Gerard Howlin

But Daniel Ennis obviously never really in that kind of a spotlight before.

And the media scrum then ensued.

And, you know, Holly Kearns herself said it was quite an emotional day.

And, you know, you could see Daniel Ennis certainly, you know.

the Director of Elections.

Exactly.

Well, this will be the question if they can keep two seats in Dublin Central, which I don't think they can.

But like, look, this is their day, their moment, their victory.

Europe for Gavin?

Potentially, and they didn't run very convincingly in Europe in the last European elections with Sinead Gibney in Dublin.

Now, she ultimately got a doll seat, but that didn't go well for them, that campaign.

So maybe Gary Gannon will be the man with the plan for Dublin, I suppose, in the next time around.

Certainly, they'll probably be looking that way.

There hasn't been any official line.

If that's the sense they're saying, give us a chance to kind of soak up the victory.

for today but essentially Daniel Ennis if you look at them on paper him and Gary Gannon are very similar they both played football together you know they're both fellas in their 30s nearly 40 you know from kind of similar areas in Dublin have similar backgrounds and so you know that's who the Social Democrats chose to kind of maybe follow that line of personality in this election and ultimately it worked for them and I mean you cannot but put down this win for the Social Democrats

to the popularity of Holly Kearns.

You can't look beyond it.

And even in their campaign strategy, she was on his posters.

They were pushing her as much as nearly him on social media videos.