Daly’s close associate and colleague, Mick Wallace, is also in a dogfight to hold his seat in the Ireland South constituency, where counting is at a much less advanced stage
For the remaining right wing candidates, the story of the count is the split vote.
Natural justice should presume that the voter was trying to cast a vote, not that the voter was trying to spoil their vote
It is difficult – but by no means impossible – to see such a scenario unfolding.
A general election is coming in short order.
Irish politics will continue to be much more left wing than it should be, based on how people actually vote.
Councillor Steenson?
Sinn Fein will spin a disastrous result as good news.
In an election like this, it may take days for the full results to be known.
For the rest of us, and indeed for people genuinely sympathetic to Mr. Burke, the very worst thing we can or should do is indulge this self-destructive behaviour.
Up until relatively recently, a politician in Ireland could watch the 6 and 9 news on RTE and get a broadly reliable sense of the news the country was seeing, and how, therefore, to calibrate their message.
“The more turnout goes above 49%, the worse for the big parties. The lower it is, the worse for independents and small parties.”