Fionnán Sheahan

But nonetheless, we have a by-election.

He was the last man standing in terms of candidates running for that who were unsuccessful.

What are his chances here?

Somehow can't see that people who were saying that they wanted Maria Steen to be on a ballot paper are going to suddenly be turning around and voting for Gerry Hutch.

To be fair to both parties there in that regard.

So not Gerry Hutch.

Who then, Aisling?

What are we looking at in terms of when it comes down to the finishing hurdles of this contest?

Janice Boylan did run in the general election pretty miserable performance.

Yeah, on the previous occasion, again, had she run, it was one of those seats that Sinn Féin left behind in 2020.

Mary Lou had the best part of one and a half seats.

So she would have been a TD had she run and so on and so forth.

But she didn't.

They said she runs 18 months ago and wasn't anywhere near.

And then you're looking at Janine Charette, who is obviously a campaigner on health service issues and scoliosis as a result of the very awful passing of.

of her son, Harvey Morrison.

And she was in effect becoming the kind of the parachute candidate of the party leadership.

But that came awry at the party convention where they stuck with the local candidates.

And Sinn Féin have long and very often been criticised for not having democratic structures in place, the party hierarchy and the men in grey suits deciding who candidates were.

In this case, there was a democratic convention.