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Daragh Brophy here for Day three of our election liveblog…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or sensibly getting a good night’s sleep) you’ll know the main drama overnight has been in Dublin 4, where the count for capital went on until the early hours.
Our Political Editor Hugh O’Connell was there until, well, pretty recently, and has all the detail.
Eamon Ryan‘s due to meet the returning officer at lunchtime, and any decision on a recount will be announced at 2pm.
There’s nothing confirmed results-wise at the Ireland South and Midlands North West count centres in Nemo Rangers’ and Castlebar’s Royal Theatre. They’ll be back at the count tables at 9am.
So… Can the Green Party leader pull a rabbit out of the hat?
Photocall’s Mark Stedman captured these images overnight at the RDS…
Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland
Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland
Meanwhile, the Greens have been touting their electoral success this morning, with 12 councillors elected around the country.
This, from a press release sent out at around 5am…
Eamon Ryan: “Voters have given us a fresh opportunity to work hard for them, and to make their voices heard at council level. From today, that work begins for all of us.”
A wider cabinet reshuffle is now on the cards following Labour’s shellacking (as Joan Burton put it) and Fine Gael’s ‘wallop’ (to use a phrase Enda’s fond of).
The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste are set to meet later today to discuss the fallout from the weekend.
Paschal Sheehy‘s just been on to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland from Cork. He says we can still expect a first count at the Nemo Rangers’ count centre sometime between 11am and lunchtime, at which point its expected FF’s Brian Crowley will be elected.
The perennial poll-topper’s surplus of around 50,000 votes will then be distributed, with SF’s Liadh Ní Riada expected to claim the second seat.
He says it “could be a long time” before there’s a result for the third seat, expected to go to FG’s Sean Kelly.
Deirdre Clune and Simon Harris (also of FG) remain in the hunt for the fourth seat.
Of course, there’s also some other big news in Cork this morning, and Paschal’s all over that too…
Meanwhile, RTÉ’s Cian McCormack, in Midlands-North West, says the first count in Castlebar is still expected at some stage in the afternoon.
He says there’s likely to be a “right schamozzle” for the fourth seat in the 15 county constituency between independent Marian Harkin and the FF pair of Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher and Thomas Byrne.
It looks like Ming ‘Euroming’ Flanagan‘s on his way to Europe though…
More criticism for Eamon Gilmore this morning, after another Labour Oireachtas member said yesterday that it was time for then entire front bench to go…
It follows the party’s drubbing in the local and Euro elections.
Jackie Healy Rae‘s been on to Radio Kerry from his hospital bed to congratulate his grandson Johnny on his Kerry County Council victory at the weekend.
Jackie’s son Danny (Johnny’s father) also retained his seat on the council at the weekend…
The family patriarch, who is recovering from knee replacement surgery, was given special dispensation to leave his bed and cast his vote on Friday.
I can categorically say that if I get elected to the European Parliament I will as promised go out there and represent people there.
However, he left the door open to a possible early return from the continent, saying it was his intention to serve the full five years “but it was also my intention to stay in Dáil Éireann for the full term”.
Eamon Ó Cuív breaking with party line on the Mary Hanafin story on RTÉ just now…
While most FF TDs wheeled out to give reaction to the party’s decent showing in the council elections referred to Kate Feeney as ‘the official Fianna Fáil candidate’ in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Blackrock ward, Ó Cuív said he regarded both women to be FF councillors.
He said the issue surrounding whether or now she should have filed those party electoral papers was “a small procedural issue that needs to be clarified”.
In some encouraging news for Micheál Martin he said he had no problem with the party leadership, and claimed (somewhat implausibly) not to have heard John McGuinness’s comments on the issue yesterday….
Brian Crowley, the country’s longest serving MEP, has been elected for a fifth term in the European Parliament after the result was announced in Ireland South.
The Fianna Fáil politician’s victory had been widely anticipated — he’s topped every opinion poll of this year’s campaign by a huge margin.
The result was elected at the Cork count centre at Nemo Rangers’ within the last few seconds.
I’ve just arrived at the RDS where staff are preparing for what looks certain to be a recount in Dublin with just 1,149 votes separating Eamon Ryan in fourth and Brian Hayes in third.
Ryan has said he just wants to be certain of the result given the late hour at which it Hayes and Nessa Childers were elected to the third and second seats in the capital.
In the meanwhile, here’s a rather cool thing on the website of newly-elected Green Party councillor Claire Byrne (no, not that Claire Byrne).
It shows an animation of every single election count in each local election area, with bar charts showing how it all played at.
Watch as the bars magically move! Guess who’s going to make the quota! Wonder at the proportional representation-single transferable vote system! Drum your fingers as we wait for news of Midlands North West!
BREAKING: Beleagured Labour leader Eamon Gilmore is to make a statement at the Department of Foreign Affairs at 4pm today, with reports suggesting that he is to resign as party leader.
Labour slumped to just 7 per cent in the local election results, significantly lower than opinion polls had indicated.
Niall Carson / PA Wire
Niall Carson / PA Wire / PA Wire
26 May 2014
3:20PM
AND WE HAVE A FIRST COUNT AT MIDLANDS NORTH WEST! Here we go:
Quick analysis: Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, Matt Carty and Mairead McGuinness all look set to take the first three seats – unless Carty fails to pick up the transfers ,which has been a problem for other Sinn Féin candidates.
There’s going to be a dog fight for the fourth seat, though. Marian Harkin, Pat The Cope Gallagher and Thomas Byrne could all do well on transfers
The five lowest candidates, who all got under 10,000 votes, have now been eliminated and their votes will be distributed.
PA Archive / Press Association Images
PA Archive / Press Association Images / Press Association Images
Meanwhile, back at the RDS, Green Party leader and oh-so-close-to-being-an-MEP-but-not-quite Eamon Ryan says he doesn’t want a full recount of the hundreds of thousands of votes.
Instead, he wants bundles of ballots to be checked in case there were any mistakes made.
Ryan finished fourth in the 3-seat constituency in the early hours of this morning, just 1,149 votes behind Brian Hayes of Fine Gael.
He spoke to our political editor Hugh O’Connell a few minutes ago about the dramatic count:
Phew, it’s all go right now, isn’t it? Within the last two hours we’ve had Eamon Gilmore possibly about to resign, Ming topping the poll and Brian Crowley getting elected by a mile in Ireland South.
For a breather, here’s a terrible joke from a commenter.
26 May 2014
3:55PM
As we enter what may be the final few minutes of Eamon Gilmore‘s tenure as leader of the Labour party, let’s remember happier times.
Gilmore final interview as leader was here with us, just last Tuesday. In the interview Gilmore said that he wasn't overly concerned with what position he holds in government, but was more concerned about what government does.
Eamon Gilmore announces that he is stepping down as Labour leader.
The Labour leader is flanked by Ministers Pat Rabbitte, Joe Costello and Alan Kelly, as well as chief whip Emmet Stagg as he makes the announcement. They applaud him as he finishes his statement.
26 May 2014
4:13PM
Gilmore says he will remain involved in politics and wants to seek re-election in his constituency in Dún Laoghaire at the next general election.
His stepping down will be effective once a successor is appointed.
He tells the assembled media that he made the decision last night. He says he doesn’t believe his departure will destabilise the government, and says it was the responsible thing to do following Friday’s election results for Labour.
At 10.30 am this morning, I informed the General Secretary of the Labour Party that I intend to stand down as Leader of the Party, with effect from the election of my successor.
He said the party had taken on the responsibility of Government in a difficult time but had tried to address the crisis as fairly as possible.
But it was a course which carried a high political risk, and Labour has paid the price for that in the local and European elections.
I deeply regret the loss of good public representatives and the defeat of outstanding Labour candidates last Friday.
He said the party needed to renew itself and look to the future before thanking everyone he had worked with over the past seven years.
It has been an honour to lead you, and I look forward to working with you for a long time to come.
Getting back to the world of elections, Fine Gael MEP Jim Higgins isn’t too happy.
Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland
Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland
He has just conceded at the counting centre in Castlebar after coming 7th out of the 14 candidates in Midlands North West. He has been an MEP since 2004.
Fine Gael's Jim Higgins has conceded and said he is retiring from politics. "I've done it all." #ee14#ep14#mnw
There’s some chatter on Twitter about the performance of Theresa Heaney, the Catholic Democrats candidate who ran in Ireland South. She scooped 13,500 votes, putting her 10th out of 15 candidates.
The Christian Democrat woman got 13,000 first preference votes! #eu14
You can read our interview with her here where she talks about her views on women staying in the home, why a same-sex referendum will never happen in Ireland, and why the contraceptive pill is polluting the water.
With Eamon Gilmore out of the picture there’s a job vacancy at the head of the Labour party (predictably, some wag has already put it up on JobBridge).
Nominations for both leader AND deputy leader of the party open tomorrow and will close seven days later. If a ballot is required, anyone who is an ordinary member of the party will be allowed to vote, and will have almost one month to do so.
Expect to see the new leader of the party unveiled either next week (if there’s only one candidate) or else on 4 July, the deadline for returning postal ballots.
If you’re looking for a state of the nation (or its politicians, actually) on how people feel about Gilmore’s resignation, Michelle Hennessy has been gathering reaction here.
Nice pic, Michelle:
The best – but slightly less official – reactions on Twitter are over on DailyEdge.ie.
Our reporter in the Midlands-Northwest count centre in Castlebar, has been speaking to Ming Flanagan, due to be elected as the first MEP there on the next count.
That count is due in around 20 minutes.
Ming, sure to be elected on the 2nd count in #mnw, just told me he needs to keep "saying it and saying it again" to believe it. #ee14#ep14
Of course, with Ming’s election, that means there will be a byelection in the Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency.
There will be another byelection in Dublin Southwest because Brian Hayes is likely to keep his new MEP seat (subject to Eamon Ryan’s recount) in the Dublin constituency.
The second count has just happened in Ireland South.
Gav Reilly of Today FM and late of this parish has a tallycard here that shows why no-one has yet been elected to join Brian Crowley as MEP.
HOWEVER, Liadh Ní Riadh of SF is really close to the tally of 131,500. She’s now on 125,309.
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26 May 2014
6:47PM
From Hugh O’Connell:
I’m back at the RDS where we are expecting the results of the ballot recheck within the next 90 minutes. Around 352,000 votes have been checked and now counters are doing random sampling of transfers from Mary Fitzpatrick and Paul Murphy.
“Incredibly minor discrepancies” have been uncovered according to staff here which means the overall outcome – the election of Brian Hayes and Nessa Childers – is unlikely to be affected.
26 May 2014
6:53PM
Meanwhile, back in Castlebar, the fate of the three remaining MEP seats up for grabs after Flanagan’s win is intriguing.
Matt Carthy of Sinn Féin is likely to make the 129,290 quota in some near count because he’s currently on 117,670.
Next is Mairead McGuinness (FG) on 94,019; Marian Harkin (ind) on 72,045; Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher on 60,466 and then Thomas Byrne (FF) on 56,290. Jim Higgins (FG) is still in it at 40,462 but has already conceded that he won’t be in with a shout of a seat, and is in fact retiring from politics.
Ronan Mullen (ind) and Lorraine Higgins (Lab) have been eliminated.
Who will be on the plane to Brussels with Ming? Matt Carthy looks like he’s almost there, and Mairead McGuinness must be feeling fairly secure, but that fourth seat is still very much in play, with two Fianna Fáil candidates, Thomas Byrne and Pat The Cope Gallagher fighting it out with independent Marian Harkin.
26 May 2014
8:11PM
On the local side, there are just 16 seats to be filled: seven in the Fingal County Council ward of Swords, three in Ratoath in Meath and six in Ballybay-Clones in Monaghan.
The Monaghan seats won’t be decided for another week, however, due to the sad passing of councillor Owen Bannigan on Friday.
Of course, it’s not all that simple. There are a few recounts due to take place around the country.
In Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, the Dun Laoghaire LEA will have a full recount on Wednesday, a recount in Castlebar is underway and the Tullamore recount is examining 15 misplaced ballots.
Expected recounts in Wicklow, Kilkenny and Ballina were cancelled earlier.
In Castlebar, it looks like our reporter Orla Ryan tried to get a sneaky snap of Matt Carthy and Pearse Doherty, but was undone by the flash on her camera.
Agonising for Sinn Féin’s Liadh Ní Riadha in Ireland South.
As the third count comes in, she is just 660 short of a quota, meaning the champagne will stay on ice as she awaits confirmation that she will join Brian Crowley as an MEP for the region.
That Swords recount is still ongoing, by the way. Independent Michael Collins, who requested the recount, has been eliminated on the 14th count.
26 May 2014
10:28PM
After a marathon recount, Fianna Fáil take four seats in Tullamore and Offaly County Council goes onto the list of completed councils and will get its own graph here.
26 May 2014
10:41PM
While Ireland South looks like it may be a three-horse race for two seats between the Fine Gael candidates, independent Diarmuid O’Flynn remains in with a shout.
He sits on 34,840 votes, around 20,000 behind Fine Gael’s Simon Harris in fourth, but could attract a lot of transfers.
If that remains the case, it will be a massive upset.
The newly-minted Liadh Ní Riada MEP says that her election to the European Parliament is a “victory for the ordinary people of Ireland”.
Speaking from the count centre at Nemo Rangers GAA Club in Cork, she said;
“Sinn Féin went to people of Ireland South with the very clear message that there is a better, fairer alternative to the politics of austerity and cuts.
“My election is a victory for ordinary people who have suffered so much under the regressive policies pushed by the European Commission and implemented with such relish by successive governments here at home.”
26 May 2014
11:06PM
The next count in Ireland South is not expected for another 40 minutes. Settle in folks, this one is going to go on all night.
In Swords, independent Joe Newman and Fianna Fáil’s Adrian Henchy join Philip Lynam of Sinn Féin and Darragh Butler of Fianna Fáil on Fingal County Council.
That is four of the nine seats there filled and it only took three days and 16 counts.
27 May 2014
12:08AM
Remember that expected recount result in Castlebar? That’ll be another hour or so.
There are still three seats to fill in Ratoath, but only four candidates left.
Here’s how they stand:
27 May 2014
12:48AM
Swords has finished its count and will make an announcement shortly.
Luckily, Fingal County Hall is in Swords, so the victorious candidates will be able to make the journey to the chamber fairly handily.
27 May 2014
12:50AM
In the UK, Nigel Farage seems to be pretty pleased with himself, but if he thinks Ming Flanagan is going to be taking him out for Belgian waffles in Brussels, he’s got another thing coming.
27 May 2014
1:02AM
And Swords has a result!
Labour’s Duncan Smith, AAA’s Eugene Coppinger and independents Paul Mulville, Anne Devitt and Justin Sinnott are all elected on the 17th count in a recount.
27 May 2014
1:09AM
After the sixth count in Ireland South, nobody has reached the quota. Counting is underway in the seventh count, after which the count will resume at 9am.
That result from Ratoath finishes the representation on Meath County Council and confirms that Labour will not have a seat in the Royal County from June’s council meeting on.
The six unfilled council seats will be voted for in Ballybay-Clones on 7 June, following the sad death of outgoing councillor Owen Bannigan on election day.
There are also two recounts – one in Castlebar that is due to be announced tonight and one in Dun Laoghaire that will be carried out on Wednesday morning.
27 May 2014
1:50AM
That Castlebar recount is becoming the Chinese Democracy of Irish LEA counts. It was due at various stages of the evening, but we’re still waiting.
27 May 2014
1:59AM
Still with us? You must either be off work tomorrow or an insomniac. Either way, welcome!
The last counts of the evening- the Castlebar recount and the seventh count in Ireland South are due fairly soon.
The third day of counting in the local elections has drifted into the fourth and a recount of a ward with 15,000 valid votes has stalled.
The first indication was that Castlebar would deliver a recount verdict around 9pm, but five hours later, there is no result.
27 May 2014
2:28AM
It has been 65 hours since counting began in Castlebar, but a result is now “imminent”.
27 May 2014
2:37AM
And finally! A result from Castlebar!
It shows no change, so Michael Kilcoyne (Ind), Lisa Chambers (FF), Therese Ruane (SF), Cyril Burke (FG), Frank Durcan (Ind), Blackie Gavin (FF), Henry Kenny (FG), Al McDonnell (FF) are all elected.
That’s all from myself, Paul Hosford, thanks for being here with me until this ungodly hour.
Tomorrow, we should have answers as to who else is heading to Europe, but right now I’m heading to bed.
Good night!
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You can’t brand an entire party because of what a small number of people did. There are a lot of new people who had nothing to do with the recession in the party and the FF councillors are a very different crowd to the TD’S.
Sorry Shane, if you join the mafia you join to change it into st Vincent DePaul. Equally when you join FF you join to get a chance to stick your snout in the trough.
The Irish are ok with corruption. Voting for the Bertie’s the Brian’s and the Michael’s means core values haven’t changed in FF and FG are no different i.e. Lowry Tipperary. It makes the people who vote for them equally corrupt or just dumb.
A large number of the people who’s names are on the register have been forced to emigrate so if you take the number who live here and who voted the turnout would be higher.
Per annum but I know people who moved abroad a decade ago who still get a polling card at their parents house. Then there are others (small number) with multiple cards at different addresses
John Sherlock thanks for pointing that out about the large number on the electorate who have emigrated who could not vote had not actually thought of that and actually that is another scandal that our people forced to emigrate no longer have any say in who is elected
I don’t know why people voted for him. I have a relation who knows him and he told me Ming never finished school and has been on the dole his whole life doing anything but smoking pot and now where sending him to Europe. That’s a joke.
If thats true then he probably has more in common than most of the electorate, At least hes spent some time on the dole. Most of our TDs come from a political dynasty and list their profession as public representative since they left school.
That is just about the most stupid, inane, ridiculous statement to be posted today. I have a friend that knows a guy too… And he used to smoke pot!! Typical stupefied answer from someone who probably reads glossy mags at the weekend and thinks they’re all true stories as well..
More working class people like Ming needed on politics , we’ve always had too many of the ivory tower variety who don’t know how the other half lives . Well done to Ming overcoming the prejudice and sneering of the elites
Eamon Ryan !! I dont think he knows his arse from his elbow!! He was interviewed on Euronews about 2 years and painted a picture far from the truth! Actually, nowhere near the truth! He has as much political clout as Kenneth Egan!
Its crazy to think there are hundreds of thousands of people all over the country hoping Eamonn Ryan doesnt get elected…..on environmental grounds…his tireless backing of big business in the form of giant international utility wind developers despite all the independent scientific evidence showing its minimal effect on CO2 reduction and its devestating effect on the landscape and environment has shown him up to be foolish in the extreme and an idealogicalb puppet for fat cat developers..
I sincerely hope Hayes gets the seat; not because I support him or his Party but because he’s an open book – a blueshirt true and true and that gets my respect! But the Ryan boyo hunts with the hare and chases with the hounds – no respect!
Well done to all anti-austerity independent candidates who won seats in the councils with no funding, no backing from major parties, no massive PR machines.. People who slogged it out knocking on people’s doors in all weathers 6 days a week in small teams of dedicated people on a mission to show the Irish electorate that there was an alternative to the major political parties out there who could represent them in local governments across the country. Here in Kildare we in the CAWHT campaign told our Labour councillors – “axe the tax or watch your vote collapse”. Unlike Labour, we kept our promises and this election saw Labour decimated in the council and we won our representatives the seats they deserve through hard work and pure people power. To any and all people who gave up their evenings and weekends to be a part of any of these campaigns – well done, you should be proud of your achievement.
Interesting that Mary Lou qualifies Boylan as ‘the real deal’. Obviously she regards the rest of Sinn Fein as being fakers of some sort. Refreshingly honest of her.
Id say your a bitter bitter man this morning, SF most popular party on the island of Ireland by vote share, as well as a likely MEP representing all 4 regions in Ireland. The reaction of trolls like yourself makes it all the more sweeter for the rest of us!
Johngahan – You are in awful form ? Something seismic must have happened over the weekend that has you now inventing things that people haven’t said at all !
Where’s your other Blueshirt Gobaloon Richard Rodgers ?
Has he gone on an awful tear altogether ?
Tell him that we miss him , will you ?
We’v 350,000 public servants , New Zealand have 125 , 000 , population is the same for both NZ and us and Canada has 228,000 for population of 35 million , so what’s going on ?
The country doing so well in making a change through the power of the vote.Then you have the people of south Kerry voting in the Healy reas,and they wonder why their are the bud of jokes?
Fully agree james r. Ming can ask them to stop moving house every 3 months to strasbourg and give us the 100 mil that costs to reduce ou r debt to eu/german banks. Time for a straight talker in brussells who messed up the euro, banking regulation etc. Brussels is a sleepy cosy place and packed with highly paid useless people, systems, and policies…just look at the mess europe is in. Time for no nonsense straight talking and ming is the man to do it….hopefully rte/tv3 will actually let us know what goes on there for a change….
So the fool ming is happy to dress up for Europe but hasn’t the same respect for our own Dàil !! Good riddance to him we wont have to listen to his foolish rants again!
I’ll be sad when all this live blogging is over, it gave me an excuse to babble on about politics and even stay up passed the death, on dare I say it, a school night. I’m not normally one to follow politics so closely but I found this blog coupled with the excellent radio and TV coverage addictive. Well done to all at the Journal.ie!
Well done Ming!! No more butter vouchers ….. cannabis plants all the way from Europe now ….Medical cards who needs medical cards …. When cannabis cures all ails ….less work for customs and gardai …what fools we are ….
Excellent graphics from Clare Byrne. Best yet explanation of how the Proportional Representation Voting System works. Send a final disk to each school in the country, the kids will see immediately how it works without a long-winded complicated verbal explanation.
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Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources 67 partners can use this purpose
Reports can be generated based on the combination of data sets (like user profiles, statistics, market research, analytics data) regarding your interactions and those of other users with advertising or (non-advertising) content to identify common characteristics (for instance, to determine which target audiences are more receptive to an ad campaign or to certain contents).
Develop and improve services 74 partners can use this purpose
Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include the development or improvement of user profiles and identifiers.
Use limited data to select content 33 partners can use this purpose
Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 39 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 23 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 77 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 87 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 64 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 46 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 75 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 54 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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