Election to the European Parliament was an ‘out-of-body experience’ for Aodhán Ó Riordáin in the politicians’ All-Ireland
Labour's Aodhan O Riordain celebrates following his election as MEP for the Dublin constituency at the RDS in Dublin last night. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/PA
The big themes of the locals have been well ventilated at this stage. Despite getting fewer seats than they did in 2019, have been portrayed as the winners. Despite getting more seats than it did in 2019 ,Well, it’s the 2020 general election, not the 2019 election, that is the comparator. And all the opinion polls that have been held since then. Sinn Féin was expected to win big. It didn’t. The other two parties held up their vote very well.
Smith and Daly would have been members of similar Marxist parties in the past and Smith had offered a transfer pact, which Daly refused. That was a mistake. Daly needed enough transfers from Smith to get in ahead of the Labour TD, or in of Ciaran Cuffe. But while she got 6,500 transfers, it wasn’t enough. Ó Riordáin got 4,500 and Cuffe got 2,500 which kept him 1,000 votes ahead of Daly.
Getting MEPs elected is really important for all the parties. Especially so for Labour. It has not had an MEP elected since 2009 and this victory will give it a huge fillip, a “show and tell’ that it is well on the road to political recovery. And then there is Limerick. The election for a directly-elected Mayor was clear cut from the start. It was a decisive victory for John Moran, who seems to have a decisive plan for the city and county.has spotted the new put-down by Simon Harris of the Sinn Féin leader: “Mary Lou-splaining”. She also comes up with a killer line when describing Harris’ exchange with another opposition leader.
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