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I didn’t get a chance to comment earlier on the news that Mary Harney  is to seek a rule change in order to allow the Progressive Democrats to draw their leader from outside the Dail. This is likely to put Tom Parlon into the driving seat for the leadership (barring a surprise tilt from Fiona [...]

Labour/Fine Gael/Green missed out by 7 seats. Where were these 7 seats that they could have won that would have won the election. Here is 3 seats that decided the outcome.

Cork South Central – Kathleen Lynch is being joined by her brother-in-law Ciaran in the 30th Dáil. So that’s husband and wife and mother and son elected today. (Familial values in this post were earlier misappropriated – take the issue up with our Cork Representative! My Apologies! I thought he was a bit old to [...]

Just a word to say many thanks to Will and Stephen for their fantastic reporting from the Cork Counts on Mysay. We’ll deliberate later but I think we can say Mysay.com got tried out big time today and it’s only the job as they say in the Peoples Republic (that’s mega, fab, great, wonderful)

Green Party TD Dan Boyle is eliminated in Cork South Central

Wicklow could elect 3 FF TDs as it seems that Fitzgerald has gone ahead of De Burca on tallies, putting him in position to take a third FF seat. Count there in 30 minutes. Meanwhile in Cork South Central Lynch is beating Dan Boyle of Green Party by 200 before Buttimer’s 5,760 are transferred.

Our favourite candidate Morgan Stack got 116 votes. Emmm I smell Neo-con conspiracy here. Ah well in fairness he did try. Edit: His email to the Times.

Just what I caught off RTE radio.  Open to correction. Cork North West 32% Fine Gael 56% Fianna Fail 5% Labour 4% Green Cork South West Dennis o Donavan 18%Jim O’keeffe 29% SF 6% O’Sullivan FF 24% PJ Sheehan 5%

Cork NC in the mysay box Listen here Allen and Kelleher (<25%) are out in front with Gerrry Kelly and Kathleen lynch on 11% Donegal North East tallies, McLoughlin (SF – 31%) Keaveney (FF) 30% McHugh 20% (a good result from boxes outside his area) Blaney (FF) 6% McDaid (FF) 2.9% Geography doing its bit. [...]

World by Storm awaits tomorrow’s flurry, to pass the time thought, the mysay widget is getting a bit of a test out. One of the early insights comes from Knott who is in Cork East. He was asked to take part in the Exit Poll for RTE, have a listen to what he thought of [...]

Fine Gael’s outgoing TD for Cork South Central and standing MEP for Ireland South spoke to us while wrapping up his day of canvassing in Douglas, Cork. [display_podcast] Previous: Fergus O’Dowd, Eamonn Ryan, Eric Byrne, Ciaran Cuffe, Ruairi Quinn

I am lost for words. That is all Full story

[originally posted to Comin's 'N Goin's] Cork South West is the heartland of Fine Gael and has always one of the most predictable constituencies in the country.

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 [...]

Tom Raftery of Pod Leader fame has been commissioned to interview Minister of State Batt O’Keefe for a series of podcasts in the run up to the General Election.  Questions are invited here. Is this a first in terms of commissioning podcast interviews of politicians?

Great stuff, another local poll. Cork North Central is under the microscope for the Echo. It is a four-seater this year (down from five). Was a 3-1-1 but one incumbent FF is retiring so the incumbency is 2-1-1 for the four seater. The poll predicts that Fianna Fail are likely to have a pretty major [...]