Thank you again for all this info, gentleman. Feel like I'm takin' a damn good Seminar, here.

PaddyP & Declan - fascinating stuff, to me anyway. / SF in Border counties & Dublin, hm, yeah makes sense. / *Donegal* though, geez, aren't they sort-of especially, well, "conservative" up there (whatever that means!) I'm thinking of their HUGE vote (70% wasn't it??) in *favor* of FF's recently-rejected (anti-)abortion proposals. Which SF, like Dublin voters, opposed as I recall. / Well that's a different matter I suppose. / Anyway VERY interesting. / I wanna read up more carefully on this Congressional-Columbia business before (maybe) commenting / Fionn - you mentioned Apathy in France, UK & US elections. Here in the US, our election percentage turnouts are almost ALWAYS rotten. I.e. it's nothing *new*, here. Over There -- different story I guess. TTYL