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WHEN WILL THE next election be?

“It’s not what’s concerning people,” Taoiseach Simon Harris told reporters at the start of the Fine Gael think-in in Tullamore yesterday. 

The general public have more pressing matters on their minds, he said, stating that no one outside the bubble cares about when the next election is. 

But it was all the politicians could talk about at the think-in over the last two days. 

The majority of Fine Gael TDs said they would have a general election tomorrow if they could, but most predict privately it will be held on a date in November.

This is despite constant reassurances from their party leader that this government will go “full term”. 

“New team, new energy” was the theme of the event at the Tullamore Court Hotel, with Harris stating that his party is in a state of renewal. 

There was a noted difference to last year’s think-in which took place in …