When brother turns on brother.
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Sinn Fein would need to be afflicted by an absolute earthquake not to hold their two seats, and FF and FG should both just about have enough.
As for Fianna Fáil? Well, they’ve just plain made a mess of it.
There might be some tensions in that house, you’d guess, with one sister fighting to re-elect Fine Gael and the other campaigning against it as an independent.
Stephen Donnelly status: Sweating.
The only question of interest is whether the second Healy-Rae seat, in the possession of Danny, is at risk.
“I’m sorry for the hurt that my words caused”
Paul McAuliffe won this seat for Fianna Fáil in 2020 with just under 4,000 votes. Pepper and other candidates like him won almost three thousand in the Cabra-Glasnevin ward alone in the local elections.
You’d nearly wonder if the Kremlin was full of Fine Gael supporters, all along.