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Irish Election Analysis
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Thursday February 24, 2011 19:22 by Peter Geoghegan - Bella Caledonia
Beyond the political and financial classes, Irish people’s response to the crisis has surprised many on the Left, especially in the UK. Looking to riots in Greece last year, and more tangentially, the revolts spreading like wildfire across the Middle East, why, they ask, has Ireland not been more restive? Why, with joblessness running at over 13% and 1,000 people emigrating every week, did it take two years, and the intervention of the IMF, for mass street protests to take place? Where is the anger, why has Yeats’s ‘passionate intensity’ been monopolized by Fine Gael, a party of the rural and middle classes? “Turning and turning in the widening gyre |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Plenty of anger all around, Peter, but also no burning desire to be led by sloganeers who have no better way out of the mess. "To the barricades, comrades - but I'll stay in here tweeting with a nice latte" sort of thing.
The Docklands was a major area of property development before and during the celtic tiger. The constituency in which it happened had communities adversely affected by the development. Long before that some of the dangerous slum Georgean tenement houses were homes to some of the most economically deprived people on the island of Ireland. Sheriff Street and other families around the constituency fell into a poverty trap when containerisation rapidly made hundreds of dockers redundant. Since the 1970s the constituency has produced, at local and in a couple of cases Dail level, active public representatives such as Tony Gregory, Christy Burke and Joe Costello. The constituency has also thrown up some dynamic activists in the social work sector, like Mick Rafferty and co-workers.
Don't despair - organize!
There are other hard-ridden constituencies around Ireland. People in them should emulate the political example of Dublin North Central and vote for those candidates who have a proven track record in social activism.
For those interested in the nitty gritty of the election, there is a spreadsheet linked to from politics.ie which you can download and fill in the count results as they come in and it will generate summaries and totals for you.
To download page is:
http://www.4shared.com/document/XTd1SGCd/Election2011Re....html