John Downing

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506 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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The Indo Daily · Gerry Hutch says “karma” has come for Daniel Kinahan as by-election run kicks off · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

So you would expect Sinn Féin to have some sort of a strong representation here.

I suppose even regardless of candidate, it is Mary Lou Macdonald's constituency.

And then the next headline of this constituency is the Social Democrats are running Daniel Ennis, who is seen to have a very good chance.

And actually, when I spoke to former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who...

top the poll in this constituency that we're talking about for three decades and often brought in one or if not two running mates.

He actually mentioned Daniel Ennis as having a very strong chance in this election.

He would have a good eye, I suppose, on Dublin Central over the years, even though he isn't running there anymore.

So you have Danny Lennis there for the Social Democrats.

I suppose Labour are running Marie Sherlock's constituency office colleague, Ruth O'Dea, doesn't have a profile.

Marie Sherlock, when she did win the seat over Gerry Hutch, she was a senator at the time and there is a Labour vote there and she...

Got that.

And also they're very transfer friendly, particularly even from Fianna Gael and Fianna Fáil.

So you're talking about kind of a swathe of good tidings there for Labour in the last election, which I don't think will stack up for Ruth O'Dea this time around.

When I was speaking to Ray McAdam, who's now the Fianna Gael candidate in this election, he was talking about the parties that voted for him to be Lord Mayor.

So that was, I think, Labour, the Green Party.

So kind of across those different parties, he was saying that, oh, I would encourage transfers from those parties.

So he's even trying to kind of

get up on some of those transfers.

He was Pascal Donoghue's constituency aide.

So people know him through Pascal.

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