Will Sinn Fein do well in the Local Elections or will they remain with the same

[offaly worker]

I Hope this Tread will get a serious discusion on Sinn Fein, The Party put up a massive campain on Lisbon. I wonder are they preparing for the same in the Local Elections.

[CavanFF]

Sinn fein always prepare well for an election. Whether they do well is another matter.

[Pat Mc Larnon]

From reading other threads there does seem to be an increase in candidates in areas that were only previously contested by one or two party activists and they seem to profiling people in areas that they had not contested before.

The EU election may/will be used to give FF a bloody nose. If the SF EU candidates have half decent campaigns then the LE candidates will benefit by default. That certainly happened in Dublin last time around.

[Cael]

I expect the provies to lose a lot of the seats they now have. I think all parties that have the whif of corruption about them will do very badly.

[turdsl]

All they have to do is keep improving their first preferences.

[drbob1972]

if they cannot gain from the much predicted FF bloody nose, then they will need to do a lot of navel gazing on where they are going (or not as the case may be)

[factual]

Sinn Féin have increased their vote and vote share in each and every like for like election in the 26 counties since the 1980s. The only party to have done so.

[peader odonnell]

Sinn Féin have increased their vote and vote share in each and every like for like election in the 26 counties since the 1980s. The only party to have done so.

The lustre has gone off SF ,no large gains for them in the locals.

[irish_bob]

The lustre has gone off SF ,no large gains for them in the locals.

agreed + lisbon will be passed this time

[bogtrotter]

I would expect them to make substantial gains in the locals. The conditions were never better and they seem to be working hard on the ground locally.....