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Amidst the plethora of “2006-in-review” articles populating today’s papers, there is one very interesting piece in the Tribune. The way our electoral system works makes polls slightly unhelpful—ignoring particularity within constituencies and also the nature of transfers—but the Tribune have taken a look across the most contested constituencies to attempt to predict the likely election [...]

News this evening that the long Mitchell presence in the Dail will end next year with Gay’s decision to pursue his MEP career rather than run again as a TD. FG sound optimistic that they can hold the seat with Catherine Byrne, but that still leaves Labour with a battle to get their second seat, [...]

The second and final part of the interview Eric Byrne did with Irish Election. Part 1 is here. The last three questions have been asked in the comments elsewhere. IE.com: Slightly connected, business and the private sector make a great deal of noise about tax levels, so much so that Pat Rabbitte suggested that Labour [...]

Part 1. Eric Byrne is a Labour Councillor and Candidate for Dublin South Central in 2007. He blogs here. IE.com: Eric, thanks for taking the time to talk to us. First of all, your running in Dublin South Central next year, how do you fancy your chances? Is there a better platform for Labour success [...]

Irish Election has just finished doing an interview with Cllr Eric Byrne, Labour candidate for 2007 in Dublin South Central. It’s going to be posted in three parts on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week once I get some time to do the editing.