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Something our Kind & Benevolent Leaders ( #FineGael & #FiannaFáil) will no doubt completely ignore, as they steamroll over any objections to the aggressive construction of data centres & the development of all manner of needless, environment-destroying, AI-related fuckery. #Ireland #EU #Europe

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vogd52ezdb5jqrw33e4tjg6b/post/3mp3mfgi3ik2e

#finegael #fiannafail #ireland #eu #europe

Kerplunk @[email protected]

2026-06-18

@2legged

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Well no more Irish Butter, Cheese or Whiskey Purchases in my area of influence. And no other purchases or visits.

There are other choices
FSCKING Shameful.

#finegael #fiannafail #peoplebeforeprofit #israel #sanctions

In the Dark @[email protected]

2026-05-24

Sport and Politics

I have found this a very disappointing weekend in many respects for sports. Two Irish rugby teams (Ulster and Leinster) both lost their cup finals against French opposition (Montpellier and Bordeaux in the Challenge Cup and Champions Cup, respectively). Glamorgan’s cricketers lost their first two Twenty20 games of the season (both narrowly). And today’s last round of matches in the English Premier League saw Newcastle lose, an outcome made worse by the fact that Sunderland won.

At least however there was an opportunity to enjoy Ireland’s greatest spectator sport (after hurling, of course): the counting of votes in an election. Friday saw two by-elections, one because of the resignation of Paschal Donohoe (FG) from his seat in Dublin Central in order to take a lucrative job at the World Bank, and the other vacated by Catherine Connolly whose seat in Galway West became vacant when she took on the role of President. Neither of these are constituencies in which I could vote, but it was fun watching the results come on.

These elections, like all elections in Ireland, were held under a system of Proportional Representation (Single Transferable Vote). The constituences return multiple members in a General Election, but in the case of a by-election only one candidate is elected. This simplifies matters a bit because the part of the process that involves transferring surplus votes from candidates who exceed quota is not needed. Voters rank the candidates in order of preference with votes progressively reallocated as the lowest-ranked candidates are eliminated. You can rank all the candidates or just some. In the system employed here one ranks the candidates in order of preference with votes progressively reallocated in various rounds until one ends up with one winner.

There was also the presence of gang leader Gerard Hutch among the candidates in Dublin Central, but in the end he didn’t put up a serious challenge.

Opinion polls gave Sinn Féin’s Janice Boylan a narrow lead on first preferences, but since SF are notoriously transfer-unfriendly, I was very confident that lead would be overturned by Daniel Ennis of the Social Democrats. As it turned out, however, Ennis actually led on first preferences which confirmed me in my opinion that he would win. This is how the transfers panned out.

Ennis won comfortably, and John Stephens of Fianna Fáil gaining the distinction of getting the lowest share of first preference votes that his party has ever recorded in an election. There are some bizarre transfers, e.g. from the left-wing PBP (People Before Profit) to Fine Gael. Other than that the outcome was as predicted.

Not long ago Sinn Féin were riding high in the polls and might have expected to win a seat here, especially since Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Féin leader, holds a seat in Dublin Central, but their popularity has slumped. I think that’s primarily because they have recently lurched to the right – rather like UK Labour has – and many who want a genuinely progressive alternative to the crumbling neoliberal consensus have decided that they can’t support SF which puts on the mask of a progressive party when it suits them but are quite to remove it when chasing the right-wing vote. is quoted as saying that there is ‘no confusion’ for voters about whether the party was left-wing or right-wing. I think she is correct there, but perhaps not in the way she intended…

A genuinely left-wing party of the size of Sinn Féin should be building coalitions and knocking at the door to power, but instead it has squandered its position by pandering to anti-immigrant sentiment, jumping on the bandwagon of the recent “fuel protests” and signing up to transphobic policies in Northern Ireland. I don’t understand why they have chosen this path, but it looks very foolish to me. I’m not the only one to think this. Is Morgan McSweeney now working for Sinn Féin?

As I write, the count in Galway West is still going on but it has come down to a contest between two unpalatable right-wing candidates so I’m not following it as closely. Oh, the Fine Gael candidate has won.

#DanielEnnis #FiannaFáil #FineGael #SinnFein #SocialDemocrats

#danielennis #fiannafail #finegael #sinnfein #socialdemocrats

World news | The Guardian @[email protected]

2026-05-21

Dublin gangland figure brings extremist views to Irish mainstream on campaign trail https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/gerry-hutch-dublin-byelection-campaign-extremist-views-irish-mainstream #Ireland #Europe #WorldNews #FineGael #SinnFin #FiannaFail #Migration #EuropeanUnion #Islamophobia #MaryLouMcdonald #Race

#sinnfin #fiannafail #migration #europeanunion #islamophobia #maryloumcdonald

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2026-05-20

Dáil Éireann has voted against legislation seeking to impose #sanctions against #Israel, by 77 votes to 62

https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0520/1574420-dail-israel-sanctions/

The Sanctions Against The State of Israel bill was tabled by #PeopleBeforeProfit, but opposed by the #FiannaFail / #FineGael government.

Neither genocide in #Gaza nor kidnapping the President's sister is enough to persuade #MichealMart8n and #SimonHarris to act. 😡

#Palestine

#sanctions #israel #peoplebeforeprofit #fiannafail #finegael #gaza

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2026-05-18

@kimlockhartga It definitely SHOULD be an international incident.

But I don't trust the Irish Government to take a strong stand. Neither #FiannaFail nor #FineGael is seriously committed to supporting Gaza, and they both have a long history of small gestures. So I don't see Ireland demanding EU support, which is the nain path by which this could become a bigger row.

#fiannafail #finegael

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2026-01-17

@bthalpin The history of Irish creative use of #PRSTV is a bit of a chicken-and-egg issue. To what extent did decline of #FiannaFail and #FineGael drive more creative use of #STV, and how much did clever use of STV hurt #FFFG?

I think it's actually the same phenomenon. For decades, Irish voters were mostly happy with the choice of FF or FG. Later, new political goals drove voters to new parties and new tactics.

@ColmDonoghue @ChrisMayLA6 @Tattered

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#prstv #fiannafail #finegael #stv #fffg

Allan @[email protected]

2026-01-16

Simon Harris comments on Immigration Cartoon https://www.caricatures-ireland.com/simon-harris-comments-on-immigration-cartoon/ #mastoart #mastodaoine #simonharris #finegael #tanaiste #immigration #racism #cartoon

#simonharris #immigration #finegael #mastoart #mastodaoine #tanaiste

What Ever Happened to Baby Joan? @[email protected]

2026-01-07

@brad This is perhaps the best description of Fine Gael that I have ever, ever read.

Perfection. Unsurpassable. No notes. Bravo!

#MastoDaoine #FineGael #IEPol

#mastodaoine #finegael #iepol

General Strike Now @[email protected]

2026-01-01

As another COP passed without a whimper, and our climate further careered into the abyss, Ecuador bucked the trend. A general strike, led by ...#2025 #CatherineConnolly #Epstein #farright #FiannaFáil #FineGael #Gaeilge #hungerstrike #imperialism #JamesConnolly #MAGA #NATO #Palestine #Russia #Starmer #Trump #Ukraine #Venezuela #ZohranMamdani
Reviewing 2025 - REBEL

#trump #russia #venezuela #palestine #ukraine #farright

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-11-18

PS in case anyone questions the closeness of #EoinDrea's ties to #FineGael, see his bio on the #MartensCentre website: https://www.martenscentre.eu/article-author/eoin-drea/ (archived at https://archive.is/rjN5I)

From 2020 to 2022, Drea was on the board of Fine Gael's Policy Lab.

#eoindrea #finegael #martenscentre

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-11-18

Dr #EoinDrea is a senior researcher at the #WilfriedMartensCentre, the official think tank of the #EuropeanPeopleParty (#EPP) of which #FineGael #FG is a member.

FG will probably try to disown Eoin Drea. They will says this is just a personal opinion by an academic researcher etc, that it's obviously not in any way FG's position.

That is of course #bollix. EPP staff don't go placing op-eds on highly sensitive #foreignpolicy issues without some liaison with the local EPP member party.

#eoindrea #wilfriedmartenscentre #europeanpeopleparty #epp #finegael #fg

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-11-18

Irish politicians represent Ireland in the #EU. But #FineGael's eurobrains tell #Ireland to shut up. 😡

Dr #EoinDrea's #IrishTimes op-ed tells Ireland to #STFU about #genocide in #Gaza, #EUmilitarization, & #IrishNeutrality. Drea calis Irish policy a "hot mess of uncoordinated gibberish".

Drea says Ireland's 2026 #EUpresidency should "focus on process, not content". In other words: No policy goals for Paddy!

#FG wants Ireland to be a servant of France & Germany. #iepol

https://archive.is/AC3vl

#eu #finegael #ireland #irishtimes #stfu #genocide

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-11-12

@christineburns @Wen At least the chicken was edible.

And after a spurt of headless running, the chicken did die, unlike zombie Labour.

But the biggest shock is that #FineGael is in power both in Dublin and in London, thanks to Morgan McSweeney. Who saw that one coming?

#finegael

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-10-27

Simon McGarr @Tupp_ed''s blog post about #CatherineConnolly's election win #Aras25 is short of new insight, but full of delightful #snark at the #FFFFG fustercluck. https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-no-contest/

Also, he found the 1930s iteration of #FineGael's red scare tactics.

#catherineconnolly #aras25 #snark #ffffg #finegael

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-10-27

The failue of Ireland's centre-right parties was laid bare by #Aras24. #FFFG mismanaged every aspect of their task.

Gerald Howlin says Micheál Martin is more vulnerable than Simon Harris. Harris is better than Martin at wooing his backbenchers, but is more secure because #FineGael has no plausible alternative leaders.

But #FiannaFáil does have viable alternatives. Can Micheál Martin buy time? #iepol

Paywalled original: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/10/27/gerard-howlin-if-micheal-martin-survives-this-his-achievement-will-almost-rival-catherine-connollys/

Archived full text: https://archive.is/ADMlP

#iepol #aras24 #fffg #finegael #fiannafail

MediaFaro Analysis @[email protected]

2025-10-26

Ireland elects a left-wing president in an anti-government landslide.

Independent Catherine Connolly won a record 63.4% of valid votes.

Heather Humphreys of the government coalition party Fine Gael finished a distant second with 29.5%. Finishing in third and last place Saturday was Jim Gavin of the largest government party, Fianna Fáil, who won barely 7% of votes.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251025-ireland-elects-a-left-wing-president-in-an-anti-government-landslide?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Ireland #Politics #CatherineConnolly #HeatherHumphreys #FineGael #JimGavin #FiannaFail

#ireland #politics #catherineconnolly #heatherhumphreys #finegael #jimgavin

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-10-25

@maddler Absolutely! Even the basic electoral task of getting bodies on the ground to knock doors was a fail for them.

I followed the #FineGael machine closely on Facebook, and from town after town FG was publishing photos of only 4–8 canvassers. But the #CatherineConnolly campaign was posting photos of teams of dozens of #Aras25 #Aras2025 canvassers.

That's before we consider the intellectual tasks which they also failed.

The electoral inertia which kept them in power is draining away

#finegael #catherineconnolly #aras25 #aras2025

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-10-19

11 attack pieces in the #SundayIndependent this morning.

The establishment are running scared of #CatherineConnolly in #Aras25.

Not surprising to see #EnochBurke supporting #FineGael either.

From Mark Ward TD https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BZihL2Gj2/

#sundayindependent #catherineconnolly #aras25 #enochburke #finegael

Claire McNab @[email protected]

2025-10-19

#FineGael finally gets that #HeatherHumphreys needs a #miracle to have a chance of beating #CatherineConnolly. 😈 #Aras25

The best bit of the #SundayTimes report is that Humphreys will shift to a “forward-focused” message “of explaining what her vision is for the presidency”. 😂 With only 5 days to go, a pivot from smears to an unspecified "vision" is like George Bush discovering "the vision thing". 😂🤣

https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/fine-gael-humphreys-damage-limitation-presidential-election-scdlmcnq8

Archived full text: https://archive.is/D2DX6

#ConnollyForPresident

#finegael #heatherhumphreys #miracle #catherineconnolly #sundaytimes #connollyforpresident

The Electronic Intifada [Unofficial] @[email protected]

2025-10-16

Ireland must not be intimidated by Britain's stance on Palestine

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/ireland-must-not-be-intimidated-britains-stance-palestine

#ivanyates #finegael #catherineconnolly #heatherhumphreys #keirstarmer #bbcradioulster

The Electronic Intifada [Unofficial] @[email protected]

2025-10-16

Ireland must not be intimidated by Britain's stance on Palestine

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/ireland-must-not-be-intimidated-britains-stance-palestine

#ivanyates #finegael #catherineconnolly #heatherhumphreys #keirstarmer #bbcradioulster

Ken M Sweeney @[email protected]

2025-08-14

#FineGael Presidential nominee #MairéadMcGuinness has pulled out of the race for Phoenix Park.
#Ireland #presidential

http://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0814/1528512-mairead-mcguinness/

#ireland #presidential #finegael #maireadmcguinness

RTE News Headlines @[email protected]

2025-04-23

[18:57] Frances Fitzgerald rules out Presidential bid

Fine Gael's Frances Fitzgerald has confirmed that she will not seek her party's nomination for this year's presidential election - despite giving it serious consideration.

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0423/1509132-president/

#FineGael's #FrancesFitzgerald #year