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This is the Eight and last in a series of posts looking at who would or would not keep their seats if an election was called now. With not much  local polling to go on this is entirely my opinion and probably wrong. If you have any ideas on it please drop a comment. Dublin South West

The Oireachtas has today launched a detailed profile based on the 2006 Census of all the constituencies in the country. The information is quite interesting and comprehensive and details all 42 constituencies in the country.

Going into 3rd count: Fitzgerald FG 4532 Gogarty Greens 4123 Harney PDs 4950 Keating Indp 2701 Moriarty FF 4200 Spain SF Tuffy Labour 4145 Moriarty’s elimination will put Harney over the line.

The Irish Times reports from her campaign launch last night in Dublin Mid West.  There are a couple of smart remarks that spring to mind on this cool, chilly morning in response to some of Harney’s utterances.

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 [...]

I would like to thank Mr Gogarty for taking my questions. A few months ago, the Green Party started its 50 Steps program where you would release fifty policies on education on the run up to the election. It was going well for a while with roughly one a week. However since step nine on [...]

The phenomenon of parachute candidates is one that many think unique to Irish politics given our multi-seat constituency system (which no matter how much moaning is done about it means that blogs like this one would not be half as exciting!) (I know that several UK Conservative and Labour MP’s have parachuted (by hundreds of [...]