Bitesize Ballot – Dublin: Ding-dongs as Gerry Hutch, right-wing radicals and a few returning big names in the mix for seatsCapital is seen as the ‘cockpit of government’, so who will claim the 49 seats available? The Irish people face a historic choice at election, says Mary Lou McDonaldFionnán Sheahan Yesterday at 03:30The ­unpredictability of where the 174 seats will go in Election 2024 is summed up by the mixed picture in Dublin. The late Fianna Fáil minister Séamus Brennan, a renowned psephologist, used to call Dublin “the cockpit of any government” as a prospective taoiseach had to perform well there to take power.

Source: Irish Independent November 08, 2024 22:15 UTC