Gerard Howlin
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And the same can be said for their candidate in Galway West.
early out, but actually could be showing promise.
And came across as a very credible candidate, even though doesn't have all that much, you know, experience or, you know, many years behind them in politics, you know, it comes across very credible.
And so, yeah, you can't help but put it down to Holly's popularity.
I'm sure Mary Lou MacDonald was looking on in envy when she saw the reception that Holly Kearns got and the reception that Mary Lou got when she walked into the RDS was nothing in comparison.
And there were very tough questions from the media in relation to her leadership.
Does that pull our politics away from being more hyper-local, though, then, if you have larger constituencies?
Do you think you would have gotten maybe better transfers because of your work on disability?
Like, I wonder, would you from other, you know, because the Social Democrats talk a lot about some of those issues, same with the Greens and Labour.
Would you think you would have gotten better transfers than Sinn Féin did in this time around?
Yeah, and this is kind of, you know, when you're analysing an election and any political analyst or whatever will be looking at what's happened before and what trends can you look at to find similarities.
And I suppose conventional wisdom would say that where there is dissatisfaction with the government, that it would be directed towards the main opposition party.
Clearly, that hasn't materialised in a powerful way towards Sinn Féin because they're the main opposition party.
So it's gone in other ways and it's fractured, as we mentioned.
So that assumption is looking weaker with every election.
As it goes, maybe that dissatisfaction goes to the right in some cases and to the left in others.
And that's something that even when I was out on the canvas with Daniel Ennis, like we go out and write colour pieces on what they're saying on the doors.