Ireland by-elections, 2014

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So I imagine this seat will likely fall back into Fianna Fail? Given that it managed to save the seat even in the blowout 2011 election? Have FF managed to recover from being shut entirely out of Dublin?

Irish politics is admittedly quite confusing, so this might be incorrect.

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RIP. so young

Dublin has three seats in the European Parliament, so we'll see in May whether they can regain one seat (probably a three way scrap between FF, SF and SP (who hold the seat but might slip given that its not Joe Higgins' name on the ballot this time)

in answer to my qeuestion, about FF recovering in Dublin: apparently not.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/fianna-fail-struggles-to-mount-any-kind-of-revival-in-the-capital-30117071.html

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And in the indirect Seanad by-election, indie Gerard Craughwell has won on transfers, beating Fine Gael's John McNulty. McNulty had some controversy and asked TD's not to vote for him, but now the government has lost its majority in the upper house.