Mark Finn

I finally saw Wicked and I now understand all those people who went to see it in cinemas multiple times

My personal favourite Spotify wrapped stat is realising 80% of the songs in my top 100 are by artists Jack Antonoff has worked with at some point (incl. bleachers songs)

Based on final tallies this is firmly not the case. However he is fourth #ge24

And seems that was only a split second moment in time

Early tallies, but the Monk outperforming Pascal Donohoe was not something I had on my bingo card #ge24

As predicted above, Simon Harris' personal popularity has absolutely collapsed. Exit poll shows that 27% of people would like to see him as Taoiseach, compared to an approval rating of 55% in September.

Worth noting here that respondents who would prefer coalitions of FF / SF (7%), SF w/o FF or FG (22%) and 21% who responded “something else” is *actually* 50%. Obvious caveat that “something else” can mean a lot of things but presumably a fair amount of that share would be some sort of LW gov #ge24

Heavily caveated etc, but the only blockage to the most secure majority is Micheal Martin and yet the party with the most to lose is the Soc Dems, who appear to have had a great election. Politics, bloody hell.

Counting the CC as a FF TD (at the very least for talking about parties with the most seats, as happened in 2020) probably should be caveated in analysis, as it’s an independent role and automatically re-elected #ge24