My wife did say that the photo of one of the independent candidates ruled him out straight away. He ended up with 29 votes. But for some candidates it will help voters see the all-important familial … (View Post)

Reportedly the haggling has already begun on the ministries Fine Gael would get in compensation for Martin being Taoiseach throughout the coalition. Latest estimates have FF with as many as 48 TDs an… (View Post)

Gerard "The Monk" Hutch is 124 votes ahead of the last remaining competing candidate, Labour's Marie Sherlock, with 1,518 surplus votes from Fine Gael's Paschal Donohoe to redistr… (View Post)

Cavan-Monaghan first count note complete, so we have the total first preference votes, with changes on 2020. Fianna Fail 21.9% (-0.3) Fine Gael 20.8% (-0.1) Sinn Fein 19.0% (-5.5) Social Democrats 4.… (View Post)

My worry is that it's the West in general that's been exposed as bluffing. We apparently don't have the industrial capacity or funding to produce more artillery ammunition than Russia,… (View Post)