Voting takes place this Friday, 29th November
Because trust has been lost, simple promises to “fix” the immigration system will not work.
At a stroke, and for no good reason, the party has just made itself untrustworthy to many of those who voted for it. It is a calamitous error of political judgement.
There will always be those who put their names on a ballot paper out of ego, or spite, or a delusional belief that they can win simply by so doing.
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.
Ordinary people have seen how a contemptibly unarmed and pathologically liberal, lawyer-governed EU has failed them and their countries.
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.
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.