Fianna Fáil retains position as largest party with Labour picking up two seats
Labour had a successful weekend, gaining two seats to finish with three, and the Social Democrats took a seat through Pádraig Rice in the South Central area. Fianna Fáil went into the However, Fine Gael , the Greens and Sinn Féin will be left assessing their electoral strategies. A number of sitting councillors lost seats including the Green Party’s Colette Finn, Rabharta’s Lorna Bogue and Sinn Féin’s Mick Nugent.
Local and European election results: Tight European race in Dublin after four counts with recounts under way in some local contestsLabour’s John Maher was returned in the North East area and will be joined on the council by party colleagues Peter Horgan and Laura Harmon . The 46-year-old, a manager with An Post, arrived in Ireland from Cameroon in 2002, moved to Cork in 2006 and became an Irish citizen in 2013. He said he was had encountered significant racist abuse on social media but that the people he met on the campaign trail were always supportive.
In the South West area, Fianna Fáil’s Fergal Dennehy topped the poll while his party colleague Colm Kelleher and Fine Gael’s Garret Kelleher held their seats.
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