Sean Defoe
speaker
707 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Sean Defoe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sean Defoe, who's actually going to keep a weather eye on the elections right throughout the day and even tomorrow.
Sean, what are you making of all of this?
Yeah, really interesting.
What are the exceptional circumstances for Sean Cain that makes him attractive to more of the electorate than you might expect in a by-election?
I'm just looking at the field.
I mean, how many candidates are there?
One, two, three, four... 17 in Galway, 14 in Dublin.
17 in Galway.
My goodness.
How do you push your way to the top of that hill?
Okay, it is extraordinary.
And you expect, I know, the count to go on into the dead of the night or perhaps into tomorrow morning.
All right, and you'll be coming back to us later on in the programme with more detailed tallies, I suppose, more accurate tallies.
Sean Defoe, Newstalk's political correspondent.
Yes, good morning and welcome.
There's a smell of elections in the air this May 23rd.
Sean Defoe here with you for the next hour with this News Talk election special.
Ballot boxes have just opened in Dublin and Galway.
Thousands of votes spilling out onto the counting tables and hidden in those piles the fates of the 31 candidates battling to be Ireland's next TDs.
In Dublin Central, whether it's the streets of the North Inner City, out to Marylew Country in Canberra, the leafy suburbs of Glasnevin,
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