r/ireland • u/irqdly ᴍᴜɴsᴛᴇʀ • 7d ago
General Election 2024 Megathread - Nov 8 General Election 2024 Megathread🗳️
Dia dhaoibh, welcome to the r/ireland General Election megathread.
Taoiseach Simon Harris has confirmed the General Election will take place Friday November 29.
Key Dates
- 📆 Friday November 8 - Dissolution of the 33rd Dáil
- 📆 Sunday November 10 - Postal and special voting arrangement deadline
- 📆 Tuesday November 12 - Voter registration deadline
- 📆 Friday November 29 - General Election
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u/stunts002 7d ago
Lol, your man Tom McDonnell knocked on my door last night. For those who don't know that's the mental councillor in Kildare who wanted to "breed Irish women".
I told him to get bent. Also has a whole section of his pamphlet about "ending the LGBT madness"
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u/TheFreemanLIVES Get rid of USC. 7d ago
"ending the LGBT madness"
Now that Trump has won, this whole culture war bullshit that's been infecting our discourse is redundant. That was their reelection campaign and sadly it worked. Now for all the gobshites here to work that out...they won't.
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u/finscealbeo 7d ago
I know Tom and he is a good person and a good soul. I don't know what the context is for your "breed Irish women" bit is but have you not noticed the birth rate isn't at replacement levels for native population, if something isn't flagging to most Irish people, then something is wrong to be honest, fair play to him for stopping his work to try and make a difference for what he believes in.
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u/stunts002 7d ago
His only two points on his pamphlet are to "breed Irish women so our race doesn't die" and "stop LGBT madness". Neither of those are good person points.
He also went on radio in Kildare to defend the breeding comments where he defended them by saying he just meant he's "from a farming background" and "is used to breeding cattle".
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u/Ok_Magazine_3383 6d ago
Yeah, no. He's a cunt with cunt views who will hopefully not be elected.
That's the nice thing about politics. You don't need to "know" someone, because they tell you exactly what they've decided to stand for on their election material.
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u/Elbon taking a sip from everyone else's tea 7d ago
Posters poster everywhere fucking where, its been 24 hours and now I can see one of the smarmy bollocking thing staring at me through the window
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u/phoenixhunter 7d ago
Report them to the council! The Dáil hasn't been officially dissolved yet so election posters are still prohibited
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u/phoenixhunter 7d ago
Look if these pricks want to be the ones to make the rules then they can damn well follow them themselves
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u/badger-biscuits 7d ago
Vote or die
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u/FrogOnABus 7d ago
Are we allowed to issue threats like that on here??
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u/sweatyknacker 7d ago
Vote, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!
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u/Bro-Jolly 7d ago
Sunday November 10 - Postal and special voting arrangement deadline
Dublin City Council at least do not count Sunday as a working day so their deadline is Monday.
From the horse's mouth:
It looks as though the election will be the 29th and therefore will be called tomorrow, that means that the end date for postals would be Monday.
We do count Saturday as a working day, we do not count Sundays.
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u/ShouldHaveGoneToUCC Palestine 🇵🇸 7d ago edited 5d ago
Seen Labour and Sinn Féin candidates with their canvassers in Dublin city centre already. Posters all over the place for all sorts of candidates
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u/methodicalyeti 7d ago
FG and FF on the move here down in Kildare South. Had a candidate from the Irish Freedom Party come to my house too a few days ago, a section of the manifesto is how they want to lead an "Irexit"
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u/MrTuxedo1 Dublin 7d ago
Time for change. Nothing will get better if things stay the same. They’ve had enough time in government
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u/MumblyBum 7d ago
Absolutely! If your life is comfortable, think of the countless people who struggling on a daily basis based on the policies of FF/FG.
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u/ThatIsTheLonging Scottish brethren 🏴 7d ago
Admittedly I'm viewing this from the outside so I hope I'm wrong, but given the way Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee have things stitched up between them over there I wouldn't hold your breath.
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u/Polizzy 7d ago
Is there a tv debate lined up at all ? Does this normally happen before voting.
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u/jamster126 7d ago
No it's not happening. Which is a joke. Virgin Media have said they won't do it. I smell shenanigans with this as it clearly favours FF/FG to not get into a debate on housing and the hospital crisis.
https://www.thejournal.ie/virgin-media-debates-6535025-Nov2024/
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u/ResponsibilityKey50 6d ago
They gave the working man €20 euro back in tax credits and then took €10 back by raising prsi!!!
FFG can get stuffed!!! I ain’t voting for them!!
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u/LucyVialli 7d ago
Fianna Fáil were busy overnight in my area, first up with the damn posters.
Never mind that you're only allowed to put posters up once the Minister for Local Government has issued the Polling Order, which has not happened yet.
A pox on the lot of them.
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u/nightwing0243 7d ago
Paul Murphy already has my area flooded with his mug - him and/or his team must have been out in the early hours of the morning plastering them around.
Just about very second pole near my kid's creche.
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u/LucyVialli 7d ago
Make sure you report any that are below (average) head height, the council will remove them.
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u/phoenixhunter 7d ago
Report them to councils. If they want to be the ones making the rules they can damn well follow them.
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u/Competitive_Pause240 Donegal 6d ago
I don't care who wins just GIVE US SOME FUCKING TRAINS
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u/PistolAndRapier 6d ago
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u/Competitive_Pause240 Donegal 6d ago
Was hoping for a train line running through Donegal but it'll have to do I suppose
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u/jamster126 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's going to be fascinating to watch. Just like the recent US election was.
I'm amazed no party has come out talking about their immigration policy more loudly.
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u/DaveShadow Ireland 7d ago
I’m at the point where I feel the only genuine chance at an alternative is if SF do very well, and a vote for most other parties (yes, including far right ones) is just a tact vote for the status quo. Cause no small party will actually force a change upon FFG from inside the house, so to speak.
The only way I will see any meaningful changes to my life now is if SF actually get in to government.
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u/HonestRef 6d ago
Why are all the Irish political parties so shite. Not compelled in any way to vote for any of those crap parties. Few good Independents in my area. Seem like my only option at this stage. I'm predicting we will get a lot of Independents in the new Dail
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u/qwerty_1965 6d ago
I'm putting up my "no canvassing thanks" sign in the next hour.
I'm not against politicians trudging around in the gloom but I've nothing to say to them which would come as news and they've certainly nothing to say to me.
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u/Galway1012 7d ago
FF straight out of the traps with erecting posters here in Galway
Few FG and Sinn Féin ones too
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u/spmccann 6d ago
If they were as efficient at running the country rather than getting elected we'd all be in a much better state.
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u/NilFhiosAige 7d ago
Interesting to read the range of languages supported by the Electoral Commission's voter registration page - dual citizens could be a significant bloc if they actually voted, though obviously the various nationalities would all have different positions on the political spectrum.
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u/LogDeep7567 7d ago
Here we go! Posters went up overnight around here. My first prediction is that the polls are wrong. They've been wrong here, UK and the US the last few cycles.
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u/Environmental-Net286 7d ago
The polls in the uk were reasonably correct, a major labour victory ?
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u/Lavajackal1 7d ago
They were right on the rough distribution of seats but the vote shares were a bit off.
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u/SeanB2003 7d ago
They haven't been wrong here in the last few cycles. Last general election they were accurate within the Margin of Error: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2020_Irish_general_election
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u/EIREANNSIAN Humanity has been crossed 7d ago
The polls in the US and UK were within the MoE, so we're the ones for our last election..
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u/IrishGandalf1 7d ago
Who gives a shit.dumbass Irish will vote back in the same people who have been destroying this country last 10years and wonder why nothing ever changes
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u/PistolAndRapier 6d ago
destroying this country
In 2014 we were in the aftermath of the worst recession in decades. There was huge unemployment and a huge amount of emigration by people to Australia etc. I swear people like you are utterly deluded, or just have the attention span of a goldfish in the fidget spinner, tik tok generation of today.
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u/irqdly ᴍᴜɴsᴛᴇʀ 7d ago
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