Irish elections today (Saturday Feb. 8)

Ireland uses ranked choice voting, so a lot of calls require going to the third, fourth, and in at least once case, seventh preference before a candidate is elected. It will take a few days to sort it all out, but it's pretty clear that the center-left parties have made big gains at the expense of the center-right governing party. It's even possible that Sinn Féin will wind up in the next governing coalition, which would be quite a shock. Also, a majority of voters apparently want a vote in the Republic and Northern Ireland on union; that may have helped Sinn Féin, or just reflect its success.

Ireland is a young country, especially for Europe, many people under 30, a huge number like 35+% .
They have slowly been indoctrinated by the Leftists teachers and professors and the country has been doing very well economically.
Doubt the trend continues, as they get further Left and population ages, it will turn to shit like everywhere else the Left is highly involved.

Yea,they aren’t rioting in France, LOL and those other tiny homogenous countries aren’t doing as well, now that socialism has had a longer time to take root, the Scandanavian countries are rethinking their Leftist policies too, their birth rates are at zero and suicide rates way higher than normal too.Socialism is indeed making those rich countries poorer but you won’t find that in the NYTIMES articles you read, hell, they were saying the Soviet Union had another 150 years at least when Reagan was telling Gorby to tear down that wall, the left was laughing at him, denying Soviet communism was finished
Canada hasn’t been socialist long enough and there is plenty of pushback too, those Socialist countries do fine as long as they have huge tarrifs on America’s goods and can still sell to America without tarrif.
The New Sherrif in Town has changed that dynamic, watch closely as our economy keeps getting better and theirs, much worse.We have been their engine, the Clinton’s and Obama’s looked the other way and actually asssisted China and the EU in stealing from us while the Never Trumpers, the Bushes and Koch’s gave up on America and just lined their Chamber of Commmerce friends pockets.
Now a guy comes along, a rich guy not trying to get wealthier but actually risking everything he has and goes up against the Chinese, Mexico and Canada and to an extent the EU and demands fair play , demands fairer trade deals and look what happens?
Our economy is best in the world and our citizens ( many whom the left hates ) are back working and the economy is buzzing.
This guy is a total American hero, he ended the gloom and doom, we don’t hear every dayon CNN anymore that low growth or no growth is the new norm, we don’t hear energy prices will keep accelerating as we run out, we don’t hear that 50% of our jobs will be lost to Robots anymore, we don’t hear that everything is terrible and we can’t do anything about it anymore.
There’s a whole new dynamic in this country, an energy, that we hVent had in a long time and the LEFT hates it.