Summary
Mark Carruthers is in Dublin to talk about the election with Mary Minihan from the Irish Times, Mary Regan from RTÉ and Virgin Media's Gavan Reilly.
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| 0:00.0 | Can you tell we're in a Dublin institution for this week's red lines. |
| 0:04.4 | We've pitched our tent in Buzzwell's Hotel just across the road from Leinster House. |
| 0:08.8 | It's general election time, of course, down here, and the outcome is likely to be anything but straightforward. |
| 0:14.5 | Mary Minahan from the Irish Times is with me. |
| 0:16.8 | Mary Regan from RTE is here, and Gavin Riley from Virgin Media is here too. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to you all. Thank you for taking time out of your schedules in such a busy week to chapters. |
| 0:26.5 | Mary Minahan, let me ask you first of all, what was the reaction in the Irish Times newsroom |
| 0:30.4 | when you first saw the results of today's pretty dramatic opinion. |
| 0:34.1 | Yeah, I suppose there was a bit of shock in all, Mark. I mean, there had been a few straws in the |
| 0:38.0 | end and a few |
| 0:38.7 | polls that were |
| 0:39.3 | indicating things |
| 0:40.2 | were going in this |
| 0:40.8 | direction. |
| 0:41.8 | But now you have |
| 0:42.5 | Sinn Féin |
| 0:43.0 | really surging at |
| 0:44.7 | 25% up four |
| 0:46.3 | since the last time |
| 0:47.3 | the Irish Times |
| 0:48.1 | did its poll. |
| 0:49.3 | And when you, |
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