Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

A total of 60,652 people voted in the Galway West constituency in last November’s General Election.

Just 450 of them – or less than one percent – voted for Doran McMahon of the Irish Freedom Party.

McMahon was the least popular of all candidates in the field, bar the Independent maverick Patrick Feeney, who earned just 52 votes.

There were nearly as many spoiled votes, as there were McMahon votes – he even lost his deposit.

The Irish Freedom Party’s insular, narrow-minded politics of fear was roundly rejected by a sophisticated electorate.

More than 99% of the people of Galway West who voted last November, saw through the “Ireland belongs to the Irish” bullshit........

© Connacht Tribune