Sean Defoe

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The Pat Kenny Show · Count day! Dublin Central and Galway West By-Election with Sean Defoe · 23 May 2026 podcast

the combined left-wing independent type, they'll get a fair share of them.

But it could be a cliffhanger in both constituencies.

I think Gary Gannon, I know Gary very well, and I have talked to him a lot in the DAW when I meet him, and he'd been predicting this result for the Social Democrats for quite a long time.

And one of the things that I would say...

that stands in their favour, which is sometimes not analysed in the coverage, is that the Social Democrats, as I understand it, have a councillor in each of the ward areas here.

And that's a huge thing to have going into an election.

Because if you're covered in all of the ward areas, you have a kind of reach where it wouldn't be normally possible.

And as you know, most TDs don't actually...

put much effort into biolectrics because they're afraid that they might end up having themselves usurped.

But in fairness to Gary Gannon, he put huge work into this.

Well, that matches onto social because what you then get is this, again, network effect.

So having those representatives in each of the ward, it's not just about the people on the ground.

It's also the social amplification effect.

Each of those individual people have got their own social accounts.

They've got their own social teams.

So what that does is collectively it raises up the profile on social of the one candidate that's running.

So, yes, you get the benefit in terms of how you canvass and that local representation, but it transfers online too.

So very, your brief final predictions is going to be the social sweep of the SOCDEMs and maybe Labour in Galway West?

Certainly based on social data, yes.

But again, the key caveat is that social content and social performance doesn't always match in terms of turnout.

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