Cork South Central is a mainly urban constituency, encomapssing that part of Cork city and its rural hinterland south of the River Lee. Withan electorate of about 90,000, tit has lost one seat since 2011, making it now an ultra copmpetitive four-seater.

The rural issues

While it may be the most urban constituency outside Dublin, the presence of the outgoing Minister means Cork South Central is of interest to farmers.

Who will get elected

Cork South Central is the “group of death” in this election, full of high-ranking politicians. It’s home to Simon Coveney, the outgoing Agriculture Minister, and Michael Martin, the Fianna Fail party leader. Neither of these are tipped to top the poll, though, that honour is likely to fall to Michael McGrath, the Fianna Fail spokesman on Finance.

That fills three of the four seats. Jerry Buttimer might have thought the biggest threat to the seat he won in 2011 had passed when his Fine Gael colleague Deirdre Clune was elected to the European parliament in 2014. However, both he and fellow outgoing TD Ciaran Lynch of Labour are under a lot of pressure from Sinn Fein’s Donnchadh O Laoghaire. His biggest challenge is to corner enough of the left vote, with a plethora of left-leaning candidates running.

Cork South-Central odds, courtesy of Paddy Power

*denotes outgoing TD

Micheal Martin* (Fianna Fail) 1/80

Simon Coveney* (Fine Gael) 1/33

Michael McGrath* (Fianna Fail) 1/33

Donnchadh O Laoghaire (Sinn Fein) 1/7

Jerry Buttimer* (Fine Gael) 2/1

Ciaran Lynch* (Labour) 7/1

Mick Finn (Ind) 20/1

Lorna Bogue (Green Party) 50/1

Jim O'Connell (AAA-PBP) 80/1

Fiona Ryan (AAA-PBP) 80/1

Diarmuid O Cadhla (Ind) 100/1

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