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THE BOOKIE and the pollster both predict very little change when it comes to the Members of the Euro- pean Parliament representing Ireland North West.
Both predict that Pat ‘the Cope” Gallagher will replace his party col- league Sean O Neachtain in Brus- sels, while Fine Gael’s Jim Higgins and Independent Marian Harkin are likely to be returned.
The latest TNSmrbi poll has shown a grow in support of one per cent for Deputy Gallagher, indicting a 20 per cent of first preference votes and likely to top the poll.
Bookie Paddy Power is putting is money on Fine Gael’s MEP Higgins to come in first, while the polls have him in third place behind MEP Har- ene
While Harkins’s odds have re- mained the same at 4/9 on, Gallagh- er’s odds have shortened to bring him from 8/11 to 1/9 on.
Higgins odds of winning at seat has also shortened from 1/12 on to 1/16 on.
Saturday’s poll however has seen a three per cent drop in support for the sitting Fine Gael MEP, who now has 17 per cent of the vote.
MEP Harkin’s vote has increased by one per cent to 19 per cent.
While Libertas leader Declan Ganley has moved up the board in the bookies, he remains in fourth place in Saturday’s