats in Carlow but at least one of those was an IND that lost FF Interview process
#le09
by CarlowWeather
• 3rd count in Dublin - distribution of Byrnes votes
• The European People’s Party has secured 263-276 seats in the election, making it the biggest
group in the assembly, according to AFP
• Ganley asks for a recount, can we ask for a recap on your private polls, Mr. Ganley and what
they were supposed to be showing #le09
by cheebah via twitter
• RTÉ's Damien Tiernan tells Mark Little that one seat came down to a single vote this
afternoon in Waterford
• #LE09 Barry Nevin (Lab) and Mick Glynn (FG) have been elected to Wicklow County
Council in the Bray electoral area
• Save the Hanafin audio to play during the week what an idiot how out of the loop she is
by wendylimerick
• Boxes weren't emptied on table for Tallies to have a go, thats what Ganley is complaining
about
by CarlowWeather
• just noticed there 239 0n line now..last nite there was 100 less...! Brilliant!
by PatrickSaint
• F'ing appalling from Hanafin, must catch that again on replay if possible. Shocking.
by gaelick
• The Cope on News Talk says Ganely is looking for recount. Something about the way the
boxes were opened. He is 1000 behind the next guy! what on earth does be wrong with
them, What other way is there of opening a box like!
by sazzybm
• Fine Gael 12,692 36.6% 8 Other 10,400 30.0% 7 Fianna Fáil 10,118 29.2% 7
Sinn Féin 1,467 4.2% 1 Labour 0 0.0% 0 Green Party 0 0.0% 0
by Roscommon LE09
• Hanifin is on Radio 1 making those comment sand Costello is attacking her.
• she sure did Wendy she said it as the main rebuttal point to Leo on control of costs.
• Hey Cian, can you confirm where that Hanfin quote comes from? Appalling to hear.
by gaelick
• Awaiting two seats to be filled in Strokestown and one on Boyle Town Council.
by Roscommon LE09
• Oh Cian did she say that was gd govt policy? Stupid Woman
by wendylimerick
• what is happening at the minute with ferris? anyone#le09
by philomenaf
• O'Brollochain in panic mode...his political career is in flames if Greens dont pull outof gov
by PatrickSaint
• Hanafin brags about getting rid of CPA and Equality Authority.
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• O Brollchain challenges fg/lab to put a deal to the Greens to cross the floor of the house.
Appetite 4 change if not for election. #le09
• Labour leader Eamon Gilmore tells RTÉ the election was a referendum on the Government
and the people gave their verdict
• 23 seats have now been filled on Roscommon County Council.
by Roscommon LE09
• Gilmore trying to recruit Ó Brolcháin
by wendylimerick
• Eoin, I met Stroke at poll station on Friday— priceless...will be blogging it 2moro
by PatrickSaint
• Lowry interrogated by Leo and says that FG dont offer solutions. People want answers - Leo
says the party have proposals.
• Nessa Childers tells Miriam O'Callaghan that the thousands and thousands of people she
talked to connected with her and the Labour Party
• Stroke tops poll in Loughrea - not my proudest moment as a Galway man.... #le09
by eoinlarkin via twitter
• Niall O Brolleachain (sorry for spelling) on Rte "suggesting" FG and Labour make proposal
and "maybe" the Greens might cross the floor #le09
• Another 80 seats to fill in LE according to RTE bit.ly #le09
• Niall O'Brolochain sounds like a man ready to jump ship...#le09
by eoinlarkin via twitter
• Final counts expected to elect Higgins from transfers from Mary Lou
by sazzybm
• Joe Higgins says he will stand for Dáil - campaign has begun after his election to fingal and
before his election to European Parliament.
• got a text re an FF victory party in Clare...the music will be great...if they'd wi-fi I'd go +
blog it
by PatrickSaint
• Hanafin ingratiaing herself with Lowry on air. Awful audio. Lots of fun had at the point of
Hanafin cousin topping poll in Thurles for FF. Gak.
• well done to all concerned. A great effort.
by Bazalini
• Joe Higgins on Newstalk
by PatrickSaint
• glad Ó Brolcháin is standing up and being honest unlike the party line the rest of them are
giving
by wendylimerick
• #LE09 Bernard McGuinness (FG) has been elected to Donegal County Council
• Has some one spritzed some hair dye onto Brian Lenihan's bonce? It looks strikingly
monotone. Perhaps @beautie could shed some light.. #le09
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• What good can recount do Ganley?His complaint is that they couldnt tell where votes came
from geographically.Recount wont change that #le09
• JHR rants about everyone!!! Neptune have stopped counting. Hook hopes everyone else
follows suite coz he wants to watch the Lions replay
by sazzybm
• Just a bit of Information re EU count in the UK so far: (LAB: 1 CON: 1 LIB DEM: 1) early
days yet.
by Roscommon LE09
• Total recount called for DeBurca in Dublin Euro - be here until the wee hours #le09
• Partial recount requested in DUBLIN by Deirdre de Burca (Green)
• De Udder Brudder concedes
• #LE09 Johnny Butterfield (IND) and Danny Owens (FF) elected to Offaly County Council
• JHR is tearing a strip off George Lee, ranting down the line on RTE!
by scow
• count will be closing in the south very soon.
by Roscommon LE09
• 'George Lee tricked his way to Dail Eireann' Jackie Healy Rae the Man who represents me
by wendylimerick
• Euro Counts will probably close for the night fairly soon.
• Come on now Jackie 'Rock Solid Behind the Government'
by wendylimerick
• will the count run all night or close until tomorrow?
by Bazalini
• The man the myth the legend, Jackie Healy Rae on RTE. Line from mars is not great. He is
rock solid behind the government.
• DeBurca got her full recount. If she gets her 300 votes she'll get back €38000, so 2-5 hours.
Do they do a total recount?
by sazzybm
• Boyle excluded in South. No figures given
by sazzybm
• Ah my main man Jackie is on Radio 1
by wendylimerick
• Pat the Cope on Newstalk says Ganley wants a recount "because of how the boxes were
opened" #le09 Hook: "How many ways can you open a box?"
• RTE think DeBurca's votes are being distributed.
by sazzybm
qik.com
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• The discussions with Declan Ganley and the returning officer are over the way ballot boxes
were opened at the count centre this morning
• RTE TV only worth watching for the graphs, better listening to the radio.
by aoifac
• Kilkenny County Council - completed votes - 12 FG, 7 FF, 5 Lab, 1 Grn and 1 Ind. #le09
• RTE TV still appear unaware of any recount
• Share of the Vote so far (Euro): FF: 24.1 FG: 29.1 Lab: 13.9 GP: 1.9 SF: 11.2 OTH: 11.1
by Roscommon LE09
• 2nd count in the North-West has been halted for nearly an hour as discussions take place
between Declan Ganley and the returning officer
• And the recount begins! #le09
by PMCC via twitter
• Would it be cheaper to give DeBurca her expenses and not have a recount? #le09
• #le09 #rte s inability to update web with data from counts is inexcusable
by offportal via twitter
• According to RTE1: NW count stalled as Ganley queries how ballot boxes opened. Please, it
makes no actual difference to the count #le09
• Quote @MiriamLord "Saint Lukes shall slide into the Tolka"..
• rte ruling out mary lou saying that even after patricia is eliminated that it still wont lift her
up past higgins.....sad to see
by philomenaf
• 12 I think Aoifac
• How many did he lose by Suzy?
by aoifac
• Pat Cox Concedes Ryan has seat
by CarlowWeather
• Watch Maurice's concession press gaggle via Alexia qik.com
• No indication of how long yet the recount will take, could be hours or put off till tomorrow.
If she gets 6% Wendy
by aoifac
• Count stalled in North West as Canley queries the way in which boxes were opened
• The third count has ended in the Dublin Euro constituency, Deirdre De Burca has been
excluded and her votes will be redistributed
• Does De Burca get her expenses?
by wendylimerick
• Full recount in Dublin demanded by the Greens. Legal action threatened #Le09
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• Maurice Ahern loses council seat after recount
• Object 21

• Ahern gone #le09
• 9088 tranferred to Ryan from Byrne - De Burca excluded and recount called for.
• 2nd that Suzy. Hoping they shut up shop for the night so I can turn the PC off and go to bed
but don't want to go sleep and miss something
by aoifac
• In Boyle Town Council Roscommon Last Seat been fought out between two FG sitting Cllrs
Gerry Garvey & Charlie Hopkins.le09
by Roscommon LE09
• Thanks Alexia for ur great work
by PatrickSaint
• Hardcore work with marathon roving reporting session, Alexia, thanks and g'night!
by gaelick
• Thanks Alexia your a star
by wendylimerick
• When Rabbitte, Hogan say election was about economy, performance of nat gov etc, place
like Longford contradict that: FF up 1 at least #le09
• Mr Ganley's spokesman said that he was not demanding a recount and the returning officer
was considering his request to check the bundles
• A spokesman for Mr Ganley said he had asked the returning officer to ensure a Ganley
bundle had not been misplaced
• Alexia has been in RDS since 9 this morning and has done an absolutely outstanding job
covering the local counts, recounts, European counts and candidates arrivals there. Brilliant
job!!!!
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• Lexia; are the shutting up shop or are you just tired and work done?
by aoifac
• Roscommon Seats Won: (Awaiting one seat)
Fine Gael: 9 Seats Other: 7 Seats Fianna Fail: 8 Seats Sinn Fein: 1 Labour: 0 Green Party: 0
by Roscommon LE09
• img198.imageshack.us
• Off home. G'night RDS!
• #LE09 Maurice Ahern (FF) has lost his seat in the Cabra-Glasnevin area of Dublin City
Council to Sinn Féin’s Séamus McGrattan
• When Rabbitte, Hogan say election was about economy, performance of nat gov etc, place
like Longford contradict that: FF up 1 at least #le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Clane) 2nd Count #le09 faduda.ie
• Candidates and agents meet about full recount yfrog.com
• New blog post: Kildare (Clane) Weld elected on 1st (yes, 1st!) count #le09 faduda.ie
• Minister Brian Lenihan has said that Fine Gael’s alternative policies don’t add up in
economic terms
• Does anyone know where Cowen and Gormley are 2nite?
by wendylimerick
• There is one more seat to be filled in Roscommon in the Boyle Electoral Area. #le09
by Roscommon LE09
• Labour’s Pat Rabbitte has told RTÉ that this election was about the economy, mortgages,
jobs, and the performance of the Govt
• Euro Dublin 3rd count in: bit.ly - elimination of Deirdre de Burca
• Ganley claiming that 20,000 votes less than rté reported yesterday were actually counted
today. Demanding recount. #le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Kildare) 6th count #le09 faduda.ie
• oiche maith mo chairde....thanks for everything today, honestly the best site i,ve been to for
election news ..... see you all again tomorrow
by philomenaf
• Pat Rabbitte Say " Ganley Wanting Recount is Pure Theatre"#le09
by Roscommon LE09
• Dan Boyle (Green) eliminated in South - counting to resume in the morning
• Euro South 2nd count in: bit.ly
• My posters will be coming down on tuesday evening so i'll twitter the time etc if anybody
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wants one..don't go climbing ladders alone!!
by mannixflynn via twitter at 6/7/2009 9:50:23 PM10:50 PM yesterday
• #LE09 Thomas Pringle (IND) elected to Donegal County Council
• Declan Ganley appears to be raising concerns with Retuning Officer in North West count
• Figures for South 2nd count: Boyle now on 16 250 Burke 54 617 Crowley 119 25 Ferris 65
861 Kelly (alan) 66 121 Kelly (sean) 94 430 O KEeffe 16 896 Sinnot 62 057 Performance
by Sinnot kicks her into pole position once counting resumes tomorrow for that final seat
• New blog post: Counting adjourned at Neptune bit.ly
• Sinnot gets 3k in transfers on first set of eliminations now only 3k behind Kelly/Ferris.
qik.com
• kelly is now just in front of ferris
by philomenaf
• I hope the NW has a senior counsel on hand to tell Ganley where he can shove his pissing
and moaning. #le09
• I think a lot of people must vote for JHR just to shut him up and get him off their door steps.
As they said on RTE over 27,000 people can't be tricked - I wasn't anyway and gladly gave
him my no 1.
Counting suspended in Cork for the night.
by aoifac
• Ah get Jackie Back
by wendylimerick
• counting is suspended untill morning in cork
by philomenaf
• Adrian Kavanagh is suspecting by the way transfers are going, it will depend who gets
eliminated between Burke and Sinnott.
by sazzybm
• Total recount called for DeBurca in Dublin Euro - be here until the wee hours #le09
• Ganley has been acting the drama queen all day. He was threatening High Court injunctions
this morning. #le09
• #LE09 Seán Beirne (FG) and Eugene Murphy (FF) both elected to Roscommon County
Council
• I doubt John Gormley is planning a membership conference as Niall O Brolchain suggested
on RTE. "wide consultation" not the same #le09
by OisinCoghlan via twitter
• dublin euro bundle only recount de B & mcK difference #le09
• Gay Mitchell says they will count for another 3 hours
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by CarlowWeather
• Mary Lou McDonald does not concede and calls for general election
• @Cian The "cat-fight" angle was always going to crowd all other explanations. Not that it
isn't a factor...
• @ Fergal shock as panel on tv underperforms live blog and radio.
• The panel on RTE TV are missing the point re De Burca and her deposit. She won't reach
the 1/4 of the quota on this count, but is hoping to do so if she stays in for another count.
• Blogwatch: Senator Paschal Donohue www.paschaldonohoe.ie
• Blogwatch: Cllr Mary Roche Independent Waterford cllrmaryroche.blogspot.com
• IND MEP candidates Jim Tallon, Micheál Grealy, and Paddy Garvey have been eliminated
in the East constituency after the second count
• Having heard Noel Whelan explain the box mystery, I now think Ganley should STFU. Lib
should have done tallys yesterday if worried. #le09
by astarmain via twitter
• Partial re-check of DeBurca & McKenna votes agreed to in Dublin...going to count for 3
more hours #Le09
• yes ol Cock Roche is a gem!
by PatrickSaint
• We're looking at a live feed of the Ganley Huddle on RTE1. They have an uncertain look
about them.
• Euronews suggesting that the Pirate Party in Sweden may have won a seat. #eu09 #le09
• Dick Roche on Radio 1 sort of paying a compliment to Ganley - it's a Roche special!
• Pat Cox has been doing a long audition for days hasn't he :)
• Yes, no doubt about it— bloggers and tweeters way ahead of the hacks and talking
heads...great sign of the times
by PatrickSaint
• Dublin count of bundles - does not mean full recount. will take 45 minutes
• Pat Cox auditioning to be the FF Commissioner nomination on @RTE_PrimeTime
• There is not going to be a recount overnight
• Dublin is staying up tonight to recount - over past 25 minutes the agents and candidate s-
bundles are going to be recounted.
• NORTH WEST: Libertas has asked for a search for missing bundles of ballot papers that
may have been allocated to wrong candidate
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• The Mouvement Pour France have lost 2 of their three seats since signing up with Libertas.
Poor Declan. He started out with nothing and still has most of it left.
• I'm going to embarrass them by stickying that.
• Early results show that Sweden’s Pirate Party has won a seat on the European Parliament
• any numbers on second and subsequent counts in European Elections?
by Foxy
• Ireland East count suspended for the night as McGuinness' surplus transferred. Back at 9am.
#le09
• @lexia stupendous performance, you. Thanks!
• @lexia well done on all your reporting. Haven't been vocal but have enjoyed and
appreciated your work. Cheers lady. :-)
by manicmammy via twitter
• @lexia @suzybie Thanks for all your work...you out did any of the broadcasters with your
tweets, pics, videos and analysis :-)
• There is a need to debate what was the best source of updates and analysis, cos I believe the
tweets & blogs won hands down #le09
• South finished for night. Ferris still third. Count recommencing in morning @ 8:30am #le09
• #LE09 Fianna Fáil candidates Francis Foley and Michael Collins have retained their seats on
Limerick County Council
• Lexia / Suzy ... you have the stars of the weekend, better than any single radio or tv station,
well done #le09
by bbcpremiership via twitter
• Galway City Council first preference votes online: bit.ly
• Roscomon LE09 many thanks for your updates too!! and yes this was a rehearsal!
• Im finished for the night thanks for a wonderfull election site it was brilliant I really enjoyed
it fair play to all. See you all for the General Election which may not be that far away at all.
#le09
by Roscommon LE09
• George Hook has gone home and Newstalk are on a reloop of this mornThe Mouvement
Pings programming. Switching back to Radio 1
• Counting in the South constituency has been adjourned until 9am tomorrow, when
eliminated Green candidate Dan Boyle’s votes are distributed
• ferris outlines believable path to victory on Radio 1 - Boyle transfers go al over but O
Keeffe falls for her and Crowley. Crowley elected and burke eliminated. Burke shoves Kelly
over the line with large surplus that is good news for Ferris on the tally she has seen. Then
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all bets are off.
• Ah Dec, give it a rest and go back to playing soldiers with the FCA
by Samuel
• Taoireasa Ferris -Calm and considerate on radio 1
by wendylimerick
• Misplacing a bundle of 10,000 votes would be some feat.
by Anita McGarr
• Best of luck to the candidates, their teams, the media, the poor fuckers that are counting and
all the political nerds. Long night ahead!
• A full recheck - not a recount - of the Euro election NW to start tomorrow. Will not take as
long as a recount. #elections
• NORTH WEST: Count suspended & will resume in morning with search for 2 wheelie bins
allegedly containing up to 10,000 Libertas votes!
• Ok it's not news - but Ganley is from a different planet...
• All of it depends on where Mickey Feeney's votes go - it looks like his votes will not benefit
FF colleague Blackie Gavin enough.#elections
• Declan Ganley (Libertas) has said it may take a few hours for the recheck but he is very
satisfied with the situation
• aww now that poor fella ganleys bin done over
by philomenaf
• Home. NN all :)
• Frank Durcan elected in Castlebar, Eugene McCormack looks safe too. Therese Ruane
poised to take the last seat from Gavin #elections
• Ganley laughing like a lunatic at RTE Radio #le09
• Roche suggest libertas spend is 30 million
• 'How's your party Dick' from Ganley to Roche
• this has wheelie bin a mad election
by philomenaf
• 'Dick I've missed you man' Ganley to Roche
• I'm going outside to check my wheelie bin for votes. Will check the recycling bin too just in
case some green votes are in there #le09
• Congrats to to all the livebloggers - it was a great communal effort to bring us the best up to
date coverage from round the country. Well done and I look forward to seeing you in action
again - maybe covering a General Election soon !
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by greenwithenvy
• wheelie bin theory of vote mismanagement - thanks to Declan Ganley
• gonna check my wheelie bin before the council come in the morning!!!! hee hee ya never
know what ya night find in them bins
by philomenaf
• Ganley says 4 eye witnesses say that wheelie bins were messed up, but the 4 were members
of his team
by CarlowWeather
• Ganley spinning his excuse and recheck will be done in morning - not a recount! Ganley
making very clear not a recount. 4 eyewitnesses saw different queues - 4 libertas supporters
saw queues of the bins and think that they got mixed up.
• Votes are in wheelie bins in North West
• Declan Ganley on Radio 1
• RTE playing maurice ahern audio that lexia had ages ago.
• #LE09 James Carroll (FF) and Gerald Nash (Lab) elected to Louth County Council
• Any word about navan co. council
by Caz
• Craving popcorn on the way home
• #LE09 Fine Gael's Gerry Garvey elected to Roscommon County Council
• Night all - thanks again for all the info. Looking forward to a GE soon! #le09
• #LE09 Alan Mitchell (FG) elected to Longford County Council
• From over in Leeds - BNP take first euro seat.
• Could Ganley afford the Supreme Ct to challenge the way ballot boxes are opened? Surely
they just use a pliers on the little padlock? #le09
by ElaineEdwards via twitter
• P.P.S. RT @Mark_Coughlan Ganley arrived in NW w/ rake of legal people accord to PA
journo. Poss full recount. RO also called in legals #le09
• #LE09 Maurice Ahern (FF) said losing his seat was disappointing, and he doubted he would
run again but would go back to being a supporter
• "the most likely errors would be the mixing of the two names with similar starting letters
and general visual structure" - you saying that Deirdre looks like Frank Ross?
by Samuel
• Right, off to catch so much needed sleep - Goodnight and thanks to all!
by gaelick
• Anybody know how voting is going in Beirut? Ooops sorry, wromg scribble live
by WallDorf
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• SOUTH: Count suspended until the morning
• "Following discussions with the returning officer, the Green party had reduced their call for
a full recount to a re-check of the bundles" -- hmm I would have thought a check of de
Rossa's votes for a stray 400 would be more fruitful for them -- the most likely errors would
be the mixing of the two names with similar starting letters and general visual structure.
by WallDorf
• Counting continues in Dublin, while the counts in the South and East have adjourned until
the morning, and counting in the NW remains halted
• Ganley has arrived in NW with a rake of legal people according to a PA journo. Possibly full
recount. RO also called in legals. #le09
• SOUTH: 2nd count now online - bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/7/2009 10:32:44 PM11:32 PM
yesterday
• There is a tradition that on count day, you stop spinning. Candidates successful and
unsuccessful come into broadcast studios and give reasonably honest assessments of
individual constituencies for the first time since the campaign started. The votes have been
cast. There's nothing more to be done. So what on earth is Ganley at? He's still spining as if
there are still votes up for grabs.
• "Following discussions with the returning officer, the Green party had reduced their call for
a full recount to a re-check of the bundles"
by WallDorf
• Following discussions with the returning officer, the Green party had reduced their call for a
full recount to a re-check of the bundles
• So Ganley thinks a bundle went missing. Yesterday a Libertas tallyman told me FF had cut
the phone lines in their office. #le09
• Gay Mitchell (FG) has told RTÉ that bundles are being re-checked in the count centre in
case one has been misplaced
• Suzy, Alexia and Cian have run this liveblog. It has outperformed any other source of
information and original reporting in the entire country. Huge thanks and congratulations.
• To join in go to www.scribblelive.com or put #le09 at the end of your Twitter tweets.
Priority on the liveblog is given to reporting results, trends, happenings in counts and links
to other information online of interest to readers rather than comments and chat.
• #LE09 Paul Connell (IND), Denis Glennon (FF) and Victor Kiernan (FG) elected to
Longford County Council
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:18:43 PM12:18 AM
• Joe Higgins having a good laugh on Radio 1 now #le09
by stepherunie via twitter
• #LE09 Counting has been adjourned for the night in Louth and Offaly
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• Ganley was just on the BBC. Figures he's still in with a chance in North-West
by MichaelJ
• Joe Higgins could give a number 2!
by Simon McGarr at 6/7/2009 11:17:39 PM12:17 AM
• and higgins says your getting me in trouble with the left!!!
by cianflah at 6/7/2009 11:17:14 PM12:17 AM
• Leo Varadkar gave Joe Higgins his number 2...
by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:16:37 PM12:16 AM
• T'land ur election late night thread for a chat url.ie Live blog will be at it again tomorrow -
thnks all for contributing #LE09
by irishelection via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:14:43 PM12:14 AM
• @suzy thanks... btw def going to bed now....goodnight from belfast....
by philomenaf
• Philomena - yes it is - recheck of bundles for de Burca
• Joe Higgins on RAdio 1 - Sean has bucket of Ashe read to go
• is count still goin on in dublin
by philomenaf
• Joe Higgins makes Sean O'Rourke eat humble pie!!
• Good night PJ and thanks so much for all the reporting from Cork today!
• #LE09 Update at midnight: FF (200), FG (318), Labour (126), the Greens (3), SF (50) and
Others (126)
• over and out from Cork .. will be back at Neptune in the AM .. third South seat now being
called for Sinnott with Boyles transfers crucial.. well done to everyone here.. this blog was a
hell of an idea.. can't wait for it at the GE !!
by PJ Coogan
• #LE09 John Boyle (FG), Brendan Byrne (FF) and Sean McEniff (FF) all elected to Donegal
County Council
• with wheels on them bins they could be over the border ny now!!!!!!
by philomenaf
• LOL Ganley got Dick Roche nicely,responding to how poorly Libertas was doing he asked
Dick how his party was doing, touche as Rabbitte said
by CarlowWeather
• Congratulations to Suzy, Alexia and Cian, that really was a fantastic job.
by eamonn cork
• wheelie?@ suzie
by philomenaf
• #LE09 Francis Browne (Lab) elected to Kildare County Council after the tenth count
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 12:32 AM
• Marian Harkin describes Ganley as 'attention grabbing', 'no evidence' of missing votes #le09
by laraaine via twitter
• news from dublin expected at 2 o clock.
by cianflah at 12:32 AM
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• #LE09 Micheál ‘Spike’ Nolan (FG), Tony O’Donnell (FG), Fiona O’Loughlin (FF) and
Suzanne Doyle (FF) all elected to Kildare County Council
• i had me chips. Back at RDS so slow the count #le09
by BrianGreene via twitter at 12:32 AM
• Paschal Mooney on radio1 (after a whole weekend of pap they finally get me hooked whn i
want to turn on dimbleby) paying tribute to politial wife but accepts that The Cope won as
soon as he entered and admits to being annoyed over lack of geographic balance.
• Harkins - if it's not about Ganley it's not happening - she also points to her tallies and shows
that they were very accurate.
by Suzy Byrne at 12:26 AM
• Harkin suggests that Ganley's wheelie bins are an exercise in self indulgence. I cannot
believe the temerity.
• By @enahs @brettmirl no question, he'd be elected in a heartbeat. They love him down
here. #le09
by Locals09 via twitter
• This site has been brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Many thanks to all concerned.
by Padraic Ryan
• New blog post: Kildare (Kildare) 9th count #le09 faduda.ie
• Pat Rabbitte damning Higgins with feint praise on RTE radio #le09
by laraaine via twitter
• It's everyone be nice to Joe Higgins tonight on Radio 1!
by Suzy Byrne at 12:23 AM
• #LE09 Mickey Doherty (FG) and Charlie McConalogue (FF) elected to Donegal County
Council
• #LE09 Paul Connell (IND), Denis Glennon (FF) and Victor Kiernan (FG) elected to
Longford County Council
• Joe Higgins having a good laugh on Radio 1 now #le09
• #LE09 Counting has been adjourned for the night in Louth and Offaly
• Ganley was just on the BBC. Figures he's still in with a chance in North-West
by MichaelJ
• Joe Higgins could give a number 2!
by Simon McGarr at 6/7/2009 11:17:39 PM12:17 AM
• and higgins says your getting me in trouble with the left!!!
• Leo Varadkar gave Joe Higgins his number 2...
• T'land ur election late night thread for a chat url.ie Live blog will be at it again tomorrow -
thnks all for contributing #LE09
by irishelection via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:14:43 PM12:14 AM
• @suzy thanks... btw def going to bed now....goodnight from belfast....
by philomenaf
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• Philomena - yes it is - recheck of bundles for de Burca
• Joe Higgins on RAdio 1 - Sean has bucket of Ashe read to go
• is count still goin on in dublin
by philomenaf
• Joe Higgins makes Sean O'Rourke eat humble pie!!
• Good night PJ and thanks so much for all the reporting from Cork today!
• #LE09 Update at midnight: FF (200), FG (318), Labour (126), the Greens (3), SF (50) and
Others (126)
• over and out from Cork .. will be back at Neptune in the AM .. third South seat now being
called for Sinnott with Boyles transfers crucial.. well done to everyone here.. this blog was a
hell of an idea.. can't wait for it at the GE !!
by PJ Coogan
• #LE09 John Boyle (FG), Brendan Byrne (FF) and Sean McEniff (FF) all elected to Donegal
County Council
• Eaten bread is quickly forgotten.
• not surprised by withdrawal of recount request by DeBurca - but the officiality of our defeat
being complete is Always hard to take #le09
• fg mitchell 104413 Q=101658
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/8/2009 1:15:03 AM2:15 AM
• dub euro FG elected Lab 94306 FF 68517 SP 55116 SF 52447 PMCK 25213 dist FG surplus
now
• Mitchell was elected in Dublin after exceeding the quota by 2,755
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/8/2009 1:06:24 AM2:06 AM
• Fine Gael's Gay Mitchell has been elected in the Dublin constituency on the second count
• Thanks to the dozens of you who've sent messages of congrats. Deeply honoured to be
elected. Looking forward to getting to work! #le09
• Dublin Count is continuing and will conclude tonight.
by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 12:56:06 AM1:56 AM
• BNP leader cites inability of Irish immigrants in Britain to get paid repatriation as example
of racism tinyurl.com
by P O'Neill
• Is Dublin going ahead?
by PatrickSaint
• That thug Griffin's just Got himself Elected - 2 BNP now #le09
• De Burca says half way through it was evident that she would not gain enough additional
votes to allow her claim a portion of her expenses
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• Labour in the UK are doing extraordinarily badly: in both the SE and SW regions, they came
in fifth, with 8 [EIGHT]%...
by scow
• Deirdre De Burca has withdrawn her request for a re-check of ballot bundles in the Dublin
constituency
• whole dublin count done tonight is the returning offcers plan that means another few counts
to come. and no result for at least two hours.
by cianflah at 6/8/2009 12:38:46 AM1:38 AM
• So, De Burca's votes are currently being reallocated, yeah? And, is the plan to break for the
night, once that is done? Or is the Returning Officer - Fitzpatrick? - planning to finish the
whole thing tonight?
by Padraic Ryan
• UK Lab beaten all over the place by, well, everyone.
• @greenparty_ie French greens did well by avoiding national political positions and focusing
on ecology as the core issue
by P O'Neill
• the cure, thompson twins, CdeB all seen here in the RDS
• There is still a recount under way in the Dublin Euro constituency for more go to
www.RTÉ.ie/elections
• The Britain vote counts are very interesting. Note 1st BNP MEP. tinyurl.com
by P O'Neill
• @cianflah Ta, but not intentional. Just did top up. Despite surge in UK's green vote, they
won't increase on 2 MEPs. Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden
all increase representation. France more than doubles no of MEPs and becomes joint second
largest party there. DC
by greenparty_ie
• declan ganley sowing tactical doubt, he decided to query the count months ago im sure
by lostexpectation
• Amazing - RTE.ie's Election Tracker has no mention of de Burca conceding!
by Alexia Golez at 6/8/2009 12:22:33 AM1:22 AM
• Quality timing there Green party twitter
• Seriously. Although, poor Sean and Rachel sounded a bit jaded by the end. And the bowsies
they had in studio with them sounded like they might have been about to get out of hand.
Wonderful moment, when Rachel English had to tell them to quiet down...
by Padraic Ryan
• Bucking trend in Ireland, Euro Greens set for apr 49 seats, up from 34 seats held in 04. G-
EFA group will grow to apr 53 seats. #le09 #egp
by greenparty_ie via twitter
• Bed.
by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 12:15:29 AM1:15 AM
• Have FF given up on Eoin 'Smells of Death' Ryan now? Dermot Ahern was telling us only
Sat morn that he was the real bellweather for FF #le09
• Had a chuckle at Michael Collins being elected as an FF councillor in Limerick. I really
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need to go to sleep. #le09
• deburca conceeds bundle recount. On with elims #le09
• Turns on BBC News - time for Dimbleby moments #le09
• for election junkies refusing sleep news.bbc.co.uk dimbleby et. al.
by cianflah edited by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 12:11:48 AM1:11 AM
• #Padraic me too as long as we hear what is going on! RTE off air with a live count ongoing.
Not good enough.
• I like the idea of a Diehard Returning Officer.
by Padraic Ryan
• #LE09 Counting has been adjourned in the Dunshaughlin and Clane electoral areas until
10am
• @suzybie tnxxx
• Sean O'Rourke just made a good point - if one of the opposition parties tabled a motion in
the Dáil next week to bring back the Christmas bonus then it's very likely that it would
pass.c
by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 12:02:26 AM1:02 AM
• Padraic even longer than that I'd say
• The count is going to go on until 3am?
by Padraic Ryan
• @suzybie will tweet the RDS news #le09
• thats www.scribd.com/stephen douglas or tinyurl.com
by Waterfire
• Dublin count will not go home for the night -we will get result (3.30 mentioned but really
could be much longer)
• @suzybie any chance you could retweet the mad deburca video i tweeted
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/7/2009 11:58:05 PM12:58 AM
• I have put a pdf of entire live blog up on www.scribeeeed.com douglas
by Waterfire edited by Simon McGarr
• Lost votes in Wheelie bins my arse. It's attention grabbing clinging to fringe support. #le09
#eu09
by MabroIRL via twitter edited by Simon McGarr
• Dog tired all of yesterday. SF knock out FF in my local election ward.
by Paschald via twitter at 6/8/2009 5:41:23 AM6:41 AM
• 848 of the 883 seats have now been filled in the local elections #LE09
• All 3 seats in Dublin filled with FG's Gay Mitchell, LAB's Proinsias De Rossa and the
Socialist Party's Joe Higgins being elected
• joe higgins elected
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• @scow MLMCD transfers should be counted next as the De Rossa surplus is too small at
this stage to change the candidate ranking
by Peter Kelly
• mlmcd is counted out at www.rte.ie
by lostexpectation
• www.rte.ie
by lostexpectation
• For the Dublin count, if De Rossa is elected and MLM is eliminated on the same count,
whose transfers get counted first?
by scow
• Brian, can you give us a rough guide as to the ratio of transfer between Joe and Eoin?
by patm
• SF transfer to SP in Dublin West in 2007 General Election was 34.7% - a similar transfer
rate this time would leave Higgins approx 3,000 votes clear of Ryan #le09
by Peter Kelly
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• edglng closer to 3rd seat dublin euro SP need to close 113
• derossa elected
• For the latest results overnight go to the results’ pages on www.rte.ie/elections
• What is the state of play now?
by Iceman
• Brian, do you mean sorting as in Macdonald is definitely out of it?
by Padraic Ryan
• yeah we're still waiting, 70 watchers @briangreene
by lostexpectation
• they are sorting mcdonnald votes now. McKenna dist not called yet. Odd #le09
• So whats happening?
by Iceman
• i interviewed patrica mckenna. Seems she will get expenses :)
• eoin ryan is now in RDS #LE09
• New interviews with Gay Mitchell about his election and Deirdre De Burca about the re-
check tinyurl.com
• “Coughlan is clueless and inept. You just don’t let her out. You don’t want her on the door
for fear of what she might say. When did you see her out during the campaign?” one Dublin
councillor fumed yesterday. From Hennessy's article in the Irish Times www.irishtimes.com
• Gay Mitchell has said comments from Dr Garrett FitzGerald that people should give
transfers to pro-Lisbon parties made him nervous
• Good article by Mark Hennessy in tomorrow's Irish Times about the anger among FF
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councillors who feel they were thrown to the wolves and are furious with Cowen:
www.irishtimes.com
by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 1:38:44 AM2:38 AM
• Gay Mitchell said the fact more people voted for him that could fit into Croke Park was
really pleasing
• Fine Gael MEP Gay Mitchell has said he is delighted to be re-elected for Dublin, he said he
never had a doubt the party would get a seat
• Photos from Ireland East (EU) and Kildare local counts #le09 @MickFealty #EU09 bit.ly
• i'm beating @rte_elections in RDS. Thumbs v PCs.
• #LE09 In the local elections, 838 of the 883 seats have now been filled, counting is
continuing in the 11 local constituencies
• South Dublin County Council full counts online: bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter edited by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 1:16:44 AM2:16 AM
• just spotted two wheelie bins being loaded into council dump this morning 7.45am
belfast!!!!
by philomenaf
• @briangreene yes brian heard it, they said you have been picked to go jump into the wheelie
beins with declan hanley!!! haha
by philomenaf
• Back in Punchestown waiting for Ireland East count to resume. Childers & Aylward to be
elected around 3pm, if eliminations smooth. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/8/2009 8:08:43 AM9:08 AM
• Coverage of the election counts will resume on RTE 1 television at noon with a special
programme www.rte.ie/live
• Morning all from Neptune .. will keep you posted during the morning...
by PJ Coogan
• RT: @davidcochrane Joe Higgins MEP! Wow! #le09
• European election: Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, says that the establishment has a lot to fear
from him going to Europe
• @votejoehiggins congrats. well done team.
• 98FM said something about me around 7am. perhaps something not so nice, anyone hear
it???
• Joe Higgins MEP! #le09
by fearraigh via twitter
• Joe Higgins MEP! Wow! #le09
by davidcochrane via twitter
• Morning, delighted Higgins got the 3rd seat in Dublin but what's Ganley playing at in NW?
#le09 #eu09
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• European election: The count to decide NI's three representatives in the European
Parliament will get under way in Belfast at 9am
• I left the RDS with 40+ comrades singing the Internationale to the echo of an empty steel
portal warehouse. spine tingling [-_-]
• Dog tired all of yesterday. SF knock out FF in my local election ward.
• 848 of the 883 seats have now been filled in the local elections #LE09
• All 3 seats in Dublin filled with FG's Gay Mitchell, LAB's Proinsias De Rossa and the
Socialist Party's Joe Higgins being elected
• joe higgins elected
• @scow MLMCD transfers should be counted next as the De Rossa surplus is too small at
this stage to change the candidate ranking
by Peter Kelly
• hy is the count so slow in Meath? Still only 2 out of 7 seats filled! #le09
• @cianflah No - my understanding is he loses his Dail seat at the moment he's elected to the
EP. By election in October w/Lisbon? #le09
• rte saying still another 34 seats yet to be filled????
by philomenaf
• figures expected shortly in South..
by PJ Coogan
• Pat The Cope Gallagher - is that his actual name? Does it say "The Cope" on his passport?
#le09
• The final breakdown of county council seats is FG 17; FF 7, Independents 5; SF 2. A Fine
Gael overall majority secured. #elections
by themayonews via twitter at 6/8/2009 9:13:43 AM10:13 AM
• WHEELIE BIN ALERT! wheelie bins have now been emptied in north, all that remains is
two empty crisp packets and a yoghurt wrapper...sorry declan
by philomenaf
• Declan Ganley has told RTÉ that it’s a re-check and not a re-count, and he will accept the
final results when every vote has been counted
• @ubfid The byelection results don't seem to be headlining - I thought gov majority dropping
to only 3 is a bigger deal than coverage #le09
by AMcDermott via twitter
• Ganley on Radio 1 - Wheelie bin expert Election 2009 #le09
• @suzybie oooooo!!
by lexia via twitter at 6/8/2009 9:08:04 AM10:08 AM
• will prob have to wait untill the fourth count before the first mep elected here in north
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by philomenaf
• Still can't get over Jim's election. Campaign 2014 starts today. For the FF party, a long day
of reflection most certainly needed. #LE09
• #le09 thanks to all involved in the tweets its been a great weekend, don't know what im
going to read about now!
• Confirmed local election results at 10am: FG 325, FF 209, Lab 129, SF 52, GP 3, Oth 131
#le09
• www.irishtimes.com the Dail arithmetic is gonna be well tight when we talk about budget
cuts next december
• Counting has resumed in the South constituency for the European Parliament, with the
distribution of votes for Dan Boyle (Greens)
• #gaeilge #gael #le09 #ep09 maith sibh na Gaeil a chuaigh sa bhearna baoil - sibhse nár
eirigh libh ach go h-áiri.. short.ie
• any news on the ferris etc progress in the south?
by philomenaf
• morning lexia, c,mon girl some humour needed this morning after all the serious stuff is
outta the way, some funny pics perhaps? and congrats to joe higgins!!!
by philomenaf
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• On Saturday Cllr Flynn (SEIC) declared for Mayor of Dublin. He must be the first candidate
in the field, officially? #le09
by humphreys via twitter
• "Suzy, Alexia and Cian have run this liveblog. It has outperformed any other source of
information and original reporting in the entire country. Huge thanks and congratulations."
by twentymajor
• Morning update is.gd Seats: FG 325, FF 209, Lab 129, Other 131, SF 52, GP 3 Liveblog at
it again today is.gd #LE09
by irishelection via twitter at 6/8/2009 8:52:03 AM9:52 AM
• @BrianGreene great work through the night :)
by lexia via twitter at 6/8/2009 8:51:23 AM9:51 AM
• twitpic.com - Joe Higgins MEP
• Morning from Castlebar. Rechecking of ballots about to begin. Expected to take 4 hours.
#le09
• Counting has resumed in the European constituency of Ireland East as the votes of three
eliminated independents are being distributed
• Feck. Gone to work but forgot to check the wheelie bin #le09
• Declan Ganley (Libertas) has begun a further set of discussions with the returning officer on
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how the spot checks will be carried out
• Really enjoyed following the election coverage on twitter over the weekend. Nice one to all
who contributed. #LE09 #EU09.
by zoodigital via twitter
• what are the chances that Pat 'the cope' might stay in the Dail out of a duty to FF and his
substitute heads to Brussles? Small possibilty but the rumour is gaining traction it seems.
• RT @sendboyle: @ubfid That may be the case, but it's unlikely that Colm Burke can make
up the difference on Kathy Sinnott. #le09
• It came at Therese Ruane's expense. The Sinn Fein lady looked a safe bet all day until
Mickey Feeney's votes helped Gavin over. #elections
• @ubfid Ah, go for it. I've been keeping away from #le09 news til now (I sometimes like fait
accompli rather than piecemeal election news)
by AMcDermott via twitter
• We were offline when it happened but the final seat in Mayo County Council was a shock -
Blackie Gavin achieving a rare FF gain #elections
• Interesting aspect of the Fianna FAIL is damage 2 dynasties; Martin, Ahern, Ryan. Ppl seem
to be voting4intelligence rather then connections
• wake up little suzy wake up!!!! maidin maith from belfast...all go here this morning with
sinn fein topping poll
by philomenaf
• Glad to see FF wipeout in local elections, mwwaahaha. #le09
by juliedeb via twitter
• scrap the 98FM challenge I got it. Fr. Brian Stuff! LOL
• Eoin Ryan seemed to hint strongly on RTE Morning Ireland that he'd run in DSE in the next
General Election. Bye, bye Chris Andrews #le09
• @suzybie I'm tempted to make a bin tax joke...
• @suzybie @lexia are the heroes of #LE09 coverage. Congrats ladies.
by rdelevan via twitter
• in bed still. Any sign of the wheelie bins? #le09
• The reason the @greenparty_ie done so badly in the election -> "If you lie down with dogs,
you get up with fleas" #le09
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• @mediabite I thought an MEP's job was to work hard for her constituents, not her party
#le09
• Myles Dungan calls Joe Higgins a "political Sylvester Stallone".. Waiting on Photoshops!
• Across Europe ALDE only of 11% of the Vote, EPP-ED are on 36.3%, Greens on 6.9%.
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Labour's Paul Bell has been elected to Louth County Council
• Fair play to Mairead McGuinness for putting Doyle in her place.
by Bazalini
• I think Ferris is just after doing Mary Lou more damage on RTE Radio by dragging up the
attendace and maternity leave issue. Mairead sounds great on the Radio. And fair play to her
for declaring that she wont run for GE while she is in Europe.
by sazzybm
• @athtrasna I dunno: Kelly camp'nd in Cork even while Burke was pushing the "real MEP"
crap. There was a lot of Kelly camp'g in Ccity #le09
• @lexia some sleep would be nice. sister in law will take 3 kids off me at 12, 4 hrs kip :)
• @kingkane Fair point but Phelan is a strong 4th & McG is transfer friendly. If more of the
FG core had gone to him he could have won. #le09
• @susanokeeffe's checked now. Doing McNamara, then Gallagher I think #le09
• @jemimakiss born not conceived, they aren't giving them away so!
• ALDE - liberal grouping
• Which European Parliment party is FF afiliated with?
by sazzybm
• Mairead McGuinness has said on RTE that she will not run in a Dail election. #le09
• Fourth Count underway in Ireland East as Raymond O'Malley (Libertas) is eliminated.
Expecting this count to take two hours or so. #le09
• Around 5,500 votes separate Alan Kelly (Lab), Toireasa Ferris (SF) and Kathy Sinnott
(IND), but the third seat remains too close to call
• RT@fionalooney Joe Higgins! Yay!
• @dlooney we held a bin truck in Santry. depending on wind they could smell it in county
Hall. that was the longest held truck of them all
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• Dust still settling following weekend's count, some still ongoing, we've more pics from last
night in the RDS Euro count url.ie
by labour via twitter
• @samuelbowman, it was the lack of a Green vote in East that meant the Labour vote was
higher. 2 seats from 40% is veryvery hard to do #le09
• New blog post: Kildare (Clane) 4th Count #le09 faduda.ie
• Councillor convicted of fraud tops poll - bit.ly #le09
by dariuswirl via twitter
• FG's vote management has been appalling for the Euros. Burke & Phelan could easily have
been elected if they'd thought more tactically #le09
• 'The only thing that will be found at the bottom of a wheelie bin in Castlebar today will be
Ganley's Euro ambitions' hrd on Radio 1 #LE09
• Over 15,500 votes were spoiled in the NW, more than the total votes received by the four
lowest-polling European candidates
• @Paschald - You must be tired. Keep active and get in at the GE. A Good showing.
by Bazalini
• Ned O’Keeffe (FF) has told RTE he believes his transferred votes will boost FF European
running mate Brian Crowley over the quota
• #LE09 Al McDonnell (FF), Cyril Burke (FG), Frank Durcan (IND), Blackie K Gavin (FF),
Eugene McCormack (FG) all elected to Mayo Co Council
• #LE09 Eddie Staunton (FG), Jarlath Munnelly (FG), Annie May Reape (FF), Seamus Weir
(FG) and Gerry Ginty (IND) elected to Mayo Co Council
• Audio of Declan 'wheelie bins' ganley from last night via RTE site. is.gd #LE09
• has patricia byrne been eliminated yet?
by philomenaf
• Election 09: Alan Kelly still in contention to take third European seat tinyurl.com
by Limerick_Leader via twitter
• Audio of Declan 'wheelie bins' ganley from last night via RTE site. is.gd #LE09
• is it me or are RTE way behind? Have all the Local council seats been filled? Listening to
Ned O'Keeffe on RTE Radio. refusing to admit defeat and fully supports the Taoiseach.
Again I ask, what planet?
by sazzybm
• Task of the week:poster removal. All must be down by Friday.
• Ned O’Keeffe (FF) has been eliminated from the count for the South constituency
• Morning all. Well done to everyone who kept updating through the night. I Agree with
UnaRocks. Its about time people voted for politians with Brains rather than someones father
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or brother!!!! And news from The South yet. Nothing on RTE? will they have any coverage?
by sazzybm
• Seats filled to date in local elections:fg-325, ff-209,lab-125,other-131,sf-52,greens-3
by dinglenews via twitter at 6/8/2009 9:32:03 AM10:32 AM
• New blog post: O' Keeffe eliminated bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/8/2009 9:28:23 AM10:28 AM
• RT @lexia: Liveblog has the Ireland South Count 3 numbers #le09 bit.ly
• @cianflah Of course, The Cope could always run for the by election, in which case Paschal
Mooney would become the MEP. #le09
• Sorry, meant to say 2 out of 7 filled in Dunshaughlin lea of Meath CoCo #le09
• @pjcoogan hows ferris holding up?
by philomenaf
• #LE09 Update at 10:20 - FF (209), FG (325), Lab (129), Green (3), SF (52), Others (131)
• @krayZpaving or with GE next Spring? #LE09
by cianflah via twitter at 6/8/2009 9:19:21 AM10:19 AM
• O'Dea on Newstalk #le09 Politcians hate being unpopular seemingly
• #LE09 Michael O'Dowd (FG) re-elected to Louth County Council
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:18:24 AM12:18 PM
• FF’s Eoin Ryan has said he is immensely proud of his time representing his constituency in
Europe and was disappointed to lose his seat
• meanwhile hear us sing (shout) the internationale as we leave an empty RDS bit.ly
by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:13:23 AM12:13 PM
• uploading 13mins of ~HQ video of Joe Higgins declaration & press talk. about 2hrs. see
fazebuck.com
• interview with Patricia McKenna at 3am. bit.ly
[MP3]
• @stretchneil Ganley's not used to not being in control of what's happening. A new
experience for him. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:03:03 AM12:03 PM
• #LE09 28 seats still to be filled on local authorities as 9 counts remain open
• The re-check of bundles of votes in the NW began shortly after 10.30am and is expected to
conclude around 2pm this afternoon
• South .. 3rd count .. Ferris +1443 .. 67,304 Alan Kelly +2562.. 69,683 Sinnott +2238..
64,295.. Sinnot didn't get as big a transfer as might have been expected .. theoretically these
figures favour Alan Kelly at the moment. Ned O'Keeffe has now been eliminated. He has
17,124 papers.. he will almost unquestionably elect Crowley who currently has 122,404..
but where his vote goes after that will be interesting.. smart money beginning to shift
towards Alan Kelly now in the longer term..
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• @mediabite Recheck: Verify the number of votes in each bundle. Recount: Verify that each
vote is in the right bundle #le09
• @mediabite Recheck: Counting bundles of votes rather than the votes themselves &
checking they are labelled correctly. Much faster. #le09
• New blog post: Crowley elected corkpolitics.ie
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/8/2009 10:48:23 AM11:48 AM
• only 7 seats left to be filled. RTE tweets are behind the RTE website.
by sazzybm
• My obsession with politics and it's related fields over the last two weeks has been to the
detriment of my obsession with online media.
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/8/2009 10:45:03 AM11:45 AM
• Next count in South is Crowleys surplus
by PJ Coogan
• The ten remaining MEP seats have yet to be filled
• Crowley elected in South .. 132,410 after Ned O'Keeffe's papers distributed.. he got 10,006
by PJ Coogan
• Brian Crowley (FF) has passed the quota and has been re-elected to his MEP seat
• Brian Crowley elected in South
• Feel free to pop over to the morning thread for a chat www.irishelection.com
• Can we keep numbers, reports, pictures and live updates coming in and less of a chatroom
please? Thanks to everyone sending us reports from around the country. You're making sure
we're beating mainstream media in turnaround time!
• The EU results website is making out that FG have4 seats?????? Im so confused
by sazzybm
• will burke be gone next?
by sazzybm
• Wheels have fallen off the libertas bus. Perhaps we should be asked to vote again when
recheck done! #le09
by susanokeeffe via twitter
• IT: S&P downgrades Ireland's debt rating: Ireland’s credit rating was lowered by Standard &
Poor’s for the se.. tinyurl.com
by freenews via twitter
• Govt will be delighted to hear that S&P have downgraded Ireland sovereign debt rating
again according to AFP now at AA from AA+
by cianflah via twitter at 6/8/2009 10:30:00 AM11:30 AM
• DUBLIN: Final Euro result - Mitchell, de Rossa, Higgins elected - bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter at 6/8/2009 10:29:23 AM11:29 AM
• According to breakingnews.ie Burke on 57,190 after 3rd count #le09
• Right now, ScribbleLive is showing 116 watchers of this liveblog. In comparison, the
Guardian's Election Liveblog, promoted on its site and with all of the UK as its audience has
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25 watchers right now.
• @irlef2009 I'm showing that with a more effective vote split it still wouldn't happen. I'm
arguing against the auntie balls position #le09
• Libertas candidate Raymond O’Malley’s votes are being distributed in the Ireland East
constituency
• still looking for Burke's figures from the 3rd count in South? #le09
• @faduda The tone of the coverage of Ryan was completely different. Huge hypocrisy by
Harney attacking MLM was given prominence eg #le09
by mediabite via twitter
• According to the EU Results website FF are with UEN. They no of seat for each party
doesnt seem to be updated.According to it the Greens still have 1 seat and FG have 4 etc. So
I dont think we should go by it. Unless they are assuming whos going to get in.
by sazzybm
• marylou is a tireless worker and i also congratulate joe, just wondering how many transfers
of marylou, s did joe get?
by philomenaf
• @kingkane And if me auntie had balls she'd be me uncle :-) #le09
• FG’s Enda Kenny has said that the Green Party had no courage and was just remaining in
Govt out of a sense of self preservation
• @mediabite Get over yourself. Are you seriously saying Ryan got an easy ride? #le09
• First time ever heard of an MEP being pilloried for working hard for her party! Media band
wagon against MLM for sure. #le09
• What was the no of votes for burke after the 3rd count?
by sazzybm
• @samuelbowman say if he had gotten 18 and she 22, Alyward still has transfers to come
from Byrne and Childers is vote friendly too. #le09
• @faduda And FF MEPs don't work for their party?!? This is pro Lisbon withchunt of an
effective No campaigner - fed to gullible media.#le09
• QFT: RT @faduda: I thought an MEP's job was to work hard for her constituents, not her
party #le09
• Joe Higggins on RTE with Myles. Good man Joe! #le09
• É's Tommie Gorman says the second and third seats in Northern Ireland are likely to be
decided by three unionist candidates
by RTE_Elections via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:15:43 PM1:15 PM
• The Returning Officer for the North-West has said he is hoping to conclude the count in
Castlebar today
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• Garrett Fitzgerald on Newstalk.. "on this performance, FF would only get 52 seats in a GE"..
by PJ Coogan
• The Gap is narrowing in the race for the third seat in the South, but Colm Burke's votes will
not decide it
• Green leader John Gormley has said that the party would review the programme for Govt
but is committed to being in Govt
• New blog post: Doyle (FF) elected in Kildare (Clane) 8th Count #le09 faduda.ie
• South 4th count (Distribution of Ned O'Keeffe's vote).. Crowley +10,006.. 132,410 elected..
Burke +694.. 57,884 Ferris +992.. 68,296 Kelly (A) +626.. 70,309 Kelly (S) +1,329 ..
97,482 Sinnott +1,223.. 65,518 .. Next operation to distribute Crowleys surplus of 7,878.
Alan Kelly increasingly favourite for third seat
by PJ Coogan edited by Alexia Golez
• @suzybie Wooooooooooooooo!! Thanks for that!!! :)
by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:02:44 PM1:02 PM
• #LE09 Update at 13:00 FF (210), FG (328), LAB (130) Green (3) SF (52) OTH (133). 27
seats have yet to be filled
• Anyone know how many seats Libertas has won across Europe?
• Colm Burke’s (FG) votes will be distributed in the next count of the South constituency
• New blog post: Burke eliminated bit.ly
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:56:43 AM12:56 PM
• RTE are finished!!!! Oh for crying out loud!!!!
by sazzybm
• @endac that should be burke not O'Keefe. O'keefe has been eliminated
by Stephen Spillane via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:53:04 AM12:53 PM
• On next count in South Kelly will be elected on Burkes elimination.
• Minister Dick Roche (FF) has said that Joe Higgins (SP) has nothing to offer the people
• Joe Higgins (SP) has said the years he spent taking on the Govt made an impression on
voters who see him as a voice for their frustrations
• Ireland East: Sharkey (SF) eliminated. 5th count on. Can Funchion & Byrne can be
eliminated together on 6th count? #le09
• Joe Higgins MEP on RTE1 now #le09
• RT @brianpcleary: Just found around 10,000 Declan Ganley votes in my wheelie bin.
Should I tell him? Nah, I won't bother #le09
• Joe behan and Michael Lowry... kingmakers?
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:48:24 AM12:48 PM
• No candidate has reached the quota after the fourth count in the East, so Tomás Sharkey’s
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• RT @RTE_Elections: If Pat the Cope Gallagher is elected to the European Parliament, the
Govt’s majority in the Dáil will be reduced it to 2
• If Pat the Cope Gallagher (FF) is elected to the European Parliament, the Govt’s majority in
the Dáil will be reduced it to 2
• Pat The Cope will stop being a TD the minute he is declared elected to European Parliament.
by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 11:42:22 AM12:42 PM
• Pat the Cope Gallagher (FF) says that he would be surprised now if he does not take a
European seat in the North West
• #le09 #ep09 #gaeilge #gael don olltoghchán atá ag teacht - luath nó mall? Mar chúiteamh ar
an easpa ar TG4. http.. tinyurl.com
• #gaeilge #gael #le09 #ep09 maith sibh na Gaeil a chuaigh sa bhearna baoil - sibhse nár
eirigh libh ach go h-áiri.. tinyurl.com
• The first N Ire count is expected to be completed around 2pm with SF’s Bairbre de Brun on
course to top the poll and exceed the quota
• apologies for not responding to people yesterday but was tweeting by txt. #le09
• Morning all. not at count centre, not sure if i will be today. not feeling the best. :(
• Brian Crowley on the telly with a repeat of the ard fheis backdrop of staring weirdos... No
one fell over though
by delexical
• one voter in NI spoiled their vote by writing a 2 page essay on why they are not giving
anyone a 1st preference! Brilliant. NI count seems better organised that ours.
by sazzybm
• Dick Roche saying that Govs across europe are taking a hammering in EU elections. to try
and take the spot light off how badly FF have done. Ruiri Quinn is saying that FF never put
the country first.
by sazzybm
• Ruairí Quinn (Lab) had said the Govt is unpopular because it’s unpopular and is being seen
as corrupt, due to the Tribunals
• 4th count going very slowly in Ireland East. Looking like 17:00 for result if lucky, 19:00 or
20:00 if not. #le09
• SF's Adams and DeBruin arriving at count centre. They have security there!!! Even BBC are
saying FF are in Downfall!!! still north south divid, southern voters wary of voting for SF.
by sazzybm
• Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny has said that the dominance of Fianna Fáil has been smashed
• On Newstalk O'Dea is blaming the media for FF failing in the election.Laughable.#le09
by judehamilton via twitter
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• O' Dea: 'everyone in favour of hard decisions until affected themselves. ' More true of FF
politicians than anyone else. #le09
• New media junkies answer me this: Which three blog posts/articles on the topic from the
last two weeks I should read IYO?
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:24:03 AM12:24 PM
• Ditribution of Crowley's surplus, they dont think sinnott and burke will transfer to Ferris. It
looks like A Kelly might take the 3rd seat, but really could depend on transfers. Only 5000
in it!!!
by sazzybm
• NI still doesnt even have a 1st count. SF DeBruin is looking good. They reckon 26-28% of
vote, but thats only going by tallies, according to BBC
by sazzybm
• My long-time Numbercruncher in Chief, Finbarr Kiely advises me on the latest figures in
South that Sinnot may well come back. Crowleys surplus may close the gap significantly
between her and Ferris (it's currently under 3,000).. Then Burke will go out and it's all to
play for again.. watch this space !!
by PJ Coogan
• New blog post: Kildare (Clane) 7th Count #le09 faduda.ie
• brun elected on first count with 126,1841... uota was 121,144, dup 88,000 nicholson on
82.....
by philomenaf
• @krayZpaving I know he won't but he has the power to - if he wanted to... the gov isn't
popular, won't look good on him if FG use it against
by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:59:43 PM1:59 PM
• @Mark_Coughlan Behan won't pull the Gov't down. May not be as hardcore as Healy-Rae,
but he's still FF. #le09
by krayZpaving via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:57:43 PM1:57 PM
• Wexford Borough Council likely to be full recount. 3 candidates 4 votes apart for last seat
(Green, @labour & Ind). #le09
• @BrianGreene oh both - esp the singing though, how come RTE didn't get video?
by lexia via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:56:23 PM1:56 PM
• #LE09 Fianna Fáil's Liam Doyle has been elected to Kildare County Council
• Surely someone else must have noticed this idea that the motion of no confidence MIGHT
POSSIBLY pass? I must have something wrong... surely.
• RT @
Mark_Coughlan Gov have 3-vote majority inc Behan, Lowry and Healy-Rae. Lowry=Poss
switch, H-R=Never, Behan=Maybe. IF Behan and Low ...
by aoifecarroll via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:51:04 PM1:51 PM
• Sinn Fein's Bairbre De Brun has topped the poll and been elected on the first count in
Northern's Ireland's European Election
• Joe Higgins declaration press talk uncut bit.ly
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by BrianGreene via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:43:43 PM1:43 PM
• Rumour .. and I stress RUMOUR that Ferris has done very well from Burke .. Health
Warning !!
by PJ Coogan
• Anyone know where I find town council election results? #LE09
by tomponsonby via twitter
• @lexia thanks, the singing or the interview? BTW IrishElection Live bloggers you all
rocked the online vote. btw where was rockDAvote?baby!
• John Gormley will be on Newstalk later at apr 5, on Today FM at apr 5.30, and on Q&A
tonight at 10.30pm to discuss impact of #le09.
• Garret giving Eamonn Ryan a major lecture on NT !!! Man against Boy :)
by PJ Coogan
• bed now! I hope liveline is on so I can turn it off and sleep. please no junkie politico radio
extended lunch. please I need to crash
• Dermot Ahern has insisted that the Government has not lost the confidence of the people
• @gavreilly O Sullivan said yesterday that Tony's mindset was always anti-gov and she'd
follow that...
• @handelaar The Copes vote is gone once he's in Europe. So FG dont need Healy to vote for
them, just Behan.
• David Davin Power says you can't say with certainty there won't be a general but in the short
term there's no mechanism to bring it forward
• Independent TD Noel Grealish tells Sean O'Rourke that all the former PD councilors were
elected in Galway
• Behan could bring down the government tomorrow if he was so minded says
@markcoughlan #LE09 is.gd
by irishelection via twitter at 6/8/2009 12:31:23 PM1:31 PM
• Arthur McDonald also says it was a mistake that Fianna Fáil went into power with the
Green Party
• On rte news at 1 now - apparently FF have done badly in election because of Greens.
(according to some FF councillor) #le09 hilarious
by enahs via twitter
• Who is the man on radio 1 giving out about the evil Greens?
by wendylimerick
• @Suzy .. what's more, it would be only a fool who would try to compete with him.. the guys
personal vote is beyond scary
by PJ Coogan
• And Crowley would probably win Aras vote as well
by wendylimerick
• Arthur McDonald, FF National Councillors’ Organisation, says he does not trust the
Opposition with a five-year term and an overall majority
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• Yay. The MIA Ep 13 (#le09 special) of @TheEmergency is at last on itunes etc. Or just
listen here twurl.nl retweets welcome :)
• Gov haeve 3-vote majority inc Behan, Lowry and Healy-Rae. Lowry=Poss switch, H-
R=Never, Behan=Maybe. IF Behan and Lowry switch then...?
• #le09 Graph of distribution of transfers in Euro Election Munster up to count 5
www.johnbrowne.ie
• Garrett FitzGerald suggests that Labour support is 16% higher than the Locals are showing.
Due to a lack of Labour candidates to mop up votes and conversely, FF are showing too
show high!
by Alexia Golez at 6/8/2009 12:24:28 PM1:24 PM
• RTE radio are gunning to find out who will be the next presidential candidate, they asked
Mairead McGuinness the same thing. Id vote for Mairead! Id leave the country if Bertie ran.
BBC had a good poke at FF and the Greens
by sazzybm
• @PJ I know - the way he feigns it off it getting more irritating than he is - which is difficult
to achieve.
by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 12:24:05 PM1:24 PM
• Blogwatch: Cllr . Joe Ryan cllrjoeryan.blogspot.com
• Suzy, take it as given .. Crowley will go for the Park.. dogs in the street believe it here on
Leeside..
by PJ Coogan
• Eamon Ryan on Newstalk now!
• Election coverage now on the News at One with Sean O'Rourke listen to it live online
www.rte.ie/radio
• Crowley tries to avoid question on presidency campaign - RTE Radio 1
• RT @gamgob: RTE 1, News at 1, 'the green party has effectively been wiped-out' #le09
• My election post url.ie #le09
by mor_rigan via twitter
• History made! Bairbre de Brún topped the poll in the North's EU election making Sinn Féin
the largest party in the North for the 1st time.
1 minute ago from web
by philomenaf
• #LE09 Counts are going in nine local electoral areas
• Anie Lawlor Morning Ireland must have said Joe higgins "independent socialist" 4 times if
not more this AM. He's SP. not Kemmy or a Gregory
• Gay Mitchell (FG) has told RTÉ Fine Gael and Labour should make an effort to present a
plan for an alternative government
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by philomenaf
• Loads of people are ringing in Joe Duffy, saying they switched their vote from green to
either labour or FG because they dont want the greens proping up FF. Another caller
accusing FF of scare mongering. looks like dissolusioned voters swung to labour and
socialist.
by sazzybm
• 80 VOTES MISSING IN NORTH!!!!!!!
by philomenaf
• Hows it going in Cork and the East. Could be days before we get a count from NW if
Ganley continues to stall. Just checked my wheely bin. Nothing there.
by sazzybm
• South Count anyone?
by sazzybm
• Woooo! Liam Quinn former VP of YFG elected in Offaly! #le09
• #LE09 Nichola Hogan (FG), Ger Plunkett (FF), and Liam Quinn (FG) all elected to Offaly
County Council
• Initial tallies showed a high rate of transfers from Byrne to Aylward, so Liam Aylward could
move into second place by the next count.
• Fianna Fáil's second candidate in the European Parliament Ireland East, Thomas Byrne,
constituency has been excluded on the fifth count
• Anyone know whats happening with Wheelie Bin gate?
by wendylimerick
• RT @EuropeanVoiceEV: Full Ep results by country: bit.ly
• Any news of the recheck in North west? Have any misplaced ballots been found?
by KH
• Re-elected FG MEP Gay Mitchell has said he believes that FG and Lab should work
together to present a plan for an alternative govt
• still no figures... I'll put them up as soon as I have them..
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• Alan, if Sinnott goes out before Ferris.. that could give SF the seat !
by PJ Coogan
• @pj need an update on the health warning!!!!!!hos it going in cork?
by philomenaf
• its hard tpo say where burkes transfers will go. Do cork FG ppl vote sinn fein?
by sazzybm
• Attending community event in Parish Centre, Aughrim St, with President McAleese.
by Paschald via twitter at 6/8/2009 1:26:43 PM2:26 PM
• FF "inherited" 10% growth, 2% inflation & 1000 jobs/week being created from Rainbow
Gov't in 1997, for the record. #le09
• Mark.. they have the numbers , no matter how tight.. even if it were tied Bull MUST use
casting vote for the Govt.
by PJ Coogan
• Ireland East: Sharkey's transfers mean Byrne is eliminated. Won't elect Aylward, so two
more counts to go. #le09
• Kathy Sinnott in trouble. Could be eliminated next. Struggling to get ahead of Ferris #le09
• RT @RTE_Elections: Childers (Lab) and Phelan (FG), both pro-EU, were the main
benificiaries of O'Malley’s (Lib) distributed votes - what???
• Fianna Fáil's Liam Aylward still looks likely to take the third seat in the East
• @krayZpaving I'm not saying it will pass, I'm saying it is way more of a threat to the Gov't
than is being reported...
• Nessa Childers (Lab) and John Paul Phelan (FG), both pro-EU, were the main benificiaries
of Raymond O'Malley’s (Libertas) distributed votes
• Counting continues in Ireland East as Fine Gael's Mairead McGuinness remains the only
elected MEP from the constituency
• Meath CoCo update: FG 7, FF 5, Lab 2, SF 1 & Ind 4. 19 seats filled, 10 to go! #le09
• If Ireland was one constituency with D'hondt Method. This would be the result is.gd #le09
#ep09
• @Mark_Coughlan Even if that happens, Cowen will put Behan in the Ceann Comhairle seat
& get The Bull back on Gov't benches. #le09
• FG on course for 330 seats as predicted by Francis Fitzgerald last night, we could surpass
that #le09
• Dunsghaghlin LEA of Meath CoCo is gone for a recount after 4th count. Only 2 out of 7
elected. Count faster dammmit! #le09
• RT @kosmopolit: We are looking for the best blog posts about the European elections! Add
posts here: www.bloggingportal.eu
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• #LE09 Seamus Langan (FG) and Pádraig McEvoy (IND) both elected to Kildare County
Council
• Just in awe of the sheer amount of energy and intelligence on the site, I'll never follow an
election anywhere else from now on. Not even the forthcoming general election. If Burke
can push Sean Kelly a long way over the quota, Ferris would benefit from transfers, Kerry
and GAA factor.
by EamonnCork
• @aoifecarroll I dont think it will pass - but it has more of a possibility than people think
IMO
• @aoifecarroll ahh you could GE is amazing!!! The adrelaine really comes out!!
• @handelaar Cope's vote in the Dáil goes the second he becomes an MEP as far as I know... I
know it's off the table for six month if it falls
• @Mark_Coughlan if it passes I'll be just as pissed at FG, don't think I could take another
election!
• what are the chances that some back bench greens might vote against the gov?
by sazzybm
• Turns on Liveline to hear the rants
by wendylimerick
• PJ love them health warnings!!!!!!haha
by philomenaf
• In the UK excluding NI, labour are sitting in 3rd place with the loss of 5 seats. Conservative
have25 Ukip and Labour have 13. NI count should be in soon.
by sazzybm
• what planet are FF people living on. Its the first time in decades that FG has out polled them
and Labour arent far behind!!!! I think the have lost the confidence of the people, especially
at a local level.
by sazzybm
• right whats the latest on the south??? whose next for elimination? anyone?
by philomenaf
• e final result in the East constituency is expected in around two hours, for more on the
elections www.rte.ie/elections
• Labour only got 16% of the vote in the EU elections. not good for Browne
by sazzybm
• How much suplus did Kelly have in the south to be distibuted?
by KH
• Kathleen Funchion’s (SF) votes are now being distributed between Liam Aylward (FF)
Nessa Childers (Lab) and John Paul Phelan (FG)
• Mad how clueless some ppl are "Gay Mitchell got in' 'yeh 20k votes, he mite go into gov't
with the Greens".
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• I googled radio stations in the NW. Listening to Highland Radio now, but they are playing
MGMT. Does anyon know what on earth is going on up there!?
by sazzybm
• @JL_Pagano "random" selection p*sses me off too. I vote in order of preference and want
my vote to work that way! #le09
• Mixed Results for FG in Cork City - Blog post is.gd
• I think its more of a fight between ferris and sinnott as to who get knocked out first.
by sazzybm
• This random "distribution of surplus" carry on is the one serious problem i have with the
PR-STV method of deciding elections. #le09
• Terrible it comes down to a fight between Ferris and Sinnott. Hate to think of either of them
going to Europe. #le09
• @gavreilly ohh you went fiddling! ;)
• Anyone know what's the best local radio station covering the NW count? This lack of news
is making me wonder if they miracously found some bin
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• @RTE_Elections ahh come on, Sinnott isnt going to Catch up. Its between Kelly and Ferris
• Séan Kelly has taken the second seat in the South Euro constituency - there is a three-way
race for the third seat
• Every one still thinks its still too close to call the 3rd seat in the South. Depending on
S.Kellys transfers, could sinnott pull ahead of Ferris. Still nothing from NW?!?!?
by sazzybm
• Ireland East: last count started. Funchion eliminated. Childers & Aylward will be elected in
about 90 minutes. #le09
• Sean Kelly Elected!
by sazzybm
• no coverage anywhere at the mo. RTE Radio are talking about Birds. RTE tv you have super
nanny US. News Talk may be my only source of info. sigh.
by sazzybm
• Trying to explain what blogging is to my mam. very funny. South count?
by sazzybm
• @gavreilly thats not GE. Thats Euro's
• Id expect Ferris to get a good bit of transfers from Sean Kelly
by wendylimerick
• Kelly 5000 ahead of Ferris, can she catch him? !0k surplus being distributed then its dwon
to Sinnotts transfers #le09
• Anyone know what's happinin' with Ganley? They were supposed to finish the re-check
around 2pm but it's still going on. Does that mean they found something?
by KH
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• South 5th Count.. (Crowleys surplus) Burke.. +694 .. 58,654 Ferris +999.. 69,295 Kelly (A)
+682 .. 70,991 Kelly (S) +912.. 98,394 Sinnott +1,402.. 66,920 Colm Burke eliminated and
his vote now being distributed. If Sinnott overtakes Ferris here, then it's going to be very,
very interesting !!
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• Distribution of kellys surplus is being distributed. approx 10,000 votes. Still not clear whats
going to happen with the 3rd seat. Ferris got 4494 transfers from Burke. not bad.
by sazzybm
• New blog post: Kelly elected corkpolitics.ie
by corkpolitics via twitter at 6/8/2009 2:33:43 PM3:33 PM
• @aoifecarroll Expecting distribution of Burke result in a few minutes. #le09
• Can't get the liveblog on my blackberry...what's happening in South? #Le09
• Anyone know an easy route to totting up total party votes from the elections? I.e a website
that has it done or almost done rather than making me add for myself.
by cianflah at 6/8/2009 2:29:58 PM3:29 PM
• Mary Coughlan (FF) said FG's call for an election was a populist move and that the Govt
had to focus on sustaining and creating employment
• @pjcoogan "a fu*kin' recount" Get out of it Peeeeej. You love it! #le09
• That's the beauty of politics - we are free to disagree. #le09
• The Tánaiste has said that FF will listen to what the people have to say, and the party doesn’t
anticipate a general election before 2012
• @damienblake ahh right! enjoy the retirement! :)
• Delighted that Mary Lou lost her seat! #le09
by g3sicht via twitter
• Wasn't me yfrog.com
• any idea when we'll have a result from NW?
by sazzybm
• south figures expected within 20 mins.. Ferris has done well from Burke.. Sinnot has fallen
behind.. whispers of Ferris coming through to snatch the seat.. interestingly this was
predicted last night on 96FM by Micheal Martin.. also whispers of a fu*kin' recount !!!
by PJ Coogan
• @damienblake how did you get on in the election?
• Re-checking of votes in the North West constituency is continuing at the count centre in
Castlebar, Co Mayo
• Former Green MEP turned IND Patricia McKenna had said that her election results were
extremely encouraging for a first-time IND candidate
• New blog post: Kenny arrives at count centre bit.ly
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• Joe Duffys show is all about people who are now ex FF voters. Very interesting who people
are switching alliegences to. You would think Joe would extend the show because of the
elections. but no.
by sazzybm
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• Janny mack Im really starting to love Joe Higgins. Speaking on Matt Cooper. Says the
reason FF got back in last time round was becasuse the opposition didnt convince, and FF
scared the working people into keeping them in!
by sazzybm
• He's bin cheated, bin mistreated, when will he be loved?
by EamonnCork
• the boxes had already been opened!
by lostexpectation
• still hunting from 10.30am this morning for black wheelie bins, last ones now being
checked..
by philomenaf
• ferghal kean saying 7th count now, 10,000 votes being transferred, which really wont make
much difference to figures and sinnot to be eliminated, ? sinn fein hoping most of sinnots
votes to go to ferris, although margin is quite a lot to make up?? who knows...
by philomenaf
• Jim Nichollson has been elected in Northern Ireland. but result was announced before count
was completed. is that unusual?
by sazzybm
• FF loses in Cork City is.gd
• @lexia You're very welcome...been getting most of my reliable news from Twitter/Liveblog
so have to repay the favour to others!
• Just spoke with @stretchneil who is there....hoping for official 1st count in 1 hour & then we
move on to eliminations #le09
• Main reason for lack of news from NW is nothing is happening! Recheck of Ganley's votes
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• Monaghan County Council full results: bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter at 6/8/2009 3:37:22 PM4:37 PM
• Counting continues in the East and South constituencies, while votes are still being checked
in the North West constituency
• @aoifecarroll you've been a mad woman for updates over the weekend.. obsessed which is
great :) Thanks
• @lexia All the wheelie bins are full of votes for the other candidates so he really doesn't like
those!
• Is ganley trying to stop the recheck so he can land a high court challenge?
by wendylimerick
• lexia is there wheelie bins at the gresham?? hee hee just a thought...
by philomenaf
• Wendey, Im in Cork and Im considering going up! ha ha! Seriously! This day and age you
would think there would be some one there with access to twitter at least. I think for the GE
(when ever that would be) they should have someone in ever count centre around the
country to tweet or blog results as they come and keep people up to date.
by sazzybm
• Reading this mornings Irish times article by Kathy Sheridan it seems the boxes were opened
inside the hall before the parties were allowed inside - not normal par for the course. That
added to the Wheelie Bin re-check and I'd assume that Ganley might be getting a little
paronoid. And who knows, it all sounds very unusual. Added to the fact that it's near
impossible to get any news on what's happening. Surely the media should be all over this.
by KH
• ok back again from parents meeting....so whats the craic? ferris in or out?
by philomenaf
• The Unionist are not one bit happy that SF topped the poll in the EP elections. Professor
from Queens University said the sad thing about this EU election was that it had nothing to
do with european politics. pity
by sazzybm
• any idea what time the next count will be in down in Cork?
by sazzybm
• @ghook - from one Corkman to another - bloody marvellous work this weekend .. and
young Healy had a good one as well here in the Real Capital :)
by PJ Coogan
• GEORGE FFS! WHAT'S GOING ON IN NW?
by Samuel
• I think every one was pretty disappointed with the RTE coverage.
by sazzybm
• @aoifecarroll Talk about karma biting him on the arse and then some more. :) They find a
wheelie bin he didn't like?
• @stephen .. that's true - nobody is calling it at this stage - it's just far too tight
by PJ Coogan
• #LE09 Counting has resumed in Meath County Council
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• Recheck still going on in North West. Ganley is now trying to stop the recheck. 2nd count to
start soon #Le09
• Libertas got 73,544 1st pref votes in the UK which = 0.5% #le09
• Zazzy Im considering driving up to castlebar see what is going on
by wendylimerick
• hearing from count centre that no one knows were the 3rd seat in south is going #le09
• latest in South.. Sean Kelly elected .. 134,712 .. Ferris now at 73,389 Sinnott at 71,249 and
Alan Kelly 78,651.. SK's surplus being distributed now..
• Thanks to everybody that contacted me about the coverage
by ghook via twitter at 6/8/2009 3:16:22 PM4:16 PM
• The competitive battle is really just in our the minds of media people but nevertheless we
enjoy tweaking the nose o0f the "big boys"
• urprisingly the national broadcaster did only studio broadcasts from Montrose with intercut
interviews from the RDS
• I am absolutely shattered after the weekend's election coverage but I must confess, pretty
happy
• RT @MeathEcho the Dunshaughin election count must be the slowest count in Ireland. They
have 'STILL' only elected 2 people to council. #le09
• Im also in 2 minds about whether to listen to George Hook or Matt Cooper.
by sazzybm
• Still nothing from NW, considering phoning local radio stations at this stage.
by KH
• I think when people look back on these elections they will think 3 things. 1. FF got their
come-uppins. 2. recounts. 3. Wheely bins.
by sazzybm
• nothing on highland radio. please some one! Anyone! Info......what is going on in CastleBar
by sazzybm
• Kelly has a surplus of 10,000 votes. I don't expect much of it to go to Ferris as the votes will
come from those he got from Burke in the last count and no "Kerry factor" will be in play.
Unless there's a big Cork/Conservative element in the transfer I expect Sinnott will be
eliminated next. This raises the question of whether her vote is sufficiently euro-sceptic to
transfer heavily to Ferris. I think she'll have a high level of non-transferrable and the
remainder will break at least evenly or favour Kelly and so he gets the last seat by my
reckoning.
by Gramsci
• Extremely bad election for Ireland's Greens - but across Europe many more Green seats
won. tr.im #le09 @greencampaign09
• #LE09 Seven counts are still open in the local elections - Carlow, Cavan, Donegal, Laois,
Longford, Louth and Meath
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• @ghook.. i dont think we need the evening herald to tell us that, rte,s coverage was pathetic
to say the least,,, must say once again thanks to the team here, for ppl like myself here in the
6 counties wouldve been lost as to what has been happening, so once again thanks
by philomenaf
• I cant wait to hear Finnely have a go at gormely!!! Go on Fergus! Rip him a new one! Thats
unreal. Word on the street is recount in South. Total recount! OMG
by sazzybm
• bairbre de brun speaking at count after being officially elected and being booed by unionists
when addressing in gaelige..........
by philomenaf
• Nessa Childers and Liam Aylward elected in Ireland east
by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 4:18:50 PM5:18 PM
• Alyward and Childers elected without reaching Quota
by CarlowWeather
• I am now shuttling between count cntres, the studio and twitter - great fun!
• The Evening Herald has a story that RTE was in an inferior position at the RDS -
• I heard Fergus Finlay.. and he may well be right .. but the two women must battle it out
first ...
by PJ Coogan
• RT @stretchneil Just found 1500 O'Luain votes in the Ganley bundles, so they've lost votes
out of this farce! #le09
• final count in ni, diane dodds 24262=115722, sdlp 2614= 97,000 because of that diane
dodds now deemed elected election rule 62, 3 candidates now elected..... bairbre de
brun......jim nicholson and diane dodds.......
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• Mary Coughlan on RTE Radio 1: people not happy with the hard decisions. No shit,
Sherlock
by Samuel
• Cheers PJ, I swear if I didnt have access to the net I dont know what Id do!
by sazzybm
• Fergus Finlay says that he doesn't see how Alan Kelly could lose the seat in Ireland South
(speaking on George Hook show).
• Sinnot may look for re-count as she is only 2,140 behind Ferris
by CarlowWeather
• @sazzy aye its about 2 bins short of a council tip apart!!!heehee
by philomenaf
• hope that christy moores listening in to this blog, bet he could make a classic song with
wheelie bins, recounts , beef etcetc haha
by philomenaf
• sazzy.. I understand the gap between Ferris & Sinnott has narrowed even more.. it was just
2,140 before Sean Kellys surplus was counted.. I'll put the latest up here as soon as I get it
by PJ Coogan
• recount?!?!?!? why? is it that close?
by sazzybm
• Half of the Irish seats on the European Parliament have been filled
• South update .. news of Kelly surplus distribution imminent .. and we appear to be staring
down the barrel of a recount.. Help!
by PJ Coogan
• Enjoyed @patrickc's piece in IT today. Tired of reading the same tired rhetoric from voices
that haven't done a thing.
by lexia via twitter edited by Christine Bohan at 6/8/2009 4:03:02 PM5:03 PM
• The election is still on - Europe has not decided - we are doing politics on the show between
5pm and 6 pm
• A lot of people were giving out about people lack of knowledge when filling in the ballot
papers. are they not taught how to do it in school? CSPE?? or just perhaps read the
instructions on the paper.
by sazzybm
• #LE09 Recounts continue in Carlow, Cavan, Donegal, Laois and Longford
• #LE09 A total of 862 seats have now been filled and there are 21 seats remaining, including
15 in Meath and 6 in Louth
• Ireland Beat Bangladesh in the cricket. OMG.
by sazzybm
• once sean kelly was picked burke was a goner
by lostexpectation
• Ok now RTE are repeating themselves!
by sazzybm
• The Gov't keeping alluding to tough decisions taken, what tough decisions? I thought they
only took the easy options #le09
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• @gavreilly but UK has more seats then Sweden. Pirates got more votes then BNP.
• Colm Burke is not happy at teh way the party treated him during the election
www.breakingnews.ie“I am extremely disappointed by the decision of party headquarters
and I will be openly expressing that to the party leader.
“I certainly didn’t get any indication that they were on my side,” a clearly annoyed Mr
Burke said
www.breakingnews.ie
• The Tánaiste has said that tough decisions made by the Govt had contributed to the poor
showing of the coalition parties in the elections
• Burke lost out because FG HQ put loads of emphasis on getting kelly elected rather that on
keeping the seat they already had. better vote management might have won FG the 2 seats.
by sazzybm
• pissin myself here libertas saying "if they can trace BEEF back then why not votes!!!!
crazzzzzzzy
by philomenaf
• SOUTH: 7th count underway distributing Seán Kelly's surplus - electionsireland.org
• Eamonn Gilmore is holed up in a City Hotel waiting on results in South. #le09
• Great to hear Joe Higgins on Mat Cooper congrats to my fellow West Kerry Native
by wendylimerick
• Nearing the end of the count in Ireland East. #le09 mypict.me
• Just found 1500 O'Luain votes in the Ganley bundles, so they've lost votes out of this farce!
#le09
• you mean.....when wheel hee bin loved
by philomenaf
• In NW, either they found something or didn't. BTW here's a like to that Kathy Sheridan
article. www.irishtimes.com
by KH
• RT @FineGaelNews: Burke: I never felt party were on my side tinyurl.com - couldnt agree
with him more. #le09
• EAST: Funchion eliminated, 7th count underway - bit.ly
• Former MEP Jim Allister’s votes are being distributed in the NI European elections and the
result is expected to be announced by 5.30pm
• The recheck found that Declan Ganley was awarded 3000 extra votes in error
• Does anyone have pictures of Ganley after the loss?? #le09
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• Matt Cooper going for the jugular with John Gormley. I think JG's been doing interview
prep since Morning Ireland earlier... #le09
by jack_in_dublin via twitter
• No votes for Mr Ganley were found among the bundles of ballot papers for other candidates.
• So will there have to be a recount now in NW? How long for the distribution in South do ye
think?
by sazzybm
• A re-check of over half a million ballot papers in the North West constituency has concluded
• Ganley loses 3k votes in recheck #le09
• @Kelly no Ganley has lost 3,000 votes thanks to re-check!
by CarlowWeather
• @samulebowman ya know i dont know who is worse... unionists or ppl like yourself, or
maybe you werent listening earlier when we all heard that bairbre was elected as mep?
by philomenaf
• Latest Graph of distribution of transfers in Euro Election Munster up to count 7
www.johnbrowne.ie #le09 #ep09 #eu09
• george lee, joe higgins and maureen o'sullivan on vincent browne tonight #vinb
• anyone know who is going to be on the panel for Q&A tonight? I heard Gormley but who
else?
by sazzybm
• Worth bearing in mind that at this late stage in the race, a higher proportion of Ferris's votes
won't be transferring to anyone #le09
by Fergal via twitter at 6/8/2009 4:42:44 PM5:42 PM
• @samuelbowman Certainly hope not; surely SF people don't share that much ground with
vaccine nutters? #le09
by rsynnott via twitter
• Ferris's transfers will have to go 60-40 to Sinnott. Seems v doable. Very pleased that Sinn
Fein won't win a seat anywhere in Ireland #le09
• Ferris out, and has conceded apparently. Kelly 8800 ahead of Sinnott with Ferris to
distribute #le09
• @krayZpaving cause they were out. Very bad losers it would seem.
• TV3 just mixed up the no of seats that FF andFG had won in the Locals. in
fairness!!!!!!!!!!!!
by sazzybm
• @spiller2 in protest or because they were out?
• Now between Sinnott and Kelly for last seat. Exciting stuff in Cork #le09
• SF walked out of count centre in Cork after Ferris eliminated #le09
• Its going to be very close. It will be very interesting to see where ferris's transfers go.
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by sazzybm
• sad again to see troisa ferris out, well done troisa you put up a good fight.......
by philomenaf
• New blog post: Ferris out of the running bit.ly
• Ferris Eliminated!!! #le09
• figures in full from South .. sorry for the delay ... I'm shattered !! Ferris +4,094.. 73,389
Sean Kelly +36,318.. 134,712.. elected.. surplus 10,180 ..Alan Kelly +7,660.. 78,651 Sinnott
+4,429.. 71,249. ...... 7,402 votes separate the last three.. 2,140 between Ferris and Sinnott..
distribution of Kelly surplus to take around 90 mins.. we are dangerously close to a recount,
I understand..
• Suprised Sinnott pulled ahead of Ferris on Sean Kelly transfers -Congrats to Toireasa she did
really well hope Kelly wins the final seat
by wendylimerick
• Ah - Would they stop huddling! Have to go for a bus and want to know whether Kelly will
get in!
by dl37
• Has Ganely given up yet?
by sazzybm
• Apparently Ferris eliminated in South #Le09
• Gormley on Hook 'We will Survive'
by wendylimerick
• Sinn Féin’s Toiréasa Ferris has been eliminated after the seventh count in the South
constituency
• returning officer still in a huddle
by PJ Coogan
• sinnott moves ahead of ferris .. ferris eliminated .. sinnott v kelly for the seat .. 728 votes
between the two women .. stand by
by PJ Coogan
• what way will the back benchers vote in this motion of no confidence??? will rte even cover
it i wonder?
by sazzybm
• Whats going on in NW / S?? Are we gonna get landed with recounts??
by dl37
• South update ... no new figures here yet .. but Returning Officer in huddles with various
groups .. we now will be surprised if there ISN'T a full recount..
by PJ Coogan
• The debate on the no confidence motion in the Govt to be tabled by FG will take place
tomorrow and Wed, with a vote at 5.30pm on Wed
• @ghook Inferior? They had a massive platform (higher than yours) and an area in the
middle. Yours was more accessible. Great job yesterday
• @krayZpaving congrats keith
by irishelection via twitter at 6/8/2009 4:21:22 PM5:21 PM
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• RT @RTE_Elections: Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist party and Diane Dodds (DUP) have
taken the final two seats in the NI European elections
• Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist party and Diane Dodds (DUP) have taken the final two
seats in the NI European elections
• Nessa Childers MEP!! #Le09
• NESSA CHILDERS ELECTED MEP FOR IRELAND EAST #le09
• All 3 seats in the East have been filled with Labour's Nessa Childers & Fianna Fail's Liam
Aylward being elected without reaching the quota
• @sazzybm there are still 15 council seats to be decided on.
• Still a dozen or so seats to be filled on Local Authorities...a lot of them in Meath for some
reason. The candidate I canvassed for may take the distinction being the very last person
elected this year
by Fergal Crehan at 6/8/2009 6:04:58 PM7:04 PM
• Suzy, Alexia and Cian have run this liveblog heroically. It has outperformed any other
source of information and original reporting in the entire country. Huge thanks and
congratulations to them.
by Simon McGarr edited by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 6:04:11 PM7:04 PM
• New NW counts (original in brackets):
Gallagher: 82643 (82643)

Ganley: 67,638 (70,638)
Harkin: 84,813 (84,813)
Higgins: 80,093 (80,093)
by CarlowWeather edited by Suzy Byrne
• Have all the council seats been filled yet? and is it just South and NW were waiting for?
by sazzybm
• I wish I had had a live blog to follow for the GE a couple of years ago. This site rocks! WEll
done every one
by sazzybm
• Thanks for all the updates over the weekend folks, great blog.... I would happily redirect my
TV license your direction!
by Stew57
• #LE09 So far 868 of 883 local elections seats have been filled for the latest go to
www.rte.ie/elections
• Getting ready for 2nd stage debate on Aviation Bill 2009
• Right. Time to grab that final tea and then the 4 mins walk home to write some mails.
• My first experience of a live political blog. Tremendous. How did we ever get by without it.
by bert mccann
• George Lee arrives on his segway to visit school today #le09
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by Suzy Byrne via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne
• #LE09 Imelda Munster (SF) has been elected to Louth County Council in the Drogheda East
electoral area
• #LE09 Oliver Tully (FG) has been elected to Louth County Council on count six in the
Drogheda East electoral area
• Great to see high level on the Liveblog all day 2day. Do you mods have stats on the
weekend visitors? #le09
• #le09 In count for 12 seat Wexford borough council, gap between Danny Forde (green) and
competitor closes from 2 to 1! Second recount called
• EAST: final result McGuinness (FG), Aylward (FF), Childers (LB) - bit.ly
• #LE09 Joseph Bonner (Ind) has been elected to Meath County Council in the Dunshaughlin
electoral area
• I think MLA is member of the local assembly
by betty
• RT @micknugent Silent march by Survivors of Institutional Abuse Ireland, Noon this Wed,
Parnell Sq to Dail. Bring white ribbon. Please RT
• @Fergal, thanks. I swear Ive never seen so many abreviations. Any news on NW or South?
by sazzybm
• @sazzy In a Northern Ireland context, it stands for Member of Legislative Assembly
• I have a stupid question, what does MLA stand for?
by sazzybm
• Joseph Bonner (IND) elected in Meath Dunshaughlin. Recount concluded and we're now up
to the Seventh count. Anyone got any further info on it?
• @sazzybm On Q&A panel w John Gormley: Joan Burton, Pearse Doherty, Richard Bruton
& Michael Martin with others joining by satellite. #le09
• i is back!
• 688 between them .. not 728 .. but TF says no recount.. Kelly V Sinnott for seat
• Alyward 4369 103605, Childers 12,865 102220, Phelan 6114 76,960,
by CarlowWeather edited by Christine Bohan
• Gilmore and Kenny on RTE news.
by sazzybm
• have eliminations and distributions taken place in the MW. Gilmore says Government have
no mandate to govern, which is true.
by sazzybm
• Enda Kenny says in countries in Europe where Governments are dealing with the crisis they
have not suffered the same loses
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• Gilmore is at RTE Studios so I dont think he'll be heading to Cork
by sazzybm
• Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore tells Bryan Dobson the Government no longer enjoys
public support
• Eoghan Murphy says thank you yfrog.com
• Well technically speaking it was the Returning Officer that called the re-check, not ganely so
he really hasnt done anything wrong. and it was justice for O'Luain really. he is 3000 votes
better off.
by sazzybm
• Watch the Questions and Answers' election special tonight from 10.30pm on RTÉ One or on
the web www.rte.ie/live
• @Elrobo Apparently, a mistake was discovered, so, theoretically, it was not a waste. #le09
• Is there anyway that Ganley can be held accountable for time wasting for the recount esp
since he lost votes? Can he get away with it? #le09
• dinner time, laters all
• Labour people sweating buckets.. but I'm told that Gilmore is on his way to Cork..
by PJ Coogan
• Kelly Surplus, Sinnot by 688 votes ahead of Ferris, Ferris will NOT seek a re-count75k of
votes from| Ferris to transfer, that could easily swing it for Sinnot, only 8.8k behind Kelly, A
by CarlowWeather edited by Christine Bohan
• Eight of the twelve Irish seats in the European Parliament have now been filled
• Successful Candidate hoisting on shoulders - An Irish speciality? Peculiarity?
• I would have thought RTE would be all over the ganely story. but no!!!!
by sazzybm
• Anything doing in South? Have they commenced distributing Ferris' votes yet? #le09
• Delia (his wife) will decided what 'we' do next
• Ganley says he thinks he is bowing out of politics - on newstalk now
• dl37.. in that case i hope you are female and good looking !!!!
by PJ Coogan
• @Aoife Hmm, that kind of throws a spanner into the works for the march for abuse victims.
The whole point was that it coincided with the debate on the Ryan report. Doesn't make FG
look good.
• @aoifecarroll this why i hate politics at times, that should have precedence over no conf
motion.
• In other news Ryan Report Dail debate now on Thurs/Fri because of no confidence motion
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• Haven't been as nervous for the last 2 days! Hoping Kelly can hold out in the South!
by dl37
• PJ Coogan I could kiss you for that prediction!
by dl37
• In answer to maths query ... she would need a 75:25 split as opposed to 60:40 .. I think it's
Kellys..
by PJ Coogan
• Ganely Downfall was only a matter of time i suppose www.irishel''ection.com
by cianflah edited by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 6:49:58 PM7:49 PM
• The fewer of Ferris' votes are transferrable, the higher proprtion of them Sinnott needs. If
they were all transferring, she would have needed to get them at a 60:40 rate. If only half are
transferrable, that means..aagh, maths!
• RT @RTE_Elections: Libertas leader Declan Ganley has conceded that he will not take a
seat in the European elections #le09
• New blog post: Lynch welcomes moves to allow tenants purchase homes corkpolitics.ie
• Those at the count inform me no more info for about an hour or so. Also looks like Kelly by
about 3,000 or so based on the bundles #le09
• RT @RTE_Elections: Libertas leader Declan Ganley has conceded that he will not take a
seat in the European elections - :)
• Just goes to show you can't trust rte to count now that George Lee has left! ha ha! and
Karma for ganley!!! ah!
by sazzybm edited by Simon McGarr
• Libertas leader Declan Ganley has conceded that he will not take a seat in the European
elections
• All this waiting around is killing me!
by sazzybm
• @stephencrowley i dont blame ya! You have seen alot of hard work wiped out. I felt the
same in '02 though i wasnt in FG.
• Well I think a review of the exit polls are needed after the Euro one we saw from Indo and
RTE
by CarlowWeather edited by Simon McGarr
• I absolutely adore the fact that Ganley dropped votes! Karma's a terrible thing - must be
kicking himself and whichever Team member told him about the wheelies!
by dl37
• Alan Kellys people say nearly half of Ferris papers untransferrable.. Sinnot is getting a lot of
transfers, but they feel their man can shade it.. estimate another 45 mins to wait.. Gilmore on
his way
by PJ Coogan
• Count not even finished yet and the IT are running polls. I've often thought that newspapers
are much more comfortable with opinion polls than actual elections
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• @stephencrowley I never said I agree with poll. Im just linking to what i found.
• PJ Coogan - You have been amazing! Any News out of the South?? How's Alan Kelly
doing??
by dl37
• Interesting IT poll, can the greens recover? 61% think not is.gd
• @susanokeeffe passed 0.25 of a quota on second count. First time Labour receive expenses
in North West. Ever! #le09
• #LE09 Fine Gael's Regina Doherty has been elected to Meath County Council
• Regina Doherty (FG) Elected Meath Dunshauglin on 8th count. Four of seven seats now
filled
• Janny mack!!! This is the best count ever!!! Labour must be brickin it!!!!
by sazzybm
• Free in Dublin @1pm on Friday? Check this event out is.gd
by Stephen Spillane via twitter edited by cianflah at 6/8/2009 6:18:25 PM7:18 PM
• We are contacting sources to get latest on South Count
• Comment re Sinnott is not hashtagged and hasn't been confirmed by any of our regular
sources at the count. I'm guessing its just someone causing mischief!
• you sure?
by sazzybm
• any news from south and NW would be greatly appreciated!!!
by sazzybm
• Janny mack. What is taking them so long???? Were the Electoral areas particualrly big, loads
of recounts or are they just taking their time?
by sazzybm
• Any news from Wexford, anyone
by pratie 9
• For the G Lee fans "Newly elected Fine Gael TD for Dublin South, George Lee, will
tomorrow enter the Dáil to take up his position as a Dáil Deputy tomorrow, Tuesday June
9th, at 12.45 pm."
• Liam keep an eye here as we get regular reports from Cork.
• any idea how transfers between kelly and sinnot are going?
by liamthornton
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• NEWS: Coughlan insists General Election is three years away: Tánaiste Mary Coughlan
says the Government doe.. tinyurl.com
by breakingnewsire via twitter
• NORTHERN IRELAND: final result de Brun (SF), Nicholson (C), Dodds (DUP) - bit.ly
• PJ Coogan your 3 days of reporting tallies and counts from Cork have been outstanding -
enjoy the chips and many many thanks! Is there a ETA for next count?
• chips have arrived at Neptune .. we love you, Sarah :)
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• @CarlowWeather Where did you hear that?
• Massive Result in Ireland South congrats to Labour
by wendylimerick
• RT @conoro: Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding
Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
• So state of Euro Parties in IRL EPP 3 (-1), PES 3 (+2), UEN 2 (-1), Ind/Dem 0 (-1) NI (or
GUE) 1. 3 seats left to declare #ep09 #eu09
• Sinnot calling a recount??
by CarlowWeather
• Huge result for Labour.
• Well done Labour
by sazzybm
• and if anyone doubted my sources for Ireland South Result.... :P
• #LE09 The recount in Dundalk South has been completed with Independent Alan Grehan
elected
• Labour will get a huge lift from this, great result from small %
by CarlowWeather
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• It's set to be a massive day for @labour with THREE seats in the European Parliament won.
#le09
• Gilmore has texted Senator Michael McCarthy ... he'll be here shortly
by PJ Coogan
• I've been waiting for chance to play that rap all day....
• sinnott has given a press doorstep accepting that she's not going to win
by PJ Coogan
• Object 22

• Cost of Car to Helipad €50, Helicopter to Cork €200 - Kelly taking the seat PRICELESS
by dl37
• @Keith ...Seriously?! Gilmore Force One?:)
• Kelly wins by 10000 votes #Le09
• Gilmore had better not try and expense that Chopper!
by CarlowWeather
• because of this election thing, i've just realised im off on holidays on Sunday. I need to
prepare....
• Gilmore going to Cork by helicopter, I understand.
by krayZpaving
• RT @abigailrieley: RT @dermotcasey RT @conor_pope: Declan Ganley to bow out of
political life after conceding defeat in European elections.
• So its definitely Kelly's? :-) [Don't use Smiley's but that deserves one]
by dl37
• if he left dublin at half 6 it will at least be 9
by sazzybm
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• Oh i will be very very happy if its Kelly seat farewell Kathy
by wendylimerick
• at least 2 half hours
by sazzybm
• Gilmore was in Dublin at 5.30 and live on TV news at 6 - how long till he gets to Cork?
• They are waiting for Gilmore to arrive in Neptune to make the official Announcement of
Alan Kelly to get the 3rd seat in Ireland South #le09
• The South Result is keeping me from making dinner... 186 others are camped out on
liveblog waiting too #le09
• Correction : Susan O'Keeffe ( Labour ) eliminated in Count 2 North East #le09 #ep09
• I'm hearing Kelly has the seat
by CarlowWeather
• I'm getting word that Neptune Count Centre and Alan Kelly are waiting on Eamon Gilmore
to arrive before making announcement. PJ Coogan can you double confirm?
• Love it when people ring me over my tweets! ;)
• @suzybie Its Alan Kelly. ~le09
• Overly optimistic math doing the rounds re. A Kelly. If 50% transfer he needs 38.25%, if
75% transfer he needs 42.15%. Still likely! #le09
• told kelly has last seat in ireland south, announced soon #le09
• Labour's Susan O'Keeffe has been eliminated on the second count in the North West
• New blog post: Count continues at Neptune bit.ly
• @stephencrowley yes he told everyone & media HE WILL RUN IN DUBLIN WEST this is
not an issue in our movement and voters knew this.
• @spiller2 I totally agree, especially as the survivors had organised the solidarity march to be
on Wed
• good morning twitter, did anything happen while i was asleep, where is my sleep digest. :)
• #le09 Just uploaded video for Limerick City Council count to www.limerickblogger.ie
by squidlimerick via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne
• video of Joe Higgins declaration / press talk now online bit.ly
• Newstalk report that Ganley will not lead the No to Lisbon 2 campaign and no longer lead
Libertas
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• o........candidate to be co opted
by Simon John Draper
• Ya you know the way maurice ahern was running in the by election and for county council,
what if (god forbid) he won both. what would happen?
by sazzybm
• @Mark_Coughlan Yesterday I was hearing that another SP member could be co-opted in
place of Higgins
• @Mark_Coughlan thats normal for Inds, but hes in a party so its a selection convention.
• @Guinness69 no Leonard lost his seat
by CarlowWeather
• Joe Higgins elected to council and EP. So his council seat goes to the last eliminated
candidate? #le09 Anyone know the rule here?
• RT @ni22: alan kelly about to come into neptune to claim victory... #le09
• 14 seats remain to be filled
Fine Gael 334
Fianna Fáil 213
Other 135
Labour 130
Sinn Féin 54
Green Party 3
by CarlowWeather
• labour polled 28000 in nth west.......thats great first time out
• did Noel Leonard get in in Meath
by guinness69
• I found the irish election site way too hard to navigate. I prefer this one definatly
by sazzybm
• The site looks way clearer with this style of liveblog. All fancy and stuff - Irishelection.com
just got posh. wha?
by Mark_Coughlan
• North west count? I know we know its going to be Higgins Gallagher and Harkin but still by
how much?
by sazzybm
• Sinnott GONE, Ganley GONE, Ahern GONE
by Andrew Lally
• Ganley said he will now 'bow out of political life'.
by Andrew Lally
• Agree - It's been fantastic! Can't wait for a GE just for the Blog coverage
by dl37
• definatly the best blog!!!!! hats off!
by sazzybm
• any news on 3rd count in NW?
by CarlowWeather
• Thanks to everyone for the liveblog - best source of news, bar none!
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by PMCC
• in fairness to alan kelly what a campaign , no stone unturned or pole unpostered!
by Erica Mulvihill
• Oh thank god for that. This has been the most exciting election ever! I need a drink!!!
by sazzybm
• The live blog was absolutely fantastic! thanks for everyone for the info, so much better than
the mainstream media!
by Dave
• Ganely.... ya right.He'll be back
by sazzybm
• yep 96fm have Sinnot Conceeding, thank god for that, Gilmore flying high :-)
by CarlowWeather
• Someone hijack Gilmore's chopper and go check!
by dl37
• This live blog was by a country mile the best source of info for elections in the country.
Thanks guys. Great day for Labour!
by cmccann2
• This just gets better: Declan Ganley has retired from active political life #le09 is.gd
• so no recount then?
by sazzybm
• @Alexia Heh:)
• PJ's live on 96FM now, with a clip of Kathy conceding.
by Stephen
• all on tender hooks!!!!
by sazzybm
• Where's PJ when you need him??
by dl37
• 248 watchers on the liveblog at the moment...
by krayZpaving
• Holy shit. Nearly 250 people are watching the Election liveblog www.scribblelive.com
• What way were o'keeffe's transfers going in the NW does anyone know?
by sazzybm
• cant get through to contact in centre now, anyone in Cork give an update?
by CarlowWeather
• look folks....if we are going to get last seat......she can recount all she wants....ganly lost
3000 votes doing same........
• Please Please Please No - Don't think my stress levels could handle it!
by dl37
• well done to alan and all labour party candidates who were successful great election all
round!
by Erica Mulvihill
• @Christine Gilforce One and Two are strictly MPVs :)
• Anyone who's actually in Cork confirm if there's a recount?
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by krayZpaving
• p.ie and call from centre that shes looking into it, not confirmed by any means
by CarlowWeather
• sinnott recount?!?!? are you for real? I cant take much more of this?
by sazzybm
• if this is true....it will be the ice on our cake.......come on alan
by simonjohndraper
• Noooooo No Recount! Come on Labour - Absolutely amazing weekend for Labour!
by dl37
• Sorry anyone got a link to the Meath : Local Electoral Dunshaughlin result
by guinness69
• #le09 final transfer graphs done for Ireland South www.johnbrowne.ie
• ReCount in Tullow Co. Carlow returned same result with Hunter loosing another 2 votes
#Le09
by CarlowWeather via twitter
• Ya but this time around they should try explaining to the people what its all about instead of
ramming it down our throats the week before!!!
by sazzybm
• New blog post: Kelly elected bit.ly
• RT @aoifecarroll: So only 1 anti-lisbon MEP elected in Ireland - a good sign for the coming
referendum #ep09 #eu09
• And when we get results for the remaining 14 council seats we'll try to bring them to readers
(not a mention of electronic voting please - what liveblogging could we do if there were not
3 days of counting?)
• herlad.ie on Joe Higgins url.ie they wont eat their words of Herald AM last Thursday
• @aoifecarroll thats a nice fact! :)
• Still 14 seats remaining to be filled in local authorities.
• Oh Is that a tear in Mary Hanafin eye
by wendylimerick
• So only 1 anti-lisbon MEP elected in Ireland #Le09
• Joe Higgins mammy with him a lovely woman
by wendylimerick
• It will be in interesting to see if Gormley and Martin are singing from same hymn sheet, first
time both government parties on Q&A together
by CarlowWeather
• Anyone want to add me to the whos bloggingh list so I can grab and upload the papers later
by Squid Limerick
• Fiachra O'Luain (Independent Candidate North-West) asks Gardai to investigate how his
3,000 votes went missing
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• @spiller2 tell him hurry. Kathy sinnott was seen out the back looking in a wheely bin. #le09
• FF will not call a by-election in 2009 #le09
by Cripipper via twitter
• I cant wait for Q&A. its gona be a blood bath!!!!
by sazzybm
• John Bowman needs to press the suit....or maybe not because he never looks neat :)
• Fianna Fáil's Brian Crowley, Fine Gael's Seán Kelly and Labour's Alan Kelly have been
elected in the South
• Martin, Gormley, R Bruton, Burton and MLM confirmed on Q&A
by CarlowWeather
• the govt will fall on the budget over welfare cuts and not before......get real
• John Bowman has had that tie on for the last 3 days
by wendylimerick
• there is..but........if they wont.....we will
• @Carlowweather Dub Sth was lost to Seamus Brennan's death. FG's moving of that writ
might have been the end of that particular gentleman's agreement.
• www.irishelection.com
by Simon McGarr
• govt wont want an election they will lose to shinners/fg
• best time for Donegal SW byelection wud be at same time as Lisbon, come on Frank
McBrearty Jr (if he runs...)
by cmccann2
• They will because with the cope gone the gov only have a majority of 2 I think. correnct me
if Im wrong
by sazzybm
• Thats Tradition for seats that are lost due to a death Fergal, no rule on it
by CarlowWeather
• seat in senate for someone.....hey........three labour meps...........oh what a campaign
• In Ireland the govt can take as long as it wants to hold a by-election; I don't think we will
ever see it as there will be a GE 1st #le09
• Gathering in Toners for a mini celebration...wishing we were in Cork! What a day for
@labour #Le09
• @Fergal Aye, that seems to be the case - so the SP will be cultivating a new face for the CC
around here while Joe will go for the GE. Cool.
• FG moved the writ for Dublin south. Wasn't there a tradition that the party holding the old
seat had the right to move the writ for a by-election?
• Independent MEP Kathy Sinnott has conceded to Labour's Alan Kelly in the battle for the
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final seat in the South
• Is there a time limit to when they have to have the Copes by-election -Doubt they will be in
a rush to fill it?
by wendylimerick
• hanafin said on newstalk..next spring.......but it will be moved sooner...possibly by fg/lab
• October I think
by sazzybm
• How long before The Copes By-Election is ran?
by CarlowWeather
• if ind....with agreement of council
• @Mark Yeah, someone else will just be co-opted (and for Maureen O'Sullivan's seat as
well). Think Joe Higgins is co-opting Denis Keane (sp?) who was running in Mulhuddart.
• feck it
by guinness69
• he was good in our area
by guinness69
• Questions and Answers on RTE 1and Tonight with Vincent Browne will be live blogged
here at the Count Day Liveblog to round off the three day countfest. Any or all of #le09 ,
#qa12 , #vinb will get your tweet picked up from Twitter.
by Suzy Byrne edited by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 6:03:37 PM7:03 PM
• To join in go to www.scribblelive.com or put #le09 at the end of your Twitter tweets.
Priority on the liveblog is given to reporting results, trends, happenings in counts and links
to other information online of interest to readers rather than comments and chat.
• Video of Joe Higgins' Victory Speech after winning the MEP seat last night.
www.joehiggins.eu thanks to @briangreene
by VoteJoeHiggins via twitter
• FT's Brussel's blog on winners and losers in the #ep09 elections #eu09 is.gd
• Watching Prime Time Investigates, taking a break from #le09 before dipping my toe in again
for Q&A.
• A week ago, what was considered a "good" result in the circumstances for FF was to hold
Eoin Ryan's seat and lose no more than 50 local authority seats. They will finish up with a
loss of over 80 seats
• Labour the dominant local gov party in Dublin and Labour sharing the MEP seats equally
with FF and FG in Munster
by Andrew Lally
• Ind/Dem Co-Leader loses seat is.gd #ep09 #eu09 @bloggingportal
• Good article on Twitter in this week's Time, available @ tinyurl.com
• They were 2004 figures
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by CarlowWeather
• brettmirl I'm in Dun(
boyne
by guinness69 edited by Suzy Byrne
• 302 Fine Gael
293 Fine Fail
101 Labour
by CarlowWeather
• #LE09 FG’s Jim Holloway and Suzanne Jamal and FF’s Jenny McHugh, Tommy Reilly and
Shane Cassells have been elected to Meath County Council
• Since my last tweet FG gained 3 seats now on 339!
• 4 Local election seats left to be filled and they are in my Constituency. Dunshaughlin LEA
of Meath. Anyone got an abacus handy? #le09
• There's still a count going on in Wexford
by pratie 9
Fine Gael 339
Fianna Fáil 217
Other 135
Labour 131
Sinn Féin 54
Green Party 3
by CarlowWeather
• @BrianGreene do you know how many Council seats the socilalist party won?
• FF's seat loss is well below the 50 that was posited by themselves and their allies in the
media as an acceptable level of loss. Add to that the loss of a Euro seat in Dublin, and this is
a terrible result even by the very low standards they set for themselves.
• RTE say 7 seat left with Fg 339 and FF 217
by CarlowWeather
• RTE TV saying its only seven seats left.
• With 9 seats left to fill. FG on 336 seats, FF 215, Lab 131, SF 54, GP 3, OTH 135
• come on!!! Seriously becoming a joke now!!! Why is it taking so long?
by sazzybm
•
by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 8:26:18 PM9:26 PM
• Brilliant graphic from John Brown of www.johnbrowne.ie . Reminds me of Napoleon's
attack on Moscow.
by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 8:25:45 PM9:25 PM
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• New blog post: New MEPs and Euro candidates deliver speeches in Neptune bit.ly
• jesus they are slow in Dunshaughlin
by guinness69
• @Simon Counting is incredibly slow there - it's the slowest in the country. There was a
recount after four counts. My candidate may have the distinction of filling the last seat in the
election
• @Fergal Has RTE stalled, or has only one count be run?
by Simon McGarr
• City Council video seems to be working again. Vimeo has had some sort of technical issue
today #le09
• Meath CoCo - Dunshaughlin - BONNER, Joseph Ind, DOHERTY, Regina FG,
FITZGERALD, Brian Ind, KILLIAN, Nick FF elected #le09
• Still no news from Dunshaughlin lea of Meath CoCo, 4 out of 7 elected. 2 Ind, 1 FG, 1FF.
Slowest! Count! Ever! #le09
• New blog post: Gilmore in Neptune bit.ly
• Dunshauglin not finished yet. This is where things stand now: www.rte.ie
• CarlowWeather Where did you hear that?
• Massive Result in Ireland South congrats to Labour
by wendylimerick
• RT @conoro: Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding
Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
• So state of Euro Parties in IRL EPP 3 (-1), PES 3 (+2), UEN 2 (-1), Ind/Dem 0 (-1) NI (or
GUE) 1. 3 seats left to declare #ep09 #eu09
• Sinnot calling a recount??
by CarlowWeather
• Huge result for Labour.
• Well done Labour
by sazzybm
• and if anyone doubted my sources for Ireland South Result.... :P
• #LE09 The recount in Dundalk South has been completed with Independent Alan Grehan
elected
• Labour will get a huge lift from this, great result from small %
by CarlowWeather
• It's set to be a massive day for @labour with THREE seats in the European Parliament won.
#le09
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• Gilmore has texted Senator Michael McCarthy ... he'll be here shortly
by PJ Coogan
• I've been waiting for chance to play that rap all day....
• sinnott has given a press doorstep accepting that she's not going to win
by PJ Coogan
• Object 23

• Cost of Car to Helipad €50, Helicopter to Cork €200 - Kelly taking the seat PRICELESS
by dl37
• @Keith ...Seriously?! Gilmore Force One?:)
• Kelly wins by 10000 votes #Le09
• Gilmore had better not try and expense that Chopper!
by CarlowWeather
• because of this election thing, i've just realised im off on holidays on Sunday. I need to
prepare....
• Gilmore going to Cork by helicopter, I understand.
by krayZpaving
• RT @abigailrieley: RT @dermotcasey RT @conor_pope: Declan Ganley to bow out of
political life after conceding defeat in European elections.
• So its definitely Kelly's? :-) [Don't use Smiley's but that deserves one]
by dl37
• if he left dublin at half 6 it will at least be 9
by sazzybm
• Oh i will be very very happy if its Kelly seat farewell Kathy
by wendylimerick
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• at least 2 half hours
by sazzybm
• Gilmore was in Dublin at 5.30 and live on TV news at 6 - how long till he gets to Cork?
• They are waiting for Gilmore to arrive in Neptune to make the official Announcement of
Alan Kelly to get the 3rd seat in Ireland South #le09
• The South Result is keeping me from making dinner... 186 others are camped out on
liveblog waiting too #le09
• Correction : Susan O'Keeffe ( Labour ) eliminated in Count 2 North East #le09 #ep09
• I'm hearing Kelly has the seat
by CarlowWeather
• I'm getting word that Neptune Count Centre and Alan Kelly are waiting on Eamon Gilmore
to arrive before making announcement. PJ Coogan can you double confirm?
• Love it when people ring me over my tweets! ;)
• @suzybie Its Alan Kelly. ~le09
• Overly optimistic math doing the rounds re. A Kelly. If 50% transfer he needs 38.25%, if
75% transfer he needs 42.15%. Still likely! #le09
• told kelly has last seat in ireland south, announced soon #le09
• Labour's Susan O'Keeffe has been eliminated on the second count in the North West
• @stephencrowley yes he told everyone & media HE WILL RUN IN DUBLIN WEST this is
not an issue in our movement and voters knew this.
• @spiller2 I totally agree, especially as the survivors had organised the solidarity march to be
on Wed
• good morning twitter, did anything happen while i was asleep, where is my sleep digest. :)
• #le09 Just uploaded video for Limerick City Council count to www.limerickblogger.ie
by squidlimerick via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne
• video of Joe Higgins declaration / press talk now online bit.ly
• Newstalk report that Ganley will not lead the No to Lisbon 2 campaign and no longer lead
Libertas
• he was good in our area
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by guinness69
• no........candidate to be co opted
• Ya you know the way maurice ahern was running in the by election and for county council,
what if (god forbid) he won both. what would happen?
by sazzybm
• @Mark_Coughlan Yesterday I was hearing that another SP member could be co-opted in
place of Higgins
• @Mark_Coughlan thats normal for Inds, but hes in a party so its a selection convention.
• @Guinness69 no Leonard lost his seat
by CarlowWeather
• Joe Higgins elected to council and EP. So his council seat goes to the last eliminated
candidate? #le09 Anyone know the rule here?
• RT @ni22: alan kelly about to come into neptune to claim victory... #le09
Fine Gael 334
Fianna Fáil 213
Other 135
Labour 130
Sinn Féin 54
Green Party 3
by CarlowWeather
• labour polled 28000 in nth west.......thats great first time out
• did Noel Leonard get in in Meath
by guinness69
• I found the irish election site way too hard to navigate. I prefer this one definatly
by sazzybm
• The site looks way clearer with this style of liveblog. All fancy and stuff - Irishelection.com
just got posh. wha?
by Mark_Coughlan
• North west count? I know we know its going to be Higgins Gallagher and Harkin but still by
how much?
by sazzybm
• Sinnott GONE, Ganley GONE, Ahern GONE
by Andrew Lally
• Ganley said he will now 'bow out of political life'.
by Andrew Lally
• Agree - It's been fantastic! Can't wait for a GE just for the Blog coverage
by dl37
• definatly the best blog!!!!! hats off!
by sazzybm
• any news on 3rd count in NW?
by CarlowWeather
• Thanks to everyone for the liveblog - best source of news, bar none!
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by PMCC
• in fairness to alan kelly what a campaign , no stone unturned or pole unpostered!
by Erica Mulvihill
• Oh thank god for that. This has been the most exciting election ever! I need a drink!!!
by sazzybm
• The live blog was absolutely fantastic! thanks for everyone for the info, so much better than
the mainstream media!
by Dave
• Ganely.... ya right.He'll be back
by sazzybm
• yep 96fm have Sinnot Conceeding, thank god for that, Gilmore flying high :-)
by CarlowWeather
• Someone hijack Gilmore's chopper and go check!
by dl37
• This live blog was by a country mile the best source of info for elections in the country.
Thanks guys. Great day for Labour!
by cmccann2
• so no recount then?
by sazzybm
• @Alexia Heh:)
• PJ's live on 96FM now, with a clip of Kathy conceding.
by Stephen
• all on tender hooks!!!!
by sazzybm
• Where's PJ when you need him??
by dl37
• 248 watchers on the liveblog at the moment...
by krayZpaving
• Holy shit. Nearly 250 people are watching the Election liveblog www.scribblelive.com
• What way were o'keeffe's transfers going in the NW does anyone know?
by sazzybm
• cant get through to contact in centre now, anyone in Cork give an update?
by CarlowWeather
• look folks....if we are going to get last seat......she can recount all she wants....ganly lost
3000 votes doing same........
• Please Please Please No - Don't think my stress levels could handle it!
by dl37
• well done to alan and all labour party candidates who were successful great election all
round!
by Erica Mulvihill
• @Christine Gilforce One and Two are strictly MPVs :)
• Anyone who's actually in Cork confirm if there's a recount?
by krayZpaving
• p.ie and call from centre that shes looking into it, not confirmed by any means
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by CarlowWeather
• sinnott recount?!?!? are you for real? I cant take much more of this?
by sazzybm
• if this is true....it will be the ice on our cake.......come on alan
by simonjohndraper
• Noooooo No Recount! Come on Labour - Absolutely amazing weekend for Labour!
by dl37
• Dunshauglin not finished yet. This is where things stand now: www.rte.ie
• Sorry anyone got a link to the Meath : Local Electoral Dunshaughlin result
by guinness69
• #le09 final transfer graphs done for Ireland South www.johnbrowne.ie
• ReCount in Tullow Co. Carlow returned same result with Hunter loosing another 2 votes
#Le09
by CarlowWeather via twitter
• Ya but this time around they should try explaining to the people what its all about instead of
ramming it down our throats the week before!!!
by sazzybm
• New blog post: Kelly elected bit.ly
• RT @aoifecarroll: So only 1 anti-lisbon MEP elected in Ireland - a good sign for the coming
referendum #ep09 #eu09
• And when we get results for the remaining 14 council seats we'll try to bring them to readers
(not a mention of electronic voting please - what liveblogging could we do if there were not
3 days of counting?)
• herlad.ie on Joe Higgins url.ie they wont eat their words of Herald AM last Thursday
• @aoifecarroll thats a nice fact! :)
• Still 14 seats remaining to be filled in local authorities.
• Oh Is that a tear in Mary Hanafin eye
by wendylimerick
• So only 1 anti-lisbon MEP elected in Ireland #Le09
• Joe Higgins mammy with him a lovely woman
by wendylimerick
• It will be in interesting to see if Gormley and Martin are singing from same hymn sheet, first
time both government parties on Q&A together
by CarlowWeather
• Anyone want to add me to the whos bloggingh list so I can grab and upload the papers later
by Squid Limerick
• Fiachra O'Luain (Independent Candidate North-West) asks Gardai to investigate how his
3,000 votes went missing
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• @spiller2 tell him hurry. Kathy sinnott was seen out the back looking in a wheely bin. #le09
• FF will not call a by-election in 2009 #le09
• I cant wait for Q&A. its gona be a blood bath!!!!
by sazzybm
• John Bowman needs to press the suit....or maybe not because he never looks neat :)
• Fianna Fáil's Brian Crowley, Fine Gael's Seán Kelly and Labour's Alan Kelly have been
elected in the South
• Martin, Gormley, R Bruton, Burton and MLM confirmed on Q&A
by CarlowWeather
• the govt will fall on the budget over welfare cuts and not before......get real
• John Bowman has had that tie on for the last 3 days
by wendylimerick
• there is..but........if they wont.....we will
• @Carlowweather Dub Sth was lost to Seamus Brennan's death. FG's moving of that writ
might have been the end of that particular gentleman's agreement.
• www.irishelection.com
by Simon McGarr
• govt wont want an election they will lose to shinners/fg
• best time for Donegal SW byelection wud be at same time as Lisbon, come on Frank
McBrearty Jr (if he runs...)
by cmccann2
• They will because with the cope gone the gov only have a majority of 2 I think. correnct me
if Im wrong
by sazzybm
• Thats Tradition for seats that are lost due to a death Fergal, no rule on it
by CarlowWeather
• seat in senate for someone.....hey........three labour meps...........oh what a campaign
• In Ireland the govt can take as long as it wants to hold a by-election; I don't think we will
ever see it as there will be a GE 1st #le09
• Gathering in Toners for a mini celebration...wishing we were in Cork! What a day for
@labour #Le09
• @Fergal Aye, that seems to be the case - so the SP will be cultivating a new face for the CC
around here while Joe will go for the GE. Cool.
• FG moved the writ for Dublin south. Wasn't there a tradition that the party holding the old
seat had the right to move the writ for a by-election?
• Independent MEP Kathy Sinnott has conceded to Labour's Alan Kelly in the battle for the
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final seat in the South
• Is there a time limit to when they have to have the Copes by-election -Doubt they will be in
a rush to fill it?
by wendylimerick
• hanafin said on newstalk..next spring.......but it will be moved sooner...possibly by fg/lab
• October I think
by sazzybm
• How long before The Copes By-Election is ran?
by CarlowWeather
• if ind....with agreement of council
• @Mark Yeah, someone else will just be co-opted (and for Maureen O'Sullivan's seat as
well). Think Joe Higgins is co-opting Denis Keane (sp?) who was running in Mulhuddart.
• feck it
by guinness69
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• Was Ganely serious when he said he was leaving politics? Because if he is then he must not
really believe in the cause, giving up so easily!!! Dont get me wrong I dont like Libertas, but
its a bit of a kick in the teeth for all the people who supported him and voted for him. am I
right?
by sazzybm
• blow drying my hair and watching the live blog. hope I dont get electricuted!
by sazzybm
• looking forward to tweeting & watching Q&A. Bring on the next election for the sake of us
all on liveblog #le09
• Ye definatly deserve a pint!!!! Well Done!!!! Night
by sazzybm
• I see it now PJ - You could liveblog on a Segway :) Now go get your pint!
• I'll be here Suzy.. unless someone asks me to do a George Lee !!! only kidding !!! :)
by PJ Coogan
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• PJ - Enjoy your pint - you deserve it - See you at the General Election?? :)
• Signing off from Neptune.. I need a pint and I need to sleep .. take care, all ...
by PJ Coogan
• 4 seats remain to be filled changes to 2004 so far
Fine Gael 339 +37
Fianna Fáil 217 -76
Labour 131 +30
Sinn Féin 54 0
Green Party 3 -15
by CarlowWeather
• Libertas have a lot of zero's en.wikipedia.org
by CarlowWeather
• @harrymcgee For sure, maybe McDaid to talk? 'think any of the currently gov-voting inds
may vote in favour of the motion tomorrow?... Lowry?
• #LE09 FG's Eugene Cassidy, John V Farrelly and Catherine Yore and FF's Oliver Fox and
Bryan Reilly elected to Meath County Council
• Irish Times pictures say it all, including the one of Enda and I waltzing,tinyurl.com
by Paschald via twitter at 6/8/2009 8:46:24 PM9:46 PM yesterday
• @harrymcgee Do you think that is on the cards?
• Video of Joe Higgins' Victory Speech after winning the MEP seat last night.
www.joehiggins.eu thanks to @briangreene
by VoteJoeHiggins via twitter
• FT's Brussel's blog on winners and losers in the #ep09 elections #eu09 is.gd
• Watching Prime Time Investigates, taking a break from #le09 before dipping my toe in again
for Q&A.
• A week ago, what was considered a "good" result in the circumstances for FF was to hold
Eoin Ryan's seat and lose no more than 50 local authority seats. They will finish up with a
loss of over 80 seats
• Labour the dominant local gov party in Dublin and Labour sharing the MEP seats equally
with FF and FG in Munster
by Andrew Lally
• Ind/Dem Co-Leader loses seat.gd #ep09 #eu09 @bloggingportal
by Stephen Spillane via twitter edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/8/2009 8:37:23 PM9:37 PM
yesterday
• Good article on Twitter in this week's Time, available @ tinyurl.com
by Paschald via twitter at 6/8/2009 8:37:02 PM9:37 PM yesterday
• They were 2004 figures
by CarlowWeather
• brettmirl I'm in Dun(
boyne
by guinness69 edited by Suzy Byrne
• 302 Fine Gael
235
293 Fine Fail
101 Labour
by CarlowWeather
• Since my last tweet FG gained 3 seats now on 339!
• 4 Local election seats left to be filled and they are in my Constituency. Dunshaughlin LEA
of Meath. Anyone got an abacus handy? #le09
• There's still a count going on in Wexford
by pratie 9
Fine Gael 339
Fianna Fáil 217
Other 135
Labour 131
Sinn Féin 54
Green Party 3
by CarlowWeather
• @BrianGreene do you know how many Council seats the socilalist party won?
by RTE_Elections via twitter edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/8/2009 8:30:23 PM9:30 PM
yesterday
• FF's seat loss is well above the 50 that was posited by themselves and their allies in the
media as an acceptable level of loss. Add to that the loss of a Euro seat in Dublin, and this is
a terrible result even by the very low standards they set for themselves.
• RTE say 7 seat left with Fg 339 and FF 217
by CarlowWeather
• RTE TV saying its only seven seats left.
• With 9 seats left to fill. FG on 336 seats, FF 215, Lab 131, SF 54, GP 3, OTH 135
•
• Brilliant graphic from John Brown of www.johnbrowne.ie . Reminds me of Napoleon's
attack on Moscow.
• New blog post: New MEPs and Euro candidates deliver speeches in Neptune bit.ly
• jesus they are slow in Dunshaughlin
by guinness69
• @Simon Counting is incredibly slow there - it's the slowest in the country. There was a
recount after four counts. My candidate may have the distinction of filling the last seat in the
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election
• @Fergal Has RTE stalled, or has only one count be run?
by Simon McGarr
• City Council video seems to be working again. Vimeo has had some sort of technical issue
today #le09
• Meath CoCo - Dunshaughlin - BONNER, Joseph Ind, DOHERTY, Regina FG,
FITZGERALD, Brian Ind, KILLIAN, Nick FF elected #le09
• Still no news from Dunshaughlin lea of Meath CoCo, 4 out of 7 elected. 2 Ind, 1 FG, 1FF.
Slowest! Count! Ever! #le09
• New blog post: Gilmore in Neptune bit.ly
• Yes! Knew it!
• Almost certainly a GE question
• While we all stare at the colouredy bars, anyone want to predict the topics?
• 70 watchers last night at what was it 5am when joe higgines was elected
by lostexpectation
• Joan Burton looks like cat that got the cream and everything else on Primtime
by dermotcasey via twitter edited by Suzy Byrne
• Bowman starting off with his Graphology.
• Thanks pratie. We know what to keep our eye on now!
• Wonder will blogging and Liveblog get a mention on Q&A - best source all weekend #le09
#qa12
• Mary Lou, Deputy leader without portfolio.
• Wonder what the ratio of voters to activists is?
by Niall
• I spot Simon Harris in audience! Greystones Poll Topper!
• It's Wexford Town Council
by pratie 9
• q&a on now
by guinness69
• Wonder will blogging and Liveblog get a mention on Q&A - best source all weekend #le09
#qa12
• Will John Gormley decide to start a fight back? I predict he turns on Joan Burton.
• According to RTE's site both Wexford and Waterford have filled all their CoCo seats. A town
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council maybe?
• It seems nothing brings out the heavy hitters like actual votes being dropped on their heads.
• Has anybody analysed the number of Ex-PD's elected - those that ran as independents
seemed to be largely immune to the backlash against the government
by Peter Kelly
• It's probably wexford
by pratie 9
• I think someone said wex or waterford
by guinness69 edited by Simon McGarr
• Holy Moly. Q&A liveblog being specially rolled up into the Countday extravaganza. Panel:
Micheal Martin (FF), Richard Bruton (FG), Joan Burton (Lab), Mary-Lou McDonald (SF),
John Gormley (Green)
• Still nothing on the last four seats. Three are in Dunshaughlin for Meath CoCo. Any idea
where the fourth is anyone?
• not yet
by guinness69
• Any word on those last 4 seats
by CarlowWeather
• Must go.Thanks for keeping me up to date everyone. and well done to all the bloggers
.night!
by sazzybm
• Q&A on after Ad Break
by CarlowWeather
• @bear32ie lol, aye George has his moments of genius..! Love how Ganley's foot-stomping
has turned out..! #le09 (Apols for late reply btw!)
• Fine Gael's Joe O'Reilly has been eliminated on the third count in the North West
• @enahs Apols! I've been in land of no internets till now. No idea no. of votes per bundle, but
the good news was Ganley's loss of 3k! #le09
• #le09 #ep09 Ireland North East (Count 3) No one elected, O'Reilly (Fine Gael) Eliminated.
• @BrianGreene cool, wanted to see were ye bigger then the greens, and ye are! :)
• So the posters are coming down quick enough, was shocked to see a lot down already in
Dublin 7 & 8. Is it Friday they must be down by? #le09
• @spiller2 Six. 4 Council 3 topping the poll the 4th was first elected. a Town council seat in
Balbriggan & Borough Council seat in Drogheda
• RT@dojodub "it feels like I just bought a SP hamper ticket but won the Euro Millions, Joe
Higgins MEP 4 the Euro Millions not Millionaires"
• #le09 allocation of Seats in Euro Election for Ireland 1979 to 2009 www.johnbrowne.ie
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• #le09 #ep09 Ireland North East (Count 3) No one elected, O'Reilly (Fine Gael) Eliminated.
• Delighted to have done so well today. Sitting with a big smile on my face, reminiscing on
the campaign! Thanks to everyone. #le09
by susanokeeffe via twitter
• New blog post: Ferris thanks voters corkpolitics.ie
• New blog post: Ferris says recount was unnecessary corkpolitics.ie
by corkpolitics via twitter edited by Fergal Crehan at 6/8/2009 9:09:02 PM10:09 PM
yesterday
• RB@dojodub: "Speaking of Trotsky and Lenin, we have just elected a Marxist as an MEP in
Dublin, Joe Higgins - t... ♫ blip.fm
• @ SazzyBN I'd be very surprised if we've seen the last of Ganley... remember, he'll get
headlines for "Ganley Quits"
by Mark_Coughlan
• Ganley wasn't really cut out for politics. Beside him Michael McDowell looks like a
calculating master of self-control
• @spiller2 But surely the fact that 3k votes were misallocated at all shows that there were
serious errors in the process? #le09
• I am genuinely bewildered that people think Ganley losing 3k votes in the recheck is some
kind of humiliation for him. #le09
• Vincent Browne will have George Lee, Joe Higgins, Maureen O'Sullivan and Martin
Mansergh on the programme
by CarlowWeather
• Hmm, is listening to Joan Burton argue with Micheal Martin better than watching crappy US
drama?
• Ack!
• Martin has a giant, elephant sized hole in his logic.
• shes great
by guinness69
• burton looking for the applause
by lostexpectation
• Real fury in Joan Bruton. Waiting for her and Micheal Martin to start hitting each other
by dermotcasey
• Is this going to be a Greatest Hits collection of all the issues of the last few months? Bets on
when shifting SF is going to come up?
by Niall
• Micheal Martin has misjudged his mood. Attacking Joan Burton like this will do him no
good whatsoever.
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• all the other party's will push lisbon bar SF
by guinness69
• Burton can hold her own on when it comes to phrasing a statement.
by Mark_Coughlan
• The punditocracy are very fond of pointing out that Lab and FG differ substantially. They
tend to say it as if they uncovered something previously unknown. Actually Labour are
never done telling us how different they are.
• jb should have had a red dress
by guinness69
• Standard FF tactic starts up again of talking over the other panelists.
by astarmain
• Sloganising. Everyone hates that.
• Mary-L is tiny beside Joan Burton.
• Joan Bruton is what happens to Bosco presenters when they grow up. Still talks more sense
than most FF and FGers.
by Niall
• @Cian I expect them to roll Martin out everyday of the week bar none for Lisbon II. Wont
see anyone else from FF.
by Mark_Coughlan
• Thank goodness we have reports in the offing.
• can't wait for mary loo to open her mouth
by guinness69
• @ Suzybie is that why Bowman is not tanned, he wasn't at the doors #qa12 #Le09
• Bruton rules out SF and FF but not Greens in future Government
by CarlowWeather
• martin is governments best spinner bar none, doesnt bully like ahern or hanafin and uses
english unlike the rest of the cabinet. i still dont believe him but i can see how some might
• 135 watchers? Welcome all 120 of the new people to the Monday night liveblog!
by Mark_Coughlan
• @ Suzybie is that why Bowman is not tanned, he wasn't at the doors #qa12 #Le09
• They haven't done it before now. If they do something novel, will they break with the
invisible wisdom of the ages? Micheal Martin doesn't want to take that risk. One day its
General Elections. The next day Napoleon is marching around Europe menacing the
Hapsburgs. It's too risky.
• Bruton admits FG health policy is same as Lab from 10 years ago
by astarmain
• bowmen, is now a commentator not a moderator, good riddance
by lostexpectation
• or rte makeup dept pulling out all the stops to save their jobs
by Marie
• @Suzy Well, at least FFers got some good out of their efforts!
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by Niall
• Suzy Byrne the sun may have saved rte a bomb on make up
by guinness69
• Bruton says Government have lost the Plot!
by CarlowWeather
• www.rte.ie
by guinness69
• Al Jazeerais in way better shape than rte lol
by guinness69
• Tried to get live Q&A on broadband. System asked me to download liveplayer. I've wound
up with Al Jazeera.
by pratie 9
• @pratie 9 - should be able to watch it on either WMP or RealPlayer...
by Mark_Coughlan
• Martin to Bowman "I was on the door more than you"...state the obvious, but maybe
Bowman knows more what the Irish want than FF #le09 #qa12
• Michael Martin looks tanned? Tax money at work?
by Niall
• is Q&a on tonight, urgh, enough, i couddln't bare to watch primetime, more abuse stories
where the authorities do nothing
by lostexpectation
• Q1 Should the Governmnet call a general election now
by CarlowWeather
• Fine Gael's Richard Bruton says the Government has lost the plot and should call a General
Election
• www.rte.ie
by lostexpectation
• Panelists are all tanned from canvass
• Micheal Martin is worried about the Burkean consequences of calling a General Election on
foot of Local Elections.
• Animation of the Dublin Euro count url.ie #le09
by Anamates via twitter
• Oh I love that graph of the Euro seats on Q&A! #Le09 #qa12
• We need an election, cos poor MLM is out of work, I am sorry how can we take you
seriously!!! #le09
• Names! I want names being taken!
• Cllr Patrick Nulty
• @Mark us and the voters.
• I see the government parties have both adopted the Looking Glass idea that actual elections
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with actual votes are an unclear way to gauge public support. Dermot Ahern and now John
Gormley both suggesting same.
• @Mark It's open season on the government. FG and Labour are both hoping to get the same
ex-FF supporters. He can't let Joan get all the glory.
by Niall
• It seems the whole liveblog tunes out when Mary Lou comes on...
by Mark_Coughlan
• I think ff could surprise in a ge the opposition would want to watch out
by guinness69
• @lostexpectation So she can loose three on the trot.
by delexical
• Labour's Joan Burton called John Gormley a 'sore loser' following the Greens' performance
in the local and European elections
• now bowmen is spinning the boom will never end line, doing ff job for them
by lostexpectation
• mlm wants a GE hmmm i wonder why
by lostexpectation
• John Gormley says the country will have first class regulation of the banks because the
Greens are in Government
• @Niall, Burton doesnt need to have an impact, Gormley is shooting himself in the foot...
by Mark_Coughlan
• Applause for Burton calling Gormley sore loser
by CarlowWeather
• 'John you are a sore loser' says Joan- that's the end of that one!
• Sound off!
• did mary loo turn up lol
by guinness69
• Oops- the valium is wearing off and tyou're a sore loser!
by Marie
• @mediabite Burton is holding her own
• #le09 Q&A - OUTRAGEOUS RTE pro FF bias - M Martin allowed to interrupt and shout
down Joan Bruton to point where she cannot even be heard.
• Gormley, deer & headlights... QED
by shanemkelly via twitter
• Richard isn't having an impact.
by Niall
• I knew he was going to go for Joan Burton. He couldn't stop himself.
• "You're doing good work but we can't vote for you"... Are you serious John Gormley?
by Mark_Coughlan
• Gormley says signal on doorstep was mixed. Signal in Ballot box wasn't mixed.
by dermotcasey
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• Fianna Fail hack 'fed up'?! Join the club, Minister!
by finkeegan
• Yes John, very hard to judge from mere election figures. We need a focus group.
• its left wing versus right wing greens, the voters chose redgreen this time
by lostexpectation
• Leader of Greens here - where is Cowen, leader of FF and oh yeh "leader" of our country!
#le09 #qa12
• Gormley issues a cry for help to the grassroots ... "Come save us from FF"
by astarmain
• Gormley looks like he's about to slip down under the table...
by Mark_Coughlan
• 'Its very different to judge the electorate from an election'.
• Go Joan - Determined to get her spoke in! Gormley's such a tool! The members can choose -
Yeah Right?! He's bricking losing his seat
by dl37
• Gormley says members can call conference, in other words come and get us out of here
by CarlowWeather
• "cellphone"
by Mark_Coughlan
• Gormley really doesn't want to be there.
by Niall
• Micheal Martin's face is blending with the purple in the background. Joan Burton is eating
him for her elevenses.
• John Bowman has Ireland's last 'cellphone'.
• Martin can't conceive of politics as anything but a game. It simply doesn't occur to him that
it isn't all about scoring points for some people. After all, that's what its all about to him.
• I would not normally be a labourite but Joan B has always been credible and even consistent
when talking about the banking crisis
by greenwithenvy
• Watching questions and answers Go Joan Burton! You tell him.
by teaandcakes via twitter
• bowman style is awful. his jobs is to arbitrate over shouting matches ffs
• ... wants to sign out and sign in again via Twitter...
by Mark_Coughlan
• Stop playing politics = Stop disagreeing with FF.
• she will settle for a rainbow lol
by guinness69
• Ruined it by saying the Greens were left wing - Yucky!
by dl37
• Poor John Gormley seems tired and emotional. He looks unwell. Doesn't seem able to cope
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with pressure. Time to go.
• God! Why do we still have to listen to Mary-Lou McDonand (or not, as the case may be for
those of us with mute buttons). She didn't get elected.
• Q2 Was this Just a midterm protest vote or a fundamental re-allignment
by CarlowWeather
• Have to swith over to Vincent now
by wendylimerick
• @Niall Ring... a bloody massive one too!
by Mark_Coughlan at 6/8/2009 10:06:01 PM11:06 PM yesterday
• Ring! At least she looks pretty!
by dl37
• Is that a ring or plaster on the Lovely Girl's finger?
by Niall
• Hopefully a Realignment!
by dl37
• Terry Kelleher SP is front row Q&A elected town councillor Balbriggan
by BrianGreene
• Mid term protest vote or more fundamental realignment?
• I'm waiting for someone to stand up and point their fingers, their voice shaking and yell
'You've killed my dreams!'
• The human side of the Green Party has been trying to get the leaderships attention for the
last two years
by pratie 9
• This is like some kind of post election therapy for candidates.
• Aww Poor little green boy wants to stay
by dl37
• Murphy. Can some non-partisan faces on pleeeeease...
by Mark_Coughlan
• Curse you voters! The public supports me, but you, the voters are my enemy forever.
• *clapclap*
by lostexpectation
• Eoghan Murphy - teeth not as white as poster
• Eoghan Hughes?
by Mark_Coughlan
• The voters! He hates them! They voted the wrong way!
• Eoghan Murphy now on
by astarmain
• It wasn the worst economic situation!
by Mark_Coughlan
• UGH!
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• thats a long time to say nothing
by lostexpectation
• not an ffr myself
by guinness69
• We must find the human side of the Green party. That was priceless.
• after the fact rubbish from the opposition
by guinness69
• I can think of a few names for him :)
by dl37
• What exactly is this guys problem? He's furiousabout something. Can't imagine what.
• Not only a member - a candidate.
by Mark_Coughlan
• Can we name him?
• Not elected? Who would have guessed?
by Niall
• that guy is on the ball
by guinness69
• LOSER!
• Shut Up! Stupid FF Idiot - Ridiculous!
by dl37
• His pearl of wisdom: Voters want to give this government a chance and have rejected FG
and Labour.
• LOL - Not political spin! Though I'm a party member!
by Mark_Coughlan
• This Dudes NOT HAPPY!
by dl37
• Ah-ha! A man who isn't going to give us political spin. He's one of the straight talking FFers.
• If only all of society's vulnerable groups voted as much as pensioners...
by Niall
• simon elections tell us nothing, just a snapshot in time. erm....
• Is there anyone in this audience who isn't party political activist?
by finkeegan
• Patrick Nulty - Labour Cllr
by Mark_Coughlan
• @Guiness09 How do you mean? The VinB and Q&A liveblog are both running here. VinB
isnt livestreamed online...
• RTE lost a viewer coz of the player. TV3 gained a viewer coz they have none.
by BrianGreene
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• Sick of the idea that we are in the same predicament as the US. We are quite a bit worse than
the US! FF need new talking points
by delexical
• I think that is the first moment of admitting mistakes, albeit unspecified, from an FFers.
• Peadar Kirby (UL) has been talking/writing about this left realignment -He argues the the
Greens need to be in it to be successful-Greens, Labour, Sinn Fein, PBP, etc
by wendylimerick
• Joan being nice about the Shinners!
by dl37
• Mark_Coughlan have you a link for VinB and Liveblog
by guinness69
• Did Manseragh actually say "That is to suppose we are an island..."
by Niall
• Manseragh "We thought, and we were wrong, we were doing ok"
• url.ie my interview with Patricia McKenna at 3am today. Listen later.
by BrianGreene
• Joan is going to burst if she smiles any more
by CarlowWeather
• 'Crude simplifications' don't help!? That's been FF's MO for decasdes!
by finkeegan
• My laptop has kept crashing at theRTE site all weekend. Al Jazeera will have to do.
by pratie 9
• Is Richard Bruton there still? Gone to the jacks?
• I cannot follow liveblog, watch #Vinb, worry about my friends and knit complicated lace at
the same time. #le09
• "...I didn't get elected"...surprise surprise #le09 #qa12
• Wonder when Micheal Martin will launch his leadership bid? #le09
• MLMCD is giving Martin a verbal slap
• Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin says Fianna Fáil will recover from these
elections
• I'm leader of the International League of People Named Simon, but seeing as nobody elects
me to that position, I don't see why I'd expect voters to listen to what I was saying.
• One earphone given to RTE, the tv sound to TV3 and a brain overloaded.
• Martin spinning me into a tizzy, tough decisions only made bcause decades of easy decisions
under El Berto's anything goes demanded it. Tough can also be wrong.
• Got RTE Player with Q&A in one Firefox window, Liveblog in another and VinB on the
telly.
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• No Martin the Jury is in and you are found guilty on all charges of ruining this State
by CarlowWeather
• Manseragh's is a seat that will vaporise if there's a GE in the morn
by delexical
• MLM is a committed Marxist in comparison
by pratie 9
• Who does Vinnie have on the show?
by Niall
• Arrived in to find Manseragh chewing the scenery as usual.
• @pratie 9 MLM said it!
by dl37
• Simon Mary Lou is the Sinn Fein Deputy Leader
by wendylimerick
• OK, jumping to VinB. Prepare for confusion to reign as we run both liveblogs right here.
• Who said the Green's were left wing? We wish.
by pratie 9
• If Mansergh wasn't on I'd switch over to Vinb
by astarmain
• Martin Mansergh congrats Maureen George and 'indeed' Joe - Martin would like George and
Maureen to enjoy time in Dail before they join campaign again.
• we need to get somebody to rebroadcast tv3 via justin tv
by lostexpectation
• Look at Ireland over a decade or two and you get FF, FF, FF, FF, FG, FF FF.
• What a pointless program Q & A has become. The votes aren't yet counted and they pack the
audience full of candidates and activists. That you, voters of Ireland, we've heard quite
enough from you already.
• the correct term is dealignment for what happened academic nitpicking
• I like MLM's ring.
by BrianGreene
• Oh Janey Mack. The Great SF Dream. 'Why won't Labour and the Greens go into
partnership with us? What could the problem possibly be? Was it something we did?'
• Joe Higgins getting a bit of a flirt from Vinnie B
by delexical
• Wendy will you post on vincent?
by pratie 9
• Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald says the election results open the way for a realignment of
Irish politics
• rest of Q&A via RTE player on #vinb live now
by BrianGreene
• Mary-Lou rings is massive
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• Bruton is actually shouting now...
• Bout time richard is showing a bit of passion
by wendylimerick
• martin try to attach lehman brothers onto fg???
by lostexpectation
• If he didn't want to be judged for FG's actions, why didn't he run as an independent?
by Niall
• Lee is OTT FG git now. he is clueless of history, and cares less about history and failure of
FG in the past.
by BrianGreene
• George talks about privatising ESB and Bord Gais
• George Lee looked angry
by Niall
• Martin v Bruton!
• OH! FIGHT!
• Intriguing skirmish b/w vinb and glee
by finkeegan
• Suzy, what have we had so far - "neo-liberals", "working people", "SR Technics", "ordinary
working people", "taxpayers", "... should have taken the banks into our control"
• George Lee is interested in the future, he's in trouble with Vinnie and Joe over Kenny report
1974. Not very amicable!
by delexical
• George Lee is 'talking 'bout my generation'.
• Lee is petulant.. Jesus
• @delexical Live not live as in living. Live and learn
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by BrianGreene
• MLM is starting her job interview process again...GE, Presidential Elec, pity the LLS is
already gone! #le09
• The Lee downcast glance is his counter to Vinnie B's sigh
• George Lee is interested in the future and not the past - ie FG in government in the 70's
• What the link for Vinnie. Now switched from Al J to France 24. Need more stimulus.
by pratie 9
• Is that the economic perspective Cian cause you lost me on volatile and market!
by wendylimerick
• Joe Higgins going old school. Complaining about TEAM Air Lingus. It's retro-SRTechnics!
• And that's all of Q&A I can take. TV3 here I come
by astarmain
• Sigh. This notion that "if you're unpopular you must be doing something right" is insane. Its
just as likely that you're unpopular because you're a prick.
• Sits waiting for Joe Higgins Bingo full house
• @BrianGreene not live though, apologies, delayed
by delexical
• "Tough decisions, unpopular decision [no mention of wrong decisions]" - John Gormley
• @delexical i live and learn, whats the uri? tv3.ie
by BrianGreene
• Seriously... where is Richard Bruton tonight?
• @delexical Ay and the Labour Party werent too worried about asking what the old Sticks
had got up to in the past.
by Marie
• John Gormley should leave the set and phone Gerry Adams forthwith
by pratie 9
• @BrianGreene You can watch Vinnie B no prob on the web
by delexical
• Wonder when Micheal Martin will launch his leadership bid? #le09
• Maureen O'Sullivan considerably more animated than her last VinB outing.
• I cannot follow liveblog, watch #Vinb, worry about my friends and knit complicated lace at
the same time. #le09
• No Labour & SF coalition according to Joan #le09
• hubris is a dangerous thing Joan Burton #le09
• Wendy for it to be realignment it needs a core vote for all three of those parties
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commensurate with core of FG and FF - realignment needs to be frozen/solid as i understand
it while dealignment is the opening volatile market of voters happy to vote for most parties
but not aligned over time. (I think?)
• @wendylimerick sure everyone's going to get along with SF fine there. Nothing usual about
them as a party.
• mary lou wants left unity?
by dojodub via twitter
• I think they are lining up for a possible rainbow that could run for years and years
by guinness69
• Peader Kirby is dead on.
by pratie 9
• Feckin' Mary Lou MacDonald!! She has been voted out! Can she not just go away
by IreneFisher via twitter
• Burton wont rule it out. WTF.
• Joan describes FG relationship with SF as in flux
by astarmain
• This left alliance is a Shinner pipe dream. As long as there are old stickies in Labour, it'll
never happen.
• Something muppet-like about glee tonight. Bleeker?
by finkeegan
• mary loo www.muzu.tv for the adverts
by guinness69
• @Alexia, for about another week. In fairness, she is a novice.
by Niall
• While the RSA threatens me with a lifetime of very bad acting, I nip aside to TV3. George is
happy with the job he's got.
• Sleep time in the only electoral area in the country not to have declared its councillors yet.
Nite #le09
• George - 'I got the job I was looking for from the people of South Dublin'
• Manseragh sounds like a Bond villain that never made the cut
by Niall
• To be honest, how long can O'Sullivan play the novice game... ?
• All of a sudden FF feel the need to discuss the Ryan report into child persecution?
by finkeegan
• Suddenly Govt reps want to talk about the Ryan Report
• O'Sullivan says the no confidence motion is a political stunt
• the rte live online breaks are very silent and black
by lostexpectation
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• George Lee thinks the Kenny report was 2003???? is he thinking Bacon? Lee looking fresh
& learning on the job. Smokey Bacon.
by BrianGreene
• Switch: O'Sullivan to support vote of no confidence
by Niall
• #vinb George Lee is on route to an early first ulcer with this dismeanour. FG may have their
Mr Angry?
by delexical
• Wonder what is the 2nd postgrad he is doing?
by wendylimerick
• He's on his second post-graduate and he's not sure whether he's going to have a job. Dude,
nobody on their second post-graduate ever gets a job.
• WTF since when is what bowman says news?
• LOL... FFer activists gets in the fact he's just completing his second post-grad with a big
smug smile on his face...
• 2 postgraduate degrees in what i wonder?
• Mansergh delivery a slap with a wet fish to lee about economic history and then smugly
jumps in seat. almost makes me go back to bowman
• After a political row on Q&A, host John Bowman says it is clear Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael
will not be coalescing after the next election
• FF head on the screen. He's mad angry.
• I think a fairy dies everytime someone asks what the difference between FF and FG is. There
has to be some reason why we don't ask that question more often
by Niall
• name the audience member please Brian...
• @lexia they dont do they? LOL - MLM not MEP not MLA not TD but I like her.
by BrianGreene
• Because of the Emergency everytime i see Martin M i just think of Harry Potter
by wendylimerick
• Locals Update: Meath County Council began counting on Saturday morning. It is now
approaching midnight on Monday and they are still not finished. At this rate they will be
finished later than the NW Euro count, having had a 24 hour head start.
• "A better class of person" Nailed it!
by finkeegan
• wendy i think it is - about sticking t new party or creating a pool of floating voters. anyhow
its more fun to go find it than listen to bowman sit back as if shouting = good debate. CAnt
wait till this awful moderating style is done away with.
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• Ah go on bitch slap someone Richard!
by Marie
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• Gormley asks what the difference between FF and FG actually is!
by astarmain
• @lostexpectation here is an oRe. row.
by BrianGreene
• George is Wrong.
by BrianGreene
• Gormley says FF and FG should consider coalition... the man is off his head
• has michael martin done anything in his ministry of foreign affairs?
by lostexpectation
• @Brian Interesting to note that Q&A are still giving MLM the MEP title
• Any truth in the rumour that michael mc dowell is on the way back via FG? #le09
• I'm back with Q&A and find our shouty friends R. Bruton and M. Martin making J. Bowman
look uncomfortable in the middle.
• Switch to see Richard and Martin shouting. Bowman, would you ever do something?
by Niall
• Q&A is a complete shouting match. John has lost control. The bus is driving off a cliff
• Martin now shouting... Q&A + passion = WTF!
• give me an R!
by lostexpectation
• TV3 graphic title for Joe Higgins MEP. still sinking in.
by BrianGreene
• GeorgeL wants us to have things done 'for tomorrow, for today, not for 1974.' Sounds like a
great slogan for something. Micheal Martin would be annoyed. As we know, he hates
slogans.
• Suzy got there before me.....at least Libertas were upfront on where they stood not dance
around the issues
by wendylimerick
• prepare for en masse switch to vincent in 2 mins
• @CW 1140
• Both really. This is a wonderful new world for me.
by pratie 9
• what time is Q&A on till?
by CarlowWeather
• Vincet Browne TV3: George Lee and Mansergh in cosy agreement about worth of back
bench politicians. Lee a smug & arrogant already. #le09
• John Gormley talks about Libertas and distasteful policies - especially equality for gay
people - that'll be a perfect civil partnership bill next month John so?
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• @pratie mamanpoulet.com - it's not a liveblog though
• @pratie - Which blog are you on? You looking for blogs or liveblogs (real time chats)?
• why can't they discuss lisbon?
by lostexpectation
• This is the only show in town, liveblog-wise.
• i've lost RTE on line
• Vincet Browne TV3: George Lee and Mansergh in cosy agreement about worth of back
bench politicians. Lee a smug & arrogant already. #le09
• Can anyone suggest similar political blogs to this one? For the quiet times.
by pratie 9
• #vinb back
by BrianGreene
• MLM ring has an LCD screen with tweets from Gerry!
by BrianGreene
• Ganley will probably be back claiming he has proof from supersecret confidential sources
that wheeliebins of votes were stolen by Pat the Cope
by faduda
• i still have rte q&a online
by lostexpectation
• Mary Lou desperate to be anti Lisbon and distant from Ganley at the same time #le09
• Yeah, Ganley will be back. His kind always are.
Unless you put a stake through their hearts.

by Niall
• #q+a Mary-Lou looks wrecked tired.
by OliveOConnor via twitter
• MLM is wearing a massive green ring on her wedding finger. Where's her wedding band?
• Poor Greens Out polled by Libertas Nationally in the Euros 1.89% to 5.61%. Joe Higgins
and Marian Harkin each outpolled the Greens. #le09
• Bowman says Ganley played a blinder by delaying count so he did not have to face Europe's
television crews based in Castlebar
• RTÉ online never set Q&A to get another half hour - show cut off online just there...
• "I think that the people have voted in the European Elections" Michael Martin on Q&A.
Really? you're not sure? #le09
• Loving Mary Lou's Ring very funky
by wendylimerick
• They're all talking like Ganley is politically dead. He'll be back - claiming the people want
him back - that he got calls from every house in the North West or something.
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• Where are john Gormley's snazzy new glasses gone tonight? #qa12
by Genzer via twitter
• "I think that the people have voted in the European Elections" Michael Martin on Q&A.
Really? you're not sure? #le09
• Look, I like shouting and the like as much as the next person. Perhaps a little more. But
really, that whole first half was a sterile and meaningless exchange.
• @lostexpectation Pricesless!
by Niall
• Dunshaughlin has gone to bed. Three full days after beginning the count, they have only
filled four of seven seats. It will be tomorrow before we get final figures for the local
elections then.
• SF folk I met and like - Killian Forde (old school classmate) Larry O'Toole & Tomás
Sharkey East Candidate. MLM also.
by BrianGreene
• Jumped to RTE, but not before Ray Foley has made me his enemy for life with his ad.
• george lee upload.wikimedia.org
by lostexpectation
• Declan Ganley - a man who unites all our parties in hate
by Niall
• @barratree = Questioner
• Green Party member asks question on Q&A on Ganley
• @barratree head of Young Greens
• Martin giving advise to George on how to ask questions in the Dail
by wendylimerick
• Manseragh promising that 'even as a government TD you can put down questions'. VinB
falls around at this admission of impotence. Manseragh doesn't even understand what he's
getting at.
• Blah #vinb moving away from politics... back to Q&A
• Sleep time in the only electoral area in the country not to have declared its councillors yet.
Nite #le09
• Love when Mansergh gets nailed by Vinne... he gets all hot-headed.
• If they remove Coughlan, then Cowen will find himself without a layer of protection. All the
blame will go to him.
by Niall
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by squidlimerick at 6/8/2009 10:42:23 PM11:42 PM yesterday
•
• Suzy. Been wondering how to start blogging.
by pratie 9
• @wendylimerick and if they don't remove Couglan the Back Benchers will revolt
by CarlowWeather
• FFS... Ryan report isn't interesting now - Kenny "superceded" it with his motion... he said o
himself...
• #vinb Coughlan, the Farmer's friend is going to have her face all over their tables on the
Indo in the morn. Is she going to be dislodged as a sop to the backbenchers?
by delexical
• dont think the voters in donegal south west (byelection pending) wud be pleased with a
tanaiste demotion.
• If the remove Coughlan they would have to have a general election Cowen leadership would
be in Major Trouble
by wendylimerick
• Green Minister need to be given time says Mansergh - eh? They're actually better than Most
of Manserghs party by a mile!
• Wonder who wrote the lead for the Examiner - they had nothing yesterday seemingly...
• Joe Higgins MEP ... has a nice ring to it. Joe Higgins TD would have been better #le09
by squidlimerick via twitter at 6/8/2009 10:40:14 PM11:40 PM yesterday
• Back from a very nice weekend exploring Antrim. Skimmed through #le09 results & things
turned out v well :)
by conall via twitter
• Examiner says FF Backbenchers are planning a revolt
• watch the whole lection day tv3 coverage all over again
by lostexpectation
• www.tv3.ie
by lostexpectation
• Coughlan set for demotion.....idle speculation on a tuesday?
by Anonymous
• Indo leads with Coughlan demotion ahead
by CarlowWeather
• @Carlow a Labour-head said such to me in the RDS yesterday... they want the Greens to
finish themselves with the bloodbath budget in December...
• Poor Coughlan!
by Niall
• Martin Mansergh is dancing in his chair again!
• lsiten we need somebody with tv card and cable to their computer to rebroadcast tv3 over
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www.justin.tv check it out
by lostexpectation
• #vinb I wonder what will happen when George does get his GE and meets the Dept of
Finance folks. That's a meeting I'd like to be a fly on the wall at.
by delexical
• I think FG and Labour don't want a GE until next year, 1 less tough budget to make
by CarlowWeather
• Any got access to The Irish Times online archives?
• And Pratie if you want to start blogging yourself - we need more politics and current affairs
bloggers!!
• Cuffe tweeted CP bill due in July last week
by faduda
• George Lee is being bombastic. Joe Higgins is advocating his Thomas Paine inspired
outlook.
• @Brian :) Love the Sesame St reference
• @lexia re MLM "Where's her wedding band?" I had a DJ at my wedding.
by BrianGreene
• Great informaation. You may well have saved my sanity.
by pratie 9
• Lee's answer is cute
by Niall
• @Guinness No, they're a few years behind the times... headwrecking...
• Vincent loves rising Martin
by wendylimerick
• can you watch tv3 online any links
by guinness69
• annnnnd... to Vincent Browne
• Just handed an ice cream cone. Liveblogging impaired.
• Mansergh is extremely grating
• @pratie Irishelection.com, mamanpoulet.com search for "Semper iDem", or "the Cedar
Lounge Revolution" (left wing specifically)...
• Prediction: CP will not come in under this government
• Pratie - irishelection.com is where you'll find politics pondered and irishblogs.ie is a good
place to search for different blogs talking about 'current' issues etc.
• Ganley, Grover lives in wheelie bins and eats 3000 votes ever night :)
by BrianGreene edited by Alexia Golez
• An "ego trip for Mr Ganley": his political epitaph may have just been written
by finkeegan
256
• barra missed telling rte and media to get over ganley
by lostexpectation
• Hasn't Gormley promised a CP bill already?
by Niall
• Sound, there's a shopping website that's going to save the economy. Cowen, are you
involved here? Shopin.ie
• @Niall, the connection is the state's treatment of children.
• Leaving before i start screaming -nn all Thanks again for the Liveblogging ya'all-
by wendylimerick
• I agree lostexpectation but its an easy way for FF to distance themselves from Health.
Cowen re-shuffle would still see her remain imo
by CarlowWeather
• *fingers crossed for no Harvey Norman ads*
• oops Alan Kelly Labour Cork. it might be
by BrianGreene
• vincent is confusing two issues, no? The state of modern mental hospitals have little to do
with the role of SOM in running a kids hospital.
by Niall
• #LE09 The line-up for Louth County Council has been completed following Independent
Frank Godfrey’s election in Drogheda East
• Hee Hee. George has to respond to VinB and say that he isn't opposed to the past in this
regard. Not a universal Year Zero the day he was elected!
• FF failing to understand that the Orders TODAY are morally tainted: by their cover-ups,
evasions, and needless persecution of victims giving testimony
by finkeegan
• #vinb the face on george there on that shot!
by delexical
• @Carlow Harney is anchored with health in the long run
• that no reason not to get rid of her @cw
by lostexpectation
• Oh Manseragh is pissing me off
by wendylimerick
• #vinb Manseragh, re: Ryan report, the world has turned and left you, nobody wants
"reflection" or talk of ethos, they want secure child protection and some semblance of
justice.
by delexical
• Manseragh has no opinion on the question of church control of schools/hospitals. But then
grows one.
• @lostexpectation who in FF would want Health?
by CarlowWeather
• Alan Kelly FCC? no. its Childers Ireland East, no?
257
by BrianGreene
• Manseragh giving me faceache on this within micro-seconds. Has decided that the abuse
wasn't just a catastrophe for the victims, but for 'the whole of society'.
• If Cowen was in this for the long haul, he could do worse than swallow a bit of pride and
make Gormley Tanaiste. Lash them both together so that they sink or swim together
• Put greens in Finance and put it up to them :)
by astarmain
• how the hell is one women wonder harney still in her job, shes not that good, the reshuffle
should have been subject on q+a
by lostexpectation
• Move lenihan back to justice and make him number 2.
by astarmain
• no its not especially when they have Catholic ethos Martin
by wendylimerick
• Everyone agrees with each other.
Except maybe Vincent?

by Niall
• @lostexpectation that wouldn't be a bad move on Cowen's part
by faduda
• @Mark if he is, he's shown scant evidence of it
by faduda
• gormely for tanaiste
by lostexpectation
• Who Mary Hanafin No feckin Way
by wendylimerick
• Dublin doesnt like FF, wouldnt matter who he appointed IMO
• Sorry on the front of the IT
by pratie 9
• George Lee does not believe that it's appropriate that church run schools/hospitals?
by Suzy Byrne edited by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 10:44:30 PM11:44 PM yesterday
• Joe didn't have to be pushed on his opinion on this. He too does not think religious orders
should be running any part of the state services.
• Cowen needs to appoint a Dublin based Tanaiste to try to shore up support
by astarmain
• @gerard Lenihan is a bit more independent of the trio though?
• Martin as Tainaiste would delay leadership challenge and bring Cork vote up?
by CarlowWeather
• Pratie - have a look around other blogs and then go to a site like wordpress.com and start
one - it's free :)
• Alan Kelly winning the seat on the front of the Times
by astarmain
• Marueen O'Sullivan, pushed hard by VinB, says that it isn't appropriate for the Sisters of
258
Mercy to run the Mater Hospital.
• He went through the examiner so fast I count grab it
• If Coughlan goes, then doesn't Cowen have to dump his other pal Lenihan too?
by faduda
• Sweary mary to go. Not before time. Can she take the whole government with her (known
by the civil service as the Blue Minister for her language)
by dermotcasey
• I dont see Cowen doing it-Who would be Taniaste?
by wendylimerick
• Who is that in the lead image of the Irish Times? Cant make it out...
•

• by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 12:46:20 PM07 June 2009 13:46:20
• No! Sleep! Till Castlebar!
• So farewell, Declan Ganley.
You burned ballistcally across the Eurosky.
Ironically, you lacked a guidance system.
#le09
• The final Council seat break down is: FG 340 (+47), FF 218 (-84), Lab 132 (+31), SF 54
259
(NC), GP 3 (-15), SP 4 (NC) Other 132 (+40) #le09
• Some pix from South count centre url.ie #le09
by mor_rigan via twitter
• NORTH WEST: Mooney (FF) eliminated after 4th count - bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter at 6/9/2009 12:07:42 AM1:07 AM
• The counting of votes in the North West is expected to go through the night. bit.ly
• The counting of votes in the North West is expected to go through the night
• I think it's one of the Irish Tenors on the front of the Irish Times.
by pratie 9 edited by Simon McGarr
• #LE09 All 883 seats in the local elections have now been filled
• SOUTH: final result Crowley (FF), Sean Kelly (FG), Alan Kelly (LB) - bit.ly
by ElectionsIRL via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:33:02 PM12:33 AM
• Fianna Fail's Paschal Mooney was eliminated after the fourth count in the North West
• nite all thanks
by guinness69
• meath is done
by guinness69
• meath filled
by guinness69
• Meath Result
• #LE09 The two local seats yet to be decided are in Dunshaughlin in Meath, while there are
recounts in Belturbet and Portlaoise
• BNP filth on Sky news
by squidlimerick at 6/8/2009 11:11:43 PM12:11 AM
• come on!!! Seriously becoming a joke now!!! Why is it taking so long?
by sazzybm
• can't click on names on scribble? to see their profile follow them etc
by lostexpectation
• be careful with those mental images @handelaar
by lostexpectation
• Oh my. @vincentbrowne screwing Mansergh into the wall here
• Christ! Could George be any more smug over on @vincentbrowne? Or should that be
George! Could Christ be etc....
by mcj66 via twitter
• Good panel on @vincentbrowne too, had to Sky+ it because of Q&A
by davidpkelly via twitter
• Anyone intersted in politics In Ireland, @vincentbrowne his programme is amazing. Great
panels, No questions left unasked! Genius host.
by KOLKOLKOLKOL via twitter
• Anyone got open access to Irish Times Online archives? Looking to do some trawling...
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by Mark_Coughlan via twitter at 6/8/2009 11:01:22 PM12:01 AM
• Thanks to all who retweeted, visited and commented on 200 Words to Gormley today
by faduda
• Seems like Wexford is still counting
by pratie 9
• The liveblog stays open overnight. Until the seats of Dunshaughlin are filled, we will not
rest.
• aertel is still retro cool
by lostexpectation
• @squid. Silly me. Should've known. Have heard no announcements that they've stopped.
• Questions and Answers on RTE 1and Tonight with Vincent Browne will be live blogged
here at the Count Day Liveblog to round off the three day countfest. Any or all of #le09 ,
#qa12 , #vinb will get your tweet picked up from Twitter.
by Suzy Byrne edited by Simon McGarr at 6/8/2009 10:57:17 PM11:57 PM yesterday
•
• @Fergal, was referring to the European count. have they suspended the European count till
tomorrow?
• watching tv3 yesterday, vb says the a senior ff minister told him that bertie started
canvassing for maureen o sullivan when the wind changed
by lostexpectation
• Night all. Remember to put your pitchforks back in the barn. ;)
by finkeegan
• @Elrobo they wheeled her out for a while on Saturday...then wheeled her back in just as
quick. Papers tomorrow say she'll be demoted #le09
• @Elrobo I caught a snipped of Coughlan on one of the radio shows today, defending Cowen
staying in Offaly all weekend #le09
• Animation of the Dublin Euro count url.ie #le09 (via @Anamates) cool visualisation of
Proportional representation in action
by offportal via twitter
• www.rte.ie
by guinness69
• Only 2 seats remaining are in Meath Dunshaughlin
by CarlowWeather
• Ouch. Damn you tv3 for breaking then giving two seconds of debate before ending! sat
through the ads for nothing
by Niall
• And we're out
by faduda
• GLee stumbles over FG soundbite "orderly wind-down"
by faduda
• lab got a seat in meath
by guinness69
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• @squid Don't think they're counting in Castlebar. I think the last 2 in Dunshaughlin are all
that remains.
• Talk yous all for Prime Time tomorrow night?
• Having got Maureen to betray the nuns in relation to the Mater, Vinb decides to go at her
again on schools.
• #LE09 The line-up for Louth County Council has been completed following the election of
Independents Frank Godfrey and Alan Grehan
• state need to take direct responsibility therefore funding
by lostexpectation
• Are they still counting in Castlebar?
• OK, Dunshauglin Meath elected one more before bed-time: Niamh McGowan LAB takes
fifth seat of seven. Only two seats remain to be filled now.
• god no lostexpectation I'd be delighted to see Harney out but I have no Faith in Cowen
doing that
by CarlowWeather
• @Simon, yes, but that doesn't really support his point that the SOM shouldn't run the kids'
hospital. Are the mental hospitals poor because they're run by religious orders or because of
underfunding in several areas by the state?
by Niall
• Tagline "Help us put the economy back together faster than the governments can!"
• are you argeuing in favour of the easy way for ff @CW
by lostexpectation
• shopin non stop twittering about herself
by lostexpectation
• Only 6 counties in that shopin.ie ad that most people want to shop in and they don't put any
money in Lenihan's books
by CarlowWeather
• www.shopin.ie Looks amazing they have coloured-y floating counties... wow... welcome to
the internet in 2001 guys
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The three FFers on about 1,300 votes altogether

Keating on 1.6 quota with circa 1,500 to distribute

Fifth seat will be a dogfight

by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 2:33:39 PM3:33 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/6/2009 2:53:15 PM3:53 PM yesterday

5 seats, Quota= 2598

One box missing

Malcolm Noonan +26 = 636

LEYDEN, Orla FF 1012 Elected

Paula Mc Namara's surplus now been distributed.

Athlone (Roscommon) Count 1:

Tony Ward IND and John Naughton FG both elected on count 1

Tony Ward's Surplus now been distributed.

Fianna Fail 47.5%,

Fianna Fail 31.2%,

John Kelly IND 2230 Elected

Luke Ming Flanagan IND 1556 Elected

Count will continue in the morning.

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 8:44:22 AM9:44 AM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 10:03:52 AM11:03 AM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 9:54:46 AM10:54 AM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 9:36:00 AM10:36 AM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 10:41:12 AM11:41 AM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:13:59 AM12:13 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:09:35 AM12:09 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:24:05 AM12:24 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 12:05:10 PM1:05 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 11:56:27 AM12:56 PM yesterday

Ballbriggan Fingal County Council 0/5 seats

Lucan South Dublin County Council 0/5 seats

Ballyfermot-Drimnagh Dublin City Council 0/4 seats

Ballybrack Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council 0/5 seats

Baltinglass Wicklow County Council 0/3 seats

by Alexia Golez at 6/7/2009 12:31:20 PM1:31 PM yesterday

Canditates Elected in Mid Roscommon:

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 2:18:00 PM3:18 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 2:12:18 PM3:12 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 2:37:17 PM3:37 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 2:30:23 PM3:30 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 6:29:20 PM7:29 PM yesterday

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 8:51:24 PM9:51 PM yesterday

De Burca distribution now

by Suzy Byrne at 6/7/2009 9:34:12 PM10:34 PM yesterday

Gallagher: 82643 (82643)

by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 7:22:20 PM8:22 PM

by Suzy Byrne at 6/8/2009 7:22:20 PM8:22 PM yesterday

Unless you put a stake through their hearts.

Except maybe Vincent?

by squidlimerick at 6/8/2009 10:42:47 PM11:42 PM yesterday

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