There’s a Fianna Fail seat in Waterford. The other Fianna Fail candidate Eddie Mulligan has had his own travails over the past few days with the drip feed of information on his business affairs. There are rumbling over the source of all those leaks.
Fianna Fail will get a seat, Cullinane will hold his seat. Fine Gael will get a seat, probably Geoghegan keeping Dungarvan blue after John Deasy’s retirement. Last seat a free for all between the Greens, Matt Shanahan (the hospital campaigner), John Pratt of Labour and FF & FG for a 2nd seat.
Here’s the most recent offering on the travails of Eddie Mulligan.
Sorry typo, meant to say Cullinane. He’ll hold his seat comfortably. His wife, or possilby his ex wife would seem to be under pressure in Carlow/Kilkenny.
Butler is as poor a TD as there’s been in Waterford. As a TD for one of the most depressed constituencies in the country she has made it her priority to seek better regulation of tattoos and intimate piercings.
She is, I’m not sure she’s done enough to hold on. Malcolm Noonan will go very close. I know FF are pushing for the third seat in Carlow but I’d be interested to see how hard John McGuiness’ team will actually work at this. I think he will transfer heavily to Malcolm
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out for Eddie Mulligan. I had a look at that ODCE report from 2017 last nigh and there are only between five and ten people with an outright disqualification that year. If you look at the name directly below Eddie’s you might conclude that prospects of getting elected in the South East have been done no harm at all with this kind of news.
She showed herself to be thick as shit during the 8th referendum campaign. I recall her sneering at and interrupting the likes of Professor Peter Boylan during TV debates her opponents were trying to make nuanced points in a reasonable way.
I think it was a prudent budget in the circumstances. Do you think otherwise?
I don’t think there is any doubt that voters do not value prudence. The latest IT poll as to what voters consider important would reinforce that in terms of the current election. Again, do you think otherwise?
Yeah but people don’t see that. They just see free money. We are in danger of repeating the mistakes made during last property bubble As parties try to buy an election with sound bite policies.