And the winner was... devo-max. It wasn't on the ballot paper; it got just a handfull of spoilt votes; but it won! The director's observation report to the Electoral Commission is attached. In its post-referendum report, the EC ignored our observations, so we published a further comment on 21.12.2014.
The deBorda report of the 6-option survey we commissioned is here, while the joint deBorda/TNS report is here. In addition, this comment was published in The Guardian on 10.9.2014, and two days later, an edited version of this letter - they removed the 'ads' - was in The Irish Times.
(See also 2014-12, 2013-15, 2012-13/10/1 and 2011-1.)