Irish girl Katie Taylor won her fifth European lightweight title in a row. She won her final showdown 10 -5 against two times world champion Sofya Ochigava from Russia. The finals were held over the past week in Rotterdam, Holland and Katie fought 5 times over the week and won 89 points over the 5 fights loosing just 30 points in the process.
As mentioned earlier in the blog we were due to have 3 Pre-Election polls over the last couple of days in the national press, the following table indicates the result of these polls including a poll of polls which averages out the position of each candidate and the result of the last poll on October 16th 2011
According to these figures Sean Gallagher is way ahead with Michael D Higgins in a solid second place. In order for Higgins to overtake Gallagher he would need to get about 70% of all transferrs as candidates are eliminated from the election. Currently the transfer rate is about 32% for Higgins against 20% for Gallagher, so it would appear that Gallagher should be elected as the next President some time next Friday.
Voting actually started today in the Presidential election with polling stations opened on the islands around the mainland. These stations will close later today with the voting papers transfered to the mainland and stored in Garda Stations until the count commences on Friday. On one of the islands there are 67 people registered to vote, 65 of them do not live on the island full time so there are only 2 people voting unless the weather picks up. There are high winds and torrential rain throughout the country today so to sail to islands is not the most advisable activity today.
Earlier in the blog I mentioned that Dana Rosemary Scallon had had a tyre blow out on her way home one evening. There had been up to 15 different puncture holes in the tyre which made some people think that somebody had interfered with the tyre. Following examination by the Garda technical bureau it has been found that there was no interference and the most likely cause was because the tyre was driven on while flat or with reduced inflation.
New Zealand were worthy winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup beating a gallant French side 8 points to 7 in the final yesterday in Auckland. Richie McCaw, the New Zealand captain picked up the Webb Ellis Trophy for his country for the first time in 24 years.
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| Katie Taylor with her 5th Gold Medal |
As mentioned earlier in the blog we were due to have 3 Pre-Election polls over the last couple of days in the national press, the following table indicates the result of these polls including a poll of polls which averages out the position of each candidate and the result of the last poll on October 16th 2011
Candidate
|
Last Poll
|
Sunday Business Post
|
Sunday Independent
|
Irish Times
|
Sean Gallagher
|
39
|
40
|
41
|
40
|
Michael D Higgins
|
27
|
26
|
28
|
25
|
Martin McGuinness
|
13
|
13
|
9
|
15
|
Gay Mitchell
|
8
|
6
|
8
|
6
|
David Norris
|
7
|
10
|
6
|
8
|
Mary Davis
|
4
|
2
|
3
|
3
|
Dana Rosemary Scallon
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
According to these figures Sean Gallagher is way ahead with Michael D Higgins in a solid second place. In order for Higgins to overtake Gallagher he would need to get about 70% of all transferrs as candidates are eliminated from the election. Currently the transfer rate is about 32% for Higgins against 20% for Gallagher, so it would appear that Gallagher should be elected as the next President some time next Friday.
Voting actually started today in the Presidential election with polling stations opened on the islands around the mainland. These stations will close later today with the voting papers transfered to the mainland and stored in Garda Stations until the count commences on Friday. On one of the islands there are 67 people registered to vote, 65 of them do not live on the island full time so there are only 2 people voting unless the weather picks up. There are high winds and torrential rain throughout the country today so to sail to islands is not the most advisable activity today.
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| The Tyre following the Blow Out |
New Zealand were worthy winners of the 2011 Rugby World Cup beating a gallant French side 8 points to 7 in the final yesterday in Auckland. Richie McCaw, the New Zealand captain picked up the Webb Ellis Trophy for his country for the first time in 24 years.
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| Richie McCaw receiving the Trophy |
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