Cónal Thomas
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418 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Cónal Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you know, points for whoever guesses this, a lot of his transfers went to Ray McAdam, the Fianna Gael candidate and current Lord Mayor of Dublin, sitting Dublin City Councillor, and pushed him up the ranks.
But that's likely to be kind of the end of any good news around the Fianna Gael candidate.
So as it stands at the moment, and I suppose this is probably the way it's going to shake out in terms of one and two, even as we get closer to the end of the night, it's likely to be Daniel Ennis from the Social Democrats is going to be
the elected candidate here, followed by Sinn Féin's Janice Boylan looking like she's going to miss out.
There's about 500 to 600 votes in the difference here.
But we're seeing when you look at those ballots being opened, Conal, throughout the day here, you're seeing that Daniel Ennis is a very transfer friendly vote.
And also he'll benefit a lot from the fact that the Green Party's candidate, Janet Horner, has put in quite a stellar performance.
Now,
Now her party will say that we in the media underestimated her.
I suppose we can only go on past performance and in the last general election the Green Party were trounced for their part in the last coalition being reduced to just one TD.
But indeed their showing here has surprised
commentators and it has surprised I think some of the party even though they would like to say that they had great confidence all along and indeed you know Janet talking about the fact that the candidate Janet Horner was here this afternoon talking about how she didn't want to get pulled into I suppose controversial divisive
or negative remarks around another candidate in this constituency which has drawn much attention, Gerard the Monk Hutch and I'm sure everybody is wondering how is he doing?
He was the big story out of the 2024 general election when he ran in this constituency and he almost clinched a seat.
Now in a general election there's four seats up for grabs so it is actually quite, it's much easier to get a seat in a general election than it is in a by-election
But he ran again this time still as an independent candidate.
Didn't really change his approach all that much.
Maybe there was a little bit more social media campaigning and certainly he was slightly more open to the media, but still overall not a kind of
traditional candidate by any means.
He hasn't been in the count centre here at all this afternoon, unless he's snuck in and out without us seeing him.
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