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Last edited by the_law13; 9th June 2009 at 11:26 PM.
There won't be one, Cowan & Co. will forget to move the writ
as KN said north, there is a referendum coming up in a couple of months. Might be hard not to hold it.
While FF are clearly the strongest party in Donegal generally, in the current climate it is hard to see them breaking the pattern since 1982 of Govt's losing bye-elections.
A month ago I'd have said SF - there's a lot of ex FF voters who would protest by giving the Provies a vote in a by-election - but they appear to be at 6s and 7s at present.
Unless some well known Indo enters the race, it's hard to look before FG at the moment.
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The depressing thing about this country is I can see Fianna Fáil running Packie Bonner and winning it, with the "media" happily chuckling about safe pair of hands and all that...
Good riddance.
Results from 2007:
ElectionsIreland.org: 30th Dail - Donegal South West
I'd say SF have a chance, but it's quite open.
Would Tom Gildea be up for a comeback? Or Dana? A deeply pro-life constituency. Reports Dana plans to run for President in 2011 - would be good platform.
Frank McBrearty could be the dark horse in this one. It'd be a four-way race between FF, FG, SF and Labour in that case and would come down to who is more transfer-friendly.
Hard to see past FF though. While SF and FG are making major inroads into the FF vote in Donegal NE, Donegal SW remains an FF stronghold. Why? No idea. Possibly merely because the other parties don't really (yet) have the strong candidates required, so "better the divil ye know"
McLoughlan must be in with a shout?
FutureTaoiseach, a former PDs voter, is now cheerleading for Dana. How does that work? Only he knows. Something to do with "elites", certainly.
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