While typically fraught with tension, it was a family affair at a number of count centres across the country as mothers and sons, fathers and daughters looked to hoist one another up on to the political platform.
Paul McGinley pitches up in Ballsbridge; BBC Northern Ireland journalists get good gigs; Sharon Horgan enjoys literary success; and Fianna Fail decides to run new and not so new names
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