Local elections 2024 – Dublin City Council: Shouts of ‘Gwan the girlos’ as Sinn Féin hits 4 councillors with 25 seats left to be filled

All seats have now been filled in the South East Inner City, in the North Inner City, Kimmage-Rathmines, Donaghmede, Pembroke and Clontarf.

Independent Cieran Perry is the first elected to Cabra-Glasnevin on the ninth count.

Sinn Féin has elected four councillors in Dublin so far, while there has been no major upset for Government parties so far in the local election count.

Thirty-eight councillors have been elected to Dublin City Council where 25 seats remain.

Fine Gael councillor Ray McAdam has retained his seat in the North Inner City, where Green Party candidate Janet Horner and independent Christy Burke have also been elected.

In Ballymun-Finglas, Fianna Fáil candidate Keith Connolly has been elected, while Sinn Féin councillor Daithí Doolan and Green Party candidate Claire Byrne have won council sets elsewhere across the city.

Doolan – who is also running for Europe – became Sinn Féin’s first elected member onto Dublin City Council.

He was shortly followed by Kourtney Kenny in the South East Inner City, Janice Boylan in the North Inner City and Míchéal MacDonncha in Donaghmede.

A bonanza in the final counts for multiple electoral areas saw the four remaining seats filled in Donaghmede after the election of Tom Brabazon in the first count.

Fianna Fáil candidate Daryl Barron, Sinn Féin’s Míchéal MacDonnacha, Social Democrat candidate Paddy Monahan and Fine Gael’s Supriya Singh were also elected.

In the South East Inner City, Danny Byrne (FG), Mannix Flynn (Ind), Cian Farrell (SD), Claire Byrne (GP) and Kourtney Kenny (SF) were elected.

In the North Inner City, Janet Horner (GP), Christy Burke (IND), Malachy Steenson (IND), Janice Boylan (SF), Nial Ring (IND), Daniel Ennis (SD) and Ray McAdam (FG) were elected.

Malachy Steenson elected in North Inner City Dublin

In Kimmage-Rathmines, Fiona Connelly (LAB), Pat Dunne (RTC), Eoin Hayes (SD), Patrick Kinsella (FG), Carolyn Moore (GP) and Punam Rane (FG) were elected.

In Clontarf, all seats have been filled by Catherine Stocker (SD), Deirdre Heney (FF), Naoise Ó Muirí (FG), Donna Cooney (GP) and Alison Field (LAB).

Tallies have not indicated a good run for Sinn Féin, with leader Mary Lou McDonald admitting that the party was “obviously disappointed” that more of their candidates were not successful.

Speaking at the RDS, she acknowledged that “it hasn’t been our day” as it appears independents and others have benefited from anti-government sentiment.

Councillor Daithí Doolan said he was “delighted to top the poll” in Ballyfermot-Drimnagh, but acknowledged that the party may have to “live and learn” if turns out the party ran too many candidates or split the vote.