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When Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair last summer, he was hit by the floods and then the foot and mouth outbreak — and went up in the polls. Brian Cowen might need a similar trend over the next couple of months. With Lisbon and the economy already looking like the hot potatoes of [...]

With all the weighty constitutional matters of the week, something on a lighter note: UK foreign secretary David Miliband says that an unnamed foreign minister told him during the EU ministerial in Slovenia last week that he had lost his bags in transit at Heathrow T5.  The media seem to think that it was a [...]

In a case that could prove very interesting, Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy has had over £1.5 million worth of assets frozen and the Times Reports that there may well be £15 million worth of bills accruing. ‘Slab’ Murphy is a huge figure on the Republican landscape, described by Liam Clarke in the Times as “Chief of [...]

The report of the 2007 Consituency Commission is out, some would say a little bit too late but how and ever. Kerry is to remain split, with Kerry South a 3 seater while Kerry North joins to West Limerick in also remaining a 3 seater. Dublin Euro is a 3 seater, Dun Laoghaire is a [...]

Noel Dempsey has confirmed that plans for a new port in North Dublin at Bremore, south of Dundalk will be given the go ahead. This was flagged before by the PDs in their plan to redevelop the port area of Dublin City. If the new port ultimately replaces the current port in Dublin City, what [...]

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.

FG Mairead McGuinness concedes in Louth… so no second seat there for Fine Gael… Also Harry is calling Meath East two FF, which I’m guessing would see the previously unfancied Tommy Byrne oust the long term favorite Dominic Hannigan. 

huge vote management for FF working well
Kirk 19.6
Ahern 19.07
Morgan 14.62
O Dowd 13.72

Fine Gael’s outgoing TD for Louth spoke to us from a cavalcade of canvassers currently running through mid-Louth.

It is interesting to see how the last few weeks of campaigning play out in local polls. With attaching health warnings comes today’s snapshot into Louth for the Drogheda Indo. It is a four seater again this time out. At the head of the pack is Foreign Affairs Minster Dermot Ahern on 22% (down 4% [...]

Michael Reade presents the Loost Talk show on LMFM. He is hosting debated between the candidates of Meath East Louth. He is hosting these debates on his site at loosetalkmicheal.com.
Today, (Independent) AJ Cahill, Candidate for Meath East, (Sinn Fein ) Councilor Joe Reilly, Candidate for Meath West and (Fine Gael) Regina Doherty, Candidate [...]

Speaking on the Week in Politics (about 3 minutes in ) about the lack of selection meetings in some constituencies and Mairead Mcguinness joining of the election in Louth Cllr Jim D’Arcy said.
The Taliban element of my team felt it was going to be tougher now to achieve our objectives.
Has Mairead Mcguinness being placed [...]

McDowell lays into Fine Gael. Many of his points have been raised here on Irish Election, maybe he reads us. If so, how ya doing Michael. However one point he raises that caught my eye was this:
Fine Gael may take comfort from Mairead McGuinness returning from Brussels to contest a Dáil election. But such a [...]