I donāt know what youāre trying to say here. There was an even split of no contest in constituencies between pro and anti treaty actions. Where there was action there was 75% for pro treaty candidates.
Well in one case we can isolate a 47% vote and say that it is not evidence of a mandate and in the other we can make all manner of supposition to render a 38% vote an immutable mandate.
In one case we can disregard the impact of unopposed candidates and in the other we canāt.
Iām not asserting that there wasnāt. Iām merely pointing out that your treatment of the votes in the 1918 and 1922 elections are different. Thatās all.
Niall Collins again today ruling out in the strongest possible way any coalition between FF & FG.
He also promised in the Limerick county peoples debate that he was so sure this would not happen, that FF were so against it, that he would resign his seat if it came to pass.
A FG/FF coalition is now 4/6 with Paddy Power and this slippery bastard denying it will happen and promising it wonāt happen with every fibre of his being.