Galway West Count Centre - LIVE BLOG
Sat, May 23, 2026
Update 14.02
Former Sinn Féin councillor Danny Callinan is not impressed with how the final act of this electoral drama is unfolding.
“Have ye seen the bundles of Fianna Fáil votes going [to Noel Thomas]? They need suitcases to carry them! If the Vote Left Transfer Left people want to see how a transfer arrangement should work, they should go down and look at all those bundles, and [then] see how it's done properly between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. They're shovelling them in by the bucketload," he said.
News
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Jobs
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