How national revolution becomes local news. Hard even to find any information on the Galway West count now. Last night I had to turn on local radio, hoping that updates would break into a show featuring covers by showbands of hits by other, better showbands. And that bizarre dancing-on-the-radio céili music with a piano. You remember? Where they put extra emphasis on the end so that everyone knew when to stop. I swear I had no idea anyone broadcast stuff like that anymore. It’s a grotesque little treasure.
But all I found was that the recount was ongoing. It’s still ongoing this morning. Rumours fly. Some say there will be another recount, though how they can make a rumour of that while there is a recount actually in progress is beyond me. Some say people are taking down their posters so that they’ll still be good for another election in a few months. Some are saying that Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin are going to reunite and stage a coup. OK, I basically just started that one.
At the moment the only reliable source of updates is one communications student called Foxkehs on Twitter. It appears though that Healy Eames will be eliminated, and after that it’ll be between Kyne (FG) and Connolly, Kyne tipped by the tightest of margins.
If there isn’t another recount… This one really is going all the way, isn’t it?
3 replies on “It’s So Tight It Hurts”
Whoever Foxkehs is (and I gather that she’s a media/comms student), she’s doing a brilliant job. Would have been lost without her this weekend…
Well said, RTE have been desperately slow with the updates. At one point on Saturday they spoke to Frank Fahy while the counts were being read out in the background. I’m sure most of us would rather have listened to the count. I’d be completely lost if not for the twitter updates from @Foxkehs
Well said, RTE have been desperately slow with the updates. At one point on Saturday they spoke to Frank Fahy while the counts were being read out in the background. I’m sure most of us would rather have listened to the count. I’d be completely lost if not for the twitter updates from @Foxkehs