http://www.thejournal.ie/election-results-2011/
fill in the news into the site !
In Dublin West we have 4 seats
The Dail has 166 seats
In order to have a majority in the Dail, the Government needs to have a majority.
This means 166 / 2 + 1 = 83 + 1 = 84 seats
But the papers and the radio shows predict that the state of the parties might end up as follows
Fianna Fail 26
Fine Gael 55
Labour 39
Sinn Fein 17
Green Party 4
ULA 3
Independents 22
Can any one party get the 84 seats needed to call a Government.
Therefore there would be more than one party in Government, we call this a coalition.
Can you make up a ruling coalition of parties,
that could go into government ?
Remember that Independents are not a party but in this case 22 individuals that can join any grouping.
Can you think of different make up of different governments we could have if the election results were as follows ..... remember that the magic number is 84
Name the Politicians in our area that are running for election
Ivan's Predictions ,,,,
Leo Varadkar
Joan Burton
Joe Higgins
Brian Leinhan
mhaul martin
finna fail
me
The election is not officially called .....
..... it will unoffically be the 25th of Feburary
2/2/2011
Yesterday the Taoiseach went to the Park, who did he see ? ___________
He got something dissolved was it
What date is the election called for ? ___________
Have you seen any election posters up on poles yet ?
Please write down the Names of 3 of the Candidates that you have seen and their political parties
Please draw a poster of a made up candidate urging people to vote for them.
There are only 7 Ministers in the Cabinet at the minute, after a whole load of Fianna Fail Ministers resigned their positions and on Sunday the Green Party and their 2 Ministers pulled out of Government.
A political party is a collection of people that share a similiar policy (ideas on how the country should be run). There are many parties in Ireland. In Ireland people who want to get elected are called candidates, those that get into the Dail are called TD's. The Party (or parties if one party does not have enough TDs) with the majority of TD's make up the Government, these politicans make a leader called the Taoiseach. They also appoint TD's to be in charge of important sections of Irish life, these TD's are called Ministers
Okay Homework before we watch the video ...
The video called The revolution will not be televised - Chavez inside the coup, will hopefully illustrate the importance of Democracy for all people.
The Cabinet is the group of ministers.
there are many seats .... how many seats in the Dail ?
for these people get nominated for election
there are many partys, these are groupings of like minded people
Left Alliance
Independents ... not a party but you might see it in elections
people interested in Politics often go on here to discuss various things about the current political situation
this site will help
http://www.teachnet.ie/kvarley/2004/
in this country candidates get nominated ....
run for election
canvass people