Irish election 2024: Who will lead the nation?

[@JohnBlessingPaligap]

The sheep will vote for the same gangsters

[@tadhgcronin175]

It doesn't really matter. None of the main parties will represent the Irish people.

[@j377yb33n]

@@tadhgcronin175 that's because voting is the least you can do to get your voice heard in a democracy.

[@PaddyMcCarthy2.1]

After seeing Frances Fitzgerald I didnt want to hear anything she has to say.

[@patriciareilly8841]

MEP Fitzgerald needs to look at the Aaron Brady case - family alleges wrongdoing / wrongful conviction.

[@PaddyMcCarthy2.1]

@@patriciareilly8841 Frances Fitzgerald, despite being a social worker, was the worst Minister for Children ever. I wouldnt call myself an expert on the Aaron brady case, but it seems to me that the case needs a review. The evidence against Aaron doesnt seem to stack up.

[@patriciareilly8841]

@@PaddyMcCarthy2.1 Wrongful convictions are horrific, and usually have a political dynamic, racism or a low IQ patsy.

[@thatsthejobbb8587]

​@@PaddyMcCarthy2.1I think her stint as justice minister smashed that out of the park personally. The levels of corruption that she oversaw, to go on and bag herself and EU pension too! Seems they only fall upwards!!

[@helenamurphy6054]

Hopefully not the same FG/FF. We need a change of Gov

[@sandracarroll1665]

If you look back on the last election they weren't peoples first choice ,so hopefully we will vote new honest people to guide our country out of this mess,

[@MariaMaria-wn7sb]

Who are new people?

[@sandracarroll1665]

@MariaMaria-wn7sb maybe some independents that actually care about irish people, because it's quite obvious that the shower that have been in for numerous years don't

[@ivansmith4325]

Young people please vote for your future and your children's future and vote out FG/FF and Sinn Fein to give your country a chance! Freedom Party are fighting for you and please don't blow it! Also you need to get the smaller parties into the government to enable them to fight your corner.

[@MariaMaria-wn7sb]

😀Yes. More news houses for immigrants. Irish people will cope. Dont worry.

[@martingriffin9503]

It doesn't matter the media will elect the next Dail, not the people

[@DeanFitzgerald-c6j]

Why are there no nationalist partys in any of theise debates ..mainstream media is lefty propaganda..all the same ...

[@roseannatyrrell4498]

Well if the general public get a look at Harris and the careworker interaction on line, nobody will vote for him or his party.

[@johntidd532]

There you go FG FF not even talking about imagration the hole country is sick of this Vote them out

[@carlainyonga7009]

So many countries around the world have had elections in 2024, including India, South Africa, and here in the UK, and the big one - the United States most recently. I'm certain the Irish election results will affect people in Northern Ireland, as it is on the same island as the Republic of Ireland.

[@MariaMaria-wn7sb]

I am not sure what you mean? Voting for the same people or...?

[@openureyes]

God help us all

[@MaryCawley-o9x]

Migration is the biggest thing in ireland, we are spending our struggling people money on them, everyone i known in ireland is saying this. I dont think ye know realise the people feel about this.

[@anneclarkin2059]

Ireland is part of the EU so had to take in a certain number that’s a dilemma

[@j377yb33n]

@@MaryCawley-o9x its not the biggest, housing and the health system is

[@cutiepatootie1990]

The wealthy of Ireland are working to make money off the backs of everyone. Its niave of you to assume that if they got rid of the migrants life would get better.

[@eamonreidy9534]

Struggling people money? Genius

[@thatsthejobbb8587]

​@@anneclarkin2059actually no! When Ireland signed the Lisbon Treaty after the second referendum, we kept a clause that allowed us to invoke an opt out option from the Immigration pact. Denmark also had this clause and they invoked it!! This in entirely the choice of FF, FG & GP!!

[@HarryWebb-lo2iv]

Please reject the Irish elites!

[@ivansmith4325]

Please don't make the same mistake and vote for the smaller parties who are fighting for you. it's clear the parties that have been in for a century are failures. Think of the future of your children and their children! Good Luck Ireland for your future!!! The Ireland I love.

[@tonyroe1670]

Fitzgerald. Some cheek. Her and Justice Min. Mc Elise . Justice.Ministers. Track record. A disaster. 9:38

[@PG24108]

TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service...take it with pinch of salt

[@tomkeaveney]

Ii hope that we the Irish people can get rid of a lot of these so called Irish government this government has no respect for the Irish people. Let us talk back our own country. .if these people get back in we are Finnish as a country.

[@j377yb33n]

@@tomkeaveney perkele

[@kieransavage100]

@@tomkeaveney Talking won’t get you anywhere,I’m Irish,not Finnish….

[@Darren__295]

When you have politicians bringing refugees in mini buses to register to vote then to vote, I’m saying a coalition government of the same old usual suspects.

[@deadpanbarry5442]

We're screwed.. The youth are asleep and have no idea what's coming down the future. The last election showed how interested they were. 😮

[@TheGreatWhiteCount]

Independents, IFP, NP, IF, I'd rather vote right than vote left

[@j377yb33n]

@@TheGreatWhiteCount so you want fine Gael but with more aggressive spin doctors

[@Makofueled]

@@Ryzanu Certainly not economically.

[@jeanninelee8821]

They will never get in so may as well give your vote to FG and FF

[@jeanninelee8821]

Oh please. We all know "why now" they tried to do their usual and try and use the SF in-house issue to their advantage only it's going to backfire!!!

[@j377yb33n]

@@Ryzanu stop getting your politics from the Americans

[@DonalOLochlainn]

Who will lead the country? The EU of course not that little traitor .

[@j377yb33n]

@@DonalOLochlainn nonsense comment

[@View2Views]

In Wicklow I am giving my vote to Independent Joe Behan.

[@DRUM19]

Well FF & FG are at 20% each approx, down from decades at 40% so there's huge decline in FG FF support, the big issue is SF blew their chance to be the new big party by going into the centre and going all woke. We need a new party to rise from the ashes. FF FG have lost huge support but there is no big alternative so the votes are split all over the place between SOC DEMS, Labour, Greens (puke), SF, Independent and now the Nationalists. 60% of the vote going all over the place.

[@j377yb33n]

Even with a turkish broadcaster, we can't escape the south dublin accent. I think it's a bit reductive to describe fine gael and fianna fail as two parties that existed at the foundation of the state, and were similar to each other. FF and SF maybe, but FG started out as Eoin O'Duffy's fascist blueshirts that went to fight for franco, they only aligned on neoliberal policies in the last 20 years or so but were fierce rivals for a long time.

[@od9694]

I agree but that was a pretty brief amount of time that Fine Gael went facist other than that they have always been pretty similar. Fine gael are nothing if not adaptable they went from Facist to woke and are now moving back towards an anti immigration position

[@j377yb33n]

@od9694 "woke" was all I needed to hear to know I was reading from a gobshite

[@cm-bp4ow]

@@od9694 Fine Gael is not moving back on immigration. Vote them in again mass immigration continues.

[@cm-bp4ow]

@@j377yb33n ​​⁠ all your comments are gobshite and make no sense.

[@j377yb33n]

@@cm-bp4ow is that because I'm staying things you don't want to hear?

[@kieransavage100]

The place is relatively empty,twice as many in the city of London….

[@helentyrrell8287]

Free enoch burke,

[@j377yb33n]

@@helentyrrell8287 he's more than capable of freeing himself, he's a big boy still drawing down a teachers salary.

[@anneclarkin2059]

LOL

[@kieransavage100]

@@j377yb33nwho is he????

[@johnodonoghue1558]

​@@j377yb33n don't change the subject free Enoch Burke mean that no TD is speaking up against a miscarriage of justice , only one Mattie McGrath

[@j377yb33n]

@@johnodonoghue1558 Enoch Burke Put himself in that position by not only going on an ideological tear about a kid in the school he was working in, that wasn't even his own pupil. He repeatedly ignored restraining orders and acted in contempt of the court. His family spent TENS OF THOUSANDS OF EURO, not to FREE him, but solely on advertising to push a propaganda campaign on his behalf for culture war nonsense that gave the government multiple free passes for their mistakes. If you think an adult with a restraining order should be allowed to hang outside of a school with a media circus, or taking a space up in an already overcrowded prison system, while still drawing down a teachers salary, I have to ask if you've got the interests in kids or the interest of a culture war in mind.

[@johnrogers6047]

FG And FF are a disgrace

[@eileenahern-ku9nx]

Finna Fail for the government of Ireland. ❤

[@davidconnolly6721]

Crooked Fitzgerald l8ke the rest of them oul bag still raking in the money

[@dinty66]

Who actually scorned the Brits on 21st of January 1919 ?? Always Kids remember where we came from & which way can we go forward ?

[@Fi88442]

They're all the same

[@Frankabagnale33]

Why is a nordy from Belfast part of the discussion? Belfast is technically the UK

[@bernardmolloy6241]

Because its still Ireland. Who won the all-ireland this year?:- Armagh. And the previous Irish President? Mary McAleese (from Belfast)

[@Fi88442]

Frank you little free state rat

[@Fi88442]

A Nordy what's that????

[@patriciareilly8841]

Technically you don't notice when you go up and down the highway.90 miles

[@Frankabagnale33]

@@Fi88442 easy to talk tough in front of a screen.

[@johnrogers6047]

Mary lou ruined it for SF

[@thomascooney6644]

They have us by the balls in the poor house

[@ThomasBoyd-r6c]

United Kingdom England London Scotland. Not 🚫 interest second rate former Deputy Prime minister runs Ireland. She needs respect her views on Irish affairs in Eire rather crow about Britain misfortune politically. I am Italian currently with British passport nurse Bargi Italy 🇮🇹 my home.

[@dibble2005]

Turned offwhen i saw natzi Fitzgerald

[@dibble2005]

Ff abd fg destroyed the country

[@dibble2005]

Vote Sinn Fein they were never in government so they will be the change we need.

[@olivefarmer3491]

ha ha, that's a good one.

[@interceptor6893]

Bunch of Marxist traitors

[@thatsthejobbb8587]

​@@olivefarmer3491they're the only party that can compete against FF & FG. The only way for independent voices to be heard and actually actioned, is for them to form a coalition with SF. If SF isn't on your ballot, FF & FG will continue!