Louise Byrne

Apologies to Minister Burke, I didn't realise.

The coffee hasn't gotten into my veins just yet.

Well, I think I'm glad I'm not in Galway in the first instance because it doesn't look like they're going to have a first count there until 6pm this evening.

So it's going to be a lot of waiting around.

But I think what

What surprised me was the fact that he was saying that Labour's Helen Ogbu and Sinn Féin's Mark Lohan seemed to be pulling kind of a similar vote because that was not the Sinn Féin expectation.

They were kind of putting all their eggs in Janice Boylan's basket in Dublin Central.

So I think if that is the case, and I think Minister Burke is right in saying that the city boxes are going to be very different to the Connemara boxes because it's a mad constituency.

It's so vast.

And even I was down there last week and trying to organise to get out canvassing with people is near impossible because you were trying to kind of get a few in.

And over the course of a day and you being Galway City at two o'clock and the next thing someone will want you in Connemara and have to.

And I mean, there's complexities not just for us trying to cover it, but also for the candidates trying to cover ground.

How do you make sure that you're meeting the people in, you know, Salt Hill, but you're also meeting them in, you know, Connemara and all these places with very different perspectives.

You know, if you talk about Galway, you talk about the city, you talk about the light rail.

If you go into more rural areas, you're talking about farming.

And then I guess just the universal kind of themes as well, the cost of living that affects everyone.

So it's difficult.

So I think it's going to be an interesting day in Galway, a long day.

A long day.

Yeah, I think that's quite likely.