Independents day as major parties lose out

Anti-establishment are now well placed to translate strong national support into major gains at the next general election, while Government parties face losses, says Adrian Kavanagh

Independents day as major parties lose out

THIS weekend’s by-election contests produced two obvious winners – Paul Murphy of the Anti Austerity Alliance and Michael Fitzmaurice, the independent candidate from Luke Ming Flanagan’s grouping.

But a few more winners may emerge from these contests, looking ahead to the next general election contests in the enlarged Dublin South-West and the new Rosommon-Galway and Sligo-Leitrim constituencies – in some cases emerging from the list of other by-election candidates, but in other cases emerging from a group of other contenders who did not contest Friday’s elections.

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