Is Ivana Bacik on to a winner at last in Dublin Bay South?
Ivana Bacik isnt leftie enough not to own a dryrobe, but is conformist enough to admit embarrassment stops her wearing it. Besides, she has said, the du jour garment would get tangled in her bike when she cycles from her home in trendy Portobello for her evening sea swim off the South Bull Wall, near the working-class village of Ringsend. The Labour Party candidate in Thursdays Dublin Bay South by-election is ticking all the constituencys demographic boxes. After Eoghan Murphy, Fine Gaels former housing minister, announced on April 27 he was quitting the Dail, local councillor James Geoghegan, with a phenomenal Fine Gael lineage, soon had his campaign ready to go. According to Leinster House forecasters, the seat in the Dail chamber already had Geoghegans