Jack Horgan-Jones
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Aug
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a view within the party that it is now not a case of if, but of when.
And they do point to the potential negative result for the party in both the Dublin Central by-election and in the Galway West by-election as a potential trigger for not a heave, but something of a more orderly transition.
I mean, this is the point I was kind of coming to, although just as a brief aside, it is interesting when you look into the Red Sea numbers that a lot of the growth in support for Sinn Féin seems to be coming from kind of Connacht Ulster, those kind of areas as opposed to within Dublin.
I think that the problem for Sinn Féin is not necessarily that it is plateauing, albeit as the most popular party,
It's like I can't see where the engine of growth comes from for Sinn Féin.
Like what is the strategy that an alternate leader might credibly propose to its membership?
And that is very neatly expressed in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections, where you would think that as the largest party of opposition in by-elections, where government candidates effectively never win, you would think Sinn Féin is going to be best positioned to take one or both of those seats.
But in Dublin Central, they are vulnerable, I think, most particularly to the kind of soft left opposition.
The Social Democrats candidate, their councillor, Daniel Ennis, is seen as building up a reasonable head of steam.
And if he can kind of stay in touch, then other parties of the centre-left, particularly the Greens and Labour, if they don't get into contention themselves, would transfer it to him.
So that's the kind of threat on the party's left flank.
But the squeeze, and again, this is in Jen Bray's piece in the Sunday Times, the squeeze is also coming on from the right.
So if you look in Galway West...
The former Fianna Fáil candidate or councillor down there, Noel Thomas, now with Independent Ireland, he looks to be polling quite strongly.
And he will draw from a large base of potentially disaffected Fianna Fáil votes as well.
He will also do well, you would imagine, amongst that kind of rural conservative vote.
There is an independent councillor.
candidate down there who is aligned with the kind of Noel Grealish machine.
But if he doesn't get into contention, then you'd imagine some of his vote might drift towards Noel Thomas as well.
So that illustrates that the Sinn Féin candidate down there may be struggling to stay ahead of a threat on the party's right flank.
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