Campaigns
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.
Election 2024
Election 2024
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.
Manifesto
Father Ted skits abound
Locals resist
Merchant’s Quay
“The more turnout goes above 49%, the worse for the big parties. The lower it is, the worse for independents and small parties.”