Green Man probably will not be happy with the results - there has been no break-through by the far right or populists. Essentially the next government will be another coalition of centrists from the centre left and centre right.

We have bucked the international trend towards extremism, and personally I'm glad.

www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/1204/14845...ireland-election-24/

tdf wrote:
Green Man probably will not be happy with the results - there has been no break-through by the far right or populists. Essentially the next government will be another coalition of centrists from the centre left and centre right.

We have bucked the international trend towards extremism, and personally I'm glad.

www.rte.ie/news/politics/2024/1204/14845...ireland-election-24/

Trust the Irish to generally get it right.

Loved my Irish Granny who was almost as eccentric as my Russian Gran.

Ireland, since it joined the then EEC, benefited from substantial grants and subsidies, which financed the modernisation of its inadequate road structure - for example; it'll never leave the EU!!

Also, it has successfully befriended US presidents - like Kennedy, Clinton, Biden etc - who had Irish origins. Google, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, Apple, Facebook etc. - use Ireland as their European base.

The country certainly punches well above its weight internationally by boxing clever - and is quick to remind us of many famous countrymen. Like Joyce, Wilde, O'Casey, Shaw, Yeats and the Duke of Wellington.