by nabidana | May 3, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011, seanad
The election to An Seanad Éireann ended on 27 April 2011, and the count completed late on 28 April 2011. Within twenty seconds, followers of my Twitter stream of consciousness had the final results, including transfers and percentages. The website for An Seanad...
by nabidana | Apr 29, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011
Here it is. After all the counting, here’s the most up-to-date and accurate spreadsheet of the Seanad Election count made public. I include it here in HTML format, and a downloadable .xlsx file. Thanks to the Tony Williams team and the Sean Barrett team for...
by nabidana | Apr 27, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011
Ainm Count 1 % Count 2 TransBacik 2979 19.3516954657659Barrett 1047 6.80135117578277Coleman 769 4.99545277380798Connolly 71 0.461218656619462Cox 175 1.13680654800572Donnelly 20 0.12992074834351Dubsky 0Dudgeon 205 1.33168767052098Frost 178 1.15629466025724Gueret 821...
by nabidana | Apr 26, 2011 | Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
There will be no high court injunction. There is a principle in general existence: never ask a question unless you know the answer. The legal team I trust in matters of this sort believe that, although there is a constitutional and interpretational case to be made to...
by nabidana | Apr 22, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, stupidity
Recently, Trinity College Dublin Seanad Office took the interesting step of eliminating a candidate from the election for Seanad on the basis that the candidate discovered she was not a citizen of Ireland. That’s not in itself problematic. Ballot papers had...
by nabidana | Mar 5, 2011 | Ireland, Ireland, Ireland Election 2011, politics
For reasons which will become more apparent soon, I have decided to give up on coverage of Irish Politics. This blog was never about the politics of Ireland, but in the run up to the General Election 2011, it made sense to get embedded in that. I’ll be...
