It gives us no pleasure that our criticisms over the last eight years have been vindicated.

We call on Minister Jim O'Callaghan to address the systemic problems as a matter of urgency. It is essential that citizens have faith in the policing and justice system but that faith is being sorely tested.

I thought the same... the kind of trolling I can get behind 😄.

Thanks for this - good to know!

Something something AG says it's unconstitutional.

We could call it the "use it or lose it" tax. Very high level of tax applied to empty properties. Carrot and stick approach employed to get them used as homes again.

Those are great animations, thanks for sharing them!

Those weren't number 1s from Paschal. All of Paschal's number 1s stayed with him. It was the 1,794 votes from Mary Fitzpatrick which pushed Paschal over. These were many number 1s for Mary, and some numbers 2s, 3s etc. These were then checked to distribute the 1,518 surplus for Paschal D.

Thankfully, yes.

Yes, that's what's happening with Gary Gannon's surplus now. He doesn't need all of those votes to be elected. So the surplus is distributed proportionally to the remaining candidates.

Yes, I think he ran in Meath West. And Yes, he was! 😁

The same. You're free to stand in as many constituencies as you want. But a deposit is needed for each one, and you won't be able to canvass or leaflet properly if you spread yourself like that. And risk losing your multiple deposits, as has been the case here. He ran in three constituencies I think

Ditto here. Polling card coming to the house for someone who hasn't lived here in years, and I had second polling cards going to my parents' home at least twice before I managed to successfully get my name taken off that register. It's a mess.

Exactly. It's great to see.

I feel like RTÉ just had decisions made ("We're going to have a whole Upfront debate on immigration") and never thought that through. What about education? Health? Disability services? So many better uses of time and resources than to keep trying to make this an issue.

Candidate is on 9,000. Quota is 10,000. Candidate gets 3,000 votes, bringing them to 12,000.

2,000 votes need to be distributed. The amount to go to each person is found proportionally, and randomly sampled papers of that amount are selected.

A proportional amount of votes is transferred by looking back through all of the papers the candidate got in the count which pushed them over the quota. And then an equal physical amount of ballots are randomly selected to pass on to the other candidates.

On the assumption of X-1 seats, I'd imagine, in order to ensure that the quota is a figure which no more than X-1 candidates could possibly get.

It's giving déjà vu.