“If I do get a seat, it would probably be the fourth seat and it will be a bit of a fight”
The so-called “shock-jock” said he was very happy with how his campaign has gone and predicts he will be in the running when votes are finally counted, but added that waiting to find out was worse than waiting for his Leaving Cert results.
“If I do get a seat, it would probably be the fourth seat and it will be a bit of a fight. I’ve surprised a few people though,” he said.
Boylan, who feels there should be stronger curbs on immigration into Ireland and believes people are sick of “woke culture”, said he knows some people view him as an extremist but denies that is the case.
“People think I’m some sort of radical right-winger, I’m not. I voted yes to marriage equality.”
He said he did feel that the EU was too left-wing.
“I think for far too long it’s been far too left. I think that’s going to change and you’re going to see a shift slightly to the centre. I don’t want to see a radical extreme right-wing Europe either.”
Boylan, who until recently presented a phone in show in Classic Hits FM, added that got a lot of abuse online during the campaign because of his outspoken views.
“I’ve been a pretty loud outspoken voice for 30 years on radio and I tend not to care what other people think of what I say. I’m not politically correct and I want to be a loud voice for people in Dublin and Ireland in Europe
“There was some really nasty stuff put up about me online, most of it, 99.99 percent, completely untrue. Some of it was derogatory and defamatory.
“I didn’t react to it. You just can’t have that kind of stuff knocking you off your target. I only realised [during the campaign] how toxic Twitter was, I knew it was toxic, but I didn’t realise how toxic it was.”
Boylan registered as a candidate using an address in Swords in north Dublin, which was included on the ballot paper and in online literature.
Some voters in the area this week said he hasn’t lived in the house for years.
Boylan is divorced from his first wife a number of years and has since remarried so is no longer living in the Swords address where his ex-wife currently lives.
“Unfortunately, I can’t talk about that because of family law, which is in camera,” he said.
“That is my registered address. I’ve lived between there and many other places in Dublin.”
After leaving the family home he moved into a Travelodge, but after he couldn’t afford to do that he said he slept in his car and couch-surfed for a while.
“I was homeless essentially for three years. I was living in a car for two years and sleeping on sofas and everything else.”
He is no longer couch surfing and has previously said on his radio show that he was living in Belfast but said yesterday that he is currently living in Dublin.
Boylan said that while he got a lot of online criticism during the campaign, he got very little abuse in person.
“I heard people talking about being abused but I only had one person in the whole six week shouting something nasty at me.
“Apart from that most people were really welcoming. Some said they’d vote for you and some said they wouldn’t and that’s fine too.”
He said he got a great reaction especially in working class areas.
“It was from people who feel the Government are disconnected from them and not listening to them. They feel a bit voiceless.”