six county elections 05/05/2011

[Rois]

Niall Donnelly from Short Strand got elected to Belfast City Council for SF. He's a young guy too, a child of the post-ceasefire days.

[Minder]

http://sluggerotoole.com/2011/04/12/sinn-fein%E2%80%99s-town-hall-event-speculation-on-ronan-kerr%E2%80%99s-politics/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13320482

I find both these types of electioneering truly disgusting. Hijacking a dead man's memory to use a political canon fodder has to be the lowest of the low. I wouldn't mind it so much if it where family or friends declaring a particular stance, but two complete strangers predicting and articulating a dead man's motives is repulsive.

As Emmet said "Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance, asperse them."

Yeah totally agree trileacman, i actually raised the issue of McGuinness's comments at the time here but as i suspected nobody said much about it. Crass in the extreme from both of them, but you have some people, who unbelievably, see this as further softening of the Punts image, it is spin and politiking plain and simple from him. If you scratched below the surface of Robinson and heard his views in private i would say you would see a similar figure to Tom Elliott.

[Minder]

2000+ votes for Eirigi in West Belfast.

[Maguire01]

Niall Donnelly from Short Strand got elected to Belfast City Council for SF. He's a young guy too, a child of the post-ceasefire days.

He won't like being called that.

[The Worker]

Anywere you can see results by council area?

[Tonto]

The DUP have lost overall control of Castlereagh Council, but they've now merged with the UUP to form one single Unionist Group within the council. Bitter heartland.

Ziggy from time to time you seem to have a problem with unionists just for being unionists.  Why is Castlereagh 'bitter' just because it has a unionist majority?

You are simply showing your own bitterness in my opinion.

[Milltown Row2]

2000+ votes for Eirigi in West Belfast.

Could have got elected to the Assembly

[ziggysego]

The DUP have lost overall control of Castlereagh Council, but they've now merged with the UUP to form one single Unionist Group within the council. Bitter heartland.

Ziggy from time to time you seem to have a problem with unionists just for being unionists.  Why is Castlereagh 'bitter' just because it has a unionist majority?

You are simply showing your own bitterness in my opinion.

Far from it Tonto. Anyone that knows me I'm not. I was pleased to see Ross Hussey get an MLA seat in West Tyrone last week. A good man, that does a lot of good work.

[4father]

2000+ votes for Eirigi in West Belfast.

Could have got elected to the Assembly

Pat Sheehan only scraped through sure did he not?  The quota for the assembly was over 4000 i think.  Plus would these boyos sit in stormount?

[The Worker]

Seen this on twitter:

Tom Elliot has a super injunction preventing the media from saying he is a stupid ****. What a ballbag!

[gerry]

Good to see paul berry get elected today. Hopefully he is more discreet about going for a massage these days.

[fitzroyalty]

Barry Mcelduff on facebook earlier:
'Aaaah.... Sitting back on the recliner, feet up wearing me Tyrone shorts and my saw doctors T shirt, drinking a sup of tae, and having a wee round of toast. Powerful lads, am listening to my Enya c.d, with the lights dimmed, chatting to Marty McGuiness on Facebook chat.. McGuiness is wile man with the drink in him! Good luck, Keep her lit!'

[ziggysego]

Barry Mcelduff on facebook earlier:
'Aaaah.... Sitting back on the recliner, feet up wearing me Tyrone shorts and my saw doctors T shirt, drinking a sup of tae, and having a wee round of toast. Powerful lads, am listening to my Enya c.d, with the lights dimmed, chatting to Marty McGuiness on Facebook chat.. McGuiness is wile man with the drink in him! Good luck, Keep her lit!'

It's a spoof page. 

[fitzroyalty]

FFS I know it's a spoof page hence posting that; so roll those eyes elsewhere!  !

[Applesisapples]

It is also perfectly credible to believe that the SDLP are more effective nationalists than the rather crass carry on of Sinn Féin, who are not typical of the Irish people generally. Softly softly catchee monkey and all that.

One of the notable things about the recent election count were media interviews by Marty and Jeffrey Donaldson that could have been taken from John Hume's speeches, with talk of "working together for the shared future of our people". I am not sure that the modern SDLP has people quite of the calibre of Hume and Mallon, who did a real service to the people of Ireland.

but for the tactical voting of unionists around markethill mallon wouldnt have lasted near as long as he did i'm open to hear what his great achievements were i cant think of one

Surely his central role in the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement would be regarded as a significant achievement and contribution?

Mallon and Hume would be closer to SF's position on the constitutional issues than they would be to the current unionist lite policies endorsed by Richie