MIRIAM LORD'S WEEK:CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES are the stuff of nightmares for TDs. One day they are snug in the bosom of their heartland voters and the next, thanks to some busy-body commission, they find themselves casting their net for votes in a new area where they know nobody.
The Boundary Commission has the blue marker and slide-rule out again, eagerly awaiting the results from the latest census.
Meanwhile, submissions from interested parties have just closed.
At Fine Gael’s parliamentary party meeting this week, general secretary Tom Curran briefed the gathering on the party’s submission to the commission.
It didn’t go down well with some of the audience, particularly as they hadn’t been consulted about the submissions.
Cork’s Michael Creed was said to be fuming over their suggestion that some of Cork’s four seaters be merged into five seaters.
Dublin South Central’s Catherine Byrne was not very happy with one of her Dublin colleagues. She told the meeting a certain Deputy had made a submission affecting her constituency, and had probably done so for personal rather than party interests.
No names were mentioned, but had any Deputy cared to peruse the Boundary Commission website they would have seen a submission from Derek Keating, who wants Ballyfermot (where he was born) to be brought into Dublin Mid West from Dublin South Central.
It is not known whether Terenure – where some locals are reportedly unhappy to be in Dublin South Central – will be repatriated to Dublin South East.
Where Lucinda and the posh people are.
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