Sean Defoe

Also on the line, Marie Sherlock, Labour Party TD for Dublin Central, who obviously in that dramatic fashion beat out Gerry Hutch in the general election.

Marie, how do you see today going in Dublin Central?

It looks to be again a pretty straight shootout between the Sock Dems and Sinn Féin.

OK, Marisha, thanks for joining us there.

On the turnout, briefly, we've got 40%-ish in Dublin Central, 44.5% in Galway West.

And people are saying, oh God, that's terrible.

It's actually better than I think a lot of people thought would be, because if you look through the 2010s when there was by-elections, the average drop from a general election to a by-election was 24 points in terms of turnout.

It's only about 12 in each of those.

So, yeah, not great still, but it's better than some.

Conor, I suppose final thoughts on where you think both of these are going.

Can Sean Cain pull it off?

And if you were to pick between Janice Boylan and the Sock Dems, if you were to put a bit of money on it,

My ring is a good friend, but I think he's been a tad optimistic about the prospects for kind.

Unfortunately for the government parties that as you go on in the counts and you boil and distill all the transfers down, they tend to go left.

And in fact, the most notable feature of the fuel protest and indeed the initiation of this government, the big controversy about how the speaking rights would be allocated.

You're seeing a very strong influence.

unity amongst the left-wing parties in Canada.

They know now who to transfer to.

It's not the case of the kind of, that fragmentation has led to sort of weirder transfer patterns.

In fact, there's a very big consolidation of left-wing transfers in these camps.