Sean Defoe

I find it hard to believe, but I'll put it on the record here now, just in case they turn out to be right.

There we go, against your best wishes.

Well, we're going to be crossing to Galway West next.

Lynne Boylan, Kino Callaghan, Craig, you

Thanks a million for joining us this morning.

You are very welcome back.

Happy by election day to all who celebrate.

I'm joined in studio now by Louise Byrne, Irish examiner, political correspondent, Conor Lenehan, foreigner, Fianna Fáil minister and Stephen O'Leary, founder of Olytico to talk Galway West.

Thank you to all of you for joining me.

Before we get into the weeds on Galway, Conor, I mean, 100 years of Fianna Fáil, you were at the Ardèche.

What last week was it?

And it looks as though the party could well finish in single digits.

Yeah, I think it's not going to be a good day, I'd imagine, for any of the government parties, with the exception, perhaps, of a slight possibility that Sean Cain might win it for Fine Gael in Galway.

So I think, broadly speaking, certainly for the government parties, it won't be a good day.

with one potential exception, as I say, of Sean Cain, won't be a good day for Fianna Fáil.

And obviously it's going to lead to a lot more thinking on the party's part in relation to the leadership of the party.

Because clearly, you know, if you end up, as predicted here, in single digits in one constituency, Dublin Central, and you end up in just barely making double digits, 10% in Galway, that's really not where Fianna Fáil should be in electoral terms facing into a general election in a few years' time and local elections beforehand.

It did seem to strike me last weekend that, you know, you were celebrating 100 years and all the achievements of Fianna Fáil and the massive electoral success of the past.

And that yet it was kind of a muted response.

A lot of people I spoke to said, oh, sure, Cillian Keane is only 25.