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Youtuber Glo blaming the parents of Africans engaging in turf wars in Ireland, who she says prioritise making money to purchase luxury homes back in Nigeria for vacationing in (despite their claims about fleeing persecution there) over raising their children to act responsibly. The media have never been interested in interviewing Glo nor in acknowledging the African background of the 'Eircode gangs' they are sometimes forced to write about. 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

Gardaí are investigating whether a stabbing attack yesterday at about 12.30am outside a Domino’s pizza takeaway in Ongar was carried out by a Dublin-based Eircode gang. A man, aged in his early 20s, who lives in the locality was stabbed multiple times. Violence between the gangs has broken out over the past four years, mostly in Dublin and Co Louth. A culture has built up around the gangs, with many recording rap songs that insult gangs from rival areas. A Drogheda-based Eircode crew have been issuing threatening phone calls and calling to innocent family members’ homes for the purpose of the collection of drug debts. This gang have been using different social-media platforms to deal drugs. Don't say nobody warned you. 🔗sundayworld.com 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

"We have gone from a place where far-right candidates were getting 0.2, 0.5 per cent of the vote in particular constituencies, they're nudging up to 3,4,5 per cent and beyond so we shouldn't ignore this, we shouldn't be complacent about it." "What they will do is use the various chambers as a type of bully pulpit to get across their message, and what's the next vehicle after that, of course it's the general election ... While our politics in way has gone quite centre-left ... there is now a significant element who are thinking far-right." 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

"The story of this election is the not slump, but collapse in the vote of Sinn Féin. If Friday's result happened in a general election, they'd lose half of their TDs ... Their ultra-nationalist supporters are not for a multicultural society and they have departed ways with Sinn Féin, hence the whole traitor thing." 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

There's one local race I'm still looking at in Newbridge where Tom McDonnell is set to take a seat but a second recount will get underway at the count centre in Punchestown tomorrow morning. A Sinn Féin candidate was one vote behind the Aontú candidate but following a recount, he went one vote ahead of her so she called a recount on the recount. McDonnell is a prominent figure opposed to the super plantation site in Floods Cross outside Naas. 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

Peter Casey polled the highest of the the outlier candidates in Midlands-North-West and he's on top of Saoirse McHugh—she won't like that. He seemed increasingly desperate to get his viral moment in the last week of the campaign with empty suggestions trying to appeal to nationalist sentiment, but I suspect his polling over the other candidates is more a reward for receiving the most media coverage and being known from his previous outings. 🔗docs.google.com 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

Niall Boylan in third position in Dublin for the EU elections after receiving the bulk of Malachy Steenson's transfers. I think there might be some surprises at how transfer-friendly he could be from the regular candidates if he can stay on top of them and I suspect he'd get a decent chunk of Clare Daly's. Voters aren't as ideologically fixed as some might wish to think of them. We saw PBP, Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil getting a good share of Stephen Redmond's transfers in Finglas. After Philip Dwyer was knocked out in this race, 906 of his transfers went to Sinn Féin, PBP, Labour, Soc Dems and a large portion to Clare Daly. Even the government parties got a smaller taste too. Some voting is tactical though. 🔗docs.google.com 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

Big achievement for Derek Blighe polling in 9th place with 3.6% first preferences in Ireland South for the EU elections ahead of Labour, Social Democrats, Aontú, PBP and one of the Sinn Féin candidates. There's a lot of transfers to shake out below him too. 🔗docs.google.com 👉🏻join Late Stage Ireland

Yan Mac Oireachtaigh also got some strong results in both Tallaght South and Firhouse, averaging 5% first preferences across the wards, beating People Before Profit in one ward and smashing the Greens in the other. Very encouraging scores to work on. https://t.me/YanMacNP/480

Philip Dwyer got close in Tallaght Central, making it to the 14th count and narrowly missed taking the last seat like Kevin Coyle. That's an achievement, well done, Phil. https://t.me/PhilipDwyerMOI/4583

First interview with Patrick Quinlan after his election to Dublin city council

It's official: Patrick Quinlan has been elected