Cónal Thomas
speaker
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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But I think it's quite, you know, it may be overconfidence slightly to expect that because it's very difficult when you lose a seat to claw it back.
And we saw, we've seen that even with the Green Party here, you know, they're having a good showing, but they're not going to win the seat back that they lost in 2020, or sorry, 2024.
So that's the kind of showing that the government parties have.
Yes, definitely Ray McCadden will have hoped he did better.
He certainly was not in a pleasant mood when he came in here.
And I suppose he put putting it down to that incumbency and that Fianna Gael have been in power and in government for so long.
And that's what he's the challenge there.
But particularly with Fianna Fáil, I mean, this was...
The count staff here back in 1980, whatever, up until 2007, they may as well have phoned it in every election because they knew Bertie was coming out on top.
And I'd say the tally staff here were going, but now when tally staff here were saying Stephens, people were looking through the page to see where is this Fianna Fáil candidate's name because it's coming up so infrequently.
And it's such a turnaround from that time.
In my analysis of this, Conal, I think that vote's gone.
I think it may have been a Fianna Fáil vote back in the Fianna Fáil heyday.
It may have also been a Bertie vote.
And I think those people have moved on.
I dare to say it, a lot of them may not even be in the constituency anymore.
Politics has moved on as well a lot from maybe that constituency-heavy, localised...
work that, you know, all politics is local, and particularly in Ireland, but I think Dublin Central is a bit of an odd one.
You have politicians with national profiles certainly featuring here.
You had Pascal Donoghue, for example.
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