2007 Press Releases
Crystal Dáil-gazing: 2007 General Election prediction competition
The Department of Government (UCC) and the Political Studies
Association of Ireland (PSAI), in conjunction with The Sunday Business
Post, are running a prediction competition for the 2007 general
election.
Entrants are asked to predict the destination of the seats according to
party and/or independent status within each of the forty-three
constituencies. For example, in Cork South-Central will Fianna Fáil
hold onto its three seats; will Fine Gael win two seats? Will all of
the three Fianna Fáil incumbents in Cork North-West retain their seats?
To enter, the competition is FREE, but entrants are asked to state
their name, contact details, and affiliation (e.g. member of political
party, election candidate, university lecturer, member of the voting
public) for reasons of transparency, and to avoid multiple entries.
Further details, including the entry form, are available online from
www.psai.ie. Entries can then be emailed to the organiser of the
competition, Liam Weeks, in the Department of Government, University
College Cork (l.weeks@ucc.ie). It is also possible to enter by
post, and entry forms will be published in The Sunday Business Post on
13 and 20 May.
The prizes are kindly donated by The Sunday Business Post, details of
which will be confirmed in the near future. The winner will also
receive a year's free subscription to Irish Political Studies, the
official journal of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, the
professional body of political scientists in Ireland, North and South.
There will be a special prize-giving ceremony at the Annual Conference
of the PSAI, which this year is hosted by DCU, and will take place from
19-21 October at Issac's Hotel in central Dublin (for further details
concerning the conference see http://www.psai.ie/conference.asp).
If you have any queries about the competition, please contact Liam Weeks l.weeks@ucc.ie
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