600% rise in young fine gael membership

[TheChief]

i saw this in one of the newspapers the other day and looked it up on the fine gael website again this morning

Membership of Young Fine Gael has increased by more than 600% in the last three years with the organisation now enjoying record numbers

Young Fine Gael has seen its membership rocket from 556 in 2002, to its current level of 3,494

These numbers are staggering- even in light of the growth in the overall fine gael membership since kenny took over.

How in the name of provence have they managed to recruit so many people? The site says there is another recruitment drive coming up. will it rise even further?

[NGTR]

Yeah it will.

Alot of the resurgence has come from the opening up college branches in the smaller insts (such as Letterkenny IT & Griffith) as well as setting up as many non-college branches as possible (7 in Dublin last year alone)., thus allowing people not in college to pitch in.

Also more & more people u30 are signing up as YFG members instead of Fine Gael members, as a member of yfg is automatically a member of Fine Gael but NOT vice versa

[KingKane]

And the increase in young candidates and younger people elected, and conventions would have helped a bit too.

Truth is opposition parties to tired governments always have an easier (not necessarily easy) time of it recruiting.

[Liam Mellows]

how many of this 3000 or so actually do any thing

[magic_norhan]

ah Liam don't be bursting their bubble and bringing them into the real world

[Liam Mellows]

your right , you ve got to let them dream while there young

[Gladstone]

How many are the ones who join EVERYTYTHING at the freshers stands?

[Liam Mellows]

about 3400

[ON THE ONE ROAD]

3000 jeazus were are the parent in all this.

[magic_norhan]

ah sure I know a few people who signed for FF and FG at fresher stands