Fuck yes, CORK. ❤️ ✊🏼

"Cork City Council has become the first to pass a motion committing “to using factual and accurate information, based on credible sources” in its discussions and debates."

Cork City Council passes first motion tackling misinformation following Belong To 'Check the Facts' campaign:

https://gcn.ie/cork-city-council-passes-misinformation-motion/

#CheckTheFacts #LE24 #GE24 #Cork #BelongTo #Misinformation #Disinformation #MastoDaoine #LocalGovernment

@ownohmanny Eh. I think @gavreilly's misses might want to have a word..

#LE24 #GE24 #USPol #MastoDaoine

Oh for jayses sake.

"Almost a third of Irish voters believe in a version of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory"

https://www.thejournal.ie/conspiracy-theories-polling-survey-6451524-Jul2024/

🗳️

#LE24 #EP24 #IrelandVotes #Elections #NoPasarán #IrelandForAll #MastoDaoine #ConspiracyTheories

Thank you, everyone who put your trust in me again to represent you in the North East ward.

After #LE24, my colleagues, Dan Boyle and Honoré Kamegni, were elected Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork — and a new progressive alliance is the second-largest grouping on #CorkCC.

My latest monthly newsletter is out, slightly delayed owing to #LE24!

This month it includes updates on:

🤝 A new progressive alliance
🏞️ The masterplan for Murphy's Rock
🎸 Rory Gallagher's famous guitar

Plus all my motions and questions to Cork City Council.

https://olivermoran.substack.com/p/july-2024

Going poster fishing 🎣

There's still one on the Doneraile that I wasn't able to retrieve - I never put any up near the doneraile so it must have been one of the 14 which people nicked 🙃 but let me know if anyone finds any others!

#Tramore #Waterford #WorkersAndCarers #LocalElections #Ireland #IrishElections #LE24 #Democracy #BuildingThrivingCommunities #DemocraticReform #Campaigning

You want me to sum up that election in one headline? Not happening

"Freakish transfers, freakish statements, freakish election, freakish times."

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/surrealing-in-the-years-52-6407905-Jun2024/

#EP24 #LE24 #IrelandVotes #PRSTV #MastoDaoine

Interesting analysis on the role Independents play in Irish politics and how they fared in the elections #LE24 https://jrnl.ie/6404454

Sewing The Seeds of Their Own Destruction

The local elections are a warning sign for Irish politics

https://dfeehely.substack.com/p/sewing-the-seeds-of-their-own-destruction

#LE24 #mastodaoine

In Ireland, we don’t vote on things like District Sewage Manager, and there are different regulations on political spending, so it couldn’t transfer directly.

With how #LE24 went and #EU24 is going, and with a general election in the next ~9 months, I’m now very curious about where and how it may be possible to do moneyball for Irish elections.

Could some smart canvassing efforts or campaign donations means of keeping far-right parties down and boosting the left?

Anyway I guess I should be more worried about the 44,000 people in Ireland South who voted for out and out fascists, including 25,000 for Derek Blighe. #EU24 #EP24

We can't let the local election results lull us into a false sense of security that fascism is not on the rise here. It very clearly is and it is having a worrying impact on more centrist discourse. #LE24

I think it's terrible that there's not any Green councilors for South Dublin county council.

#SDubCC #IEPol #IrelandVotes #LE24 #WantGreenVoteGreen

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

I took a break from the count centre yesterday to head out and start taking down posters - I got about half of the 60 down yesterday and plan to take down the other half today!

#Tramore #WaterfordCity #Waterford #Déise #WorkersAndCarers #Campaigning #LocalElections #Ireland #Irish #IrishPolitics #IrishElections #LE24 #LocalElection2024 #Democracy #BuildingThrivingCommunities #DemocraticReform #YoungPolitics #YoungCandidate #EcoSocialism #LocalDemocracy #Community

My last toots regarding #MNCC #LE24 (for now)

Barely any change (party wise) in Monaghan. Lost 1 Ind for 1 FG.

I am _happy_ that Pauric Clerkin (FG) who was in school with me got elected. Not a fan of the party though.

Nothing will ultimately change as a result of this weekend.

Just call the general election now and put us out of our misery.

And Heneghan seems to be quite strong on public transport and active travel https://dublinvoterguide2024.ie/candidates/barry-heneghan

#LE24 #Dublin #Clontarf #ActiveTravel #SustainableTransport

Independents:
John Lyons (ex PBP)
Vincent Jackson
Gavin Pepper (anti-immigrant)
Cieran Perry (ex Working Class Action)
Barry Heneghan
Christy Burke (ex SF)
Malachy Steenson (anti-immigrant)
Nial Ring (ex FF)
Mannix Flynn

Actually not as right wing as I thought - Lyons, Jackson, Perry and Heneghan would all be left of centre.

#LE24 #Dublin

Final seat count in Dublin City Council - SocDems doubling their seats and Greens holding most of theirs is a good result for sensible, sustainable transport plans. Labour has lost seats but there are some good pro-Active Travel councillors there too. #LE24 #Dublin

If you count Sinn Féin as "left", the council is very definitely leaning to the left, despite the handful of ethno-nationalists elected. I need to have a closer look at the Indos but I think most are right leaning. #LE24 #Dublin

Oh man. One fellow got in on the first count, and of course it's the one who's a total waste of space. Not even noticeable enough to dislike, despite being FG. #le24

All the seats filled in Dublin City Council #le24

Two party’s Dublin stories are sort of striking here.