Your essential guide to the inside workings of politics, political procedures and elections in Ireland, from Ireland's leading commentators. Let RTE's political experts take you through the roles of: the tallymen, the campaign trail, the spin doctors, financing the elections, passing time in seanad, the leaders, the long counts and the political parties (big and small) and the Independents.

With a constituency-by-constituency guide to the issues, personalities and local intrigue of the 2007 general election.

Contents:

• Introduction, Tom McGuire
• Reminiscences of an on-the-run Psephologist, John Bowman
• Voting early and often, Tom McGurk
• E-voting: dead or alive? Sean O'Rourke
• It's Showtime, Charlie Bird
• Getting voting right, Cathal MacCoille
• Not so PC, Pat Kenny
• The Albert Factor, Fergal Keane
• Beware of the Pundits, Derek David
• Campaigns and Number-crunchers, Rodney Rice
• Polls, parties and papers, Gerald Barry
• Passing time in the Seanad, David Davin-Power
• 'What's this scam all about?' (or how Mountjoy prison is preparing for the prisoners' first ballot), Aine Lawlor
• The 29th Dail, Brian Dowling
• Introduction to the Constituencies, Rachael English
• Consituency maps
• The Constituencies, A-Z, Rachael English and Nick Coffey