Niall Collins: 'The vote that was loaned to Fine Gael is switching back'

It’s just gone 10am on Monday. Not everyone’s best time of the week.

Niall Collins is legging it through a convergence of hilly by-ways which form the village of Shanagolden, just off the Shannon Estuary.

The reception is different from the last time, when Fianna Fáil were in a “completely different space”.