This sort of thing is going to vary by constituency, but in a geographically large constituency like Cork South-West what tends to happen with multiple candidates is that they will work different par… (View Post)

Sadly malc, some of us no longer have grannies to sell. I'm more than eight years a grandorphan. (View Post)

Is the Bank of England's role in setting interest rates actually codified in statute, or is it simply a decision Gordon Brown took that everyone has stuck with since? I think the difference in B… (View Post)

So, like you say, if a party tries to restrict voter choice by standing fewer candidates then it risks losing out. There's quite a history of that in different ways in Irish politics. The curren… (View Post)

Also, I get the impression that the counts in Ireland are taking longer because politics in Ireland is also becoming more fractured, so there are more candidates and it takes more rounds of transfers… (View Post)