Election 2024Constituency Profile

Dún Laoghaire constituency candidates list: If there is a change, the Greens could lose out

Election 2024: Richard Boyd-Barrett, with a strong local and national brand, is well dug in at this stage

Dún Laoghaire Constituency map
Election 2024: Labour once had a reliable seat in the Dún Laoghaire constituency, but that’s a long time ago

Outgoing TDs: Richard Boyd-Barrett (PBPS), Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Cormac Devlin (FF), Ossian Smyth (GP)

Who are the candidates running in the Dún Laoghaire constituency?

  • Richard Boyd-Barrett (PBPS)
  • Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG)
  • Cormac Devlin (FF)
  • Martha Fanning (LAB)
  • Cathy Lynch (IP)
  • Hugo Mills (SD)
  • Shane O’Brien (SF)
  • Michael O’Doherty (IND)
  • Ossian Smyth (GP)
  • Maireád Tóibín (AON)
  • Barry Ward (FG)
  • Source Dún Laoghaire returning officer

Another target for two seats in a Fine Gael heartland. But second candidate Barry Ward has his work cut out to accompany Jennifer Carroll MacNeill back to the Dáil and a careful division of the constituency will be needed if two Fine Gaelers are to come home.

Richard Boyd-Barrett has been a TD since 2011 and has a strong local and national brand that is pretty well dug in at this stage. It’s hard to see him losing out.

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There has usually been a Fianna Fáil seat here and Cormac Devlin is careful in tending to his on-the-ground work. If there is to be a change, it could be the Greens’ Ossian Smyth who loses out, though it’s far from clear that the Social Democrats Hugo Mills or Labour’s Martha Fanning have the profile across the constituency to topple him. Labour once had a reliable seat here – Niamh Breathnach had it, and so did Eamon Gilmore – but that’s a long time ago.

Possible outcome: Fine Gael (1), Fianna Fáil (1), People Before Profit - Solidarity (1), Green Party (1)

Pat Leahy

Pat Leahy

Pat Leahy is Political Editor of The Irish Times