Yes but the increase in Donegal and Monaghan isn’t coming a huge surge in support, instead a combination of slight support and a change to constituency boundaries. In Louth they’ve had a surge in support thanks to a high profile candidate moving into the constituency.
They were unlucky not to have about six of those seats in 2007 and the Adams factor is giving them the other two.
I’m surprised they don’t do better in Limerick City given the stronger socialist Left support that is normally evident down there.