Clarification re Willie and De Bert

My "cut" last night at De Bert was a mite unfair. Three seats for FF in his constituency was very tall order indeed.

However, just possibly, an even distribution of the FF first preferences might have brought it off if the other votes had been distributed differently e.g if, say, Gregory had polled a bit better, Costello a little worse.

Meanwhile, in Willie O'Dea's Limerick East, a 5-seater,FF and PD had 55%, FG/Lab 36%. (Greens had 3%).Guess which combination got 3 seats ? FG/Lab.

With a more even spread of FF votes, the result would almost certainly have been different. Even without the PD, they had 48.7%,very nearly 3 quotas.

Whatever about De Bert, Willie let his side down. I suspect that others may also have similar questions to answer, not just in FF.