Sharrow_irlDelighted for him. #LE2024
P Gurgel-SegrilloRelieved to see that the divisive rhetoric did not pay off ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿
"The surprise loser from Ireland’s elections? Sinn Féin.
Anti-immigrant voices seize the opposition narrative from Sinn Féin as electoral tide goes out for under-fire leader Mary Lou McDonald"
https://www.politico.eu/article/irelands-elections-european-election-sinn-fein-opposition-mary-lou-mcdonald-immigration/ #LE2024 #EE2024 #mastodaoine
Denman Rooke 🇵🇸We didn't win any seats this time, but we fought hard.
We ran People Before Profit candidates in Galway City East, Galway City West, and for Galway County Council in Ballinasloe for the first time.
Adrian Curran in Galway City Central even beat a sitting Councillor.
🧵1/3
#LE2024 #LE24 #Galway #GalwayCity #PeopleBeforeProfit #Socialism #EcoSocialism
unexplainedie
Carol ConnollyBluesky and Mastodon just can't touch the giddy madness that is Election Twitter.
Maybe someday!
#EE24
#EE2024
#LE24
#LE2024
#irishpol
#IrishPolitics
#EuropeanPolitics
AllanFair play Dara Bradley for that headline! Fantastic to have more diversity in City Hall. Congrats Helen Ogbu! #mastodaoine #galwaycityeast #le2024
Me: Put it out of your mind, you've got work to do, the vote count is very slow
Brain: NOPE!
😅 #LE2024
Brain: NOPE!
😅 #LE2024
Watching, reading, and listening to all this political commentary on why SF didn't gain seats from disaffected voters, and not one mention of the recent referendum where SF championed the side that the electorate rejected.
#LE24
#LE2024
#EE2024
#EE24
#irishpol
#IrishPolitics
#EuropeanPolitics
Anita Ní Bhroin 🇮🇪Michael McNamara firmly in the Mattie McGrath camp.
This is really concerning.
“Standby European role for Cahir poll topper
Cllr Máirín McGrath”.
One of top performers Local Elections in Tipperary given a standby role for Europe
One of the top performers in the Local Elections in Tipperary has revealed that she has been given a standby role for Europe. Cllr Máirín McGrath told The Nationalist that she has been declared as a first substitute for European candidate Michael McNamara. The Independent TD for Clare,...
#SinnFein really messed up with their strategy to run so many candidates. It’s completely backfired on them with split votes.
I also think their recent views on immigration hasn’t helped them. Courting far right views isn’t going to work if you’re trying to promote yourselves as a progressive left party.