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Mark Carruthers is joined by Lucinda Creighton, Gary Murphy, Elaine Loughlin and Gráinne Ní Aodha in Dublin to preview the Republic's election later this month.
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| 0:00.0 | Short and snappy, probably best describes the campaign that we're now in the middle of for the general election in the Republic. |
| 0:06.6 | It's happening, of course, on the 29th of this month. |
| 0:09.6 | And with just two and a half weeks to go, red lines has come down to Dublin to discuss some of the main talking points with a panel of expert observers. |
| 0:17.1 | We're in the Pursar Room at the wonderful National Gallery of Ireland and joining me to |
| 0:22.2 | discuss the parties, the policies and the personalities shaping the conversation so far. |
| 0:27.3 | Our Groni Annie from the Press Association, Lucinda Crichton, who runs Vulcan consultancy and writes |
| 0:33.1 | a column for the Business Post and is, of course, a former Finnegal Government Minister. |
| 0:38.2 | Gary Murphy, |
| 0:44.5 | Professor of Politics at DCU and Elaine Loughlin, political editor of the Irish Examiner. |
| 0:49.4 | So welcome to you all. Thanks very much indeed for making time to join me today. I know you're all very busy. Finally, the campaign proper is underway after weeks and months of speculation. |
| 0:55.6 | Is everyone relieved first and foremost that the shadow boxing is finally over, Gronia? |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, I think so, although to say the starting gun only was shot on that Friday when the Taoiseach formally announced it, or even when he |
| 1:12.3 | said it to the media, is probably being a bit kind. People have been out campaigning. |
| 1:18.1 | Lenshtra House has been a bit emptier than we are used to because people saw that the end |
| 1:23.5 | of the Dahl term had come, we weren't going to get new legislation or anything like |
| 1:28.1 | that. It was the worst kept secret for weeks, wasn't it? And the best part of it was that the |
| 1:32.7 | coalition kept jostling each other, trying to get a nugget of information about when the campaign |
| 1:39.4 | would start, when the Tishuk would dissolve the Dahl, when the election would be to try and get even an inch of a heads up on the other guys |
| 1:47.5 | before they hit the campaign trail. |
| 1:49.5 | Roger Colorman said his preferred date would be the 29th. |
| 1:52.9 | Honish to Mihal Martin said that the doll will be dissolved in two days time |
| 1:59.6 | just before the Taoiseach announced it on the 6-1 news. |
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