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This month Anthony O\u2019Brien went out on campus to ask some questions for An Focal<\/i>. With the 2016 General Election expected within a month, we wanted to know how many UL students knew about it and if they planned to vote.<\/p>\n

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1. Do you know about the General Election coming up in Ireland?<\/i><\/p>\n

2. Do you plan to vote?<\/i><\/p>\n

3. Do you mind if I ask who you intend to vote for?<\/i><\/p>\n

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\"1.<\/p>\n

Colin Brannan, Masters in Creative Writing<\/p>\n

1.Yeah<\/p>\n

2.Yeah<\/p>\n

3. I haven’t decided yet, Probably Independents<\/p>\n

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\"2.<\/p>\n

Avril Horan, 2nd Year PME in Languages<\/p>\n

1. No<\/p>\n

2. I didn\u2019t know about it, so no<\/p>\n

\"3.<\/p>\n

Thomas McLoughin, 3rd Year in Pharmacutical and Industrial Chemistry<\/p>\n

1.Yeah<\/p>\n

2. I do<\/p>\n

3. Haven\u2019t decided yet. Fianna Fail maybe<\/p>\n

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\"4.<\/p>\n

Austin Duignan, 1st Year Medical Student<\/p>\n

1. I do yeah<\/p>\n

2. If I\u2019m around yeah<\/p>\n

3. I\u2019m not sure yet. I\u2019ll weight it up<\/p>\n

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\"5.<\/p>\n

Niamh McKenna, Final Year in Liberal Arts<\/p>\n

1. I have a fair idea of it, but I\u2019ve yet to register<\/p>\n

2. Well I have the registration form printed off<\/p>\n

3. No idea yet, I have to do some research<\/p>\n

\"6.<\/p>\n

Sanobar Fahir Nehmin, 1st Year PhD in Optical Sensors<\/p>\n

1. No, I don\u2019t know about it<\/p>\n

2. No, because I\u2019m not from Ireland, I\u2019m not an Irish citizen<\/p>\n

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\"7.<\/p>\n

Shane McNamara, 2nd Year Masters in Education<\/p>\n

1. Yeah, I did<\/p>\n

2. Yeah, I plan to vote<\/p>\n

3. Not sure yet, undecided so far. Probably Fine Gael though<\/p>\n

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\"8.<\/p>\n

Padraig Leahy, 3rd<\/sup> Year in Business Studies<\/p>\n

1. Yes, I\u2019m quite aware of it<\/p>\n

2. I plan to<\/p>\n

3. I plan to vote for Fianna Fail<\/p>\n

\"9.<\/p>\n

Patrick Laheesh, Final Year in Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n

1. I don\u2019t know about it<\/p>\n

2. I\u2019m actually in my final year, so I\u2019m extremely busy with my projects, and need to focus<\/p>\n

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Edmund Kennedy, 4th<\/sup> year in Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Yes I did, someone told me<\/p>\n

2. I do if I have the time to get home to my local constituency<\/p>\n

3. I don\u2019t know at the moment, I\u2019ve been too busy with final year stuff to pay\u00a0attention to it<\/p>\n

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Se\u00e1n McKillen, 3rd<\/sup> year PhD in History<\/p>\n

1. Yeah, I\u2019ve heard about all the potential election dates<\/p>\n

2. Of course<\/p>\n

3. I actually don\u2019t know, I always fly towards the Independents but there\u2019s so many types of them now. Limerick will be hotly contested. I think I probably lean towards the Social Democrats at this stage<\/p>\n

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