Bookmaker expects re-election of Martin and O’Keeffe

ONLY three Cork-based TDs are racing certainties to be re-elected to the next Dáil, according to a former minister — and bookmaker.

Celtic Bookmakers, owned by former FG minister Ivan Yates, won’t offer any odds on Micheál Martin, Ned O’Keeffe or Denis O’Donovan, strongly suggesting the FF deputies are unstoppable. In Cork East, the bookmakers are predicting that O’Keeffe will be trailed by FG’s David Stanton at an almost unbackable 1/12 and junior minister Michael Ahern, (6/1 on), FG’s Paul Bradford (8/13) and Labour’s Sean Sherlock (10/11).

The odds point to bad news for former Labour TD John Mulvihill, quoted at 16/1 along with SF’s Sandra McLellan, and the outsider is the Greens’ Sarah Iremonger at 20/1.