#GE16 ROUNDING UP THE REST – CONNACHT AND ULSTER

Cavan Monaghan The constituency redraw removed over 13,000 people from west Cavan and reduced this constituency from five to four seats.  This also had the effect of leaving the population evenly divided between Cavan and Monaghan. It is likely that each county will elect two TDs. In Monaghan, Fine Gael Minister Heather Humphries will benefit from her ministerial position and also the defection of her former party colleague Sean Conlon to the independent ranks to hold onto her seat. She …

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We’re in Cavan on Friday morning to start the RTE/Slugger roadtrip #ge11 meetup

Myself and Peter Geoghegan are doing three RTE Election Meet Ups – polling day events to sample in depth the opinion of local people and to share them online via Twitter and Facebook. The first one of the day will be in Cavan – details here. We’ve chosen it because it could be an interesting one . It could be a weather-vane showing the extent of any Fine Gael surge. If they gain three seats here they may be on …

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