Yeah - and that sort of noise already coming out of Cowen (who has suddenly been found after a month on the missing list). FF may call Mary-Lou on her “coalition of the left” craic. The numbers aren’t there unless they assemble the support of near every party and independent apart from FF/FG.
These next few hours could decide the Taoiseach. If FF somehow ended up with equal to or less than SF, then it has to be Mary Lou.
Sf are in a win win whatever way you look at it. They can command a lot of the senior ministries if they do business with ff. My guess is they’ll enter into a month of negotiations, declare them a failure and run 60 candidates in another election. They could get up on 55 seats and will be in position to do business with the greens, labour and possibly sock dems.
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Yeah. A huge loss. She is a charisma free zone which doesn’t help but it was always a marginal Socialist seat even in Joe Higgins hay day.
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Sinn Fein should just stand back for a few days and watch FF tear itself asunder.
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Haughey is after getting a massive transfer off PBP 
Looks safe now
Fingal recount. What is going on. I suppose technically Mulligan could overhaul Smith but I make it that there are only 225 votes left in play and the gap is 170.
I wonder that myself. I know he’s the Lenihan heir but surely that crew and corps voters are dying off
A top, top politicial activist. More integrity in her g- string than FFG have in total
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It’s Meath people that are careful with their money.
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Off Heney. PBP transfers next. Haughey does look safe now though.
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Was it not off Heney his FF running mate?
Good rate of transfer from his running mate sees Haughey get to within 1400 of the quota but there are no more transfers coming to him you’d imagine.
If you saw the crew around him at the vote, you’d say that’s exactly what’s happening
Nevermind, the RTE website led me astray. I was wondering what the fuck was going on
Coffin dodgers.
The fix is in.
I saw them, it’s like they grew him in a lab or something
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I think the PBP transfers will push Lyons onto about 8k and over the top of Healy, who would be eliminated.
Healy would have to push AOR, COC and Lyons ahead of Haughey. He might push two of them ahead but not three.