Natural justice should presume that the voter was trying to cast a vote, not that the voter was trying to spoil their vote
It is difficult – but by no means impossible – to see such a scenario unfolding.
A general election is coming in short order.
Irish politics will continue to be much more left wing than it should be, based on how people actually vote.
Councillor Steenson?
Sinn Fein will spin a disastrous result as good news.
In an election like this, it may take days for the full results to be known.
For the rest of us, and indeed for people genuinely sympathetic to Mr. Burke, the very worst thing we can or should do is indulge this self-destructive behaviour.
Up until relatively recently, a politician in Ireland could watch the 6 and 9 news on RTE and get a broadly reliable sense of the news the country was seeing, and how, therefore, to calibrate their message.
“The more turnout goes above 49%, the worse for the big parties. The lower it is, the worse for independents and small parties.”
You cannot say how many homes you will need by 2030 without first knowing how many people will be in the country in 2030. The only way to get that number right – by definition – is to enact some restriction on immigration.
And perhaps all candidates might be asked, in an ideal world, about what they think of RTE confining the debate to only eight candidates, ranging from the left to the far left.