This is a huge issue in the local elections too. In Dublin, you need about 2,000 to 2,500 votes to get a council seat. In Carrick-on-Shannon, the last seat needed 400 votes.
If the seats were genuinely in proportion to the population, the national balance of the parties would be dramatically different.
The real trick would be to find out what the quotas for the likes of Jacke Healy Rea and Bertie Ahern were, then we would know if we were being short-changed in Dublin
