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Another thing is the decrease in seats so some constituencies like cork SC, Tipp  and Galway East are all down 1 .

And conversely, others have increased. Laois and Offaly are two three seaters now, whereas the old Laois-Offaly was a 5 seater.

Kerry South and Kerry North merging has also trimmed a seat, to a 5 seater, similar to Tipp. The geographical implications of this are very important. It's going to be very hard for a South Tipp candidate to hoover up North Tipp votes, so do the voters in the South all band together to pick the best local candidate, regardless of party almost?

The constituencies say a lot about population changes. Tipp, Kerry and Ros are losing population or growing more slowly . Leinster and Galway are increasing, for example

I think the DUP have lost the plot on this one, especially with a leader from a border agricultural constituency. Whatever plans the London government have for any money by not contributing to the EU, sending it to NI would not be at the front of the list and small farmers would not be high on the list either. The EU provides a convenient politics free framework for cooperation on the island of Ireland, Brexit endangers all this. Some of the looper end of unionism hope for a fence along the border as a consequence and would have support in Britain for this kind of thing among the out crowd. This isn't very likely in practice, but anything remotely along those lines, customs posts, ID checks etc would kick off the whole thing in the 6 counties again. So people will want a lot of specific Anglo-Irish agreements to stop this, and this will involve more explicit arrangements than just coming in under the EU umbrella. As many non looper unionists will see that the present situation with both parts of Ireland in the EU is a stable one, and Brexit introducing possible destabilising factors including a renewed pressure for Scottish independence, so they will probably vote no, and so the DUP will be backing the losers.

The DUP lost the plot a long time ago. Thanks to London subventions they have zero awareness of macroeconomics or fiscal responsibility Money comes from London and always will.

Brexit is a really stupid idea. The City will pack up and leave. What sort of industry does the DUP have to replace it with? Linen?

Flexible time arrangements
Pale skin

European arms companies are making billions from the war in Syria. Join the f**king dots.

Apart from GAA..

It is just too uncertain for the UK to leave

1   Ciaran McDonald
2   Padraig Brogan
3   Liam McHale
4  James Nallen
5   Kevin O'Neill
6  Willie Joe Padden
7  Pat Fallon
8  James Horan
9  Kenneth Mortimer
10 Aidan O'Sé
11 Keith Higgins
12 Andy Moran
13 Kenneth Mortimer
14  Noel Connelly
15  Colm Boyle
16  Kevin Cahill
17  Noel Connelly
18 Trevor Mortimer
19 Dermot Flanagan
20 Conor Mortimer
21  David Heaney
22 Lee Keegan
23 Cillian O'Connor
24 Donal Vaughan
25 Alan Dillon

Some fabulous players in there. Awful sad to think they never won Sam.

Yesterday was Donegal day in Galway and the town was swarming with Donegal jerseys

Another thing is the decrease in seats so some constituencies like cork SC, Tipp  and Galway East are all down 1 .

Tony has dropped his other passion, defending child abuse and is now plugging NI uniqueness, another dead pigeon

Surely it depends on standards of living. Scobies in Ireland commit most of the violent crimes. Those living at that level in Germany would be similar. Without the economic data it is not possible to draw conclusions.

Do 'Scobies' commit the most sexual crimes in Ireland?  Or are we just ignoring that stat?  Or are all Algerian immigrants more 'scobie' than the immigrants from other nations?  Because they are nearly top of every list, even though they are bottom of the list in terms of population.  You're dismissing this info all too easily because it doesn't suit your narrative.

This all assumes that the info can be taken at face value.  If it can I think it's fairly shocking.

Poverty and crime go together

Am I a saddo for finding it all very exciting? As Declan says, the permutation are endless. Imagine a four seater where FG, FG, Labour, SF and some Independent are all running neck-and-neck. Okay, Labour is a bit of a stretch, but the transfers of a second FG candidate might bring them up to the 20% mark. Alternatively you can think of a second FG candidate lifted up by Labour transfers. That's five people who have a quota, but only four seats. That kind of scenario is going to be replicated up and down the country. I'll be getting the beers in for Saturday week!

It is very interesting. Especially the SF thing

It seems to me that most houses in Ireland are poor quality. I wouldn't pay 300K for OFCH. Dublin might be the worst.
Passive housing is the way to go

I was born and have lived in that part of Ireland that experienced sectarianism,discrimination and violence,where sovereignty was and still is disputed,governed from London not Dublin.How can I be the same type of Irish as someone from Dublin,Cork or Kerry?

You are probably pale, sloppy, give to charity, support an English football team, go to Mass....

Surely it depends on standards of living. Scobies in Ireland commit most of the violent crimes. Those living at that level in Germany would be similar. Without the economic data it is not possible to draw conclusions.