Video gives behind-the-scenes look at last night's leaders' debate
A video from behind the scenes of the leaders' debate in the University of Limerick last night has been released.
RTÉ broadcasted the debate from the university's Concert Hall, the first ever General Election TV debate to be held outside of Donnybrook by the broadcaster.
The Claire Byrne Live Leaders debate featured seven party leaders from across the Dáil, including the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Joan Burton as well as five from the opposition benches.
The general consensus after the debate was that
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Data journalist, Robbie Byrne got to work for us crunching the data from last night's #GE16 election debate.
Data from last night’s leaders debate shows that Enda Kenny came out on top for actual minutes spoken.
Here the time spoken by each leader is broken down chronologically.
Unsurprisngly Enda Kenny received the most mentions with Micheál Martin leading the attacks, mentioning Enda Kenny 13 times. (The thickness of the line indicates the volume of mentions.)
Finally to some of those buzzwords.
Unsurprisingly, Enda Kenny mentioned the word ‘recovery’ the most. Bucking the trend of previous debates, Irish Water failed to garner a single mention while the much-abhorred term ‘fiscal space’ was treated to a single mention ... by Richard Boyd Barrett.
Gerry Adams was the only leader to mention 1916, referring to the anniversary on four occasions. ‘Can I just say’ was, unsurprisingly, mentioned eight times by Joan Burton.
