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At the least it seems Sinn Fein are hoping to pick up 6 additional seats in this election. Mary Lou McDonald reckons they can pick up seats in Donegal (not sure if one or both), Sligo-North Leitrim, Cork North Central, Waterford and Wexford. She also suggests seats in Dublin (well she would) though not specifying [...]

The PD’s have always relied on the fact that they are strong in certain constituencies and not in others. But to their credit they avoided overtly being Jackie Healy Rae sticking to their free market credentials. Alas  with McDowell pulling a Healy Rae over the Poolbeg incinerator are they any different?

In a prime piece of silliness, Dublin South East candidate Lucinda Creighton has attacked Fiona O’Malley for ‘racist language’: Fine Gael Dáil candidate in Dublin South East, Cllr. Lucinda Creighton, has today (Friday) condemned the statement made by Progressive Democrat Energy spokesperson, Fiona O’Malley TD, that she wants to make Irish people the “Wind Arabs [...]

Q: What do these two things have in common? A: They’re both in the news today for the same reason. Two short quotes. The first one is from the list of motions for the Progressive Democrats‘ national conference today:

John Gormley, Green spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Defence, Health & Children, continues his sterling work on his favourite topic. No, not Foreign Affairs, Defence, Health or Children. No, Michael McDowell.

A study for FF by the Ogra branch seems to confirm what has been common knowledge for a while; “Reports this morning said the study in the Dublin South East constituency suggested that up to 15,000 people were on the register despite being dead or no longer resident in the area.It also reportedly found that [...]