Skull Servant posted:

Looks like they are hedging their bets in a lot of constituencies and not running multiple candidates to prevent vote diluting. Kustom said earlier that the party attempted to run three candidates in Donegal last GE and ended up only electing one, when they probably could have gotten two in the constituency.

They're running at least one candidate in every constituency except Cork North West. Not sure why they're passing there, maybe a Munster poster will know more.

Another possibility is that they aren't overplaying their hand, having a very bad day at the polls in the Presidential election (though they were never going to have a good one tbf) and an underwhelming day at the local and EU elections, losing nearly half their councillors and one MEP.

That said, there seems to be a lot of people flipping to SF, at least in my area. I've heard "maybe they won't follow through on their promises, but we should give them a try". It would be interesting to see if that view is held elsewhere, because my constituency is probably going to return the same amount of SF TDs as they did last time - 2.