Cool, I can let of a bit off steam here without opening another thread.
I went to vote and two elderly ladies were manning the desk. They couldn't find me for ages on their form, I pointed out my name. Then they discovered my number didn't match the one on their form..no problem though.
Was handed two voting slips and directed to a booth and then called back because one Lady had failed to notice I had a "D" next to my name.
She then consulted her book or whatever it was and decided all was well just as I commented that I am restricted in some of my voting (for being foreign). She told me to carry on to the booth and I asked, just to be sure... "so this is ok, I can vote on these two?"..and the cheeky mare said "well ofcourse you can, that's why they sent you a polling card"
Okay, so had I been American without Irish citizenship would she still have given me the European voting form because they sent me a polling card?
Little ladies behind big desks on a power trip!