Dail election 2011

Reminder: Give us your predictions for #ge11

Paul Evans on February 7, 2011, 7:13 pm

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Just a quick reminder about the prediction competition that Slugger is running on the Irish elections. There’s a £150 free bet with Betfair for the best prediction (have a look at the odds on their markets here), and they’ve got their own Election Predict site up with a good bit of detail on each constituency for the real train-spotters among you. We’ve had around 30 predictions from you so far and we’re going to make some of them (anonymously, naturally) …

Win a £150 bet with Betfair as part of Slugger’s Irish Election prediction competition

Paul Evans on February 3, 2011, 4:18 pm

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Betfair have been in touch about the Election Prediction competition that we’re running here (below – you can read the form guide in a previous post here). We’ve already pointed to their markets here (currently showing 17/2 on a Fine Gael-only government as an outcome and 11/1 on SF getting 23+ seats). Labour are out at 19/1 for getting the most seats (pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, eh comrades?) Today Betfair have launched their own prediction competition …

A Dail reform campaign bigger than Fintan was aborted – why the secrecy?

Brian Walker on January 30, 2011, 11:41 pm

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It turns out that Democracy Now was the label for a full blown campaign to contest the next Dail election, if it had been called even a month later, according to the Sunday Tribune lead. It was much more than a solo run by Fintan backed by a few friends , which was the impression I’d gained from his Irish Times article. The Tribune reports.. The objective was to win 20-25 seats and be in a position to hold the balance of power …

Open thread: your questions for FG economics frontbenchers

Pádraig Belton on January 4, 2011, 9:41 pm

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Fine Gael this morning announces launch of their 2011 election campaign (for Dáil elections likely the last Friday of March) with a new website. I’ll be at the Dáil tomorrow to interview two of their economic team, Deputies Brian Hayes and Richard Bruton. I’ll after be talking to Professors John O’Hagan and Brian Lucey, both economists at TCD. If readers might have questions for them, please share them in comments, and I’ll be sure to pose them and post …

Destiny’s child

Blank on December 28, 2010, 5:44 pm

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I’d hazard a guess the SDLP’s Margaret Ritchie impact on the southern electorate’s consciousness is somewhere just above that of Tom Elliott and a fair way below Peter Robinson’s. Despite that and declaring “she had no wish to interfere” in the forthcoming election there she has done exactly that with an attempt to damage Sinn Féin’s vote (no mention of Fianna Fail and their destruction of the economy?): We in the SDLP want good relations with the three main parties, …

Is Fianna Fail’s difficulty everyone else’s opportunity?

Mick Fealty on December 3, 2010, 7:32 pm

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As Aristotle once remarked, ‘Nature abhors a vacuum’. And the ‘empty space’ at the top of the Irish political game at the moment is the one Taoiseach Brian Cowen should have been occupying for the last two years. A poll in today’s Irish Sun marks a new low point in Cowen’s leadership of his country, and his party who dropped four points on a similar poll conducted just two weeks ago. Fianna Fail now rests at just 13%. It is …