Constituency profile: Roscommon-Galway

It may not garner as many headlines as other areas nationally, but Roscommon-Galway is likely to prove remarkable for a number of record breaking reasons in election 2016.

While the constituency itself is new, any constituency involving Roscommon holds the unusual record of never having returned the same complement of TDs from one election to the next, an issue guaranteed to be repeated this month.

It is almost certain to elect Independent candidates to the top two positions in the three-seat constituency, a high-water mark that underlines the new reality Irish politics finds itself in.