(29 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dublin, Ireland – 29 November 2024
1. Close of polling station sign
2. Mid of polling station sign
3. Mid of campaign posters
4. Wide of street with campaign posters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Shane, 47, Carer:
“Back living in me ma’s house, but it’s not about me. I don’t really care, I’m comfortable there. I’m more thinking about the next generation coming up. Like what are we doing putting HAP (Housing Assistance Payment) money into a private landlord’s bank account? It’s like throwing money into the (River) Liffey. It’s madness, madness.”
6. Isou, 47, Civil Engineer arriving at a polling station with dog
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Isou, 47, Civil engineer:
“What I think is people need to be made aware of the benefits. We’re all human. We’re all the same. We’re just trying to make a life and like myself, I’m here 23 years now and represented Ireland abroad in many sailing races and contributing in the economy, society, everything.”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwyn, Medical scientist:
“Important roles like medical scientists, nurses, doctors, they’ve put a cap on the numbers even though the workload’s going up. It just seems like a bad management policy.”
9. Mid of campaign poster
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gwyn, Medical scientist:
“I think housing is kind of the root of most of the problems at the moment, a lot of people are like moving away for housing. You can’t, one of the reasons you can’t fill jobs is because people can’t afford to live in Dublin and people can’t afford to move home to the country either, if they want to, because houses are being rented out for Airbnb and stuff like that.”
11. Wide of Dublin street
12. Various of houses in Dublin
13. Wide of polling station in Stoneybatter
14. Close of Irish flag at polling station in Stoneybatter
15. Wide of houses in Stoneybatter
16. Wide of construction
17. Close of polling station signage on window
18. Wide of construction
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim, Off Licence (Alcohol Shop) manager:
“Well if the country wants to move forward, the workers have to be able to live somewhere. You can’t build houses without construction workers. Where are they going to live? We can’t have nurses and doctors if they can’t live in the city.”
20. Various of apartments in Dublin
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dublin, Ireland – 28 November 2024
21. Wide of street in Dublin
22. Close of Irish and EU flags
23. Various of campaign posters
STORYLINE:
Ireland began voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government — and will show whether Ireland bucks the global trend of incumbents being ousted by disgruntled voters after years of pandemic, international instability and cost-of-living pressures.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0700GMT), and Ireland’s 3.8 million voters are selecting 174 lawmakers to sit in the Dail, the lower house of parliament.
As in many other countries, the cost of living — especially housing — has dominated the campaign.
Ireland has an acute housing shortage, the legacy of failing to build enough new homes during the country’s “Celtic Tiger” boom years and the economic slump that followed the 2008 global financial crisis.
"One of the reasons you can’t fill jobs is because people can’t afford to live in Dublin and people can’t afford to move home to the country either," said medical scientist Gwyn.
Tangled up with the housing issue is immigration, a fairly recent challenge to a country long defined by emigration.
Polls close Friday at 10 p.m. (2200GMT), when an exit poll will give the first hints about the result.
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