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LAST UPDATE | 31 Oct 2022
Outbreaks of rain🌧️, some heavy/thundery⛈️ moving east this eve, some flooding likely.
— Met Éireann (@MetEireann) October 31, 2022
Misty in parts tonight with heavy rain☔️ in eastern counties clearing into the Irish Sea.
Scattered showers will follow overnight along with freshening southerly winds🍃.
Lows of 4 to 8°C. pic.twitter.com/6bXPe485rq
A STATUS YELLOW rain warning remains in place for the rest of the evening, with heavy rainfall already being recorded in some parts of the country.
Dublin Fire Brigade was among those to note that the wet weather may dampen bonfires around the country with Met Éireann stating that rain will clear into the Irish Sea in the early hours of the morning.
Hey @MetEireann, just wondering if the rain is down for the night ? Asking for a friend 👀 pic.twitter.com/OBDRDP0wZD
— Dublin Fire Boogade 👻🎃 (@DubFireBrigade) October 31, 2022
A Status Orange rain warning was in effect in four southern counties earlier this afternoon and Cork City Council has said that flooding in Silversprings slip road junction earlier was now clear.
For the rest of the country and Northern Ireland, a Status Yellow rainfall warning is in effect for the remainder of this evening.
Tomorrow is also likely to see persistent heavy rain with a Status Yellow warning for the country to kick back in on Wednesday.
Storm force winds will mean a Status Orange warning off the west coast before some sunnier weather on Thursday.
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First half 24′ SF were the party of self inflicted implosions……. last couple weeks FG seem to have taken over that ‘brief’
@Frank Mc Carthy: To be fair, SF has only marginally gained in recent weeks. They have still lost ~50% support. FG has marginally lost support. Neither is an implosion. SF had been on a downward trajectory for 18 months or so. It’s odd that many instantly forget what happened with McDonald and her very delayed admission/ response to the photo sending senator (not to mention their press officer), but feel Harris being ignorant to a care worker is unforgivable.
@honey badger: To be fair FG vote has only gone downhill each election since their initial high after the crash protest vote.
@Michale Kane: FF have brought out the gimp to bat for them lol
No comments open on Article about Simon not wanting to be seen campaigning with Twix McGahon .. LOL
Hey mike jim paul doe…. give us a dig out to help pull down these FG posters every where. No sense in their staying up at this point….. bigly… lol lol lol.
Trump trolls voting for FG. Says it all really.. and even though they don’t have a single vote between them.. :)
@Michale Kane: you are obviously a FF gimp
Haven’t had a single candidate from any party to my door. And I’m in an urban area. I had questions. Are they dodging? (More so than usual)
@lastfewchocices: Aren’t you lucky!
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@lastfewchocices: Same here, not a sight of any of them so far.
@lastfewchocices: It’s a good thing! The never-to-be-read flyers are another waste of everyones time and money.
@lastfewchocices: only people to call into ours about the election were people from friends of the earth. They aren’t even running anyone in the election. But they still feel the need to tell me climate change should be my primary concern when voting and I shouldn’t consider any candidates that are not taking climate change seriously.
@Ger Whelan: As is their right. Anyone can say anything. You don’t have to accept it.
@Ger Whelan: nobody calls to your house because it’s stink
@Ger Whelan: Big deal. Ger then needs to comment about it on the journal. No big deal either. Life goes on surprisingly.
12/1 on the bookies for Sinn Fein to get into government. Just forget about it. It was so simple for Sinn Fein to get support, all they had to be was against MASS immigration and they would have gotten votes. Instead they never stated what their position was, except went to mosques around the country and gave speeches. As a Marxist party, Sinn Fein are by default pro immigration, as Marxism extremely opposes any form of nationalism or homogeneity. Sinn Fein are banking on both foreigners to come in and vote for them, and the few Irish communists who don’t work and love free handouts. Thankfully the tide is shifting all across Europe, right wing parties are getting into power. Looks like we have to deal with the centrist/centre left parties for another term though (FF&FG).
@Maximilian Kolbe: SF is not, and has never been, Marxist. It has always been a one-issue (32-county state) party encompassing all points of the political spectrum (i.e. no-wing).
@Brendan O’Brien: They have been Brendan and very recently, too. My interactions with a lad in Cork in the 80s a proper socialist sell the mag pub to pub , and was willing to debate on the ideolgy became a SF councillor, they are deeply Marxist, even to the point of not recognising the Republic as ” a country ” that changed in 1986, and in 1997 they had their first TD to actually take a seat……
And it hasn’t changed yesterday in the EU parliament both MEPs voted against the commission, they have never lost their Marxist roots.
@Paul O’Mahoney: My point is that SF could, and did, accommodate that person and also extremely conservative and religious farmers and the likes. That’s what I mean when I say ‘all points of the political spectrum’.
All that members had to have in common was a ‘Brits Out’ mentality: their reasons could be very different. And historically SF was very anti-EU, and campaigned for ‘no’ in all the referendums.
@Maximilian Kolbe: Sinn Fein have never been Marxist . Quite a few of them would have been socialist leaning but they’re not even socialist anymore. Plus the foreigners u mentioned coming in are not allowed vote. That’s another lie peddled by far right racists
@Paul O’Mahoney: meeting one lad 40 years ago that spouted his Marxist or socialist ideals does not make Sinn Fein a Marxist party. That’s some stretch of the imagination
@Brendan O’Brien: One issue party, nonsense and they get a lot of the left candidates in as well. Tell me, if PBP, Solidarity and Right2Change have so many issues that people agree with, why are they so low in the polls? Easy to speak like tgat but this state left behind Nationalists in a sectarian state and it’s that attitude that doesn’t help the left, try actually getting into a position where they can go into government. Sinn Fékn have never claimed to be Marxist or Communist but the irony, good relations with Cuba and Venezuela, we may not be an ist but have far better relations with left wing states. Oh, and was getting drug dealers out of council housing estates only one issue, absolute nonsense, as Sinn Féin’s constitution states, they are Socialist Democratic.
@Brian D’Arcy: ‘getting drug dealers out of council housing estates’ was all about power and control (to be able to better advance its one-issue agenda), which is what the ‘Republican Movement’ has always been about.
@Maximilian Kolbe: total nonsense
ML has stated on many occasions that the party want the young irish immigrants back
Ur too busy listening to urself talk there pal
@barry williams: Immigrants are allowed to vote. You just have to be a resident here. You baselessly throwing the term around ‘far right racists’ is the easiest way of spotting a marxist rat. You hate nationalism so bad because your own people rejected you. Now you want someone so badly to accept you so you turn to people from the other side of the world. But they won’t either.
@John Mcmahon: every party wants young Irish immigrants to return home. Name me one party that doesn’t?
@John Mcmahon: he’s a troll.ignore him and don’t respond to him
@Brendan O’Brien: Armed wing with zero respect for our Gardai
Can SF form a govt without FFG?
honest question..
@Julio’s Evil Twin: NO!
@Julio’s Evil Twin: FF and FG will win a minority of seats between them (as in the current Dáil), so everyone else could theoretically get together and form a government without them, but that’s highly unlikely.
@Julio’s Evil Twin: In a word No
No vote for Sharia Fein on Friday
@Tired Jim: funny, FF FG G are doing a great job flooding our country with Muslims, unvetted Muslim men and you blame SF, genius
So who’s going to win this election??
@Ned: The current Government thank goodness and Mary Lou cemented that last night with her disastrous comments on the economy
@Ned: Ned, my personal thoughts are…… A) a possibility of JUST FG& FF, or B) to make up the numbers they’ll get another ‘sacrafical lamb ‘ party to jump on the gravy train….. I used to think the SD’s would make the perfect patsy…. but anyone will do….SD’s, Labour, Greens or a ragtag bunch of independents. Always handy to have a ‘sacrafical lamb’ party to push towards gangplank if things get ‘sticky’….. sure, we’ll know the landscape this time next week
@Frank Mc Carthy: I was actually thinking it would be better to have a strong FF FG or FF SF coalition without a minnow tail wagging the dog situation but MM refusal not to share power with SF has burned that one, I’ll vote SF because in reality he lied about going into power with FG so anything is possible with that slieveen, it’s a case of voting for the party I dislike the least
@Bertie: Bertie, I still haven’t decided which way my #1,#2 or #3 are going…… wouldn’t ‘like’ or have any time for any of em’ in my constituency
@Ned: nobody, because no party has a hope in hell of getting an overall majority, that’s why we have coalitions
Don’t vote for a party whose military wing is responsible for gardai and Irish army murders, child sexual abuse, bank robberies, disappearing innocent people…….
@Eamon: but do vote for them if you are voting in an election in Northern Ireland, the default position of all other Irish parties for decades.
@Eamon: move out of the last century you English soccer supporter Eamon
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