We were dead wrong

We got another one completely wrong, I suspect we're being fed bad intel here at the UL Vote for Moi HQ. The final result was

Gardiner 714

Healy 365

It would seem to us that Gardiner must have pushed the I'm mature and ready to rock straight away as I'm a postgrad card pretty hard. But that's just us guessing. There again he has run for this position twice before and perhaps that created a vibe around his ticket. The next question this poses is will he seek another mandate in March/April in order to get a full run at it, or will he end up risking the private sector in this cold climate? Anyway, the best of luck to all concerned.

New ULSU Education Officer will be...

My divining rod tells me that with only two candidates again, (what is with education and haqving 2 candidates) this one will be close. But we've made a right bags of this before and so at some point we have to realise that the voters have their likes and dislikes and heaven help those of us to go against them. so given (a) the age dynamic and other factors (b) low turnout due to it being just the one post and also (c) the unseasonal presence of 2nd years on campus, and (d) more recent exposure during a period of not screwing things up in Welfare, we're prediction a Healy victory.

Turnout to end up around the 1500 mark. And final percentages of

Healy 56%
Gardiner 44%

Please note, we've been wrong before and will be again in all likelihood.

ULSU education officer election

There is another of those interim sabbatical elections at ULSU.

Diarmuid Healy and periennal education candidate Eamon Gardiner are running, not sure of who else. Election day is Friday Nov 21st.

Please Vote for someone it is bound to help them.

Other than this we won't be covering the election as we're busy with side projects and distractions of one sort or another.