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Get out the vote: Final day to register to vote in referendum

Voters have until 5pm today to get on the register if they are not already on it.

TODAY IS THE final day that it is possible to be added to the supplementary voting register in time to vote in the Fiscal Compact referendum on 31 May.

All Irish citizens over the age of 18 can register to vote and have until 5pm today to get on the supplementary register if they are not already on it.

Those already on the register can check their details in their local authority office, post offices, garda stations and public libraries.  You can also log on to the website and check your details there.

To be eligible for inclusion in the supplement to the register a person must be an Irish citizen, over 18 by polling day and must be ordinarily resident in the State although those who have returned to the State can also register.

An application for inclusion on the supplementary register can be obtained from the website, but must be signed by the applicant in the presence of a member of the Gardaí from the applicant’s local Garda station. Photographic identification may also be required.

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    Mute limofax
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    May 14th 2012, 11:41 AM

    Vote No to protect jobs and encourage investment.

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    Mute Brian Lyons
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    May 14th 2012, 12:41 PM

    I’ll be voting no because I believe incorrectly that the treaty contains something about water charges and have a vague misunderstanding that bankers have somehow wronged me.

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    Mute Stephen Kearon
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    May 14th 2012, 1:43 PM

    Voting NO will certainly damage investment, perhaps you should listen to the organisations who actually deliver investment and jobs, rather than spin from socialists and those who spent decades trying to destroy this state

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    Mute Ronala
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    May 14th 2012, 2:02 PM

    Greece will be gone from the Euro by the end of the year. Spain, Italy, Portugal and ourselves will come under massive market pressure, as the markets will look at who is next. The ECB/EU will have to either step up, defend the Euro, via massive stimulus and funding, debt write downs etc or the currency will break up.

    This treaty was dead and irrelevant when it was designed, it is not just a pathetic distraction to the financial crisis.

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    Mute limofax
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    May 14th 2012, 2:10 PM

    Sorry Stephen, you’re wrong. Voting No protects jobs and encourages investment!

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    Mute Ronala
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    May 14th 2012, 2:14 PM

    Your comment is quiet ironic Stephen, given your prominent membership of FF. Others may have tried to destroy the state, but FF were the only ones to pull it off and they and their donors profited hansomely by doing so.

    FF broke the back of the SME sector in the 50′s, the early 70′s and their global record setting collapse in the last decade.

    For people who are self employed but rely on the sweat of their brow, rather than party connections to make their living, it is best to avoid FF at all costs.

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    Mute Eoin Faz
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    May 14th 2012, 11:35 AM

    Now that Europe-wide passing of legislation has been delayed we too should delay our vote or risk falling into a trap.

    “Countries which ratify the treaty will be bound by it”
    “Countries which ratify this treaty will be obliged to put structural deficit rules into national law”
    P.7/8 of Independent Guide

    If we are the only country to vote this in as is, we will be the only ones that are stuck with it.

    I would not sign an incomplete contract anymore than a blank cheque.

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    Mute Sean O'Keeffe
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    May 14th 2012, 12:23 PM

    Vote No!
    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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    Mute Sean O'Keeffe
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    May 14th 2012, 12:36 PM

    In a nutshell, the likely consequences of exiting the Euro. Short term pain followed by growth.
    Likely consequences of remaining in. Short term pain followed by long term pain.
    http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/the-single-image-that-explains-what-happens-if-we-leave-the-euro-308879-Dec2011/

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    Mute P Wurple
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    May 14th 2012, 1:19 PM

    You know the referendum isn’t on leaving the Euro… right?

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    Mute Sean O'Keeffe
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    May 14th 2012, 1:37 PM

    Mr Gilmore is campaigning on a platform that he will rebuild Irelands economy on the back of a stable Euro. In fact, the Euro is inherently unstable and Irelands economy would be better served outside the Euro.
    “What we are doing is doing our normal business and we are campaigning for a yes vote because we have to have stability in the euro in order to build our economic recovery,” Eammon Gilmore

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    Mute Ronala
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    May 14th 2012, 2:20 PM

    The problem of the Pigs and the Euro are not going away.

    Greece has to cut to a depth 3 times greater than any country has ever done. It will ensure an economic collapse, a societal collapse.

    It and about 6 other countries are in a currency block that does not suit their economic needs, never have and never will.

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    Mute Paul Grehan
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    May 14th 2012, 1:28 PM

    NÍ HEA
    NO
    NEIN
    NON

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    Mute John Tierney
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    May 14th 2012, 9:02 PM

    When voting (NO) remember to use your own pen or permanent marker to make your choice. Pencils are used, so the mark can be erased…..if needs be. Not that FG would ever consider rigging the vote.

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