it is a holy and wholesome thing to pray for the dead

An old friend visited me in a dream last night.
He had died 15 years ago.
In the dream, he shook my hand and said: "Thanks for all the free passes you've been sending me."
I thought to myself: Someone is sending him phone credit by text and he thinks it's me,
When I woke this morning, the feeling of the dream was quite fresh.
The phone credit thing didn't seem to make much sense.
I said to God: "If it's only an imaginary experience Lord, that's fine. But if it's something from you, I'd like to know what it means."
Later today, sitting in a cafe, I remembered that for some years I'd been praying for my old friend's soul.
I'd also occasionally been wondering whether prayers for departed ones have any use.
Presently my old friend's wife arrived in the cafe and we chatted over coffees.
I hadn't seen her for months.
Today's meeting was by chance.
It all seemed quite providential.

problems with the irish electoral system

The main problem with the Irish electoral system (styled proportional representation) is that there is not one person in a thousand in Ireland who understands it.
A system of elections which the electors do not comprehend is itself an undermining of our democracy.
Votes in Ireland consist of a range of preferences which are not just counted, they are interpreted, and then reassigned, and then reinterpreted. The system is fraught with opportunities for falsification. There is no absolute consistency in the process.
Should a candidate wish to challenge a result, an accurate, ie consistent, recount is impossible.
Here's an overview of the shenanigans that is proportional representation in Ireland.
There are several seats to be filled in each constituency, sometimes three, sometimes four, sometimes five.
Any number of candidates may stand in a constituency.
Voters choose from the candidates in order of their preference, 1, 2. 3, 4, 5, and so on.
Voters write the number of their choice in a space on the ballot paper beside a photograph of the candidate and the candidate's name.
They can choose to register a preference for only one candidate.
Or they can write a sequential preference beside several.
Or beside all.
Candidates reaching a certain number of votes, the required quota, are deemed elected.
Quotas are calculated through a form of voodoo, ie by taking the total number of people who voted in a constituency, dividing that number by one more than the number of seats due to be filled in the constituency, and adding one to the answer.
The counting officer then throws a dead cat over his shoulder in a graveyard at midnight, picks a number between five thousand and fifteen thousand, chants eenie meenie minie mo over it, and that's the quota.
The above two paragraphs contain one strictly accurate summation of the method for calculating quotas and one bit of fooboon.
Can you tell which is the genuine way to establish a quota in an Irish election?
Neither can most Irish people.
As the votes are counted, immense opportunities arise for fraud.
Count staff can fill in numbers beside candidates whose boxes have been left blank.
Count staff can change numbers beside candidates they like or don't like.
Count staff can deliberately spoil legitimate votes by writing or scribbling on ballot papers or by destroying them.
Ballot stuffing is also possible as per the Cosa Nostra mafia and elements of the Democratic Party's favoured method in parts of the United States.
In Ireland when the first count is completed, if a candidate has surpassed the quota, he may have a surplus, which is the number of votes he has received above the quota.
His surplus votes are then distributed to other candidates, according to the number 2's on them.
There is no consistent method for establishing which ballots to designate as the surplus votes and which to leave in the main pile as the votes that helped the candidate reach the surplus.
A wily decision by count staff at this stage can aid particular candidates.
For instance by deeming the surplus to be those votes taken in a particular region, perhaps a working class area, or another candidate's home town, a manipulation of the transfers of the number 2 votes becomes feasible.
Candidates are also eliminated when there is no longer a perceived mathematical possibility that they could be elected by any transfer permutation.
The sequential votes of these candidates are also transferred.
Vast errors in the interpretation of number 3, number 4, number 5 etc etc, votes can occur.
In some situations of recounts, the appropriate sequential voter choice number to transfer, is eminently debatable.
Fianna Fail overturned the election of a Handicapped People's Rights campaigner a decade ago by bringing in high powered lawyers to debate with count staff over transfers as they were doing the recount.
After the recount the seat was reassigned to Fianna Fail by a handful of votes.
The lawyers didn't need to steal more than a handful.
The issue with recounts in Ireland is that under proportional representation, no consistent result is possible or likely.
Accurate recounts, where the surplusses are consistently taken from the same pile of votes and other votes are consistently left inert, are not possible.
Recounts are rare and when they happen. the man with the best lawyers hassling the count staff generally wins.
We should change the electoral system in Ireland, to a one man one vote system.
If we decide to retain multi seat constituencies, we should still simply count the votes once, with no second, third, fourth, fifth etc etc preferences, with no transfers, and with no recounts, and award the seats after the first and only count.
The top three candidates, or top four, or top five, would win the seats after that one count.
The time wasting voodoo of proportional representation is fragmenting the polis.
Its arcane complexity is a breeding ground for fraud and is delivering Ireland into the hands of mobsters.
Last word to newly elected parliamentarian for Waterford, David Cullinane of Sinn Fein: "Up the Republic. Up the Rah. Tiocfaidh ar la."

lessons from the irish election

Evening shadows stretching towards the Wicklow mountains.
Me telling Aunty Teresa about the waitress saying the IRA had nothing to do with Sinn Fein and how she had smiled guiltily when I asked her "but did you support Sinn Fein even when the IRA was running it?" and then her answering: "I did. I'd love to see a united Ireland."
The aunt listened to this anecdote and chimed in: "I'd love to see a united Ireland too."
My gentle preraphaelite features went a bit gothic.
"It does have a lovely sound," I mused. "United Ireland. It's like Mornning After Pill. So much nicer than Kill A Baby pill. Yes. The words United Ireland are so much sweeter than Murder a Million People Ireland To Install Soviet Marxian Islamist Allied IRA Drug Dealers As Our Government. Funny how this fine sounding unity gag is always at somebody's expense. I mean someone has to die for it or be enslaved. Look around. The Walloons want a united Belgium too but without any Flemish people in it. The Serbs want a united Yugoslavia but without any Croats or Slovenians or Bosnians or Muslims in it and vice versa. Omar Ahmed Hassan Al Bashir wanted a united Sudan so badly that he killed four million people for it over the last thirty years. Southern Sudan still seceded by the way. Omar just couldn't kill enough of them apparently. But he'd gotten fond of killing during his thirty year rule so when there was unrest in Sudan's Western province of Darfur, he killed a quarter of a million there too for a United Sudan. A United Sudan! United Ireland indeed. So sweet the sound. How many people would you kill Aunt before you'd admit that lovely sounding words and pipe dreams aren't enough reason to murder even one person? Oh you wouldn't kill any. But the IRA would kill as many as it takes. And then they'd continue selling the rest of us their drugs, murdering 500 of us annually in overdoses as they have been doing for the last half century, hooking another couple of thousand kids annually on the same drugs to replace their deceased customers, and causing 500 deaths annually by suicide, and another 500 deaths annually in their  mob hits, on and on, in perpetuity."

plato aristotle morons

Plato: "Does the IRA exist?"

Aristotle: "Yes."

Plato: "But does it really exist now in the present moment?"

Aristotle: "Yes it does."

Plato: "But what do we mean by yes."

Aristotle: "We mean the IRA exists and runs Ireland as a narco mafia State."

Plato: "But can we know that? What is knowing? What is existence? What is us? How can we say the IRA is real? Who are we to say it? What if reality is but a waking dream?"

Aristotle: "Stop being a bollocks."

the blood spattered banner

( new Irish national anthem)

Oh say can you see
By the drug dealer's streetlight
A debauched generation
In the cannabinoid's last gleaming

And the terror we shared
An electorate ensnared
Implied unto all
That the IRA was still there

Oh say do those blood spattered killers
Still practice their extortions
In the land of the sex changes
And the home of the abortions

no truth in the rumour

There is no truth in the rumour that Mary Lou McDonald of Sinn Fein will if appointed Prime Minister of Ireland rewrite the natinonal anthem to include a verse eulogising the non existent drug dealing, people trafficking, child abusing, IRA mafia, nor that the new anthem will go as follows:
"Oh say do those torture murderers
Still perform their extortions
In the land of the sex change
And the home of abortions!"

the brighter side of the irish election

Top Ten

1. Peadar Tobin who resigned from Sinn Fein in order to defend the sanctity of life and oppose abortion, and who also established the pro life party Aontu, was elected to parliament from Meath West.

2. Carol Nolan who resigned from Sinn Fein in order to oppose abortion was elected to parliament for Offaly.

3. Verona Murphy who was recently expelled from the party of government Fine Gael for expressing genuine public concerns regarding the collapse of immigration law and the presence of immigrant crime gangs in Ireland, was elected to parliament from Wexford.

4. Katherine Zappone who as Minister for Children used her position criminally and debasedly to allow the Health Services Executive to dose children aged five and over with gender altering chemicals and puberty suppressants, prior to a mutilating sex change operation when the kids reached the age of 15, lost her seat in parliament.

5. While Shinners across Ireland were valiantly insisting that their mobbed up, drug dealing, people trafficking, bank robbing, child abusing, rackateering, raping, extorting, murdering, IRA puppet masters no longer existed, newly elected Waterford representative David Cullinane made the existence of the IRA a moot issue by becoming a one man Frankie Howerd movie, screaming orgasmically: "Up the Republic. Up the Rah. Tiocfaidh ar la." I've had many, many, women fake it with me. (ie that they believe in the existence of the Rah.) There's no way that man was faking it.

6. David Cullinane's apology after his orgasm was a larf and a harf. Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald was standing beside him. The cameras were rolling. The one thing that was clear was that neither of these two is really in charge either of the other or of Sinn Fein itself. From the desperate looks on their faces, I'd say both of them live in mortal terror from the unseen mobsters in the backroom. I half expected Mary Lou to burst into song a la Marlene Dietirch: "See that the mobsters in the back room will have. And tell them I'm having the same." Honestly. It was a hoot.

7. Fianna Fail candidate Fioina O'Loughlin lost her unlosable seat in South Kildare by a handful of votes after being photographed on the campaign trail with Kadorsky the corrupt cop who domiciles in my town. Proof that some segments of the electorate are not entirely soul dead.

8. I can't think of any more. Oh. Wait. Mark Steyn's column about the Irish election was quite a cheery, breezy and deadly accurate summation of things. It's available for free at a website called Steyn On Line. By the way, Steyn's gran pappy was Sinn Fein founder Arthur Griffith's lawyer. Spoiler alert.

9. Farmer Jones saying: "There's no IRA. And stop talking about them or you'll get us both shot."

10. The High Court in Dublin this week remanded an IRA people trafficker in custody while he continues his frivolous legalistic court appeal manoeuvres attempting to prevent extradition to Britain to answer charges relating to his murder of 39 Vietnamese people who suffocated in the refrigerated lorry the IRA was using to traffick them into Britain and Ireland. At least the near useless High Court Judge Donald Binchy didn't let this non existent IRA made man out on bail. The non existent IRA has already launched a street graffiti campaign on the murderer's behalf with the slogan: "End the extradition of Republicans." His best hope now is non existent Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald as Prime Minister. She will end the extradition of this IRA murderer alright and she'll probably give him a rubber medal for his troubles.

11. Thank heavens there's no such thing as the IRA. Ha. ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho. heeee, heee, chortle, ha, ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, guffaw, chortle, heeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeeee, etc, etc.

fine good fooling

Something called Cormac Bourke, styling himself editor of the Irish Independent newspaper, has this week been printing more open letters, often spread over two pages of his publication, appealing to the Irish people to subscribe to its online edition at a cost of two and a half Euro a week.
It's the journalistic equivalent of the street beggar whining: "Spare change, spare change, spare change please Sir."
Bourke has kept it up for the past month.
Persistent little beggar indeed.
Although we'll have to imagine for ourselves the aggressive Dublin accent to get the full bathetic effect.
They're nearly gone.
Let no one forget that this was the most irreligious, debauching, atheistic, abortionist, slanderous, anti Catholic media group in Europe.
Even last year when they'd already gone bust on their anti Catholic corporate vision, and the dogs int the street were telling them to give it a rest, they were still peddling the same tired, clapped out, old bigotries.
Remember the false stories accusing nuns of throwing dead babies into sewerage tanks?
Remember the incitement to hatred style false accusations that nuns were selling babies overseas?
Remember the contrived Naziesqiue media presumption of guilt for any nun accused by anyone of doing anything?
The Beobachter Zeitung wouldn't be in the ha'penny place with them.
Yes. Those above cited now thoroughly debunked nun slanders masquerading as journalism are from just last year.
But they serve as a fitting reminder and indeed summation of Independent Newspapers' fifty year bigot war against Christianity.
Mugging old nuns in their dotage.
What a measure of Independent Newspapers' class.
I mean lack of class.
And lack of courage.
And lack of insight.
It's about the price of them anyway.
That and 2.50 Euro a week for the online edition.
Last year's slanders were also a sort of payment in kind of Independent Newspapers' long term strategic debts to the corrupt Fine Gael party over the most recent decade as run first by Prime Minister Enda Kenny and then by his successor Leo Varadkar.
You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours sort of thing.
If the Irish people were stampeded by Independent Newspapers away from the church then the citizenry would be far less likely to notice the monstrous aberrations which Fine Gael were attempting to propagate as normative values in our society.
To wit to woo: Legalising abortion, deeming mutual masturbation between people of the same gender to be marriage, performing sex change operations which don't work on children and adults. From the Indo's reportage, you'd think nobody gave a darn in heck.
I'm suggesting that failing to report public concerns about the Sodom and Zappone Fine Gael real politik and its consequences for children aged five whose parents let them watch My Name Is Jazz, was a quid pro quo for Independent Newspapers.
Quid = Not giving any platform for the open expression of massive public concern at Fine Gael's ruinous amorality.
Quo = Fine Gael using public money to keep Independent Newspapers in business.
As the party of government for the past nine years, Fine Gael had allowed no legal action to be taken against the then owner of Independent Newspapers white collar criminal Denis O'Brien when a Judicial enquiry concluded Denis O'Brien had bribed former Fine Gael Communications Minister Michael Lowry with at least 50,000 Euros in backhanders to obtain mobile phone service provision contracts worth a billion of dollars.
In other news, Independent Newspapers' billion dollar financial debts had been cancelled by Allied Irish Bank after the Fine Gael party nationalised AIB with public money.
The bank had gone bust because Independent Newspapers were refusing to pay their debts.
But who cares.
Fine Gael used our money to pick up the tab for billionaire Denis O'Brien.
Twice.
Wheels within wheels.
In reality in Ireland, there's never more than one wheel.
The wheel is rigged and it's the only game in town.
Independent Newspapers has been instrumental in distracting public attention from Fine Gael's legalisation of abortion and in further concealing the fact that Fine Gael's share of the electoral vote has collapsed precisely because they legalised abortion.
Nor have they facilitated any open analysis of the fact that forty percent of the Irish electorate in refusing to vote at election time are expressing opprobrium for Fine Gael, and the other major parties Fianna Fail, Labour and Sinn Fein, for being complicit in the legalisation of abortion.
Nor have they reported Fine Gael's permitting and promoting via the so called Health Services Executive of sex change operations which don't work for children and adults.
Under the Gaelers, and with the acquiescence of the other parties in parliament, children as young as five have been transitioned for mutilating sex change operations at the age of fifteen.
All this perfidy in the past decade.
The fall of man cloaked in a media culture war against the Catholic Church.
The crowning glory of atheistic pseudo liberalism.
Sex change ops for kids.
I ask you.
And Independent Newspapers, that great principled media group, never even noticed.
Sex change ops for children wasn't an issue for the heroes at Independent House until last week when I finally shamed them into some modest reportage of the matter courtesy of their in house hand wringing plagiarist token Catholic Michael Kelly.
This is one article they won't be ripping off.
They're nearly gone.
Independent Newspapers AND Fine Gael.

how did the ira rig the irish elections in the year 2020

Well there's personation.
One guy voting loads of times.
I remember an associate of former Prime Minister Charlie Haughey being convicted of that back in the 1980s.
Then there's stuffing ballot boxes with pre entered votes and merging them with legitimate votes.
That old gag.
The specialty of Cosa Nostra in America.
Maybe they showed the IRA how to do it.
Then there's fraud via computer.
Vladdie Putin's favourite method.
Should be some opportunities for that.
Finally and most importantly there's the active subversion of counting centres.
You don't need them all.
You just need a few.
And in the targetted counting centres, the subversion must be organised and endemic. You need a lot, most or all of the personnel working for you.
Best to infiltrate an agent at Managerial level.
Get him in a position to recruit fellow travellers.
They must be able to alter votes without looking over their shoulders.
They must be able to fill in blank voter slips without worrying about who's watching.
They must be able to jerrymander the transfers of the surplus votes which arise  in the Irish electoral system selectively to Sinn Fein without thinking someone's going to spot the shenanigans.
So in the key subverted counting centres, there must be more mafiosi than there are honest people.
Do that and you get results like Sinn Feiners topping the polls everywhere and winning seats in constituencies like Wexford that have never ever before returned a Sinn Fein candidate.
It's also a good idea for some of your candidates to book holidays for the week of the election so that they too can act surprised at the unprecedented results.
It's the perfect blagg.
They did it.
Last word to newly "elected" "parliamentarian" David Cullinane of Sinn Fein: "The couldn't break us. They couldn't break the hunger strikers. They couldn't break Bobby Sands. Up the Republic. Up the Rah. Tiocfaidh ar la."
Quite.

election smiles in ireland

1. The waitress said: "I think the media are really unfair to Mary Lou. They keep asking her about the IRA, and Gerry Adams, and those guys. They're gone. The past is nothing to do with her."
I nodded.
"I have to ask you did you support Sinn Fein when the IRA and Gerry Adams and those guys were still around?"
She smiled guiltily.
"I did. " she said.

2. Farmer Jones said: "There's no IRA. The IRA are gone. They don't exist."
I nodded.
"The IRA," I said, "are a drug dealing, bank robbing, people trafficking, child abusing mafia. They are the presiding mafia in the Republic of Ireland. No gang does business here without the permission of the IRA. The IRA are responsible for all the gang activity all over Ireland."
Farmer Jones spluttered briefly.
"Will you keep your voice down?" he hissed. "Do you want to get us killed!"
I looked at him.
"I thought you said the IRA didn't exist," I said. "Who do you think is going to kill us if they don't exist?"
Farmer Jones smiled guiltily.

3. Reggie Baines accosted me in the street.
"The Fianna Fail woman Fiona O'Loughlin was out campaigning with Kadorsky that corrupt cop you're so fond of," he exclaimed brightly.
I nodded.
"Maybe someone should tell her," I murmured.
Later that evening, I got to thinking.
I don't really know Fiona O'Loughlin though I've met her a few times.
What she does is none of my business.
Then again, her brother was at school with me.
But he was a bit of a bollocks.
I'm keeping out of  it.
None of my business really who she has with her or who she's photographed with on her campaign.
Anyone she's sure to win.
Mathematically speaking she can't be beaten unless the Shinners rig the election.
There are so many Fianna Fail votes sloshing around Kildare South.
At the last election two out of three seats went to Fianna Fail.
Johnny Farrell, her running mate in 2016, went on to become Chairman of the parliament so he automatically retains his seat in the present election without having to stand again.
That means all his votes will be available for Fiona O'Loughlin plus her own votes which on their own were enough to get her elected last time.
There's no need for me to warn her about anything.
A few days later an announcement came on the radio.
Fiona O'Loughlin had lost her seat by a few hundred votes.
I allowed myself a guilty smile.

the crunch question

Question: Did the drug dealing, people trafficking, bank robbing, child abusing, raping, extorting murdering IRA mafia rig Ireland's 2020 general election in favour of their proxy political party Sinn Fein?

Answer: Of course they ******* did.

saying the unsayable with uncle jayums

The IRA mafia's party political proxies Sinn Fein have as I write this, won 37 seats out of a total of 160 in the new Irish parliament.
It's an increase of 15 on what they had before the election.
I'll admit it's sort of a victory.
Sort of.
That's all.
Counting is continuing for the remaining five seats.
Fine Gael the outgoing party of government have 33 seats.
Fianna Fail have 34.
Rather ridiculously, left wing commentators are saying that the vote represents a seismic shift in Irish politics and the end of the two party system.
Here is the news.
For the past fifty years there has been no two party system in Ireland.
We have had plethoras of coalition governments involving various permutations of Fine Gael, Fianna Fail, the Labour Party, Democratic Left, the Progressive Democrats, sundry Independents, et al.
So the mould isn't broken.
It's just a bit cracked.
As for Sinn Fein's landslide, they are a few seats ahead, but there's nothing in it.
This is no landslide.
Let's call it a trial run for a landslide.
When fixing elections, it's necessary to go one step at a time.
Not a landslide.
It is though a still unexplained ten percent swing in the space of a week to a party run by the drug dealing, people trafficking, bank robbing, child abusing, raping, murdering and extorting IRA mafia, a party which is held in opprobrium by the vast majority of Irish people of all backgrounds, classes and distinctions.
And even though the present result is not a landslide, I'm still asking myself: how on earth did it happen?
Here is the news.
It happened three ways.

1. The immigrant population is voting in large numbers for the IRA mafia which trafficked them here.
2. The IRA would be a very restrained and decent drug dealing, bank robbing, people trafficking, child abusing etc mafia to turn its nose up at the readily available, and easily applied, vote fixing technologies and methodologies pioneered by Cosa Nostra in Italy and America. A few stuffed ballot boxes and a few subverted counting centres, and you've got your ten percent swing no problem.
3. Perhaps Vladdie the Pute, the resovietising President of Russia, has developed a fatherly interest in Irish elections. He's had plenty of recent experience rigging elections in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus. Don't forget that during the Cold War up to 1991, the IRA were run by the Russian Communist KGB as a proxy army for use against Britain. Maybe Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB Colonel, hasn't quite let go of the leash on his beloved former Irish lickspittles.

That's how it was done folks.
Last word to newly elected parliamentarian David Cullinane who was supposedly chosen by the good burghers of Waterford to represent them. On being deemed elected he screamed to a mob of baying acolytes: "They couldn't break us. The couldn't break the hunger strikers. They couldn't break Bobby Sands. Up the Republic. Up the Rah. Tiocfaidh ar la."

the majesty of democracy

Wandered into the polling booth.
Some badinage with a passing brigadier general and a retired police sergeant and a brace of school teachers.
That's my broth of a boy public image routine.
Just to let em see I can still pass myself with the commoners.
(One of mine - George Constanza note)
(Homage - Heelers note)
Presently I stand in the little wooden alcove which provides a modicum of privacy for voting. I have a pencil in my hand and am contemplating the voting sheet.
Ten candidates to choose from.
Won't be voting Fine Gael because they're abortionists.
Won't be voting Fianna Fail because they're abortionist kleptocrats.
Won't be voting Sinn Fein because I disapprove of their pulling out businessman Kevin Lunney's fingernails policy. And they're also abortionists.
The Irish electoral system requires you to write a number "1" beside your first preference candidate, a "2" beside your next choice, a "3" for your third favourite, and so on down the line.
You can give every candidate standing in your consituency a numerical rating in sequence if you wish.
Or you can just pick a few.
Or just one.
There were ten candidates to choose from in Kildare South where I live.
Anita Mhic Gib is a bit socialisty but she is a defender of the sanctity of life so I gave her a number 1.
I didn't add any other preferences.

ireland in the year 1989

clanking machinery
calls across the land
a new age vespers
what have we become
driven by the oil the toil and the drug
ora pro nobis
our grave is dug

the dead have risen and are voting sinn fein rte's election coverage in ireland as simpsons homage

All day we've been listening to reports on the Irish national fraudcaster RTE and other media outlets that Sinn Fein has won the election in Ireland.

These reports are of course nonsense.

The IRA's political proxies Sinn Fein have won nothing.

They look set to occupy a mere 35 seats in a parliament of 160.
It's not exactly a landslide victory is it.

I'm closer to being Prime Minister myself than any of that shower of mafiosi finger nail pulling scum.
I mean I don't want to go casting no aspoyshuns. 

The media are telling us that 25 percent of the electorate have voted for Sinn Fein.

This figure is deliberately deceptive.

The eligible Irish electorate is estimated at 3.5 million.

Some 40 percent of the Irish electorate withheld their votes.

That's forty people in every hundred who did not support any political party, never mind the drug dealing, people trafficking, bank robbing, child abusing IRA mafia's proxies Sinn Fein.

More explicitly, a total of  1.4 million eligible voters expressed their repugnance for the abortionist mainstream parties and the IRA's proxies Sinn Fein by not giving any of them a vote.

Sinn Fein's real share of electoral support is about 15 percent of the overall electorate.

Slightly less impressive than 25 percent, eh!
Not a quarter of the population.
More like one in ten.
The 25 percent jerrymandering figure is only possible by excluding any mention of those 40 percent of citizens who registered their protest by not voting for any of the above.
A measly 15 percent of the electorate voting Sinn Fein, is what today the IRA infiltrators at RTE, the Irish Times, and elsewhere are describing as a surge, a landslide, a quantum shift in Irish politics.
As I've said already. Sinn Fein will win about 35 seats in a parliament of 160.
That is not a surge or a landslide or even vaguely a victory in anyone's lexicon outside of the Communist International and North Korea.
The abortionists of Fine Gael are also having their voter share sympathetically and artificially inflated by RTE, whose commentators claim Fine Gael has 20 percent electoral support.
The fiction of Fine Gael at 20 percent is again arrived at by failing to mention the forty percent of the overall voting population who chose not to vote.
The leftist media is anxious to prevent any broad awareness of public alienation from the mainstream parties because the media itself has championed the same abortion policies that have alienated the electorate.
By the way Fine Gael's real voter share is a paltry ten percent.
The real figure of support for Fine Gael has fallen to about ten percent not because of any of the purely notional housing and health and climate change and i want my pay rise fooboon crises beloved of the media, but because Fine Gael during the past decade in government legalised abortion having promised not to legalise abortion, then deemed mutural masturbation between people of the same gender to be marriage, then mandated the Health Service Executive to perform mutilating sex change operations on children and adults, then taxed the bejabers out of the citizenry in an attempt to control the weather no less while bribing the State sector trade union movement with ridiculous unsustainable terms and conditions, and then collapsed immigration law.
In protest at the house of clowns of all parties rubber stamping Fine Gael's invidiousness, forty percent of the electorate stayed home.
So it goes.
In contrast to the other two large-ish parties (40 seats our of 160 is not that large, let's face it) the kleptocrats of Fianna Fail have had their vote share deliberately understated on RTE all day with analysts repeatedly and wrongly claiming that Sinn Fein are ahead of them.

Alone among the main parties. Fianna Fail actually are in fact on a real figure of about twenty percent support among the overall electorate.
Fianna Fail will win 46 seats.
Fianna Fail have won this election in as much as anyone can claim to have won it..
Sinn Fein on 35 seats aren't even close.
The final lie being peddled by RTE today is that the young people of Ireland voted Sinn Fein.
This assertion has been trumpeted all day on RTE without any evidence beyond a supposed exit poll at voting stations.
I would suggest it is unlikely that the young people of Ireland have suddenly overnight collectively lost their marbles, their consciences and their intellects.
There is no precedent for it and there is no reason to believe it.
I would suggest that there is however reason to believe that the 500,000 immigrants that the IRA and associated mafias, people trafficked into Ireland over the past two decades are now voting for the IRA's political proxies Sinn Fein.