… Cork NW is a very split constituency. There is a respectable Labour vote in Macroom town and Ballincollig/Ovens has a lot of swing voters who will occasionally go Labour. However, the north of the constituency around Millstreet and Kanturk votes as though the civil war is still on…
Taken from the the discussion boards of the Peoples Republic of Cork website, where the discussion is warming up with all the current political turmoil in the country.
Indeed the ability to laugh at ourselves may be the only thing that can save us from losing our minds this time around!
Good post from peoples republic.My guess:2 tweedledum and 1 tweedledee.a shock reversal from the 2007 result,which was 2 tweedledee and 1 tweedledum if memory serves.But you never know…..
Perhaps what’s needed is a second republic, this one aware of the vision of the 1916 Founding Fathers, where people and the rule of law come first and cute hoorism comes a very distant second.