John Lowry WP 434 Votes
Geraldine Taylor RSF 427 Votes


It's fascinating that after all the spin by Republican Sinn Fein on this board and with not one Stickie posting the Workers Party can still beat RSF.

Spin and lose, rather than Spin and Win?

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Oh dear. Surely RSF now means Ridiculous Sinn Féin. Talk about being utterly humiliated. They did so bad they are in the Christian Solidarity Party league.

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Nill illigitimi carborundum - don't let the b*stards get you down.

Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

814 votes for Gerry McGeough, we won't be going to compulsory Solidality meetings any time soon either.

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I always wonder who votes for these people - nothing full well they will never win

Well Hurrah and Huzzah!!

Only 7 votes behind a totally irrelevant rump party........could this be a bright new dawn for RSF/Irish Gerriatrics Association?!

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"The IRA Army Council have a history of telling the truth. If they say they didn't do it, then I believe them" - Bertie Ahern, speaking after the murder of Det. Garda Jerry McCabe

People who believe in what these people are saying.. whether it has majority backing in the mainstream or not PB.. it's called democracy

You could argue that in more than half the constituencies in the 26 counties, that there isn't much point voting for a SF, PD, Grn, or even Labour (in much of West of Ireland), so why would/should people bother voting for those parties there either

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1,197 people agree with me.. how many agree with you ?

Statement from Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, President Republican Sinn Féin.

Given the almost total media blackout of Republican Sinn Féin during the Stormont election the results for its candidates were only as expected. Even the name of Republican Sinn Féin was suppressed by the Stormont régime’s electoral body and a compliant media followed suit. Our candidates were styled “Independents”, taking away our coherent strategy and sense of direction.

Although not registered as a “party” at Leinster House for 40 years, the media in the 26 Counties do not class Republican Sinn Féin candidates as “Independents”, but treat them as an organised body.

Indeed, on the TG4 television programme Seacht Lá on polling day, a commentator [Tomás Tiernan] stated that there was a complete block on publicity for Republican Sinn Féin and that there appeared to have been an agreement between the various channels to this effect.

The result was, that denied publicity and even their organisation’s name, our six candidates were consigned to a welter of Independent candidates, without the distinction of the Republican Sinn Féin title and direction. Of course the harassment by the RUC/PSNI of our election workers continued during the campaign.

As to the general results, the DUP is moving towards a monolithic Unionist Party such as existed up to the 1960s . With its increased vote it will impose even more humiliating terms on the Provisionals.

The Provos, for their part, will go on to consolidate English rule here, to lead away from Irish national independence and secure lucrative positions of power for their leadership within the system.

For Republican Sinn Féin the task must be to build support, to expose the direction of the Provisional leadership and the mis-use of the unionist population by their leaders and by unscrupulous English governments.

But what about the wonderful reception the RSF candidates were receiving at chapel gate canvasses in Fermanagh? I read it in Saoirse, so it must be true.

Going round in circles?

The Natural Law Party also find it difficult to get publicity because like RSF nobody votes for them and like RSF they operate on the basis of fundamentally different assumptions to the rest of us.

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"Thank you STV for pimping my vote"

Maybe Ruairi Ó Brádaigh could take up Yogic Flying!

RSF should stop blaming everyone else for their own inadequacies. The way people associate candidates with parties is by building up the profile of those candidates in the areas they are standing for election. It is not the media's fault if a candidate does not have any profile in the area nor is it the media's fault if that lack of profile results in a poor vote tally. RSF failed to gain more than 1% of the vote in any of the six constituencies that they stood in highlights the fact that even the huge disquiet over the provo acceptance of the PSNI was not enough to sway people to vote in any significant numbers towards RSF. Infact the final tally of all six candidates together would still not have been enough for them to be elected to one seat. RSF members are now trying to claim that genuine Republicans had not registered to vote by choice and this is the reason for the poor showing. Peggy O Hara's credible vote in Foyle belies this for the spin that it is. The Anti PSNI and Anti Stormont vote was out there but RSF were simply incapable of harnessing them in any meaningful way. Claims of media blackouts are interesting as if you look at the Saoirse/RSF website you will see that there was only one statement/report released by the candidates since the announcement of their manifesto a couple of weeks ago. If you dont promote yourselves how can you expect others to?