#HomeToVote.
We like to give out about the candidates running for election on occasion, but it’s important that Irish people eligible to vote exercise their democratic right to do so and get to the polls today.
The polls have been open from 7am this morning and plenty of people have been out to vote around the country already.
It has been heartening to see that Irish people living abroad who are still eligible to vote recognise the importance of doing so and have been coming home in great numbers to exercise that right, as has been evident with the use of the #HomeToVote hashtag on Twitter.
Once I vote ,I am going to find and murder a chicken fillet roll. They don't exist in the UK. #ge16 #HomeToVote
— jc_ie (@jc_ie) February 26, 2016
Early start to ensure I'm #HomeToVote #GE16 pic.twitter.com/5eDuTR95nF
— Meg Stapleton (@staplemeg) February 26, 2016
THIS PLANE HAS PROPELLERS!! Too early to be awake 3+ hours but sure has to be done! #HomeToVote pic.twitter.com/FzLu1eLzPh
— Aoibheann (@Aoibh) February 26, 2016
In case of celebration, break (out) glass #HomeToVote @Fiona_Kildare pic.twitter.com/cXUb0kfqre
— Conor O'Loughlin (@conorlocky) February 25, 2016
Taking the boat #HomeToVote again tomorrow. Cheapest flights are £180, unsurprisingly most Irish in london are not: https://t.co/lI4NxYc9Ev
— Dylan Haskins (@diylan) February 25, 2016
Just leaving #LGW to get #HomeToVote Many others? #GE16
— Doireann de Buitléar (@Doireanndeb) February 26, 2016
1: ar ais abhaile le vóta #HomeToVote #GaelVota #GE16
2: ar ais go BÁC d'Ard Fhéis an Chonartha. #AFC16
Lá fada. pic.twitter.com/pVJSrrDNS7— Aedrean Ó Dubhghaill (@Aedraen) February 26, 2016
Travelled from the UK to Ireland yesterday for the election. So excited to be #HometoVote
— No Mauvaise Foi❄ (@nomauvaisefoi) February 26, 2016
Others, meanwhile, aren’t travelling quite so far, but they have the right idea…
On the road to Laois to vote, does this mean I can use the #HomeToVote hashtag?
— Brian Ramsbottom (@TheOneRam) February 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/KateDoughan/status/703130135763951617
Great to see.
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