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Fianna Fáil’s Kevin O’Keeffe, from Mitchelstown, Co Cork, who’s hoping to retain his Cork East Dáil seat, posted photographs of himself standing next to a limousine on Twitter and Instagram in the early hours of Sunday morning.

It followed a Behaviour & Attitudes poll in The Sunday Times showing Fianna Fáil had a 12-point lead on Fine Gael.

However, within hours ,Mr O’Keeffe deleted the picture from his Twitter account after complaints he was “out of touch”. He told Independent.ie:

“It was very negative. I was having a bit of fun I don’t have a limousine.

“I just happened to pull in at a filling station and just for a joke I said: ‘Lads can we put a sticker on the car and take a photo?’ It was shocking they [Twitter users] thought I’d bought a limousine.”

‘It was just for a joke’ – Fianna Fáil TD deletes limousine tweet after Twitter backlash (Hugh O’Connell, Independent.ie)

The Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes poll conducted in a series of ‘face-to-face in-home interviews with 923 eligible Irish voters on January 2-14’

Tonight.

Via The Sunday Times:

While Fine Gael and Fianna Fail were neck and neck on 27% in The Sunday Times/B&A poll last month, the 12-point gap opened between the two parties after the RIC/Black and Tans controversy, while there was no statistically significant shift in support for any of the other parties.

Fine Gael in crisis as Fianna Fail jumps to 12-point lead in polls (Stephen O’Brien, Sunday Times)

Fine Gael delete ‘silly’ video of Fianna Fail TDs set to Benny Hill theme (Buzz,ie)

Via Business Post:

How well do you understand how Ireland has changed in the last 10 years?

Cick here to discover interactive charts where YOU can guess the country’s progress in the last decade and test if perception meets reality.

Created by Rachel Lavin for Business Post Interactives.

This afternoon.

P writes:

The perfect analogy for our low bar government: “Sure they’re at it so I will too.”

Meanwhile…

Road Traffic Act 1961, Section 95, Subsection 14.

Previously: In Your Face

Thanks Rob Cross

 

Tonight.

A Status Yellow low temperature/ice-warning is in place from 6pm until 11am tomorrow.

Met Éireann issued the warning earlier today.

Via Met Éireann

Meanwhile…

This morning/afternoon.

Buswells Hotel, Dublin 2.

The People Before Profit General Election 2020 launch with top pic from left: Ruth Coppinger, Paul Murphy, Richard Boyd Barrett, Mick Barry, Brid Smith and Gino Kenny at their General Election 2020 Launch in Buswell’s Hotel Dublin.

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