Brendan Griffin: There'll be no sleepless nights for me this week

As the Report of the Electoral Commission’s Constituency Review is published, Brendan Griffin thinks constitutional reform may have merit

For politicians, survival requires at least one eye to be constantly on your constituents, and the other eye on the next election.

You’ve worked hard over the last few years. You’ve a full attendance record, paid attention to the finer details and stayed out of trouble. You’ve read, studied and done well on your written and oral questions, with no major mistakes and all your projects turned out as you had hoped. 

And now it’s the night before the results and you’re lying wide awake at 3am, going over all the permutations and possibilities in your head. No, it’s not the Leaving Cert, it’s the Report of the Electoral Commission’s Dáil Constituency Review.