Dearbhail MacDonald

Because one of our listeners, Gerard, says, anyone who says immigration in Dublin Central wasn't an issue is wrong.

The Hutchins-Steenson vote proved that.

The Hutchins-Steenson vote was up, which it was, on the general election.

Official Ireland and mainstream media, it says, Ben, seem to be living in a parallel universe.

Gillian, you were writing about, you know, you were meeting people on the ground, you were holding roundtables.

What were the kind of issues that you were picking up?

Because it is communities, including the north inner city, that have been, I suppose, at the forefront of...

those real sort of blocks, whether it's housing, whether it is access to infrastructure, those things.

I mean, what do you think is fuelling what many of the papers are saying this morning could be an anti-establishment wave?

Yeah.

Can I ask you, Aisling, just one of our listeners says the question for the SOC Dems, I love when they do the work for you.

The question for the SOC Dems to answer is, will they go into government after the next general election?

Because it is easier in opposition.

We should all be.

But even when you look at the vote left, transfer left in Galway West, are voters going to be much more tactical in the future to get the shape of government that they want?

Or what do they want?

What is this telling us?

You go the whole way down.

Can I ask you, just before we go to the break, as a former ambassador to many places, including the UK, what lessons do they have to learn from our system of government and that fracturing of the two-party system when you look across the Irish Sea?

Yeah.