I wish to draw your attention to the sarcastic attitude displayed by your columnist, Alison O’Connor towards the election of Mr. Michael and Mr. Danny Healy Rae as TD’s for Kerry on RTE on the weekend of the election.

There ain’t no show like a Healy Rae show and this is proof of it.

As anyone who watched poll station counts in recent days will testify, politics is a numbers game. And that will only become more clear over the coming days as Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil battle with numbers to avoid having to hook up together.

History was made in Cork South West with the election of the constituency’s first female TD, with Margaret Murphy O’Mahony’s win also matching the national pattern of a resurgent Fianna Fáil vote.

The people of Cavan came out to defend the Quinns.