Fionnán Sheahan

give you a preference, whether that's a one or two, a three or four or five.

John, there's a curious one here in Galway.

People talk about the demographics there.

It is that combination of urban city and rural Connemara.

And you have the Gaeiltacht area there and a strong tradition there.

The Sinn Féin candidate not having what we would regard as a good Caidán Gaeilge.

Does that matter?

Yes.

I'm not saying... This is Mark Lohan?

Yeah.

A former one-time co-opty councillor.

But again, Sinn Féin are flying high in the polls at a time of great dissatisfaction with the government.

It's quite an open contest in Galway West.

But let me just talk about one candidate in particular, because you were talking about the disaffection, anti-establishment, the fuel protests and so on.

Noel Thomas who is the Independent Ireland candidate I mean the wins are in his favour are they?

There was five seats, yeah.

So we'll see what the fuel protest counts for when it comes to the ballot box.

Yes.

Okay, Aisling Maloney and John Downing, thank you very much.

I'm Finan Sheehan, and today's episode of the Indo Daily was produced by Dave Hanratty, researched by Philip Cowman, with sound design by Adam Shanahan.