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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:03 am
Ireland has three constituencies for European elections. II picked figures with an established media profile to represent it in two of them, Dublin and Midlands North-West. Niall Boylan is a veteran shock jock from commercial radio whose record of public commentary includes the suggestion that Jimmy Savile may have been the victim of a posthumous stitch-up. Ciaran Mullooly is a more polished and emollient performer, having worked as a correspondent for RTÉ, the national broadcaster, before his jump into politics. While Boylan stirred up controversy by regurgitating the talking points of climate-change denialism, Mullooly presented himself more in the style of a traditional centre-right politician.
Mullooly squeeze home to take the last seat in Midlands North-West whereas Boylan fell at the final hurdle in Dublin:
the Irish electoral system albania phone data allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper, so the more second-preference or third-preference votes you attract, the more likely you are to make it over the line. Yet Luke Flanagan, a left-wing independent who topped the poll in Midlands North-West, observed that Mullooly’s campaign team were ‘very comfortable hanging out’ at the count centre with the likes of Hermann Kelly.
Mullooly squeeze home to take the last seat in Midlands North-West whereas Boylan fell at the final hurdle in Dublin:
the Irish electoral system albania phone data allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper, so the more second-preference or third-preference votes you attract, the more likely you are to make it over the line. Yet Luke Flanagan, a left-wing independent who topped the poll in Midlands North-West, observed that Mullooly’s campaign team were ‘very comfortable hanging out’ at the count centre with the likes of Hermann Kelly.