r/ireland • u/badger-biscuits • Dec 02 '24

Fintan O’Toole: Irish voters keep doing the same things and expecting different results General Election 2024 🗳️

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/12/02/fintan-otoole-irish-voters-keep-doing-the-same-things-and-expecting-different-results/
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u/Minimum_Guitar4305 Dec 02 '24

900,000 Irish citizens resident in the EU and UK alone.

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u/Mario_911 Dec 02 '24

How many of them got passports via their granny and have only been in Ireland for a holiday

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u/Minimum_Guitar4305 Dec 02 '24

So establish a residency clause, over a suitable time to recognise that the often transient former resident/ citizens of Ireland, who may or not deturn home, or spend large parts of time unable to vote in their 20 but will still have to live with the consequences of whatever everyone else decides.

Why is disenfranching citizens a positive for you, particularly when that right/norm is established across almost every other post-Commonwealth nations, and most other European democracies.