Election special: Fine Gael splashes the cash in push for two seats

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has said that anything less than two seats out of four in Ireland South will be a failure for Fine Gael.

Labour's Phil Prendergast on the hustings.

Constituency: Ireland South

**Number of seats:** four Population: 1,678,079

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has said that anything less than two seats out of four in this constituency will be a failure for Fine Gael. But the party is running three candidates and the battle between them has been one of the most entertaining features of the campaign.

There have been complaints from Fine Gael’s Simon Harris’s supporters that Cork-based Senator Deirdre Clune is ...