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Over on the liveblog we have figures from TV3 on first count totals… Dublin European Count First Count approx figures from TV3 – Quota is 101,000 – Mitchell on 95,000, De Rossa on 85, 000, Ryan on 55,000 MaryLou McDonald on 48,000 Joe Higgins on 50,000, Byrne on 19,000. As I Have it right now [...]

The Fianna Fáil second tier are dripping into the count centre as we speak. Sean Haughey was first – arriving about an hour ago. Pat Carey popped in a half-hour later. Mary Hanafin is the latest, she sauntered in quietly under the radar and hugged Maurice Ahern while most cameras wern’t switched on – mine [...]

Lexia has some great photos of George Lee over on her Flickr account, head over to check them out.

A preliminary Euro tally with figures from DLR, Fingal and Dublin City (excl. South Dub Co.) Gay Mitchell 24.6% De Rossa 19.7% Ryan 14.2% Higgins 13.7% Mary Lou McDonald 10% De Burca 5.4% McKenna 4.1% Byrne 4% Simons 3.2% How do we see it working out?

Alexia via her Qik is over at the RDS while we sit in blogger HQ at the D4 Court. Here is her interview with Maureen O Sullivan, victorious candidate in the Dublin Central by-election.

At 10.07am Newstalk were calling it for George Lee in Dublin South, David McCullough on RTÉ was saying it would be very difficult to beat his former colleague at about 9.45 on RTÉ radio. At present it looks like the Boy George will take the seat on the first count, he’s at 52% with over [...]

Over the weekend a blitz of new Eoin Ryan posters appeared throughout Dublin. Strikingly more independent than the first set of campaign offerings, the Fianna Fáil logo just visible in the right hand corner, the usual party colours are no more and it’s heavy on the Ryan. My first viewing this morning had me thinking [...]

Former Dublin West Socialist Party TD and Candidate in Dublin for election to the European Parliament Joe Higgins is hosting a bit of first later today.  A live online event aimed at ‘new’ media and voters with an open invite to bloggers to attend. (Full Details here). The event will be broadcast live  on his [...]

Reports reached me over the weekend of sightings of tag rugby games by canvassers in various parks in the South East Dublin area.  The story went that canvassers went from park to park in t-shirts playing matches and there were posters about and much merriment.   No match reports or sightings of new players emerging to [...]

Tom Stafford is a Fianna Fáil councillor running for election in Dublin’s North Inner City. He had a car dealership on Amien Street as I remember. His brother John was a Fianna Fáil TD in the late 1980′s and is an undertaker. Charlie Haughey loyalists to the core, the Staffords are the last people one [...]

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

This is the Seventh 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. Dun Laoghaire

Well I couldn’t keep myself from the red meat a moment longer. This is the one that will have blood on the floor and, alongside the South, has so many engaging plotlines it will likely dominate proceedings. There are four sitting MEPs, Eoin Ryan (FF), Prionsias De Rossa (Labour), Gay Mitchell (FG) and Mary-Lou MacDonald [...]

Have a listen to Pat Kenny from this morning and Vincent Browne (2, 3) from last night. He might need to tone down what comes across as a narky, smug candidate. It may be just me who picked it up though.

While I don’t have a picture as yet (any readers passing today might email one to irishelection (@) gmail.com), Lord Mayor of Dublin Eibhlin Byrne is using the Mansion house to park her promotional vehicles for her European Parliament run (the Dublin profile is forthcoming). Fine Gael aren’t happy: Catherine Byrne has written to the [...]

Someone in Fine Gael now has a video camera (!) and recorded George Lee’s acceptance speech at the Dublin South Fine Gael Selection Convention.