Éamon Ó Cuiv

Well, you have to understand, Cillian Cain lives in the rural area to the east of the city, and they're going to be the last boxes to be tallied.

Now, it won't make a huge difference, but it will boost his percentage a bit.

So we wouldn't have expected him to get very, very strong votes in the city or

to the west of the city because it doesn't come from that area.

And one of the challenges here as compared to a general election is you can only put one candidate up.

In a general election, you place your candidates in a different way.

But he certainly won for the future.

Well, yeah, it was an independency, but independent Labour.

And there is this tunnel of clay, and I was looking at transfers between the city candidates in elections from the left, and they tend to go 66% to each other.

So there is quite a swill around of votes in the city.

Now, we've only got the city boxes, so we haven't got the...

the connemara boxes but it looks as if kind is in a strong position but if you add all the left parties they're still in in the race the problem that no thomas has faced previously and according to your report there is facing again i checked of all the transfers in the general election he got 12 percent all right so he's not transfer friendly

Well, that's what the way it was in the general.

Your commentator there said that that appeared to be the same way this time.

If that turns out, he'll get a very high first preference, but he might fade towards the end.