Results see-saw to show class, regional and personality issues

AS rural areas blew cold on Lisbon in the run-up to the referendum, yes campaigners were heard to assure themselves that whatever happened in the regions, the Pale would keep the colour in their cheeks.

But Dublin isn’t divided into 12 constituencies for nothing and the capital and its 785,000 voters proved a far more complex entity than the yes side hoped for.

The commuter counties of Meath, Wicklow and Kildare proved no haven of homogeneity either.