Ireland's shock election: Did Sinn Féin really have a youthquake?

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Ireland's shock election: Did Sinn Féin really have a youthquake?

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4 жыл бұрын

Sinn Féin won the popular vote in Ireland’s recent elections shaking up a two party system that has been dominated by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for decades. The success was described as a youthquake but was that really the case? We meet some of the activists, politicians and voters to ask them what the result says about Ireland? And what are their hopes for a government as coalition talks continue?
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@guardiannews 4 жыл бұрын

Irish general election: who won and what happens now? ► www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/10/irish-general-election-everything-you-need-to-know

@gailday3781 3 жыл бұрын

I'm quite proud of fine Gael ❤️👍✔️

@Synochra 3 жыл бұрын

no worries, as in every other European country, the green party is ready and willing to sell all its principles to enable a conservative government

@scorpioninpink 4 жыл бұрын

If SF had run more candidates , they would have more TD in the chamber.

@chinggiskhan6678 3 жыл бұрын

They ran as many as they could, geez give the party which shattered the two party rule a chance.

@darrendiggins9853 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, but in fairness they didn't honestly believe could win more seats.

@johnhariis250 2 жыл бұрын

@@darrendiggins9853 Neither did I, or they? Definitely more candidates for the next General election F**** FG. FF. United Ireland soon and Fk. Brexit 🇮🇪

@darrendiggins9853 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. My vote is not tied to one party. But it is well past time for this country to try something different. What we have is slowly failing. I genuinely don't care who makes things better.

@DGoldy303 2 жыл бұрын

Why can't they run in all seats? Lack of money?

@chinggiskhan6678 3 жыл бұрын

Sinn Féin: *exists* Conservatives: I hate you, but I hate Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael more, so have my vote.

@carolinebyrne9392 6 ай бұрын

SO LIKE BOMMERS DO YOU

@helpme8876 4 жыл бұрын

Tell em how the IRA made em run the hell away

@MrPickledede 4 жыл бұрын

And

@hammou1312 3 жыл бұрын

From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra

@lucienmaranber 3 жыл бұрын

Sing up the ra

@someman6395 3 жыл бұрын

Come out ye black and tans

@gort9374 4 жыл бұрын

Finally a change in the system

@MagnificentSpeed 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your change when it wrecks the economy again. Cant believe people voted sinn féin

@MiloManning05 4 жыл бұрын

Magnificent Speed Sinn Fein are bosw

@MrPickledede 4 жыл бұрын

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 Sinn Fein will open the floodgates of immigration and goodbye Ireland regardless of reunification....do you think Nigerians, Poles or Turks give a damn about Irish unity? lol

@FATHOLLYWOODB123 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrPickledede Immigration system is already extremely open, also Sinn Fein has a specific platform on there manifesto that explains there special tax policy and promotion of indigenous businesses.

@internetual7350 4 жыл бұрын

Sinn Fein isn't "change" they've been in power before at the very beginning of Ireland's independent history, also love the fact young people voted for a party previously supported by Gaddafi's Libya you know Muammar Gadaffi the same dude accused of raping young Libyan girls and women in his spare time...

@rickrolld1367 3 жыл бұрын

Solidarity - People before Profit: If I stand perfectly still, no one will notice me.

@Irish780 4 жыл бұрын

Its because the big parties are for the money people sinn fein is for the ordinary joe no other reason

@earthbadger5198 3 жыл бұрын

@@internetual7350 bruh

@eamondo1076 3 жыл бұрын

@@internetual7350 you eat crayons

@internetual7350 3 жыл бұрын

@@eamondo1076 I did eat crayons then I became based 😎 believe me I'm ashamed of these old comments...

@seosamhv 4 жыл бұрын

Increase tax revenue by letting Irish diaspora and descendants come back and live in rural areas on working citizenships under the agreement that they do not move into the city. Would create community hubs throughout the country and grow smaller cities.

@conalcochranh3274 4 жыл бұрын

So...what you're saying, essentially, is that Israel was right all along?

@nothuman3083 2 жыл бұрын

@@conalcochranh3274 welcome to Irish politics where we agree with Isreal, support ukraine, where our right wing is communists and Socialists, and the left wing are just conservatives

@Rajj854 4 жыл бұрын

The boomer comments here are hilarious 😆

@your_host_9657 4 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@paulgibbons2320 4 жыл бұрын

Why Labour want voting booths in nursary schools.

@paulgibbons2320 4 жыл бұрын

@@liamb5546 lazy zero effort comment. Not at all like your generation.

@SinfeinersCubanDevilera 3 жыл бұрын

Brian Stanley, Sinn Féin TD and the chairman of the Dáil’s public accounts committee PAC tweeted that the Kilmichael Ambush in 1920 which killed 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division, and the Narrow Water Ambush in 1979 which killed 18 British soldiers, taught the British army the cost of occupying Ireland. Pity for everyone they were such slow learners.

@liamdoran9223 11 ай бұрын

The Guardian actually reporting this shows that you get better journalism of Ireland from outside than from within Ireland

@FATHOLLYWOODB123 3 жыл бұрын

It goes like this, the economy is growing, people are wealthy, but housing and homelessness, and waiting times at hospitals are the new top priorities, if the economy stops growing after Sinn Féin enacts its policies, then they will be voted out, if not, then they will probably have a very long time in power!

@nothuman3083 2 жыл бұрын

@@chickeninyeezes3759 legacy of occupation of a Genocidal regime of pedophiles. It's the wealthiest too in GDP , the wealth of all of eire belongs to her people

@rassawhelan6045 2 жыл бұрын

Already implementing british welfare cuts in the north , you can see where they are headed., New fine gael..

@susangavaghan 3 жыл бұрын

Well done Sinn Fein.

@williamcannon7262 9 ай бұрын

Sinn Fein are no longer a nationalist party they are Socialist internationalist party. It's important that "the youth" actually Know what they are voting for. I understand they want change but the question is wether Sinn Fein is the right direction to take.

@avibank 4 жыл бұрын

Boomers using their kids.

@mikey3666 4 жыл бұрын

🌹THE REVOLUTION IS COMING 🌹

@oglaighodomnaill6346 3 жыл бұрын

“ By ballot or gun”…………

@bobbobs4851 4 жыл бұрын

Poor Ireland. Lost. Imagine voting left or far left are your only options

@theirishempire4952 4 жыл бұрын

You dont live in Ireland so you dont know the current situation

@bobbobs4851 4 жыл бұрын

@@theirishempire4952 Yes, yes. That's how that works. Also, you dont live in the upper atmosphere so you dont understand cl1mate change.

@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine voting for public companies shills and private companies shills are your only options.

@theirishempire4952 4 жыл бұрын

@@bobbobs4851 imagine making voters angry

@grantjsimon 4 жыл бұрын

Irish Labour twice as valuable as UK Labour.

@nickthegreek8884 2 жыл бұрын

They did it cry more

@zoyazainab9944 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was Billie Eilish in the click bait🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂

@stylebender1818 4 жыл бұрын

.......Our day will come.....

@conalcochranh3274 4 жыл бұрын

Will it?

@internetual7350 4 жыл бұрын

@@conalcochranh3274 Not under Sinn Fein...

@Jim54_ 3 жыл бұрын

Sin Féin have a young and liberal voting base despite not having any green energy policy, and being Eurosceptics, two things that are VERY unpopular in Ireland. How people reconcile these factors, I have no idea. The mental gymnastics involved is baffling

@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870 3 жыл бұрын

Well, it depends if by liberal you mean they are actually liberal, or just left leaning. Because left wing euroscepticism is very common.

@rassawhelan6045 2 жыл бұрын

They stopped being a Republican party long ago. Vols never died for seats in Stormont or an internal british settlement. You wont see a united ireland as its as far away as ever.

@sammytrillo7724 3 жыл бұрын

You can't have big public spending without major public or private works to tax on, which is what the youth vote should understand and get to laboring for. You want that housing project or healthcare plan, then where's your hoover dam to account for it?

@user-df6jq6cq6y 2 жыл бұрын

Murders in power never work

@carolinebyrne9392 6 ай бұрын

NO THEY BLONH IN JAIL

@jacklewis3803 3 жыл бұрын

United Ireland!

@redpillreset1741 3 жыл бұрын

Nope' sinn fein United= 🏳️‍🌈✊🏿💯 take over of your culture. Vote irish national party. 👌🏻

@kxam2 3 жыл бұрын

@@redpillreset1741 no

@ruddyhell7800 2 жыл бұрын

Yes unite the whole British Isles once again under the Union Flag.

@dotdotdotdot6560 4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah

@pubkrocknroll 4 жыл бұрын

Marxist sinn fein

@helmikiller666 4 жыл бұрын

Zecora Rowan You say that as you sell the nation amongst globalist regime.

@p.a.5254 3 жыл бұрын

@@helmikiller666 Capitalism and Globalist Autocrats or Socialism and local worker control via soviet democracy. Take your pick. Can't have Right Wing Values and be against Globalism as Capital has a tendency to expand or crash like Icarus.

@McGregor43 3 жыл бұрын

@@helmikiller666 SF are pro-EU and therefore globalism.

@ciaran1988 2 жыл бұрын

@@McGregor43 Lol 'Global Britain was one the slogans from a lot of Brexiteers....so which is it?

@tomgreene2282 2 жыл бұрын

Pro Russian???...hardly these days .....condemned Ukraine invasion in Dail ....possibly only in Irish.