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    RTE fixation with nuns voting

    I know someone had a thread on this a good few months back, but I couldn't find it.
    What is it about nuns that we have to see them voting on the RTE news every time there's an election?

    Do TV3 show nuns voting on their news?
    With RTE, it's guaranteed.
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    Don't think it's just RTE. Sure I've seen nuns voting on BBC. Needless to say I've also seen them on RAI [Italian station]. Maybe TVs think nuns have the inside track on how to vote!!
    Cheer up! Things are never so bad that they can't get worse.

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    eye candy for the auld lads
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    Default setting.

    When they're doing cops or army officers graduating they have the chicks front and centre. Same with McAleese's last visit to the Lebanon, chick central. It's what they do. Lazy lazy journalism.
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    Say what you want about her, Dana always gets her core vote out.
    All 6 of them.
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    What harm, it will be history soon, with the age group,of the nuns that are left!

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    I suppose it's the "who did you vote for" curiosity. Like when that woman voted in the divorce referendum, wearing a wedding dress.

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    Nuns are only allowed out of the convent whenever there's an election. I wonder what would happen if one of them decided to do a runner.
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    Its always the question every candidate asks on polling day, did the nuns come out to vote?
    "If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." - Thomas Jefferson

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    In fairness, it is the enclosed orders of nuns who only get out for a vote once every few years that are pictured. I have to say I find it fascinating. But they know their stuff all the same, I heard one of them say something along the lines of " if you don't vote, don't complain". Great ladies.
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