Exit polls are the snacks you shouldn’t eat between meals, but if you place any credence in them then Fianna Fáil are about to have the worst day in their party’s history.
The big winners will be… Independents. Independents would have overtaken the Fianna Fáil party to become the third-largest political grouping.
As the counts begin to come in, one very hopeful trend emerging: The fall of dynasties. Names like Haughey, like Flynn, will no longer be appearing in the Dáil. High time.
Major trends: In Dublin, Fianna Fáil voters switching to Labour, outside Dublin they’re switching to Fine Gael.
Left/right, urban/rural axis seems to be slowly taking place of old ‘civil war’ one?
Interesting-but-weird: Transfers from Sinn Féin going to Fine Gael. Again quite contrary to historical loyalty patterns.
Fun: A Christian Solidarity Party candidate (read: far right) very upset that his party logo didn’t appear on the ballot paper, and was replaced with what he describes as a ‘picture of nuts’.
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I read the Greens lost every seat they held. I understand this is worthy punishment for enabling FF’s excesses. I do, however, hope progressive environmentalism doesn’t suffer decades of neglect because of it.
Yes, I do too. I think they could have saved us a lot of pain by pulling FF away from the controls, but none of this was directly their fault. As I said elsewhere, they needed to be punished, not scapegoated. I’ll probably vote for them next election.