Dearbhail MacDonald

What should do about nothing is the headline on its coverage of that by-election in Dublin Central University.

beside an image of failed candidate Gerry Hutch with his hands raised in a boxing pose.

Across the Irish Sea the Observer leads with a cracking story which asks whether the CIA poisoned goalkeeper Gordon Banks to sabotage England in the 1970 World Cup.

Author Gabriel Gatehouse who has written a book on the conspiracy theories that brought Donald Trump to power says that he initially thought the political football story was a conspiracy theory but now he thinks it could be true.

The coming storm I think is a

the name of Gabriel Gatehouse's book.

I'll have to go have a little look at that.

With me in studio, doing all the hard work so you don't have to, are Dan Mulhall, former Irish ambassador, Gillian Sherratt, disability advocate, Ashley Maloney, political reporter with the Irish Independent, and Gerard Howland, Irish Times columnist and public affairs consultant.

You're all very, very welcome.

So looking over this weekend, the Dáil lost one Fine Gael TD, Pascal Donoghue, and one left-wing independent, Catherine Connolly.

And in our infinite wisdom, Irish voters look to set to return one left-wing party TD, Daniel Ennis of the Sock Dems.

And although counting is still underway, it looks likely that they'll return one government TD, Fine Gael's Sean Cain.

Ashton, you were there yesterday at RDS.

I suppose we really should start with the winners, first of all.

But a very transfer friendly one too.

And look, if you look at Danny Lennox... I don't know if he will be pushed out in a general election.

And so it has to be...

just conventional wisdom that government parties do not do well in by-elections, but Simon Harris might be very happy.

Just before we come on air, I think Noel Thomas was still in the lead, but it looks like Sean Cain could get across the line on transfers.

A good day out for Fine Gael, if that's the case.