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Eoin O’Malley: Beware the law of unintended consequences when tinkering with our voting system
We got over the line. The European election counts finished on Thursday night and while in most of Europe the new MEPs have already done a week’s work, making contacts and getting themselves on to committees, most Irish MEPs haven’t yet made it to Brussels …