Female candidates at the 2024 General (Dáil) Election in the Republic of Ireland 15 Oct 5:23 AM (8 days ago)
Adrian Kavanagh, 15th October 2025
Here are the ten constituencies that were the most successful constituencies (as ranked by vote share) for female candidates at the 2024 General Election. Women won more votes than men in just five of the forty three constituencies being contested at this election. Nationally, female candidates won 31.7% of the overall first preference votes cast at this election. It’s obviously far from a 50-50 split in terms of a gender voting breakdown, but it is a vast improvement on how things stood at the 2011 General Election, where women accounted for only 15.2% of the candidates. The level of change over the past decade and a half has been driven by the introduction of a gender quota, in the wake of that 2011 election contest, with political parties standing to lose half of their state funding if they fail to achieve the gender quota target (and political parties in the Republic of Ireland are very much reliant on this state funding(. The quota was initially set at 30% (as used at the 2016 and 2020 elections), but the legislation made provisions for this to increase to 40% within seven years of the first general election at which the quota was used (i.e., from 2023 onwards) and the 40% gender quota target was in place for the first time at the 2024 General Election.
The quota only applies to general (Dáil) election contests, but it does have a knock on effect in terms of increasing female candidate levels at local election contests, as success at local elections is often a springboard to success at subsequent general election contests. Hence, it makes sense for political parties who might be potentially looking to run new/first-time female general election candidates to encourage these potential new candidates to run in local elections (City and County Council elections) beforehand.
Over the past fifteen years there has been an overall increase in female candidate levels (up from 15.2% in 2011 to 35.8% in 2024 – the reason why this percentage was not at least 40% can be put down to the fact that the quota obviously does not apply to non-party candidates), as well as the number of votes won by women (up from 350,044 (15.8%) in 2011 to 697,569 (31.7%) in 2024). The level of increase in female representation levels has not been as dramatic (up from 15.2% of all TDs in 2011 to 25.3% of all TDs in 2024), although the 2024 election did see a record number (44) of women being elected as TDs (members of the Irish parliament). Female candidates were the runners up in twenty of the forty three constituencies at the 2024 election.
The quota is applied nationally and this can lead to some interesting geographical variations in terms of female candidate, vote and representation levels. Women, on average, are usually more likely to be selected to run as candidates in the more urban constituencies (and especially in Dublin) and are more likely to win more votes (and to win Dáil seats) in the more urban areas. Female candidates, as the table above shows, did fare well in some, more rural, constituencies, such as Offaly, Carlow-Kilkenny, Cavan-Monaghan and Clare, at the 2024 election. They fared less well, as the table below shows, in other rural constituencies, such as Donegal, Tipperary North, Tipperary South and Galway East, although there were some urban constituencies (Dublin North-West and the two “Cork City constituencies”) in which female candidates also won low vote shares.
City and County Council Members – Co-options and Changes since the 2024 Local Elections 12 Dec 2024 8:50 AM (10 months ago)
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted: 12th December 2024 – Latest update: Monday 15th September 2025
The 2024 Local Elections resulted in the election of 949 City and County Councillors. Since that election took place on 7th June 2024, I have estimated that at least 76 of the successful candidates in these elections (8.01% of the total number) have either stood down, been “promoted”, or have sadly passed away.
Moreover, at least three of the new Councillors co-opted to replace these Councillors have themselves resigned from their new role/were promoted to national politics, bringing the total number of City/County Councillors who have either stood down, been “promoted”, or have sadly passed away, up to 79 (8.32% of the total number).
57 of the former Councillors in this group are male (72.2%) and 22 are female (27.8%).
44 (56.4%) of the co-options/new Councillors are male, while 34 are female (43.6%). 14 of the co-options (17.9%) have involved family members of the Councillors who are being replaced.
This means that the total number of female City and County Councillors has increased relative to the number of female candidates elected at the June 2024 elections; initially going from 247 (26.03% of total number of Councillors elected at the 2024 Local Elections) to 255 (26.93% of the total number of City/County Councillors, following the co-options made immediately after the general election). Following the election/nomination of six female Councillors to Seanad Éireann and subsequent co-options to fill vacancies caused by Seanad elections/nominations, the number currently stands at 259 (27.29% of the total number of City/County Councillors, at this point).
In the year immediately following the 2024 County and City Council elections, most of the people in this group of former Councillors would have been people who were “promoted” to take up positions in Dáil or Seanad Éireann. In all, 71 of the former Councillors (91.0% of the former Councillors grouping) fall into this group of Councillors who were subsequently “promoted” to national office – 53 (including one co-opted Councillor) were elected to Dáil Éireann and 18 were elected, or nominated, to Seanad Éireann. So, former County and City Councillors, who were elected in June 2024, currently account for 30.5% of all the seats in Dáil Éireann and 30.0% of all the seats in Seanad Éireann.
| Electoral Areas (166) | Standing Down/ Promoted/ Deceased | Co-option/ Replacement |
| Carlow | ||
| Carlow | ||
| Tullow | ||
| Muinebeag | ||
| Cavan | ||
| Bailieborough-Cootehill | Sarah O’Reilly AON | Adrian Rogers AON |
| Ballyjamesduff | ||
| Cavan-Belturbert | ||
| Clare | ||
| Ennis | ||
| Killaloe | Joe Cooney FG | Conor Ryan FG |
| Shannon | Donna McGettigan SF | James Ryan SF |
| Ennistymon | ||
| Kilrush | ||
| Cork County | ||
| Carrigaline | Séamus McGrath FF | Patrick Donovan FF |
| Bandon-Kinsale | ||
| Macroom | Eileen Lynch FG | Kate Lynch FG |
| Cobh | ||
| Midleton | Liam Quaide SD | Eamonn Horgan SD |
| Fermoy | Noel McCarthy FG | Kay Dawson FG |
| Kanturk | John Paul O’Shea FG | Aileen Browne FG |
| Mallow | Eoghan Kenny LAB | Ronan Sheehan LAB |
| Bantry-West Cork | Patrick Gerard Murphy FF | |
| Skibbereen-West Cork | Noel O’Donovan FG | Brendan McCarthy FG |
| Cork City | ||
| Cork City North East | Ken O’Flynn II | Noel O’Flynn II |
| Cork City North West | ||
| Cork City South Central | Pádraig Rice SD | Niamh O’Connor SD |
| Cork City South East | ||
| Cork City South West | Garret Kelleher FG, Laura Harmon LAB | Gary O’Brien FG, Ciara O’Connor LAB |
| Donegal | ||
| Donegal | Manus Boyle FG | Michael Boyle FG |
| Glenties | ||
| Milford | ||
| Buncrana | ||
| Letterkenny | ||
| Carndonagh | ||
| Lifford-Stranorlar | ||
| Dublin City | ||
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | ||
| Ballymun-Finglas | ||
| Artane-Whitehall | ||
| Donaghmede | Tom Brabazon FF | Aoibheann Mahon FF |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | ||
| Clontarf | Naoise Ó Muirí FG, Barry Heneghan IND | Clodagh Ní Mhuiri FG, Kevin Breen IND |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | Eoin Hayes SD, Tara Deacy SD | Tara Deacy SD, Noelle Brown SD |
| North Inner City | ||
| South West Inner City | Jen Cummins SD, Máire Devine SF | Ciarán Ó Meachair SF, Lesley Byrne SD |
| South East Inner City | ||
| Pembroke | James Geoghegan FG | David Coffey FG |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | ||
| Blackrock | ||
| Dún Laoghaire | ||
| Dundrum | Shay Brennan FF | Fiona Murray FF |
| Glencullen-Sandyford | ||
| Killiney-Shankill | ||
| Stillorgan | Maeve O’Connell FG | Eoin O’Driscoll FG |
| Fingal County | ||
| Balbriggan | ||
| Rush Lusk | Robert O’Donoghue LAB, Kevin Humphreys LAB | Kevin Humphreys LAB, Mark Boland LAB |
| Castleknock | Ruth Coppinger PBP-SOL | Helen Redwood PBP-SOL |
| Howth-Malahide | ||
| Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart | ||
| Ongar | ||
| Swords | Marian Buckley SF, Ann Graves SF | Ann Graves SF, John Smyth SF |
| South Dublin County | ||
| Clondalkin | ||
| Palmerstown-Fonthill | Shane Moynihan FF | Jacqueline Sheehy FF |
| Lucan | Paul Gogarty IND | Helen Farrell IND |
| Tallaght Central | Patrick Holohan IND, Teresa Costello FF | Dean Donnelly IND, Adam Smyth FF |
| Tallaght South | ||
| Rathfarnham-Templeogue | Ciarán Ahern LAB | Paddy Cosgrave LAB |
| Firhouse-Bohernabreena | ||
| Galway City | ||
| Galway City Central | ||
| Galway City East | ||
| Galway City West | John Connolly FF | Mike Crowe FF |
| Galway County | ||
| Athenry-Oranmore | Albert Dolan FF, Louise O’Hara SF | Seán Broderick FF, Martin McNamara SF |
| Gort Kinvara | P.J. Murphy FG | Lawrence (“Laurie”) Harney FG |
| Ballinasloe | ||
| Conamara North | ||
| Conamara South | ||
| Loughrea | Shane Curley FF | Michael Regan FF |
| Tuam | Pete Roche FG | Siobhan McHugh-Ryan FG |
| Kerry | ||
| Killarney | ||
| Listowel | Mike Kennelly FG | Aoife Kennelly FG |
| An Daingean | ||
| Kenmare | Michael Cahill FF | Tommy Cahill FF |
| Castleisland | ||
| Tralee | ||
| Kildare | ||
| Athy | ||
| Celbridge | ||
| Leixlip | Joe Neville FG | Paul Brooks FG |
| Maynooth | Naoise Ó Cearúil FF | Donna Phelan FF |
| Clane | Aidan Farrelly SD | Paula Mulroe SD |
| Kildare | Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh SF | Noel Connolly SF |
| Newbridge | ||
| Naas | ||
| Kilkenny | ||
| Castlecomer | ||
| Kilkenny | ||
| Callan-Thomastown | Peter “Chap” Cleere FF | Brian Cleere FF |
| Piltown | ||
| Laois | ||
| Borris in Ossory-Mountmellick | ||
| Graiguecullen-Portarlington | ||
| Portlaoise | William Aird FG | Paddy Buggy FG |
| Leitrim | ||
| Ballinamore | ||
| Carrick-on-Shannon | Des Guckian IND | Irene Guckian Rabbitte IND |
| Manorhamilton | ||
| Limerick | ||
| Limerick City East | ||
| Limerick City North | Conor Sheehan LAB | Padraigh Reale LAB |
| Limerick City West | ||
| Adare-Rathkeale | ||
| Cappamore-Kilmallock | ||
| Newcastle West | ||
| Longford | ||
| Ballymahon | ||
| Granard | Paraic Brady FG | Colin Dalton FG |
| Longford | ||
| Louth | ||
| Ardee | Paula Butterly FG | Rachel Kerley FG |
| Drogheda Urban | Joanna Byrne SF | Debbie McCole SF |
| Drogheda Rural | ||
| Dundalk-Carlingford | ||
| Dundalk-South | ||
| Mayo | ||
| Ballina | Mark Duffy FG (ex IND) | Marie Therese Duffy IND (subsequently joined FG) |
| Castlebar | ||
| Claremorris | Paul Lawless AON | Deirdre Lawless AON |
| Swinford | ||
| Belmullet | ||
| Westport | ||
| Meath | ||
| Ashbourne | ||
| Kells | ||
| Laytown-Bettystown | ||
| Navan | Linda Nelson Murray FG | John Duffy FG |
| Ratoath | Gillian Toole IND | Yvonne Everard IND |
| Trim | Aisling Dempsey FF | Paul O’Rourke FF |
| Monaghan | ||
| Ballybay-Clones | ||
| Carrickmacross-Castleblaney | ||
| Monaghan | Cathy Bennett SF, David Maxwell FG | Alan Johnston FG, Niamh McCooey SF |
| Offaly | ||
| Birr | John Clendennen FG | Eleanor Clendennen FG |
| Edenderry | ||
| Tullamore | Tony McCormack FF | Shane Murray FF |
| Roscommon | ||
| Athlone (Roscommon) | John Naughten FG (RIP) | Valerie Duffy FG |
| Boyle | ||
| Roscommon | Gareth Scahill FG, Anthony Waldron IND (RIP) | Ruth Connolly-Conboy FG, Michael Holland IND |
| Sligo | ||
| Ballymote-Tobercurry | ||
| Sligo-Drumcliffe | ||
| Sligo-Strandhill | Nessa Cosgrove LAB | Ann Higgins LAB |
| Tipperary | ||
| Carrick-on-Suir | Imelda Goldsboro FF | Amy Goldsboro FF |
| Cahir | ||
| Cashel-Tipperary | ||
| Clonmel | Michael Murphy FG | Tom Acheson FG |
| Nenagh | Ryan O’Meara FF | JP O’Meara FF |
| Newport | ||
| Roscrea-Templemore | ||
| Thurles | ||
| Waterford | ||
| Waterford City East | ||
| Waterford City South | ||
| Tramore-Waterford City West | Joe Conway IND | Sandra Conway IND |
| Portlaw-Kilmacthomas | ||
| Dungarvan | Conor D. McGuinness SF | Kate O’Mahoney SF |
| Lismore | ||
| Westmeath | ||
| Athlone (Westmeath) | Kevin Boxer Moran IND | John Gibbons IND |
| Moate | ||
| Mullingar | ||
| Kinnegad | ||
| Wexford | ||
| Gorey | Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin SF | Craig Doyle SF |
| Kilmuckridge | ||
| Enniscorthy | Cathal Byrne FG | Patricia Byrne FG |
| New Ross | ||
| Rosslare | ||
| Wexford | George Lawlor LAB | Vicky Barron LAB |
| Wicklow | ||
| Arklow | ||
| Baltinglass | Edward Timmons FG | Pat Mahon FG |
| Bray East | Aoife Flynn Kennedy FG | Ned Whelan FG |
| Bray West | ||
| Greystones | ||
| Wicklow |
In addition to the series of co-options, as outlined/discussed above, there has also been some changes in political party/grouping affiliations involving Councillors who were elected in June 2024. I estimate that, at present, at least 11 Councillors (1.16% of the total) would fall into this category (7 male – 1.00% of the male councillors elected in June 2024, 4 female – 1.77% of the female councillors elected in June 2024).
One of the main impacts of these changes of Councillor political affiliations has been to change the number of City or County Council members associated with different political parties or groupings. As of now, I estimate that the number of City or County Council seats held by different political parties or groupings stands are as follows: Fianna Fáil 246, Fine Gael 246, Independents/Non Party 195, Sinn Féin 99, Labour Party 56, Social Democrats 33, Green Party 23, Independent Ireland 22, Solidarity-People Before Profit 12 (People Before Profit 9, Solidarity 3), Aontú 8, 100% Redress Party 4, Right to Change 1, Independents 4 Change 1, National Party 1, Kerry Independent Alliance 1.
What are the most “competitive” constituencies at General Election 2024? 26 Nov 2024 5:05 AM (11 months ago)
Adrian Kavanagh, 26th November 2024
What are the most “competitive” constituencies at General Election 2024? There are different ways of thinking about this, but most of these are largely opinion-based and not quantifiable. In this article, I have tried to devise a more “objective” way of determining the relative competitiveness levels of different constituencies and ultimately a constituency’s overall ranking is simply based on how “the numbers fall” and not my own opinion.
In an effort to be as objective as possible here and to see where constituencies fall once the numbers are added up, I have devised a measure that is based on the level of electoral experience that a range of candidates have in a constituency, while relating this back to the number of seats in that constituency. A constituency’s ranking is based, in part, on the number of incumbents/Dáil deputies that are contesting the general election in that constituency, but it is also based on the number of Senators and County/City Councillors that are contesting that constituency also, but with a much greater weighting being given to the number of Dail deputies relative to these. The competitiveness score also takes account of candidates who do not currently hold electoral office, but did hold electoral office in the past, although the weighting given to such candidates is not as high as it would be for those who do currently hold electoral office. Finally, the score also factors in the number of former Dail deputies that might be contesting that constituency. The Kavanagh Constituency Competitiveness Score (KCC Score), hence, is largely shaped by the degree of experience that candidates have in terms of winning past elections, but also the experiences they have gained from their positions as current/past public representatives.
Why focus on this? Well, past experience shows that incumbents do have a significant advantage when it comes to contesting elections. While some incumbents will always lose at an election, they, on average, have a better chance of winning a seat than other candidates do. Over three quarter of the Dáil deputies (75.4%) who contested the 2020 General Election won seats, as opposed to 37.5% of Senator candidates and 24.4% of County/City Councillor candidates. 31.8% of former Dáil deputy candidates successfully navigated a return to the Dáil, as well as a very high percentage of former County/City Councillors (62.5%, which did reflect the impact of the Sinn Féin surge in that election. By contrast, only five of the successful candidates (and just 1.5% of the total number of candidates in this group) had not previously held electoral office (and two of these had contested previous Dáil elections and another one had contested the 2019 County Council elections). So, it is obvious that candidates have a much better chance of success if they have previously successfully contested an election campaign and are holding, or have held, electoral office.
The measure is not as nuanced as it might be if I had a bit more time to work on this (hey, I’ve a stack of marking the size of a pile of non-transferable votes waiting for me on my desk), but there is some degree (!) of science behind the KCC score measure and it does hopefully pinpoint constituencies that are especially competitive due to the high number of experienced politicians contesting these (for instance, Wicklow, in which five incumbents are contesting four seats, in addition to other candidates) and those constituencies in which “opportunity spaces” might open up for new candidates, in part because there are few (or none, in the case of Wicklow-Wexford) incumbents contesting these.
| Rank | Constituency | KCC Score |
| 1 | Kildare South | 4.29 |
| 2 | Wicklow | 3.80 |
| 3 | Sligo-Leitrim | 3.68 |
| 4 | Dublin South Central | 3.67 |
| Limerick City | 3.67 | |
| 6 | Dublin Fingal East | 3.50 |
| 7 | Dublin Central | 3.47 |
| 8 | Dublin Mid West | 3.34 |
| 9 | Wexford | 3.30 |
| 10 | Galway West | 3.27 |
| 11 | Dublin South West | 3.20 |
| 12 | Cavan-Monaghan | 3.17 |
| 13 | Cork South West | 3.11 |
| Offaly | 3.11 | |
| 15 | Tipperary South | 3.07 |
| 16 | Dublin Bay South | 3.05 |
| 17 | Dublin West | 3.01 |
| 18 | Cork North Central | 3.00 |
| Meath East | 3.00 | |
| 20 | Waterford | 2.96 |
| (State Average) | 2.84 | |
| 21 | Kildare North | 2.77 |
| 22 | Dublin North West | 2.73 |
| 23 | Clare | 2.72 |
| 24 | Dun Laoghaire | 2.71 |
| Longford-Westmeath | 2.71 | |
| 26 | Limerick County | 2.67 |
| Meath West | 2.67 | |
| Tipperary North | 2.67 | |
| 29 | Cork South Central | 2.61 |
| Mayo | 2.61 | |
| 31 | Dublin Rathdown | 2.55 |
| 32 | Cork East | 2.50 |
| 33 | Roscommon-Galway | 2.46 |
| 34 | Dublin Fingal West | 2.44 |
| 35 | Carlow-Kilkenny | 2.40 |
| Dublin Bay North | 2.40 | |
| 37 | Louth | 2.33 |
| 38 | Donegal | 2.31 |
| 39 | Cork North West | 2.17 |
| 40 | Kerry County | 2.14 |
| 41 | Galway East | 2.00 |
| Laois | 2.00 | |
| 43 | Wicklow-Wexford | 1.51 |
The ranking suggests that Kildare South will be the most competitive constituency for the upcoming general election. The effective seat reduction, due to the automatic re-election of the Ceann Comhairle, does play a role here, but the constituency is also being contested by all three of the other incumbents, two Senators (one of whom is a former Dail deputy) and three County Councillors. The next highest ranked constituency is probably no surprise here given that the boundary changes, arising from the 2023 Electoral Commission report, have left five sitting Dáil deputies contesting a constituency which now has only four seats, with four County Councillors, one of whom is a former Dáil deputy, also contesting the Wicklow constituency. Sligo-Leitrim edges onto the KCC score podium, just narrowly ahead of Dublin South-Central and Limerick City. Even though one of the current Sligo-Leitrim Dáil deputies will not be contesting the upcoming election, the other three incumbents are running, as well as a large number (7) of County Councillors and one former Dáil deputy and also a former MEP. There is also a relatively high number of City Councillors (6) contesting Dublin South-Central, which would be the most competitive constituency in Dublin based on the KCC score metric, in addition to three of the constituency’s four outgoing Dail deputies and two Senators. With all four incumbents contesting Limerick City, in addition to two Senators and four City/County Councillors, again it is not surprising why this constituency ranks highly in terms of the KCC score.
At the other end of the scale, the constituency with the lowest KCC score (by some distance) is the new Wicklow-Wexford constituency. Again, this is perhaps not a major surprise. The boundary changes in the 2023 Electoral Commission report left all the outgoing Dáil deputies in the old Wicklow and Wexford five-seaters in the territories of the new Wicklow and Wexford four-seat constituencies, and Wicklow-Wexford will be the only constituency at the 2024 General Election that will not be contested by at least one incumbent. This effectively leaves Senator Malcolm Byrne (who briefly held a Dail seat between the 2019 Wexford Dáil by-election and the 2020 General Election) as the most senior politician in this contest, with it being also contested by two County Councillors. The Laois and Galway East constituencies are the next lowest in the competitiveness ranking based on the KCC scores. Laois will be contested by two incumbents (the other Laois-based incumbent is retiring) and two County Councillors. Galway East is also being contested by two incumbents (the other Galway East incumbent is retiring) and four County Councillors, but it has gained an extra seat for this election, which does open up more of an opportunity space for prospective new candidates.
The Younger Ones: General Election 2024/2025 candidates aged between 21 and 35 2 Sep 2024 7:03 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, Originally posted on 2nd September 2024
In a similar vein to earlier posts relating to the 2020 General Election, 2016 General Election and 2011 General Election candidates, this page seeks to list the names, and party affiliations, of all the candidates for the 2024/2025 General Election whose ages fall in the 21-35 years age category. (Candidates whose ages fall in the 18-30 years age category will be denoted by a * – all the other candidates listed here fall into the 31-35 year age category, apart from those cases where it is not clear whether the candidates falls into the 21-30 or 31-35 age categories.)
Please note that this is/will probably be an incomplete list due to difficulties in getting age-related information. Given the difficulties involved in getting age details for some candidates, the likelihood is that I will miss out on some names that should be included here, but I will do my best to ensure this list is as accurate as possible.
If you note any glaring absences (and especially if you are one of the candidates that should be listed below, or else are incorrectly listed below), then please feel free to comment below, or to Tweet me at @AdrianKavanagh or email me at adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie instead.
From the get-go, this list does/will not include candidates who might run or who are highly likely to run, but this list just includes party candidates who had been officially selected to run at conventions or independent candidates who have publicly declared their intention to contest the upcoming general election. I will also try not to add candidates onto this list until I am (pretty) sure that their age details are correct.
At present (Updated: 14th November 2024), I can currently account for fifty four candidates in the 21-35 age category (8.9% of the total number of general election candidates listed so far). Twenty one (40.7%) of the candidates in this group are female and thirty three (59.3%) of the candidates in this group are male. Seventeen of these candidates are in the 21-30 age category (2.8% of the total number of candidates).
A slightly higher proportion of all female candidates (9.4%) currently fall into the 21-35 age category than the proportion/percentage of all male candidates (8.6%) that do.
Political parties, to date, have selected 49 candidates (10.9% of the total number of political party candidates selected to date), who are in the 21-35 year-old age category.
In terms of political parties/groupings, out of the candidates listed below:
- 11 are People Before Profit-Solidarity candidates – 26.8% of the total number of People Before Profit-Solidarity candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 6 are Sinn Féin candidates – 8.5% of the total number of Sinn Fein candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 5 are Social Democrat candidates – 19.2% of the total number of Social Democrats candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
- 5 are Aontú candidates – 11.9% of the total number of Aontú candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
- 5 are Fianna Fáil candidates – 6.0% of the total number of Fianna Fail candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 5 are Independent candidate – 4.9% of the total number of Independents 4 Change candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 4 are Fine Gael candidates – 5.0% of the total number of Fine Gael candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 4 are Labour Party candidates – 12.5% of the total number of Labour Party candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
- 4 are Green Party candidate – 9.3% of the total number of Green Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 1 is a Rabharta candidate – 100.0% of the total number of Rabharta candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 1 is an Independents 4 Change candidate – 50.0% of the total number of Independents 4 Change candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 1 is a Party For Animal Welfare candidate – 33.3% of the total number of Party For Animal Welfare candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 1 is a National Party candidate – 11.1% of the total number of National Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
- 1 is an Irish Freedom Party candidate – 6.7% of the total number of Irish Freedom Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
| Constituencies (43) | Candidates Aged 18-35 |
| Carlow-Kilkenny | Adrienne Wallace PBP, Patricia Stephenson SOCDEM |
| Cavan-Monaghan | |
| Clare | |
| Cork East | James O’Connor* FF, William O’Leary IND |
| Cork North Central | Eoghan Kenny* LAB, Rachel Hurley Roche* IND/WP. Joe Lynch Sinn Féin |
| Cork North West | Nicole Ryan SF, Becky Kealy* AON |
| Cork South Central | Monica Oikeh GP, Pádraig Rice SOCDEM, , Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire SF, Shane Laird PBP, Lorna Bogue RAB |
| Cork South West | Holly Cairns SOCDEM, Zoe Laplaud* PBP |
| Donegal | |
| Dublin Central | Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin PBP |
| Dublin Mid West | |
| Dublin Fingal East | Dean Mulligan I4C |
| Dublin Fingal West | Bryn Edwards PBP |
| Dublin Bay North | Aoibhinn Tormey FG, Shane Folan LAB |
| Dublin North West | Conor Reddy* PBP |
| Dublin Rathdown | |
| Dublin South Central | Darragh Moriarty* LAB |
| Dublin Bay South | Brigid Purcell PBP, Nick Delehanty IND |
| Dublin South West | Niamh Whelan SF |
| Dublin West | Ellen Murphy SOCDEM, Jack Chambers FF |
| Dun Laoghaire | Hugo Mills SocDem |
| Galway East | Louis O’Hara* SF, Luke Silke AON, Albert Dolan* FF |
| Galway West | Maisie McMaster* PBP |
| Kerry County | |
| Kildare North | Evie Sammon FG, Naoise Ó Cearúil FF, Leah Whelan* SOL |
| Kildare South | Melissa Byrne* AON |
| Laois | Rosie Palmer GP, Ken Mooney* PBP |
| Offaly | |
| Limerick City | Conor Sheehan LAB |
| Limerick County | Rob O’Donnell GP |
| Longford-Westmeath | Laura O’Neill AON, Louise Heavin IND |
| Louth | John McGahon FG |
| Mayo | Paul Lawless* AON |
| Meath East | Ruadháin Bonham* GP |
| Meath West | |
| Roscommon-Galway | Claire Kerrane SF, Andrew Mannion* PBP |
| Sligo-Leitrim | Michael Kelly IFP, Molly Candon PAW |
| Tipperary North | Ryan O’Meara* FF |
| Tipperary South | |
| Waterford | |
| Wexford | Cathal Byrne FG, Jason Murphy* NP |
| Wicklow-Wexford | |
| Wicklow |
Please note that all candidates in the 21-30 age category (that I am aware of, of course) are denoted by an * in the table above.
I will, of course, continue to update this page when new candidate selections/declarations are added in, or when I get age details relating to other younger candidates, who need to be added to this page.
TDs (33rd Dáil Éireann) who will not be contesting the next general election 17 Jul 2024 1:39 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh,17th July 2024 – latest update: 22nd October 2024
Following on similar posts that were completed ahead of the 2011 General Election, the 2016 General Election and the 2020 General Election, this post will list all of the Dail deputies who have retired/stepped down during the lifetime of the current Dail or who have announced that they will not be contesting the next general election. This list will not include any outgoing Dail deputies, who did contest their party’s selection convention but failed to win a nomination.
Thirty of the TDs who were elected in 2020 will be retiring at the next election/not contesting the next election, amounting to 18.7% of the Dáil deputies who held seats after the 2020 Dail contest.
This number does not include the four TDs who relinquished their Dáil seats after winning seats at the 2024 European Parliament elections – Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Labour, Dublin Bay North), Barry Cowen (Fianna Fáil, Laois-Offaly), Michael McNamara (Independent, Clare) and Kathleen Funchion (Sinn Féin, Carlow-Kilkenny) – or Michael McGrath (Fianna Fáil, Cork South-Central), who was appointed as the new EU Commissioner for the Republic of Ireland. The total number would increase to thirty five (21.9% of the total number elected in 2020) if this group of new MEPs were also included) and to thirty six (22.5%) of the total number elected in 2020) if Eoghan Murphy (Fine Gael, Dublin Bay South), who retired during the lifetime of the 32nd Dáil, was also included.
Twenty nine of the TDs in this group (so far) are male (79.4%), while seven are female (19.4%). This means that 23.6% of the male TDs, who were elected in February 2020, will be stepping down at the next general election, as against 18.9% of the female TDs, who were elected in February 2020.
176 of the TDs who will be stepping down at the general election are Fine Gael TDs, 3 are Fianna Fáil TDs, 2 are Labour Party TDs, 2 are Social Democrat TDs, 2 are Independent/Non-Party TD, 1 is a Sinn Féin TD, 1 is a Green Party TD, and 1 is a PBP-Solidarity TD.
If we consider all the TDs who were elected in February 2020 and will not be contesting the next general election (including Eoghan Murphy and the former Deputies who are now based in Europe), then we can see that 18 of the TDs who were elected for Fine Gael in February 2020 (51.4% of the total) will not be contesting the next general election, as well as 6 of the TDs who were elected for Fianna Fáil in February 2020, including Marc McSharry, (18.4% of the total), 3 of the TDs who were elected as Non Party candidates in February 2020, not including Marc McSharry (15.0% of the total), 3 of the TDs who were elected for Labour in February 2020 (50.0% of the total – Ivana Bacik won a seat a year later), 2 of the TDs who were elected for the Social Democrats in February 2020 (33.3% of the total), 2 of the TDs who were elected for Sinn Féin in February 2020 (5.4% of the total), 1 of the TDs who were elected for People Before Profit-Solidarity in February 2020 (20.0% of the total), and 1 of the TDs who were elected for the Green Party in February 2020 (8.3% of the total).
So far, the level of TDs retiring/stepping down at the coming general election is not on a par with the level for the 2011 General Elections, as discussed in greater detail here, but exceeds the level of retirements ahead of the 2016 and 2020 elections. 38 of the TDs who were elected in 2007 retired during the lifetime of the 30th Dail or retired at the 2011 contest, amounting to 22.9% of the TDs elected at the 2007 election. 6 of the retiring TDs in 2011 were female (15.8% of the total number of retiring TDs and 27.3% of the females elected at the 2007 contest) and 32 were male (22.2% of males elected at 2007 election). 21 of the TDs who were elected in 2011 (including the Dublin West by-election) retired/resigned during the lifetime of the 31st Dail or else retired/decided not to contest the 2016 General Election, amounting to 12.7% of the Dail deputies who held seats after the 2011 Dail contests. Nineteen of the TDs in this group were male and two were female. 19 of the TDs who were elected in 2016 retired/resigned during the lifetime of the 31st Dail or else retired/decided not to contest the 2020 General Election, amounting to 12.0% of the Dail deputies who held seats after the 2016 Dáil contest. Seventeen of the TDs in this group were male and two were female.
| Constituency | Retiring TD |
| Carlow-Kilkenny | John Paul Phelan FG |
| Cavan-Monaghan | Heather Humphries FG |
| Clare | Joe Carey FG |
| Cork East | David Stanton FG, Sean Sherlock LAB |
| Cork North Central | |
| Cork North West | Michael Creed FG |
| Cork South Central | Simon Coveney FG |
| Cork South West | |
| Donegal | Joe McHugh FG |
| Dublin Central | |
| Dublin Mid West | |
| Dublin Fingal East | |
| Dublin Fingal West | |
| Dublin Bay North | Richard Bruton FG, Sean Haughey FF, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin LAB |
| Dublin North West | Roisin Shortall SocDem |
| Dublin Rathdown | Josepha Madigan FG |
| Dublin South Central | Brīd Smith PBP |
| Dublin Bay South | Eamonn Ryan GP |
| Dublin South West | |
| Dublin West | Leo Varadkar FG |
| Dún Laoghaire | |
| Galway East | Ciarán Cannon FG |
| Galway West | Éamon Ó Cuív FF |
| Kerry | Brendan Griffin FG |
| Kildare North | Catherine Murphy SocDem |
| Kildare South | |
| Laois | Charlie Flanagan FG |
| Offaly | Barry Cowen FF |
| Limerick City | |
| Limerick County | |
| Longford-Westmeath | |
| Louth | Fergus O’Dowd FG, Imelda Munster SF, Peter Fitzpatrick IND |
| Mayo | Michael Ring FG |
| Meath East | |
| Meath West | Damien English FG |
| Roscommon-Galway | Denis Naughten IND |
| Sligo-Leitrim | Marc McSharry IND (ex FF) |
| Tipperary North | Jackie Cahill FF |
| Tipperary South | |
| Waterford | |
| Wexford | Brendan Howlin LAB. Paul Kehoe FG |
| Wicklow-Wexford | |
| Wicklow |
This post will be updated if, and when, more TDs announce that they have decided not to contest the next general election.
Candidates for the 2024 General Election by Dáil constituency 10 Jul 2024 3:11 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, First Posted – 10th July 2024, Most Recent Update – Tuesday 26th November 2024
We are now in the run in to the next general election, which in theory could have taken place at any stage up to March 2025, but now looks likely to take place in November 2024 or early December 2024. This post will track all candidate selections or candidate declarations, with respect to the next general election, as and when these happen (and, more importantly, as soon as I become aware of them!). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection. In the case of non-party candidates, I will add these to the list as soon as a non-party candidate has declared their intention to contest the upcoming general election (and I become aware of this).
I try my best to find information about candidate selection conventions at the local level, but in some cases this information is hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly. In some cases, a candidate may have withdrawn some time before I am aware of this and hence remain on this page after they should have been excluded. This post also takes account of the fact that there will be changes to Dáil constituencies at the upcoming general election.
Carlow-Kilkenny (5 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy John McGuinness (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Malcolm Noonan (Green Party), Cllr. David Fitzgerald (Fine Gael), Cllr. Peter ‘Chap’ Cleere (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Adrienne Wallace (People Before Profit), Cllr. Seán Ó hArgáin (Labour Party), Cllr. Michael Doyle (Fine Gael), Cllr. Eugene McGuinness (Independent), Áine Gladney Knox (Sinn Féin), Natasha Newsome Drennan (Sinn Féin), Catherine Callaghan (Fine Gael), Orla Donohoe (Irish Freedom Party), Tom Healy (Independent), Noel G. Walsh (Independent), Luke O’Connor (Independent), Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats), Gary O’Neill (Aontú), David Egan (Liberty Republic), John O’Leary (Independent)
Deputy Malcolm Noonan was one of the first group of eleven selected general election candidates for the Green Party, as approved/confirmed by the Party Headquarters on 15 July 2024.
As reported by the Irish Independent (19 July 2024), the Fine Gael selection convention took place in the Woodford Dolmen Hotel in Carlow on 18 July 2024 and three candidates were selected at this – Cllrs. Michael Doyle and David Fitzgerald from County Kilkenny, and Catherine Callaghan (a local election candidate who lost out on a Council seat by just one vote) from County Carlow. The convention was also contested by former TD, Pat Deering, and local election candidate, Orla Kelly.
As reported by the Kilkenny People (19 July 2024), Tom Healy has announced that he will contest this constituency as an Independent candidate.
Deputy Jennifer Murnane O’Connor was selected as Fianna Fáil candidate in a separate selecrion convention for the Carlow side of the constituency on 25 July 2024. The Kilkenny selection convention is scheduled to take place in September 2024 and the KCLR website (30 August 2024) reports that only two candidates have been nominated to contest this – Deputy John McGuinness and Cllr. Peter “Chap” Cleere – with both candidates expected to be confirmed as party candidates when the convention takes place. This has now been scheduled for Monday 7 October.
The KCLR website (6 September 2024) reports that Áine Gladney Knox and Natasha Newsome Drennan have been nominated to contest the Sinn Féin selection convention at the Clubhouse Hotel in Kilkenny on 7 September 2024, where both will be ratified as the Sinn Féin candidates for this constituency.
As reported by the KCLR website (3 October 2024), the Social Democrats selection convention took place on 2 October 2024 in the Avalon Hotel in Castleccomer and Patricia Stephenson was selected at this.
Cllr. Seán Ó hArgáin was selected as the Labour Party candidate at their selection convention on 3 October 2024.
As reported by the Carlow Nationalist (4 October 2024), Cllr. Adrienne Wallace was announced as the People Before Profit candidate for Carlow-Kilkenny on 4 October 2024.
As reported by the Kilkenny People (5 November 2024), Cllr. Eugene McGuinness has announced his intention to contest the election as an independent candidate.
Cavan-Monaghan (5 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy Matt Carthy (Sinn Féin), Deputy Pauline Tully (Sinn Féin), Deputy Niamh Smyth (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Brendan Smith (Fianna Fáil), Senator Robbie Galllagher (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. David Maxwell (Fine Gael), Cllr. Cathy Bennett (Sinn Féin), Cllr Sarah O’Reilly (Aontú), Cllr. Carmel Brady (Fine Gael), Cllr. TP O’Reilly (Fine Gael), Cllr. Shane P. O’Reilly (Independent Ireland), Lester Gordon (Independent), Emma Hendrick (People Before Profit), Eddie O’Gara (Green Party), Val Martin (Irish Freedom Party), Mark Moore (National Party), Joseph Duffy (Independent), Shane Mulligan (Liberty Republic), Feargal Joseph Deery (Independent), Jimmy Stavrous Mee (Independent)
In late July 2024 it was confirmed that Cllr Sarah O’Reilly would be the Aontú candidate for Cavan-Monaghan.
Deputy Matt Carthy and Deputy Pauline Tully were selected to contest the Cavan-Monaghan constituency for Sinn Féin at the party’s selection convention in the Errigal Hotel in Cootehill on 3 September 2024, as reported by The Anglo Celt (4 September 2024). Gabija Gataveckaite reported in the Irish Independent (1 November 2024) that Sinn Féin were holding a second convention on 3 November 2024, with Cllr. Cathy Bennett expected to be selected as a third candidate in this. This convention will take place in The Four Seasons Hotel in Monaghan Town, according to the Northern Sound website (2 November 2024).
Independent Ireland announced that Cllr. Shane P. O’Reilly would be their candidate for Cavan-Monaghan on Friday 13 September 2024.
As reported by Aisling Kiernan for the Anglo-Celt (3 October 2024), Lester Gordon, who was runner-up in the Ballyjamesduff electoral area at June’s local election contests, has announced his intention to contest the general election.
According to the Northern Sound (16 October 2024) website, the Fine Gael selection convention has been scheduled to take place on 21 October 2024 in the Errigal Hotel in Cootehill, with the expectation being that the same candidates would run for the party as ran in 2020 – Deputy Heather Humphries and Cllr. TP O’Reilly. However on 19 October 2024 Deputy Humphries announced that she would not be contesting the next general election. Following on this, the selection convention was postponed until 25 October with a new call for nominations, as reported on the Northern Sound website (21 October 2024). The Ango-Celt (24 October 2024) reported that four candidates had been nominated to contest this convention – Senator Joe O’Reilly and Cllr. T.P. O’Reilly from Cavan and Cllrs. David Maxwell and Aidan Campbell from Monaghan (This report also listed Eddie O’Gara as the Green Party candidate for Cavan-Monaghan). Cllrs. TP O’Reilly and David Maxwell were selecte at this convention, with Senator Joe O’Reilly also contesting the vote. On 27 October 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Carmel Brady was being added to the Fine Gael candidate list for Cavan-Monaghan.
Deputy Niamh Smyth, Deputy Brendan Smith and Senator Robbie Galllagher were selected to contest the general election in Cavan-Monaghan at the Fianna Fáil selection convention, which took place on 29 October 2024 at the Errigal Country House Hotel in Cootehill, as reported on the Northern Sound website (30 October 2024).
Fergal Brides (Independent) initially appeared on the officially nominated candidates list, but seems to have withdrawn before the official deadline
Clare (4 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy Cathal Crowe (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne (Independent), Senator Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fáil), Senator Róisín Garvey (Green Party), Cllr. Rita McInerney (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Joe Cooney (Fine Gael), Cllr. Donna McGettigan (Sinn Féin), Eddie Punch (Independent Ireland), Matthew Moroney (Independent), Hilary Tonge (Social Democrats), Leonora Carey (Fine Gael), Tom Nolan (Fine Gael), Kevin Hassett (Independent), Amanda Major (Independent), Caitríona Ní Chatháin (Socialist Party), June Dillon (Aontú), Michael Loughrey (The Irish People), Michael Leahy (Irish Freedom Party), Paddy Murphy (Independent), Barry O’Donovan (Rabharta)
As reported in the Clare Champion (26th August 2024), after Deputy Joe Carey announced his decision to step down at the next general election on health grounds, his sister, Leonora Carey, has announced her intention to seek a nomination to contest the election in Clare as a Fine Gael canddiate at the party’s selection convention on 6 September 2024. Senator Martin Conway had also been nominated to contest the selection convention, but he withdrew as he believed that a single candidate strategy would be best to ensure Fine Gael retained their seat, as reported by the Clare FM website (5 September 2024). As reported by Páraic McMahon of the Clare Echo (8 September 2024), the Fine Gael selection convention took place on 6 September 2024 in Treacy’s West County Hotel and Leonora Carey, as the only remaining nominee, was selected. Fine Gael made two further additions in the days before the election was officially called, adding Tom Nolan on 2 November 2024 and adding Cllr. Joe Cooney on 3 November 2024, as reported on the Clare Champion website (3 November 2024).
On 30 August 2024 it was confirmed that Hilary Tonge would be the Social Democrats candidate for Clare.
It was announced on 5 September 2024 that Eddie Punch would be the Independent Ireland candidate for Clare.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 10 September 2024. Deputy Cathal Crowe, Senator Timmy Dooley and Cllr. Rita McInerney were the candidates that were selected at this convention.
On 29 September 2024 Matthew Moroney, who was runner up in the Killaloe electoral at the 2024 Local Elections as an Independent Ireland candidate, has announced that he will be contesting Clare as an independent candidate.
Aontú confirmed on 20 October 2024 that June Dillon would be their candidate in Clare.
Cork East (4 seats – 18 candidates): Deputy Pat Buckley (Sinn Féin), Deputy James O’Connor (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Noel McCarthy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Deirdre O’Brien (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley (Independent), Cllr. William O’Leary (Independent), Cllr. Liam Quaide (Social Democrats), Frank Roche (Independent), Mona Stromsoe (Aontú), Mark Stanton (Fine Gael), Clíona O’Halloran (Green Party), Kathryn Bermingham (Independent Ireland), Mehdi Özçınar (Sinn Féin), Asch Ní Fhinn (People Before Profit), James Peter O’Sullivan (The Irish People), Ross Cannon (Independent), Catherine Lynch (Independent Ireland), John O’Leary (Independent)
The Echo Live website (18 July) reported that only two candidates had been nominated to contest the Fine Gael selection convention; Cllr. Noel McCarthy and Mark Stanton, son of outgoing Fine Gael Dáil Deputy, David Stanton. They were selected at the convention, which took place on 19 July 2024.
A Sinn Féin selection convention in May 2023 saw the selection of Deputy Pat Buckley and Melissa O’Brien to contest this constituency, as reported by the Irish Examiner (14 May 2023). A follow up convention on 7 August 2024, however, saw Pat Buckley reconfirmed as the sole Sinn Féin candidate for this constituency.
On 14 August 2024 Cllr. Liam Quaide was selected as the Social Democrats candidate for Cork East at a convention held in Midleton, as reported in the Irish Examiner (14 August 2024).
Kathryn Bermingham was announced as the Independent Ireland candidate on 20 September 2024.
Deputy James O’Connor and Cllr. Deirdre O’Brien were confirmed as Fianna Fáil candidates for Cork East at the party selection convention on 23 September 2024.
On 22 October 2024 Cllr. Mary Linehan Foley announced her intention to contest Cork East as a non party candidatte. Former County Councillor, Frank Roche, has announced his intentiion to contest Cork East in the general election, as noted on the Echo Live website (27 October 2024).
There had been local media reports that John Mulvihill would be the Labour Party candidate in Cork East, but he did not subsequently appear on the ballot paper.
Cork North-Central (5 seats – 21 candidates): Deputy Thomas Gould (Sinn Féin), Deputy Pádraig O’Sullivan (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Colm Burke (Fine Gael), Deputy Mick Barry (Solidarity), Cllr. Tony Fitzgerald (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. John Maher (Labour Party), Cllr. Oliver Moran (Green Party), Cllr. Joe Lynch (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Garret Kelleher (Fine Gael), Cllr. Eoghan Kenny (Labour Party), Cllr. Ken O’Flynn (Independent Ireland), Rachel Hurley Roche (Independent/Workers Party), Finian Toomey (Aontú), Imelda Daly (Fine Gael), Derek Blighe (Ireland First), Ciarán McCarthy (Social Democrats), Sandra Murphy Kelleher (Fianna Fáil), Susan Doyle (Social Democrats), John Donohoe (Independent), Martin Condon (Independent), Joseph Gerard Peters (Independent)
The Echo Live website (18 July) reported that four candidates had been nominated to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention; Deputy Pádraig O’Sullivan and Cllrs Tony Fitzgerald (North Cork City), Gearóid Murphy (Mallow), and Colm Kelleher (Ballincollig). The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 26 August 2024 and Deputy Pádraig O’Sullivan was selected at this. Cllrs. Gearóid Murphy and Colm Kelleher withdrew when it was decided that only one candidate would be selected at the convention but with the proviso that a second candidate would be added to the ticket afterwards, as reported on the Echo Live website (28 August 2024).On 23 October 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Tony Fitzgerald would be added as a second candidate here. On 30 October 2024 it was announced that Sandra Murphy Kelleher would also be added as a Fianna Fáil candidate here. .
The CorkBeo website (22 June 2024) reported that Cllr. Ken O’Flynn would be contesting the general election in this constituency as an Independent Ireland candidate.
The Fine Gael selection convention took place in the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel on 5 September 2024 and Deputy Colm Burke was selected. Based on details provided on the party website (24 October 2024), Cllr. Garret Kelleher and Imelda Daly were added as Fine Gael general election candidates here in late October 2024.
Cllr. John Maher and Cllr. Eoghan Kenny were selected to contest the general election for the Labour Party at the party selection convention on 18 September 2024.
The Echo Live website (21 September 2024) reports that Deputy Thomas Gould and Cllr. Joe Lynch have been selected as the Sinn Féin candidates for Cork North-Central.
John O’Leary (Independent) initially appeared on the official list of nominated candidates but does not appear on the final Notice of Poll document.
Cork North-West (3 seats – 11 candidates): Deputy Michael Moynihan (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Aindrias Moynihan (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. John Paul O’Shea (Fine Gael), Cllr. Michael Creed (Fine Gael), Colette Finn (Green Partyt), Becky Kealy (Aontú), Joe Moore (People Before Profit), Nicole Ryan (Sinn Féin), Walter Ryan-Purcell (Independent), John O’Leary (Independent), Ellen Barry (Independent Ireland)
As reported by the Irish Times (26 March 2021), Liadh Ní Riada was selected contest this constituency for Sinn Féin in March 2021.However, she later withdrew.
As reported by the Irish Examiner (9 July 2024), three councillors – Eileen Lynch, John Paul O’Shea and Michael Creed – are set to contest the Fine Gael selection convention for Cork North-West on 22 July 2024. The convention took place on 29 July 2024 in the Springfort Hotel in Mallow and Cllrs. Michael Creed and John Paul O’Shea were selected at this convention. A directive ensured that one candidate would be selected from the northern part of the constituency, which ensured that Cllr. O’Shea would be selected, and one from the southern part of the constituency, with Cllr. Creed winning this “with a handful of votes to spare” over Cllr. Lynch, as reported by the EchoLive website (30 July 2024).
Deputy Michael Moynihan and Deputy Aindrias Moynihan were selected as Fianna Fáil candidates for Cork North-West at the party’s selection convention on 27 September 2024.
Walter Ryan-Purcell was selected as an Independent Ireland candidate for Cork North-West, but appears as a non party candidate on the official list of nominated candidates.
Cork South-Central (5 seats – 22 candidates): Deputy Micheál Martin (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Sinn Féin), Senator Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael), Cllr. Séamus McGrath (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Úna McCarthy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Shane O’Callaghan (Fine Gael), Cllr. Paudie Dineen (Independent), Cllr. Laura Harmon (Labour Party), Cllr. Pádraig Rice (Social Democrats), Mick Finn (Independent), Lorna Bogue (Rabharta), Anna Daly (Aontú), Monica Oikeh (Green Party), Michelle Cowhey Shahid (Sinn Féin), Shane Laird (People Before Profit), Margaret Kenneally (Fianna Fáil), Graham de Barra (Independent), Veronica Houlihan (Independent Ireland), Valerie Ward (Independent Ireland), Ted Neville (National Party), Tony Field (Independent), John O’Leary (Independent)
The Fine Gael selection convention took place in the Cork International Airport Hotel on 23 July 2024. As reported by The Irish Times (23 July 2024), the candidates to be selected were Cllrs. Shane O’Callaghan and Úna McCarthy, while the convention was also contested by Senator Jerry Buttimer, Cllr. Des Cahill and John Mullins. There was an expectation that Senator Buttimer would be added to the ticket in late September based on some positive internal party polling for him, as reported by Elaine Loughlin in The Examiner (25 September 2024). As reported by the Echo Live website (25 September 2024), Jerry Buttimer was added to the Fine Gael ticket on 25 September 2024.
Cllr. Laura Harmon was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Cork South-Central on 29 July 2024.
On 9 August 2024, it was confirmed that Cllr. Pádraig Rice would be the Social Democrats candidate in this constituency.
Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire was confirmed as the Sinn Féin candidate for Cork South-Central at the party selection convention in September 2024. In late October 2024 it was announced that Michelle Cowhey Shahid would be joining him on the party ticket.
Deputy Micheál Martin and Cllr. Séamus McGrath were selected as the Fianna Fáil candidates for this constituency at a selection convention on 27 September 2024, as reported on the Echo Live website (28 September 2024). As reported on the Echo Live (21 October 2024) website, Margaret Kenneally was added as a third candidate to the Fianna Fáil ticket in Cork South-Central.
On 26 October 2024 Veronica Houlihan was announced as the Independent Ireland candidate for Cork South-Central. Valerie Ward was added as a second candidate just before the close of nominations.
Cork South-West (3 seats – 14 candidates): Deputy Michael Collins (Independent Ireland), Deputy Holly Cairns (Social Democrats), Deputy Christopher O’Sullivan (Fianna Fáil), Senator Tim Lombard (Fine Gael), Cllr. Alan Coleman (Independent), Cllr. Noel O’Donovan (Fine Gael), Evie Nevin (Labour Party), Claire O’Callaghan (Sinn Féin), Mary Ryder (Green Party), Donnchadh Ó Seaghdha (Sinn Féin), Deborah O’Driscoll (The Irish People), Zoe Laplaud (People Before Profit), Mairéad Ruane (Aontú), John O’Leary (Indepedent)
Holly Cairns was formally selected as the Social Democrats candidate for Cork South-West at a selection convention on 5 July 2024.
Senator Tim Lombard and Cllr. Noel O’Donovan were selected as Fine Gael candidates for this constituency at the party’s selection convention, which took place on 31 July 2024.
Deputy Christopher O’Sullivan was selected to contest Cork South-West at the Fianna Fáil selection convention on 20 August 2024.
Evie Nevin was selected as the Labour Party candidate for this constituency at a selection convention on 26 September 2024.
Donegal (5 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy Pearse Doherty (Sinn Féin), Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn (Sinn Féin), Deputy Charlie McConalogue (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Thomas Pringle (Independent), Senator Nikki Bradley (Fine Gael), Cllr. Noel Jordan (Sinn Féin), Pat The Cope Gallagher (Fianna Fáil), Charles Ward (100% Redress Party), Claudia Kennedy (Fianna Fáil), Mary T Sweeney (Aontú), John McNulty (Fine Gael), Carol Gallagher (People Before Profit), Nuala Carr (Green Party), Niall McConnell (Independent), Kim McMenamin (The Irish People), Eamon McGee (Irish Freedom Party), Gerry McKeever (Independent), Frank O’Donnell (Independent), Vincent J Bradley (Independent), Arthur Desmond Mc Guinness (Independent)
It was reported on the Ocean FM website (10 July 2024) that Cllrs. Michael Naughton and Donal “Mandy” Kelly had annunced their intention to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention for the Donegal constituency. In total, Deputy Charlie McConalogue, Senator Niall Blaney, Cllr Donal “Mandy” Kelly, Cllr Michael Naughton, former Dáil Deputy/MEP Pat “The Cope” Gallagher, and Ben Harkin (from Ógra Fianna Fáil) were nominated to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention. As reported on the Donegal Live website (11 September 2024), the convention was scheduled for Thursday 12 September 2024 and it was decided that two candidates would be selected, with a district model to be used – one candidate to be selected for the northern part of the constituency and one for the southern part. In the lead up to the convention, Niall Blaney, Ben Harkin and Donal “Mandy” Kelly all withdrew, effectively guaranteeing the selection of Charlie McConalogue, as the only remaining candidate from the northern area. The other slot on the Fianna Fáil ticket will be contested by the two candidates from the southern area, Cllr. Michael Naughton and Pat “The Cope” Gallagher. As reported on the Donegal Live website (12 September 2024), the second space on the Fianna Fáil ticket was won by Pat The Cope Gallagher at that convention, which took place in the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny, winning a vote over Michael Naughton by a 169-96 margin. On 24 October 2024 it was announced that Claudia Kennedy would be added as a third candidate to the Fianna Fáil ticket.
Senator Nikki Bradley and John McNulty were selected as the Fine Gael candidates for Donegal at the party selection convention on 26 August 2024, as reported on the Donegal Daily website (26 August 2024).
The Ocean FM website (19 September 2024) reports that the Sinn Féin selection convention is scheduled to take place in the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny on 19 September 2024, with the party expected to go with a two-candidate strategy involving their two incumbents, Deputy Pearse Doherty and Deputy Padraig MacLochlainn, and this indeed turned out to the case. As reported by the Donegal Daily website (5 November 2024), Cllr., Noel Jordan was added as a third candidate to the Sinn Féin ticket in early November 2024.
In September 2024 Deputy Thomas Pringle confirmed that he would be contesting the general election as an independent candidate, as was also reported on the Ocean FM website (23 September 2024).
Donna Murray was selected to run for Independent Ireland, but did not appear on the official final list of candidates.
Dublin Central (4 seats – 13 candidates): Deputy Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin), Deputy Paschal Donohoe (Fine Gael), Deputy Neasa Hourigan (Green Party), Deputy Gary Gannon (Social Democrats), Senator Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fáil), Senator Marie Sherlock (Labour), Cllr. Janice Boylan (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Malachy Steenson (Independent), Clare Daly (Independents4Change), Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin (People Before Profit), Ian Smyth (Aontú), Gerry Hutch (Independent), Andrew Kelly (Centre Party of Ireland)
Senator Mary Fitzpatrick was selected to contest Dublin Central for Fianna Fáil on 15 February 2024.
Senator Marie Sherlock was selected to contest Dublin Central for Labour on 11 July 2024.
Deputy Paschal Donohoe was selected to contest Dublin Central for Fine Gael on 18 July 2024.
The Social Democrats convention was held on 25 July 2024 and Deputy Gary Gannon was officially selected as the party’s Dublin Central candidate at this.
Deputy Mary Lou McDonald and Cllr. Janice Boylan were selected to contest the general election at the Sinn Féin selection convention on 3 October 2024.
On 24 October 2024, Clare Daly announced she would be contesting Dublin Central as an Independents4Change candidate.
Dublin Mid West (5 seats – 17 candidates): Deputy Eoin Ó Broin (Sinn Féin), Deputy Mark Ward (Sinn Féin), Deputy Emer Higgins (Fine Gael), Deputy Gino Kenny (People Before Profit), Cllr. Paul Gogarty (Independent), Cllr. Vicki Casserly (Fine Gael), Cllr. Francis Timmons (Labour Party), Cllr. Alan Hayes (Independent), Cllr. Eoin Ó Broin (Social Democrats), Cllr. Shane Moynihan (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Linda de Courcy (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Glen Moore (Irish Freedom Party), Lynda Prendergast (Fianna Fáil), Karla Doran (Green Party), Colm Quinn (Aontú), Robert Coyle (The Irish People), Seanán Ó Coistín (Independent)
On 19 July 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Eoin Ó Broin had been selected to contest the general election for the Social Democrats.
Cllr Shane Moynihan, Cllr Trevor Gilligan and former Dáil Deputy, Conor Lenihan, have been nominated to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention. Shane Moynihan was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate for this constituency at a selection convention on 8 August 2024. On 5 September 2024 it was announced that Lynda Prendergast, who had contested Tallaght South in the local elections (finishing third on first preference votes, before ultimately missing out on a seat), would be added to the Fianna Fáil ticket as a second candidate.
The Sinn Féin selection convention took place in Clondalkin on 14 August 2024 and Deputy Eoin Ó Broin and Deputy Mark Ward were selected as party candidates at this.
The Irish Freedom Party announced that Cllr. Glen Moore would be their candidate for Dublin Mid-West on 11 September 2024.
Deputy Emer Higgins was selected as the Fine Gael candidate at the party selection convention, which took place on 18 September 2024. On 21 October it was announced that Cllr. Vicki Casserly was being added to the Fine Gael ticket in Dublin Mid-West.
Cllr. Linda de Courcy was announced as the Indepedent Ireland candidate for Dublin Mid-West on 19 September 2024.
The selection of Deputy Gino Kenny as People Before Profit candidate was confirmed at a selection convention on 8 October 2024.
On 25 October 2024 it was confirmed that Cllr. Francis Timmons, who was elected as an independent candidate at the last few local election contests, was joining Labour and would be their general election candidate.
Karla Doran has replaced Jithin Ram as the Green Party candidate for Dublin Mid-West.
Dublin Fingal East (3 seats – 15 candidates): Deputy Darragh O’Brien (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Alan Farrell (Fine Gael), Deputy Duncan Smith (Labour), Cllr. Dean Mulligan (Independents 4 Change), Cllr. Darren Jack Kelly (Independent), Cllr. Joan Hopkins (Social Democrats), Cllr. Ann Graves (Sinn Féin), Ian Carey (Green Party), Manju Devi (Fianna Fáil), Victoria Byrne (Irish Freedom Party), Ollie Power (People Before Profit), Margaret McGovern (Aontú), Tony ‘Theo’ Donnelly (Independent), Ben Gilroy (Liberty Republic), Fergal O’Connell (Independent)
Deputy Duncan Smith was selected as the Labour candidate for the new Dublin Fingal East constituency at a convention that took place on 12 July 2024.
Deputy Alan Farrell was selected to contest Dublin Fingal East for Fine Gael on 23 July 2024. On 2 November 2024 it was announced that Manju Devi was being added to the Fianna Fáil ticket.
Deputy Darragh O’Brien was selected to contest Dublin Fingal East for Fianna Fáil on 24 July 2024.
Cllr. Ann Graves was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for this constituency at a selection convention which took place in Swords on 15 August 2024.
On 16 August 2024, it was announced that Cllr. Joan Hopkins had been selected to contest this constituency for the Social Democrats.
In August 2024 it was announced that Margaret McGovern, who had won almost a thousand first preference votes when she contested the Howth-Malahide electoral area for Aontú at the June 2024 County Council elections, would be the Aontú candidate in this constituency.
Dublin Fingal West (3 seats – 12 candidates): Deputy Louise O’Reilly (Sinn Féin), Deputy Joe O’Brien (Green Party), Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Tony Murphy (Independent), Cllr. Robert O’Donoghue (Labour Party), Oghenetano John Uwhumiakpor (Independent), Robbie Loughlin (Aontú), Grace Boland (Fine Gael), Bryn Edwards (People Before Profit), John Oakes (Irish Freedom Party), Mark Joseph Parsons (The Irish People), Ben Gilroy (Liberty Republic)
Cllr. Robert O’Donoghue was selected as the Labour Party candidate on 26 July 2024.
Deputy Louise O’Reilly was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Fingal West at a selection convention on 7 August 2024.
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 26 August 2024 and Grace Boland was the candidate selected at this.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 10 September 2024 and this saw the selection of Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee as the party’s candidate for Dublin Fingal West.
Dublin Bay North (5 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy Denise Mitchell (Sinn Féin), Deputy Cian O’Callaghan (Social Democrats), Cllr. Deirdre Heney (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Mícheál Mac Donncha (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Aoibhinn Tormey (Fine Gael), Cllr. Naoise Ó Muirí (Fine Gael), Cllr. John Lyons (Independent), Cllr. Tom Brabazon (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. David Healy (Green Party), Cllr. Barry Heneghan (Independent), Bernard Mulvany (People Before Profit), Kevin Coyle (Independent), Shane Folan (Labour Party), Paul Fitzsimons (Irish Freedom Party), James Morris (Aontú), Diarmaid Ó Conoráin (Independent), Michael Burke (Independent), Brian Garrigan (Independent), Jamie McGlue (Independent), Stephen Doyle (Independent)
Cllrs. Aoibhinn Tormey and Naoise Ó Muirí were selected to contest this constituency for Fine Gael at a selection convention, which took place on 9 July 2024.
The Social Democrats selection convention took place on 15 July 2024 and Deputy Cian O’Callaghan was selected at this.
Bernard Mulvany was confirmed as the People Before Profit candidate in September 2024.
Cllr. Tom Brabazon was selected to contest Dublin Bay North for Fianna Fáil at the party selection convention on 5 September 2024. On 6 September 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Deirdre Heney was being added to the Fianna Fáil ticket.
Kevin Coyle, who won over one thousand first preference votes in Artane-Whitehall in June’s City Council elections before losing out on the last count, announced on 8 September 2024 that he would be contesting the election as an independent candidate.
As reported by Mike Finnerty in the Dublin People (26 September 2024), Cllr. John Lyons will be contesting Dublin Bay North as an independent candudate.
Shane Folan, who contested the Donaghmede electoral area in the 2024 Local Elections, was selected as the Labour Party candidate at the party selection convention on 27 September 2024.
Deputy Denise Mitchell and Cllr. Mícheál Mac Donncha were selected as the Sinn Féin candidates at the party selection convention on 3 October 2024.
Dublin North-West (3 seats – 13 candidates): Deputy Dessie Ellis (Sinn Féin), Deputy Paul McAuliffe (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Conor Reddy (People Before Profit), Cllr. Gavin Pepper (Independent), Noel Rock (Fine Gael), Caroline Conroy (Green Party), Cathleen Carney Boud (Sinn Féin), Edward Mac Manus (Aontú), Stephen Redmond (National Party), John Nisbet (Labour Party), Rory Hearne (Social Democrats), Ian Croft (Centre Party of Ireland), Diarmuid “Dougie” Mac Dubhghlais (Independent)
Deputy Paul McAuliffe was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate in April 2024.
Cllr. Conor Reddy was selected as the People Before Profit for this constituency in early August 2024.
The selection of Noel Rock as the Fine Gael candidate was confirmed on 24 October 2024.
Dublin Rathdown (4 seats – 15 candidates): Deputy Neale Richmond (Fine Gael), Deputy Catherine Martin (Green Party), Cllr. Michael Fleming (Independent), Cllr. Lettie McCarthy (Labour Party), Cllr. Shay Brennan (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Kevin Daly (Independent), Cllr. Maeve O’Connell (Fine Gael), Alan Shatter (Independent), Sinéad Gibney (Social Democrats), Elaine Dunne (Fianna Fáil), Liam Coughlan (Aontú), Shaun Tracey (Sinn Féin), Siomha Ó Caisaide (People Before Profit), Garrett McCafferty (National Party), Conor Murphy (Independent)
Senator Gerry Horkan, Cllr Shay Brennan and Cllr Michael Clark have been nominated to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention for Dublin Rathdown. This contested convention took place in The Goat (Goatstown) on 1 August 2024 and Cllr. Shay Brennan won the vote. On 18 October 2024 it was announced that Elaine Dunne would be added to the party ticket.
Cllr. Lettie McCarthy was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Dublin Rathdown at the party selection convention on 21 August 2024.
Shaun Tracey was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Dublin Rathdown at the party selection convention on 10 September 2024.
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 19 September 2024 and Deputy Neale Richmond and Cllr. Maeve O’Connell were the candidates to be selected at this.
In October 2024 former Dáil Deputy (and Minister), Alan Shatter, announced that he would be contesting the general election in Dublin Rathdown.
Dublin South-Central (4 seats – 18 candidates): Deputy Aengus O’Snodaigh (Sinn Féin), Deputy Joan Collins (Right To Change), Deputy Patrick Costello (Green Party), Senator Catherine Ardagh (Fianna Fáil), Senator Mary Seery-Kearney (Fine Gael), Cllr. Daithí Doolan (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Hazel De Nortúin (People Before Profit), Cllr. Máire Devine (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Darragh Moriarty (Labour Party), Cllr. Jen Cummins (Social Democrats), Cllr. Philip Sutcliffe (Independent Ireland), Aisling Considine (Aontú), Dolores Webster (Independent), Rebecca Hendrick (Independent Ireland), Richard Murray (Independent), Barry Ward (Irish Freedom Party), Jina Ahearne (The Irish People), John Paul Murphy (Rabharta)
Cllr. Darragh Moriarty was selected as the Labour Party candidate for this constituency on 19 July 2024.
Deputy Aengus O’Snodaigh and Cllr. Máire Devine were selected as the Sinn Féin candidates for this constituency at the party convention, which took place on the weekend of 31 August/1 September 2024. On 9 November 2024 it was confirmed that Sinn Féin would be running three candidates in Dublin South-Central, with Cllr. Daithí Doolan being added to the ticket.
Senator Mary Seery-Kearney was selected to contest the election as a Fine Gael candidate at the party selection convention, which took place in the West County Hotel in Chapelizod on 5 September 2024.
Senator Catherine Ardagh was selected to contest Dublin South-Central as the Fianna Fáil candidate at the party selection convention on 17 September 2024.
On 20 October 2024 Independent Ireland announced that Rebecca Hendrick would be their candidate in Dublin South-Central. On 21 October 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Philip Sutcliffe would also be contesting Dublin South-Central for Independent Ireland.
Dublin Bay South (4 seats – 17 candidates): Deputy Chris Andrews (Sinn Féin), Deputy Jim O’Callaghan (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Ivana Bacik (Labour Party), Cllr. Mannix Flynn (Independent), Cllr. James Geoghegan (Fine Gael), Cllr. Hazel Chu (Green Party), Cllr. Eoin Hayes (Social Democrats), Cllr. Emma Blain (Fine Gael), Kate O’Connell (Independent), Brigid Purcell (People Before Profit), Nick Delehanty (Independent), Alan Healy (Aontú), Lauralee Doyle (The Irish People), Peter Dooley (Independent), John Dominic Keigher (Independent), Peter Dooley (Independent), David Hennessy (Independent), Daniel Pocock (Independent)
Cllr. James Geoghegan was selected at the Fine Gael selection convention on 15 January 2024. On 13 October 2024 Fine Gael headquarters announced that Cllr. Emma Blain was being added as a second candidate to the party ticket.
The Labour Party selection convention took place on 28 June 2024 in the Terenure Sports Club and party leader, Deputy Ivana Bacik, was selected at this.
As reported by Claire Scott (15 July 2024) on Twitter/X (@ClaireH_Scott), Cllr. Hazel Chu won the vote to be the Green Party candidate for Dublin Bay South in a contest that also involved Cllrs. Claire Byrne and Carolyn Moore – the voting breakdown was reported to be: Hazel Chu 103, Claire Byrne 84, Carolyn Moore 10.
Deputy Jim O’Callaghan was selected at the Fianna Fáil selection convention on 23 July 2024.
On 29 July 2024 Cllr. Eoin Hayes was selected to run for the Social Democrats in this constituency.
The convention to select the Sinn Féin candidate took place on the 30 August 2024 and Deputy Chris Andrews was selected as the candidate.
As reported by TheJournal.ie (13 October 2024), former Fine Gael TD, Kate O’Connell, will be contestng Dublin Bay South as an independent candidate.
Dublin South-West (5 seats – 16 candidates): Deputy Seán Crowe (Sinn Féin), Deputy John Lahart (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Colm Brophy (Fine Gael), Deputy Paul Murphy (People Before Profit), Deputy Francis Noel Duffy (Green Party), Cllr. Alan Edge (Independent), Cllr. Ciarán Ahern (Labour Party), Cllr. Teresa Costello (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Paddy Holohan (Independent), Cllr. Niamh Whelan (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Sarah Barnes (Fine Gael), Saoirse Ní Chónaráin (Aontú), Yan Mac Oireachtaigh (National Party), Ross O’Mullane (Social Democrats), Niall Hade (Independent), Colm O’Keeffe (Independent)
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 15 July 2024 and Deputy Colm Brophy was selected at this. On 19 September 2o24 it was announced that Cllr. Sarah Barnes was being added to the Fine Gael ticket for Dublin South-West.
Cllr. Ciarán Ahern was selected to contest the general election for this constituency for the Labour Party on 25 July 2024.
Deputy Seán Crowe and Cllr. Niamh Whelan were selected to contest Dublin South-West for Sinn Féin at a selection convention which took place on 19 August 2024.
Cllr. Alan Edge formally launched his general election campaign on 16 September 2024; he will be contesting Dublin South-West as an independent candidate.
Dublin West (5 seats – 16 candidates): Deputy Paul Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Deputy Jack Chambers (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Roderic O’Gorman (Green Party), Senator Emer Currie (Fine Gael), Cllr. Ruth Coppinger (Solidarity), Cllr. Tania Doyle (Independent), Cllr. John Walsh (Labour Party), Cllr. Ellen Troy (Aontú), Cllr. Breda Hanaphy (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Patrick Quinlan (Natonal Party), Natalie Treacy (Independent), Lorna Nolan (Fianna Fáil), Umar Al-Qadri (Independent), Ellen Murphy (Social Democrats), Susanne Delaney (Independent), John Forde (Independent)
Cllr. John Walsh was selected to contest the general election for Labour at the party’s selection convention on 17 July 2024.
The selection of Cllr. Ellen Troy as the Aontú candidate for Dublin West was confirmed in July 2024, as reported by the Dublin People (18 July 2024).
Umar Al-Qadri, who had contested the European elections for the Dublin constituency in June 2024, announced on 17 July 2024 that he would be contesting Dublin West as an independent candidate.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention for Dublin West took place on 29 July 2024. Deputy Jack Chambers was selected as the party candidate at this convention. On 5 September 2024 it was announced that Lorna Nolan was being added as a second candidate to the Fianna Fáil ticket.
Deputy Paul Donnelly and Cllr. Breda Hanaphy were selected as the Sinn Féin candidates for Dublin West on 13 August 2024.
On 20 August it was announced that Ellen Murphy had been selected to contest Dublin West as the Social Democrats candidate.
On 17 September 2024 the Fine Gael selection convention took place and this saw the selection of Senator Emer Currie as the party candidate.
Cllr. Tania Doyle announced her intention to contest the general election on 7 October 2024.
On 12 October 2024 Natalie Treacy, who was a Sinn Féin councillor for the Castleknock electoral area between 2014 and 2024, announced that she will be contesting Dublin West as an independent candidate.
Dún Laoghaire (4 seats – 11 candidates): Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Fine Gael), Deputy Ossian Smyth (Green Party), Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit), Deputy Cormac Devlin (Fianna Fáil), Senator Barry Ward (Fine Gael), Cllr. Martha Fanning (Labour Party), Shane O’Brien (Sinn Féin), Mairéad Tóibín (Aontú), Hugo Mills (Social Democrats), Cathy Lynch (The Irish People), Michael O’Doherty (Independent)
Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and Senator Barry Ward were selected to contest this constituency for Fine Gael at a selection convention, which took place on 8 July 2024. This convention was also contested by Cllrs. Lorraine Hall and Marie Baker.
Hugo Mills was selected as the Social Democrats candidate on 17 July 2024.
Cllr. Martha Fanning was selected as the Labour Party candidate on 26 July 2024.
Deputy Cormac Devlin was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidates for Dún Laoghaire at the party’s selection convention on 29 August 2024.
Galway East (4 seats – 14 candidates): Deputy Anne Rabbitte (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Seán Canney (Independent), Cllr. Louis O’Hara (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Pete Roche (Fine Gael), Cllr. Clodagh Higgins (Fine Gael), Cllr. Declan Geraghty (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Albert Dolan (Fianna Fáil), Luke Silke (Aontú), Niamh Madden (Fine Gael), Eoin Madden (Green Party), Conor Burke (Solidarity), David Irish Chariot O’Reilly (The Irish People), Paul Madden (Independent), Fergal Landy (Independent)
A meeting in Galway of the local Aontú Cumann on 24 July 2024 selected Cormac Ó Corcoráin as the candidate for Galway West and Luke Silke as the candidate for Galway East for the forthcoming General Election.
The Connacht Tribune (26th August 2024) reported that Shane Dolphin would be contesting the Fine Gael selection convention. The Connacht Tribune (8th September 2024) reported that six candidates had been nominated to contest this convention, which took place in New Inn on 8 September 2024, including “Abbeyknockmoy Councillor Pete Roche, Tuam Branch Secretary Kabir Ahmmed, Galway East Fine Gael Chairman Shane Dolphin, founder of the Foods of Athenry Siobhan Lawless, Portumna Auctioneer Niamh Madden and Galway City Councillor Clodagh Higgins”. As reported on the Galway Bay FM website (8th September 2024) three candidates were selected; Cllr. Pete Roche, Cllr. Clodagh Higgins and Niamh Madden.
Deputy Anne Rabbitte and Cllr. Albert Dolan were selected as the Fianna Fáil general election candidates for Galway East at the party selection convention on 22 September 2024.
A report on the Galway Advertiser (28 October 2024) confirmed that Deputy Seán Canney will run again as a non-party candidate.
As reported by the Roscommon People (7 November 2024), Cllr. Declan Geraghty has announced his intention to contest the election as a non-party candidate.
Galway West (5 seats – 17 candidates): Deputy Mairead Farrell (Sinn Féin), Deputy Hildegarde Naughton (Fine Gael), Deputy Noel Grealish (Independent), Deputy Catherine Connolly (Independent), Senator Pauline O’Reilly (Green Party), Senator Seán Kyne (Fine Gael), Cllr. Mike Cubbard (Independent), Cllr. Noel Thomas (Independent Ireland), Cllr. John Connolly (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Helen Ogbu (Labour Party), Cllr. Ebhlín Seoighthe (Social Democrats), Maisie McMaster (People Before Profit), Pádraig Lenihan (Aontú), Gráinne Seoige (Fianna Fáil), Doran McMahon (Irish Freedom Party), Anthony Cahill (The Irish People), Patrick Feeney (Independent)
Deputy Hildegarde Naughton and Senator Seán Kyne were selected to contest the general election at the Fine Gael selection convention, which took place on 19 July 2024.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place in Oughterard on 6 September 2024 and Cllr. John Connolly and Gráinne Seoige were selected.
Deputy Mairead Farrell was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Galway West at a selection convention in late September 2024.
As reported on the Galway Bay FM website (28 October 2024), Cllr. Helen Ogbu will be selected as the Labour Party candidate for Galway West on 29 October 2024 in Shantalla Community Centre in Galway City.
Cormac Ó Corcoráin was initially selected to contest Galway West for Aontú but will now contest Roscommon-Galway instead and the Aontú candidate in this constituency is now Pádraig Lenihan.
As reported by the Galway Advertiser (7 November 2024), Cllr. Ebhlín Seoighthe has been selected to contest the general election for the Social Democrats.
Kerry (5 seats): Deputy Pa Daly (Sinn Féin), Deputy Michael Healy-Rae (Indepdendent), Deputy Norma Foley (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Danny Healy-Rae (Indepdendent), Cllr. Michael Cahill (Fianna Fáil), Thomas McEllistrim (Kerry), Cian Prendiville (People Before Profit), Cleo Murphy (Green Party), Mike Kennedy (Labour Party), Stephanie O’Shea (Sinn Féin), Linda Gordon-Kelleher (Fianna Fáil), Billy O’Shea (Fine Gael), Michelle Keane (Independent), Catherina O’Sullivan (Aontú), Mary Fitzgibbon (Independent), Brandon Begley (Irish Freedom Party), John O’Leary (Independent)
The Sinn Féin selection convention took place in Kerins O’Rahilly’s Clubhouse on 29 July 2024 and Depury Pa Daly was selected to contest the general election at this. As noted on the Tralee Today (6 November 2024) website, Stephanie O’Shea, who contested the local elections in Kenmare, has been added as a second Sinn Féin candidate in Kerry.
Deputy Norma Foley was selected to contest the Kerry constituency for Fianna Fáil at the party’s selection convention, which took place on 15 August 2024. This was a contested convention, with just one candidate to be selected, with the likelihood of a second or even third candidate being added later, and the other candidates to contest the convention were Cllr. Mikey Sheehy and Cllr. Michael Cahill. As reported by Sinead Kelleher of The Kerryman (16 August 2024), Norma Foley won 282 votes at the convention, while Michael Cahill won 53 and Mikey Sheehy won 32.
An article on the Radio Kerry website (5 September 2024) reported that Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and Deputy Danny Healy-Rae had confirmed that they would be contesting the general election.
The Radio Kerry website (11 September 2024) reports that four candidates will contest the Fine Gael selection in the Manor West Hotel in Tralee on 16 September 2024; Cllr. Tommy Griffin, Cllr. Mike Kennelly, Cllr. Michael Foley and “Killorglin auctioneer Billy O’Shea”. As reported by the Radio Kerry website (20 September 2024), Cllrs. Griffin, Foley and Kennelly all announced that they were withdrawing from the selection convention contest on 20 September, effectively leaving Billy O’Shea as the only candidate for the Fine Gael nomination and hes candidacy was confirmed at the convention,
On 28 August 2024 it was announced that Thomas McEllistrim would contest the Kerry constituency for Independent Ireland, as reported on the Radio Kerry website (28 October 2024).
Mike Kennedy was selected to contest the Kerry constituency for Labour at a selection convention which took place on 30 October 2024.
Kildare North (5 seats – 16 candidates): Deputy James Lawless (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Bernard Durkan (Fine Gael), Deputy Réada Cronin (Sinn Féin), Senator Vincent P. Martin (Green Party), Cllr. Joe Neville (Fine Gael), Cllr. Naoise Ó Cearúil (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Evie Sammon (Fine Gael), Cllr. Aidan Farrelly (Social Democrats), Cllr. Angela Feeney (Labour Party), Cllr. Bill Clear (Independent), Leah Whelan (Solidarity), Una O’Connor (Aontú), Caroline Hogan (Sinn Féin), Avril Corcoran (The Irish People), Gerry Waters (Irish Freedom Party), Sean Gill (Centre Party of Ireland).
As reported on the KFM Radio website (16 July 2024), Cllr. Rob Power has declared an interest in contesting the general election as a Fianna Fáil candidate.
Cllr. Angela Feeney was selected to contest the general election in Kildare North at the Labour Party selection convention on 23 July 2024.
Cllr Aidan Farrelly was selected by the Social Democrats to represent the party in Kildare North at a selection convention in Ardclough Community Centre on 24 July 2024, as reported on the KildarenNow website (25 July 2024). Some weeks later, Cllr. Bill Clear announced that he would be leaving the Social Democrat party and contesting Kildare North as an independent candidate, as reported by the KFM website (5 September 2024).
Deputy James Lawless was selected to contest the general election as the Fianna Fáil candidate on 31 July 2024. On 3 October 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Naoise Ó Cearúil would be added to the Fianna Fáil ticket, as reported by Hannah Kelly on the KFM website (3 October 2024).
Deputy Réada Cronin was selected to contest Kildare North as the Sinn Féin candidate at the party’s selection convention in September 2024. As reported by the Leinster Leader (8 November 2024), Caroline Hogan has been added as a second Sinn Féin candidate for Kildare North.
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 16 September 2024. The candidates who were selected at this convention were Deputy Bernard Durkan, Cllr. Evie Sammon and Cllr. Joe Neville.
Kildare South (4 seats* – 16 candidates (including the Ceann Comhairle)): Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Fianna Fáil)*, Deputy Martin Heydon (Fine Gael), Deputy Patricia Ryan (Independent), Deputy Cathal Berry (Independent), Senator Mark Wall (Labour Party), Senator Fiona O’Loughlin (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Chris Pender (Social Democrats), Cllr. Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh (Sinn Fein), Cllr. Tom McDonnell (Independent), Melissa Byrne (Aontú), Rob Cosgrave (Solidarity), Monaa K Sood (Green Party), Edel Doran (Independent Ireland), William Carton (Independent Ireland), Anthony Casey (Irish Freedom Party), Leanne O’Neill (Independent)
Senator Mark Wall was selected as the Labour Party candidate in a selection convention which took place on 12 July 2024.
Senator Fiona O’Loughlin was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate on 26 July 2024. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl has announced that he will step down as Ceann Comhairle after he is automatically returned to the next Dáil as a Dáil Deputy for Kildare South at the next general election, as reported by the Leinster Leader (30 October 2024).
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 29 August 2024 and Deputy Martin Heydon was selected at this.
A week ahead of what was to be a contested Sinn Féin selection convention, Deputy Patricia Ryan announced that she had resigned from the party on 10 October 2024. In an interview with KFM Radio on 11 October 2024 she said she would be contesting the next general election as an independent candidate. Cllr. Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh was selected as the Sinn Féin selection convention, which took place in Athy on 15 October 2024.
As reported by Martin Osborne on the KFM website (10 October 2024), Cllr. Chris Pender has been selected to contest Kildare South for the Social Democrats.
Laois (3 seats – 12 candidates): Deputy Brian Stanley (Independent), Deputy Seán Fleming (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Willie Aird (Fine Gael), Cllr. Aisling Moran (Independent), Pauline Flanagan (Independent), Maria McCormack (Sinn Féin), Rosie Palmer (Green Party), Elaine Mullally (Independent), Mary Hand (Aontú), Ken Mooney (People Before Profit), Austin Stack (Fianna Fáil), Jason Lynch (Independent)
It was reported by the Leinster Express (4 July 2024) that the Fine Gael selection convention would take place on 5 September 2025, probably in Portlaoise, with potential candidates including Cllrs. Vivienne Phelan, Willie Aird and Conor Bergin, as well as 2016 General Election candidate, Thomasina Connell. As reported by the Laois Voice (20 August 2024), three candidate ultimately were nominated to contest this selection convention; Cllr. Willie Aird, Cllr. Paddy Buggy and Cllr. Conor Bergin. The selexction convention took place in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise on 5 September 2024. Paddy Buggy and Conor Bergin both withdrew before a vote was taken and Cllr. Willie Aird was selected.
Deputy Seán Fleming was selected to contest the general election as the Fianna Fáil candidate on 31 July 2024. As reported by the Laois Today website (31 July 2024), he was the only person contesting this convention. On 8 November 2024 it was announced that Austin Stack was being added as a second Fianna Fáil candidate in Laois, as reported by Joe Barrett for the Laois Nationalist (8 November 2024).
Elaine Mullally, a former member of Independent Ireland, will contest Laois as an Independent candidate, as reported by Joe Barrett in the Laois Nationalist (9 August 2024).
As reported by Laois Today (12 October 2024), Sinn Féin TD, Brian Stanley has reported that he is resigning from the party. As reported by the Laois People website (30 October 2024), he has announced his decision to contest Laois as a non party candidate.The Sinn Féin selection convention has been scheduled to take place on Monday 4 November, with Maria McCormack, who contested the local elections in the Portlaoise electoral area in June, now expected to be the selected candidate (as reported on the Laois Today website (31 October 2024)).
Martha Ryan had initially been selected to contest Laois for Aontú, but she has withdrawn from the contest and on 25 October 2024 it was announced that Mary Hand would be contesting Laois for Aontú instead.
As reported on Laois Today (1 November 2024), Cllr. Aisling Moran has declared her intention to contest the general election in Laois as a non party candidate. Laois Today (5 November 2024) reports that her campaign has received the backing of three other County Councillors in Laois; Cllrs. Tommy Mulligan, James Kelly and Ben Brennan.
Offaly (3 seats -11 candidates): Deputy Carol Nolan (Independent), Senator Pippa Hackett (Green Party), Cllr. John Clendennen (Fine Gael), Cllr. Eddie Fitzpatrick (Independent), Cllr. Fergus McDonnell (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Tony McCormack (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Aoife Masterson (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Claire Murray (Fianna Fáil), Maureen Ward (Aontú), Keishia Taylor (Solidarity), Mike Boylan (Independent)
The Offaly Express (10 July 2024) reported that both Cllr. John Clendennen (Fine Gael) and Cllr. Peter Ormond (Fianna Fáil) had expressed their intention to contest the selection conventions for their respective political parties. It had earlier reported (Offaly Express (9 July 2024)) that Cllr. Neil Feighery would be contesting the Fine Gael selection convention. This convention took place on 29 August 2024 and Cllr. John Clendennen was selected at this. As reported by the Offaly Express (30 August 2024), this was also contested by Cllr. Neil Feighery.
Cllr. Tony McCormack was the successful candidate at the Fianna Fáil selection convention, which was held in the Tullamore Court Hotel on 23 September 2024 – he won in a vote that was also contested by Cllr. Peter Ormond and Cllr. Eddie Fitzpatrick, as reported by the Offaly Express (23 September 2024). On 3 October 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Claire Murray would be added as a second candidate to the Fianna Fáil ticket for Offaly. Some days after Cllr. Eddie Fitzpatrick announced that he would be contesting the general election as an Independent candidate, as reported on the Midlands 103 website (8 October 2024).
The selection of Cllr. Aoife Mastterson as the Sinn Féin candidate for Offaly was announced on 24 September 2024, as reported by Gearoid Keegan on the Offaly Live website (25 September 2024), and he also noted in that same report that Cllr. Fergus McDonnell would be the Independent Ireland candidate in Offaly.
Deputy Carol Nolan confirmed that she would be defending her seat at the general election (again as an independent candidate) on 25 September 2024.
Limerick City (4 seats – 17 candidates): Deputy Maurice Quinlivan (Sinn Féin), Deputy Willie O’Dea (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Kieran O’Donnell (Fine Gael), Deputy Brian Leddin (Green Party), Senator Maria Byrne (Fine Gael), Senator Paul Gavan (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Frankie Daly (Independent), Cllr. Elisa O’Donovan (Social Democrats), Cllr. Sarah Beasley (Aontú), Cllr. Conor Sheehan (Labour Party), Dee Ryan (Fianna Fáil), Esther Aherne (Independent Ireland), Ruairí Fahy (People Before Profit), Michelle Hayes (Independent), Melanie Sheehan Cleary (Independent/Mid West Hospital Campaign), Dean Quinn (The Irish People), Dean Lillis (Independent)
Melanie Sheehan Cleary was selected to run in the Limerick City constituency for the Mid West Hospital Campaign (MWHC) in early July 2024, as reported on the RTE News website (8 July 2024).
The selection of Deputy Brian Leddin as the Green Party candidate was confirmed in July 2024.
On 5 August 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Sarah Beasley would be the Aontú candidate for this constituency.
Cllr. Conor Sheehan was selected to contest Limerick City at the Labour Party selection convention on 19 August 2024. As reported by Nick Rabbitts of the Limerick Leader (20 August 2024), this convention took place in the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City and was also contested by Cllr. Elena Secas.
Deputy Maurice Quinlivan was selected unopposed at the Sinn Féin selection convention, as reported in the Limerick Post (23 August 2024). In early November 2024 it was announced that Senator Paul Gavan would be the second Sinn Féin candidate in Limerick City, as reported by the Limerick Leader (10 November 2024).
Deputy Kieran O’Donnell and Senator Maria Byrne were selected to contest the general election at the Fine Gael selection convention on 9 September 2024. As reported by the Limerick Leader (10 September 2024), this convention took place in the Castletroy Park Hotel and was also contested by Cllr. Olivia O’Sullivan.
In early September 2024 the selection of Cllr. Elisa O’Donovan as the Limerick City candidate for the Social Democrats was confirmed.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 19 September 2024 and Deputy Willie O’Dea and Dee Ryan, who finished in third place in the 2024 Limerick Mayoral Election, were the candidates to be selected at this.
On 11 October 2024 Independent Ireland announced that Esther Aherne, who was runner-up in the Limerick City West electoral area at June’s local elections, was to be their general election candidate in Limerick City.
Limerick County (3 seats – 15 candidates): Deputy Niall Collins (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Patrick O’Donovan (Fine Gael), Deputy Richard O’Donoghue (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Noreen Stokes (Fine Gael), Cllr. Bridie Collins (Fianna Fáil), Joanne Collins (Sinn Féin), Michael Ryan (Aontú), Rob O’Donnell (Green Party), Gerben Uunk (Party For Animal Welfare), Laura Fahey (People Before Profit), Lorraine O’Sullivan (Independent/National Alliance), Donna O’Loughlin (Irish Freedom Party), Jim Barrett (Independent), Richie Crehan (Independent), April Sheehan Corkery (Independent)
As noted by the Limerick Leader (25 November 2021), Joanne Collins was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for this constituency at a selection convention in November 2021.
Deputy Niall Collins and Cllr. Bridie Collins were selected as the Fianna Fáil candidates for Limerick County at the party’s selection convention on 29 August 2024.
Deputy Patrick O’Donovan and Cllr. Noreen Stokes were selected to contest the general election as Fine Gael candidates at the party selection convention on 22 September 2024.
On 1 November 2024 it was announced that Gerben Uunk would be contesting Limerick County for the Party For Animal Welfare.
Longford-Westmeath (5 seats – 20 candidates): Deputy Sorca Clarke (Sinn Fein), Deputy Peter Burke (Fine Gael), Deputy Robert Troy (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Joe Flaherty (Fianna Fáil), Senator Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Kevin “Boxer” Moran (Independent), Cllr. Paul Hogan (Independent Ireland), Louise Heavin (Independent), Gerry Warnock (Independent), Carol Okeke (Green Party), Dave Smyth (People Before Profit), Labhra Ní Néill/Laura O’Neill (Aontú), Donal Jackson (Independent), Fidelma Bennett (Labour Party), Barry Campion (Sinn Féin), Tanya Cannon (Fine Gael), Dympna Cunniffe (Fianna Fáil), Margaret Alacoque Maguire (Ireland First), Charlotte Keenan (Independent), Paul Bradley (Independent)
The Fine Gael selection convention took place in May 2024, as reported by the Galway Advertiser (23 May 2024). Deputy Peter Burke and Senator Micheál Carrigy were selected. On 18 October 2024 it was announced that Athlone-based Tanya Cannon was being added to the party candidate list, as reported on the Shannonside Radio website (18 October 2024).
Shannonside Radio (15 July 2024) reported that Deputies Robert Troy and Joe Flaherty would be the Fianna Fáil candidates, following a decision by Cllr. Aengus O’Rourke to withdraw from contesting the nomination after the party decided it would again run just two candidates in Longford-Westmeath. As reported on the Shannonside Radio website (22 July 2024) separate conventions would be held to nominate a Westmeath candidate and a Longford candidate. The Westmeath convention was to be held in the Bloomfield Hotel in Mullingar on 22 July 2024, with Robert Troy the only candidate left following Aengus O’Rourke’s withdrawal. Deputy Joe Flahery was selected at the standalone Longford convention on 6 August. On 5 November 2024 it was announced that Dympna Cunniffe was being added to the Fianna Fail ticket by party headquarters, as reported by the Westmeath Independent (5 November 2024).
Cllr Kevin “Boxer” Moran, who lost his seat at the 2020 General Election has announced his intention to contest the general election in Longford-Westmeath.
As reported by the Midlands 103 website (23 September 2024), former Green Party councillor, Louise Heavin, has announced that she will contest the general election in Longford-Westmeath as an independent candidate.
The Sinn Féin selection convention took place on 8 October 2024 and led to the selection of Deputy Sorca Clarke, as well as Barry Campion who contested the Granard electoral area at the local elections.
As reported by the Longford Leader (12 October 2024), Cllr. Paul Hogan will be contesting Longford-Westmeath for Independent Ireland.
The Westmeath Examiner (21 October 2024) reports that Fidelma Bennett has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for Longford-Westmeath.
Louth (5 seats – 24 candidates): Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú (Sinn Féin), Deputy Ged Nash (Labour), Senator Erin McGreehan (Fianna Fáil), Senator John McGahon (Fine Gael), Cllr. Marianne Butler (Green Party), Cllr. Kevin Callan (Independent), Cllr. Joanna Byrne (Sinn Fáin), Cllr. Paula Butterly (Fine Gael), Cllr. Antóin Watters (Sinn Féin), Michael O’Dowd (Aontú), Niall McCreanor (Social Democrats), Hermann Kelly (Irish Freedom Party), Alison Comyn (Fianna Fáil), James Renaghan (People Before Profit), Peter James Nugent (Independent), Derek McElearney (The Irish People), Ryan McKeown (Independent Ireland), David Bradley (Independent), David Brennan (Independent), Alan Fagan (Independent), David Carroll (Independent), Albert David Byrne (Independent), Thomas Clare (Independent), Tracy Marie O’Hanlon (Independent)
Senator Erin McGreehan was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate for this constituency at a selection convention on 8 August 2024. As reported by the Dundalk Democrat (13 August 2024), this convention was a contested one and was also contested by Cllr. Emma Coffey, Cllr. Seán Kelly and Cllr. John Sheridan. On 26 August 2024 it was announced that Alison Comyn had been added as a second, albeit more Drogheda-based, candidate to the Fianna Fáil ticket.
Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú and Cllr. Joanna Byrne were selected to contest the general election at the Sinn Féin selection convention on 27 August 2024, as reported on the Drogheda Life (27 August 2024) website. As reported by the Dundalk Democrat (1 November 2024), Cllr. Antóin Watters was added as a third candidate to the Sinn Féin ticket for Louth on 1 November 2024.
Senator John McGahon and Cllr. Paula Butterly were selected as Fine Gael candidates for this constituency at the party selection convention which took place on 5 September 2024 in the Gateway Hotel in Dundalk.
The Dundalk Democrat (11 September 2024) reports that James Renaghan has been selected as the People Before Profit candidate for Louth.
The LMFM Radio website (10 Seotember 2024) reports that Cllr. Kevin Callan has announced his intention to contest the general election as an independent candidate. Peter James Nugent has also declared his intention to contest the general election as an independent candidate, as reported by John Manning in the Drogheda Independent (25 September 2024).
Aidan McEvoy (Independent) initially appeared on the official list of nominated candidates but seems to have withdrawn his candidacy before the deadline for doing so.
Mayo (5 seats – 16 candidates): Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh (Sinn Féin), Deputy Dara Calleary (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Alan Dillon (Fine Gael), Senator Lisa Chambers (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Gerry Murray (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Chris Maxwell (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Mark Duffy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Paul Lawless (Aontú), Cllr. Patsy O’Brien (Independent), Gerry Loftus (Independent), Keira Keogh (Fine Gael), Stephen Kerr (Independent), Joe Daly (People Before Profit), Martina Jennings (Fine Gael), Mícheál “Boxty” Ó Conaill (Green Party), Sean Forkin (Independent)
The Connaught Telegraph (12 August 2024) reports that Cllr. Patsy O’Brien has declared his intention to contest the general election as an Independent candidate.
Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Mayo at a selection convention on 11 August 2024. Cllr. Gerry Murray was added to the Sinn Féin ticket for Mayo in early November 2024, as reported by the Mayo News (2 November 2024).
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place in the Ivy Tower Hotel in Castlebar on 6 September 2024 and Deputy Dara Calleary and Senator Lisa Chambers were selected at this.
The Connaught Telegraph (10 September 2024) reports that Stephen Kerr, who contested the Castlebar electoral area in June’s local elections, has declared his intention to contest the general election as an Independent candidate.
The Fine Gael selection convention took place on 15 September 2024. The candidates who were selected at this convention were Deputy Alan Dillon and Keira Keogh. As reported by Oisin McGovern for the Mayo News (8 October 2024), Cllr. Mark Duffy, what was elected as an independent at the 2019 and 2024 Local Elections in the Ballina electoral area, is to be added to the Fine Gael ticket. This article also suggests that Martina Jennings is also to be added to the Mayo candidate slate. Fine Gael confirmed on 11 October 2024 that Martina Jennings and Cllr. Mark Duffy were being added as candidates to their Mayo general election candidates list.
Cllr. Chris Maxwell was confirmed as the Independent Ireland candidate for Mayo on 16 September 2024.
Meath East (4 seats – 18 candidates): Deputy Darren O’Rourke (Sinn Féin), Deputy Helen McEntee (Fine Gael), Deputy Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Joe Bonner (Independent), Cllr. Sharon Tolan (Fine Gael), Cllr. Gillian Toole (Independent), Cllr. Caroline O’Reilly (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Emer Tóibín (Aontú), Cllr. Maria White (Sinn Féin), Ruadháin Bonham (Green Party), Eilish Balfe (Labour Party), Clara McCormack (People Before Profit), Carolyn Fahy (Party For Animal Welfare), Jean Murray (National Party), Sivakumar Murugadoss (Independent), Barbara Reid (Liberty Republic), Raymond Westlake (Independent), Charles Patrick Bobbett (Independent)
Sinn Féin held a selection convention for both Meath constituencies on 27 July 2024, at which the two sitting Dáil deputies were selected. On 15 October 2024 Cllr. Maria White was added to the party’s candidate list in Meath East following a selection convention in Bettystown.
Deputy Thomas Byrne and Cllr. Caroline O’Reilly were selected to contest the general election as Fianna Fáil candidates at the selection convention on 7 August 2024.
The Meath Chronicle (19 August 2024) reported that Cllr. Sharon Tolan had declared her intention to contest the Fine Gael selection convention. The Fine Gael selection convention took place in the CityNorth Hotel in Gormanstown on 2 September 2024 and Deputy Helen McEntee and Cllr. Sharon Tolan were selected as the party candidates for Meath East at this.
In early September 2024 it was confirmed that Cllr. Emer Tóibín would be the Aontú candidate in Meath East. During that same month, Eilish Balfe was selected to contest Meath East as the Labour candidate.
As reported by Noelle Finnegan in the Meath Chronicle (7 October 2024), Cllr. Gillian Toole will be contesting Meath East as an independent candidate, with the support of a number of Meath East independents, including Senator Sharon Keogan, and Cllrs. Brian Fitzgerald, Geralid Keogan, Amanda Smith and Carol Lennon.
Meath West (3 seats – 12 candidates): Deputy Johnny Guirke (Sinn Féin), Deputy Peadar Tóibín (Aontú), Cllr. Noel French (Independent), Cllr. Aisling Dempsey (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Linda Murray Nelson (Fine Gael), Cllr. Ronan Moore (Social Democrats), Seamus McMenamin (Green Party), Finbar Lynch (People Before Profit), Ben Gilroy (Liberty Republic), Sandy Gallagher (Labour Party), David O’Shea (Irish Freedom Party), Ian McGauley (The Irish People), Damien Reilly (Independent)
Sinn Féin held a selection convention for both Meath constituencies on 27 July 2024, at which the two sitting Dáil deputies were selected.
Cllr. Aisling Dempsey was selected as the Fianna Fáil candidate for Meath West at the party selection convention which took place on 5 September 2024 in the Old Darnley Hotel in Athboy, as reported by Ann Casey in the Meath Chronicle (11 September 2024).
The Meath Chronicle (9th September 2024) reports that Cllr. Ronan Moore was selected to contest the general election for the Social Democrats at a selection convention in the Castle Arch Hotel in Trim on 7 September 2024.
As reported by the Meath Chronicle (18 September 2024), the Fine Gael selection convention was scheduled to take place in the Newgrange Hotel in Navan, with three candidates nominated to contest this: Deputy Damien English, Cllr. Yemi Adenuga and Cllr. Linda Nelson Murray. Cllr. Linda Nelson Murray was selected at the convention, after Damien English announced that he had decided not to contest the election.
Roscommon-Galway (3 seats – 11 candidates): Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice (Independent Ireland), Deputy Claire Kerrane (Sinn Féin), Senator Aisling Dolan (Fine Gael), Senator Eugene Murphy (Independent), Dympna Daly Finn (Fine Gael), Martin Daly (Fianna Fáil), Andrew Mannion (People Before Profit), Martina O’Connor (Green Party), Cormac Ó Corcoráin (Aontú), Vincent Beirne (Independent), Alan Sweeney (The Irish People)
The Shannonside Radio website (9th September 2024) reports that Deputy Claire Kerrane is set to be selected unopposed as the sole Sinn Féin candidate at the party’s selection convention in Hannon’s Hotel in Roscommon Town on 12 September 2024.
The Shannonside Radio website (20 September 2024) notes that the Fine Gael selection convention will take place in the Abbey Hotel in Roscommon Town on 20 September 2024, with four people nominated to contest this – Cllr. John Naughten and Dympna Daly-Finn from the Roscommon part of the constituency (Naugthen in the south and Dympna Finn in the north) and Senator Aisling Dolan and Cllr. Alan Harney who are based in the Ballinasloe/east Galway part of the constituency. As reported by the Roscommon Herald (19 September 2024), at the convention the directive had decided that a candidate would be selected from the northern part of the constituency, leading to the automatic selection of Dymna Daly Finn, and one from the southern part. With Alan Harney withdrawing, John Naughten won a convention vote over Aisling Dolan for the second place on the Fine Gael ticket. Sadly Cllr. John Naughten passed away on 4 October 2024. According to the Shannonside Radio website (28 October 2024), Senator Aisling Dolan is set to be added to the Fine Gael candidate list for Roscommon-Galway and her selection was confirmed on 29 October 2024.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place in the Abbey Hotel in Roscommon Town on 3 October 2024. This was a contested convention and Dr. Martin Daly won the party nomination in a vote, winning on a 106-98 margin over Senator Eugene Murphy, as reported by Richard Canny in the Roscommon Herald (3 October 2024).Based on a report on the RTÉ website (24 October 2024), it is reported that Senator Murphy has learned that he will not be added as a second Fianna Fáil candidate in Roscommon-Galway and is contemplating running instead as a non-party candidate. On 4 November 2024 he announced that he would be contesting the election as an independent candidate, as reported on the MidWest Radio website (4 November 2024).
The Connacht Tribune (1 November 2024, page 6) reported speculation that Independent Ireland D’ail Deputy, Michael Fitzmaurice, might opt to switch constituency and contest Galway East instead.
Sligo-Leitrim (4 seats – 18 candidates): Deputy Martin Kenny (Sinn Féin), Deputy Marian Harkin (Independent), Deputy Frank Feighan (Fine Gael), Cllr. Paddy O’Rourke (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Marie Casserly (Independent), Cllr. Gino O’Boyle (People Before Profit), Cllr. Michael Clarke (Independent Ireland), Cllr. Edel McSharry (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Nessa Cosgrove (Labour Party), Cllr. Des Guckian (Independent), Chris McManus (Sinn Féin), Eamon Scanlon (Fianna Fáil), Graham Monaghan (Aontú), Michael Kelly (The Irish People), Bláithín Gallagher (Green Party), Molly Candon (Party For Animal Welfare), Caroline Corcoran (Independent Ireland), Diarmuid MacConville (Independent)
According to the Shannonside Radio website (19 July 2024), three Sligo-based candidates – Cllr. Edel McSharry, Cllr. Paul Taylor and Keith Henry – had been nominated to contest the Fianna Fáil selection convention, with no Leitrim-based candidates nominated to contest this. However, as noted on the OceanFM website (20 August 2024), Cllr. Edel McSharry would be the only candidate to allow her name go forward to contest this convention. Her selection was confirmed at the Fianna Fáil convention, which took place on 28 August 2024. The Ocean FM website (17 October 2024) reported on speculation that former Dáil deputy, Eamon Scanlon, could be added to the Fianna Fáil ticket. A later report on the Ocean FM (24 October 2024) website confirmed that Eamon Scanlon was added to the Fianna Fáil ticket on 24 October 2024. On 7 November 2024 it was announced that Cllr. Paddy O’Rourke was also being added to the Fianna Fáil ticket, as reported on the Shannonside Radio website (7 November 2024).
According to the Ocean FM website (2 September 2024), the Fine Gael selection convention was held on 1 September 2024 and was contested by Deputy Frank Feighan and former TD, John Perry – Cllr. Thomas Walsh had also been nominated but he withdrew before a vote was taken, once it was known that only one candidate was to be selected at the convention – the convention vote was won by Frank Feighan by a 352-77 margin over John Perry.
The Highland Radio website (16 September 2024) reported that Deputy Marian Harkin announced her intention to defend her Dáil seat in Sligo-Leitrim on 16 September 2024.
The selection of Cllr. Nessa Cosgrove as Labour Party candidate for Sligo-Leitrim was confirmed on 23 September 2024.
The Sinn Féin selection convention for Sligo-Leitrim took place on 3 October 2024. Deputy Martin Kenny was automatically selected as the only Leitrim-based person to contest the party nomination. There were two people contesting the nomination to be the second, Sligo-based, party candidate and Chris McManus, former County Councillor and MEP, won in a vote over Cllr. Thomas Healy to secure this, as reported by the Shannonside Radio website (3 October 2024).
On 17 October 2024 it was announced by Independent Ireland that Cllr. Michael Clarke, who had retained his seat on Sligo County Council as an independent candidate in June’s local elections, would be contesting the general election as their candidate, as reported on the Ocean FM website (17 October 2024).
Midwest Radio (12 November 2024) has reported that Cllr. Gino O’Boyle will contest Sligo-Leitrim as a People Before Profit candidate.
Tipperary North (3 seats – 14 candidates): Deputy Michael Lowry (Independent), Deputy Alan Kelly (Labour Party), Cllr. Michael Smith (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Phyll Bugler (Fine Gael), Cllr. Jim Ryan (Independent), Cllr. Ryan O’Meara (Fianna Fáil), Iva Pocock (Green Party), Dan Harty (Sinn Féin), Evan Barry (Sinn Fein), Diana Dwyer (People Before Profit), Peter Madden (Independent/National Alliance), Francis O’Toole (Aontú), Liam Minehan (Independent), Justin Roundy Phelan (Independent)
Cllr. Phyl Bugler was selected as the Fine Gael candidate for Tipperary North at the party’s selection convention on Friday 13 September 2024.
As reported by the Nenagh Guardian (27 September 2024), Iva Pocock has been selected as the Green Party candidate for Tipperary North.
Deputy Alan Kelly has confirmed to the Nenagh Guardian (as reported on the front page of their 5 October 2024) that he will be running again for the Labour Party in Tipperary North in the upcoming general election. He was officially confirmed as the party candidate at a launch night event in the Abbey Court Hotel in Nenagh on 18 October 2024, as reported by Aoife Sheehan on the Tipperary Live website (21 October 2024).
Dan Harty was selected to contest the general election as the Sinn Féin candidate at their selection convention on 7 October 2024.
As reported by Aoife Sheehan on the Tipperary Live website (28 October 2024), Cllr. Jim Ryan has announced that he will contest Tipperary North as a non-party candidate.
The Midland Tribune (30 October 2024) website reports that Deputy Michael Lowry will contest the general election in Tipperary North.
With Deputy Jackie Cahill announcing his decision not to contest the election in late October 2024, the Fianna Fáil convention in Tipperary North was the last one to be held for that party. Both Cllrs. Michael Smith and Ryan O’Meara nominated themselves to contest this and it was decided that both candidates would be selected to contest the election.
Tipperary South (3 seats -12 candidates): Deputy Mattie McGrath (Independent), Deputy Martin Browne (Sinn Féin), Cllr. Imelda Goldsboro (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Michael Murphy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Michael “Chicken” Brennan (Labour Party), Cllr. John O’Heney (Independent), Seamus Healy (Workers and Unemployed Action), Myriam Madigan (Green Party), John McGrath (The National Party), Nadaline Webster (Independent Ireland), Rosemary McGlone (Aontú), Bill Fitzgerald (Independent)
Deputy Martin Browne was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Tipperary South at a selection convention on 8 August 2024.
The Tipp West Radio website (29 August 2024) reports that Cllr. Michael Brennan will contest the general election in Tipperary South for Labour,
On 6 September Cashel-Tipperary Councillor, John O’Heney, announced that he would be contesting Tipperary South in the general election.
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 9 September 2024 and Cllr. Imelda Goldsboro was selected, As well as reporting on the selection of Cllr. Goldsboro, the Tipp West Radio website (11 September 2024) also confirmed that Deputy Mattie McGrath would be cotntesting the general election.
The selection of Cllr. Michael “Chicken” Brennan as the Labour Party candidate was confirmed at the party selection convention in Killenaule on Friday 13 September 2024.
On 10 October 2024 Independent Ireland announced that Nadaline Webster would be their candidate in Tipperary South.
On 13 November 2024 it was announced that Aontú’s candidate for Tipperary South would be Rosemary McGlone.
Waterford (4 seats – 15 candidates): Deputy David Cullinane (Sinn Féin), Deputy Mary Butler (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Green Party), Deputy Matt Shanahan (Independent), Senator John Cummins (Fine Gael), Cllr. Mary Roche (Social Democrats), Cllr. Conor McGuinness (Sinn Féin), Patrick Curtain (People Before Profit), Sadhbh O’Neill (Labour Party), Killian Mangan (Independent), Ronan Cleary (Aontú), John D Walsh (The Irish People), Frank Conway (Independent), Mark O’Neill (Independent), Aaron Joyce (Independent)
The selection of Deputy Marc Ó Cathasaigh as the Green Party candidate was confirmed in July 2024.
The Sinn Féin selection convention took place on 1 August 2024 and Deputy David Cullinane and Cllr. Conor McGuinness were both selected at this convention, while also allowing for the potential of adding a third Sinn Féin canddiate for this constituency at a later date, as reported on the WLRFM website (2 August 2024).
The Fianna Fáil selection convention took place on 22 August 2024. This was a contested convention and Deputy Mary Butler won the vote, in a contest against Cllr. Adam Wyse, by a 135-35 vote margin.
The selection of Sadhbh O’Neill as the Labour Party candidate for Waterford was confirmed on 11 October 2024.
The editorial in the Munster Express (15 October 2024) reported that Deputy Matt Shanahan would be contesting the general election – running once more as an independent candidate.
As reported by the Waterford News and Star (30 October 2024), Killian Mangan will contest Waterford as a non party candidate.
Wexford (4 seats – 15 candidates): Deputy Johnny Mythen (Sinn Féin), Deputy James Browne (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Verona Murphy (Independent), Cllr. Michael Sheehan (Independent), Cllr. Jim Codd (Aontú), Cllr. Bridín Murphy (Fine Gael), Cllr. Cathal Byrne (Fine Gael), Cllr. George Lawlor (Labour Party), Cllr. Jackser Owens (Independent), Mick Wallace (Independents 4 Change), Michelle O’Neill (Fianna Fáil), Peadar McDonald (Green Party), Jason Murphy (National Party), Martina Stafford (Solidarity), Stephen Power (The Irish People)
Cllrs. Bridín Murphy and Cathal Byrne were selected to run in the general election for Fine Gael at the party’s selection convention in Wexford Town on 17 July 2024.
Cllr. George Lawlor was selected to run in the general election for Labour at the party’s selection convention in Wexford Town on 18 July 2024, as reported on the South East Radio website (19 July 2024).
Deputy James Browne was selected to contest the general election for Fianna Fáil at the party’s selection convention, which took place on 19 July 2024. On 1 November 2024 it was announced that Michelle O’Neill, who contested the Wexford electoral area in June’s local elections as a non-party candidate, was being added to the Fianna Fáil candidate list. Fianna Fáil Councillor, Cllr. Michael Sheehan, announced a few days later that he was leaving the party and would contest the general election as a non-party candidate, as reported by Darragh Clifford of the Wexford People (4 November 2024).
The South East Radio website (11 September 2024) reported that Deputy Johnny Mythen was selected to contest the general election at the Sinn Féin selection convention for Wexford.
Wicklow-Wexford (3 seats – 10 candidates): Senator Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Peir Leonard (Independent), Cllr. Pat Kennedy (Fianna Fáil), Cllr. Fionntán O Súillebháin (Sinn Féin), Brian Brennan (Fine Gael), Aislinn O’Keeffe (Solidarity), Ann Walsh (Green Party), Sinéad Boland (Aontú), Frances Lawlor (Independent Ireland), Ilsa-Maria Nolan (Independent)
Brian Brennan was selected as Fine Gael candidate for the new Wicklow-Wexford constituency at a selection convention, which took place in the Ashdown Park Hotel in Gorey on 22 July 2024. According to Dan Walsh on the WexfordLocal.com (21 July 2024) website, this convention was also to be contested by Cllr. Peter Stapleton.
Senator Malcolm Byrne and Cllr. Pat Kennedy were selected as the Fianna Fáil candidates for Wicklow-Wexford at the party’s selection convention on 24 July 2024.
The South East Radio website (9th September 2024) reports that Cllr. Fionntán O Súillebháin will be contesting this constituency as a Sinn Féin candidate. The party selection convention took place in the Arklow Bay Hotel in early September 2024.
Cllr. Peir Leonard announced that she would be contesting the general election in Wicklow-Wexford as an independent candidate on 4 October 2024.
Wicklow (4 seats – 18 candidates): Deputy John Brady (Sinn Féin), Deputy Simon Harris (Fine Gael), Deputy Stephen Donnelly (Fianna Fáil), Deputy Jennifer Whitmore (Social Democrats), Deputy Steven Matthews (Green Party), Cllr. Joe Behan (Independent), Cllr. Edward Timmins (Fine Gael), Cllr. Gerry O’Neill (Independent), Cllr. Paul O’Brien (Labour Party), Shay Cullen (Independent), Kellie McConnell (People Before Profit), Ciarán Hogan (Aontú), Charlie Keddy (Independent), Michaela Keddy (The Irish People), Rob Carry (Independent), Dominic Plant (Independent), Philip Dwyer (Independent)
Cllr. Paul O’Brien was selected to contest the Wicklow constituency as the Labour Party candidate on 30 July 2024.
Deputy John Brady was selected as the Sinn Féin candidate for Wicklow at a selection convention on 7 August 2024.
Deputy Simon Harris and Cllr. Edward Timmins were selected as Fine Gael general election candidates for Wicklow at the party selection convention on Friday 13 September 2024, with former Fine Gael County Councillor for the Wicklow electoral area, Shay Cullen losing out. He later announced on 11 October 024 that he would be contesting the election as an independent candidate, as reporteed by the Wicklow People (11 October 2024).
As reported by Tom Galvin in the Bray People (17 September 2024), the Social Democrats selection convention took place in Greystones on Saturday 14 September. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore was selected as the party’s candidate for Wicklow.
The Greystones Guide (7 October 2024) reports that Kellie McConnell will be contesting Wicklow for People Before Profit.
According to Fionnán Sheahan in the Irish Independent (9 October 2024), Deputy Stephen Donnelly is set to be the only Fianna Fáil candidate for Wicklow as the two other nominees for the party’s selection convention, Senator Pat Casey and Sonia Casey-Short have both withdrawn from the contest. His selection was confirmed at the party selection convention on 10 October 2024.
On 27 October 2024, former Dáil deputy, Cllr. Joe Behan, announced his intention to contest the general election.
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I currently estimate that there are 687 officially selected, or declared, general election candidates so far, based on the information that I’ve managed to attain.
246 of these candidates are women (35.8%) and 441 of these candidates are men (64.2%).
125 of the selected/declared candidates, as of now, are Dáil Deputies/TDs (18.2% – 78.1% of the current number of TDs), while 29 are Senators (4.2% – 48.3% of all Senators) and 177 are County or City Councillors (25.8% – 18.7% of all Councillors). At least 31 of the other candidates, who do not currently hold electoral office are former Dáil Deputies/TDs, or former Senators or former MEPs or former County/City Councillors or Town Commissioners (4.5%). In all, 20 former Dáil Deputies/TDs (2.9%), including those who are currently Senators or County/City Councillors, are currently included on this general election candidates list.
New Irish (Non-Irish/UK nationals) candidates contesting the 2024 Local Elections 4 Jun 2024 10:19 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, 4th June 2024
This post will attempt to list all of the “New Irish”, or Non-Irish/UK national, candidates who have been officially selected to contest the local elections on 7 June (2024), or else have declared their intentions to contest these elections as independent candidates. For the purposes of this post, the definition of “New Irish” includes people who were born outside Ireland and who were not Irish (or UK) citizens before moving to the Republic Ireland. This post will include candidates who subsequently gained Irish citizenship on moving to, or after moving to, the Republic of Ireland, as is the case for a number of the candidates listed here.
At present (as of 5th June 2024) I can account for eighty eight candidates in this group (4.1% of the total number of selected/declared local election candidates), including forty seven female candidates (53.4%) and forty one males (46.6%) candidates; this amounts to 6.9% of all female local election candidates and 2.8% of all male local election candidates. (There are probably another five or six candidates who I suspect could be included here, but I haven’t been able to attain sufficient biographical details on these candidates to be able definitively include them.)
In terms of political parties/groupings, out of the candidates listed below:
- 12 are Fine Gael candidates – amounting to 3.5% of their (Fine Gael’s) total number of selected candidates
- 10 are Green Party candidates – amounting to 7.8% of their total number of selected candidates
- 9 are Labour Party candidates – amounting to 8.3% of their total number of selected candidates
- 9 are Fianna Fáil candidates – amounting to 2.5% of their total number of selected candidates
- 4 are Aontú candidates – amounting to 6.1% of their total number of selected candidates
- 4 are Sinn Féin candidates – amounting to 1.2% of their total number of selected candidates
- 3 are Social Democrat candidates – amounting to 4.2% of their total number of selected candidates
- 2 are People Before Profit candidates – amounting to 4.4% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is a Right To Change candidate – amounting to 50.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is a Party for Animal Welfare candidate – amounting to 20.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 33 are Independent/Non-Party candidates – amounting to 6.5% of all declared non-party candidates
Ten members of this group are currently sitting County Councillors or City Councillors, while one other member (Carol Okeke) spent the final months of the outgoing Council’s term of office as a temporary replacement for a Councillor from her political party.
Non-Irish nationals currently account for 12.3% of the Irish population based on the most recent Census of 2016, with this percentage falling to 10.7% when UK nationals are taken out of this group. If the proportion of successful non-Irish/UK nationals local election candidates at at the June 7th local elections was similar to this level (i.e. 10.7%), there would be 102 “New Irish” Councillors (based on a total number of 949 City and County Council members).
At the 2019 City and County Council elections, I estimate that 53 New Irish candidates contested these elections, with seven running for the Green Party, six running for Fine Gael, five running for Fianna Fáil, four running for Labour, three running for People Before Profit, two running for the Social Democrats and one running for Renua, while the other twenty five candidates contested the elections as independent candidates. Eight of these fifty three candidates were successful (accounting for 0.8% of all successful candidates) – Sophie Nicoullaud for the Green Party in Ballyfermot-Drimnagh, Kazi Ahmed for Fine Gael in Glencullen-Sandyford, Punam Rane for Fine Gael in Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart, Madeleine Johansson for People Before Profit in Palmerstown-Fonthill, Baby Pereppadan for Fine Gael in Tallaght South, Elena Secas for Labour in Limerick City East, Abul Kalam Azad Talukder for Fianna Fáil in Limerick City West, and Yemi Adenuga for Fine Gael in Navan. At the 2014 City and County Council elections, I estimate that 31 New Irish candidates contested these elections, with two running for Fine Gael, two running for Labour, one running for Sinn Féin, three running for the Green Party and two running for the People Before Profit Alliance, while the other twenty one candidates contested the elections as independent candidates. Two of these thirty one candidates were successful – Elena Secas for Labour in Limerick City East and Edmond Lukusa for Sinn Féin in Mulhuddart. At the 2009 City and County Council elections, I estimate that 19 New Irish candidates contested these elections, with three running for Fianna Fail, two running for Fine Gael, one running for Labour and three running for the Green Party, while the other ten contested the elections as independent candidates. One of these nineteen candidates was successful – Rotimi Adebari in Portlaoise, who had previously won a Town Council in 2004.
The list of “New Irish” candidates for the 2024 City and County Council elections is presented below. This list will be updated, as and when new candidate information is received by me.
| Electoral Areas (166) | Seats | New Irish/Non Irish/UK Nationals |
| Carlow | 18 | |
| Carlow | 7 | Jolly O’Rock IND, Nicoleta Chiorean SF, Adetula Temiola IND |
| Tullow | 6 | |
| Muinebeag | 5 | |
| Cavan | 18 | |
| Bailieborough-Cootehill | 6 | |
| Ballyjamesduff | 6 | |
| Cavan-Belturbert | 6 | Susuana Komolafe IND, Tinko Tinev AON |
| Clare | 28 | |
| Ennis | 7 | Amanda Major IND, Jacek Kazimierz Kwasny IND |
| Killaloe | 5 | |
| Shannon | 7 | |
| Ennistymon | 4 | |
| Kilrush | 5 | |
| Cork County | 55 | |
| Carrigaline | 6 | Monica Oikeh GP |
| Bandon-Kinsale | 6 | |
| Macroom | 6 | |
| Cobh | 6 | Abu Zeid O’Neill PBP, Medhi Ozcinar SF |
| Midleton | 7 | |
| Fermoy | 6 | |
| Kanturk | 4 | |
| Mallow | 5 | |
| Bantry-West Cork | 4 | |
| Clonakilty-Skibbereen (or Skibbereen-West Cork) | 5 | |
| Cork City | 31 | |
| Cork City North East | 6 | |
| Cork City North West | 6 | |
| Cork City South Central | 6 | Lekha Menon Margassery LAB |
| Cork City South East | 6 | Honore Kemengi GP |
| Cork City South West | 7 | Olga Shevchenko FF |
| Donegal | 37 | |
| Donegal | 6 | |
| Glenties | 6 | |
| Milford | 3 | |
| Buncrana | 5 | |
| Letterkenny | 7 | Thoiba Ahmed IND |
| Carndonagh | 4 | |
| Lifford-Stranorlar | 6 | |
| Dublin City | 63 | |
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | 5 | Sophie Nicoullaud RTC, Mamy Nzema Nkoy SF |
| Ballymun-Finglas | 6 | Arnold Guo FG |
| Artane-Whitehall | 6 | Linkwinstar Mattathil Mathew FG |
| Donaghmede | 5 | Supriya Singh FG |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | 7 | Feljin Jose GP |
| Clontarf | 6 | |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | 6 | Punam Rane FG |
| North Inner City | 7 | Isabel Oliveira FF, Caio Benicio FF |
| South West Inner City | 5 | Ammar Ali FF |
| South East Inner City | 5 | |
| Pembroke | 5 | |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | 40 | |
| Blackrock | 6 | Reji Chacko Jacob IND |
| Dún Laoghaire | 7 | Orli Degani IND |
| Dundrum | 7 | |
| Glencullen-Sandyford | 7 | Kazi Ahmed FG |
| Killiney-Shankill | 7 | |
| Stillorgan | 6 | |
| Fingal County | 40 | |
| Balbriggan | 5 | John Uwhumiakpor IND, Aneta Laska IND |
| Rush Lusk | 5 | Aneta Laska IND |
| Castleknock | 6 | |
| Howth-Malahide | 7 | |
| Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart | 5 | JK Onwumereh FF, Shashank Chakerwarti IND |
| Ongar | 5 | Nekesa Nancy Khisa LAB |
| Swords | 7 | |
| South Dublin County | 40 | |
| Clondalkin | 7 | Viktor Kozyrev IND, Mahim Rizvi IND |
| Palmerstown-Fonthill | 5 | Madeleine Johansson PBP, Sikandar Jahanzab FG |
| Lucan | 5 | Jithin Ram GP, Eben Agbana IND |
| Tallaght Central | 6 | |
| Tallaght South | 5 | Baby Pereppadan FG |
| Rathfarnham-Templeogue | 7 | |
| Firhouse-Bohernabreena | 5 | |
| Galway City | 18 | |
| Galway City Central | 6 | |
| Galway City East | 6 | Joyce Mathias GP, Helen Ogbu LAB, Arkadiusz Wozniak IND |
| Galway City West | 6 | Asraf Chowdhury FG, Esther Oghomwenrie Osayimwen IND |
| Galway County | 39 | |
| Athenry-Oranmore | 7 | |
| Gort Kinvara | 5 | |
| Ballinasloe | 6 | |
| Conamara North | 4 | |
| Conamara South | 5 | |
| Loughrea | 5 | |
| Tuam | 7 | Islammiyah Kadejo GP, Blessing Oguekwe LAB |
| Kerry | 33 | |
| Killarney | 7 | Natalia Krasnenkova IND, Iqbal Mahmud IND, Kamaruzzaman Abdul Kadir IND |
| Listowel | 6 | |
| An Daingean/Corca Dhuibhne | 3 | |
| Kenmare | 6 | |
| Castleisland | 4 | |
| Tralee | 7 | Mistura Oyebanji SocDem |
| Kildare | 40 | |
| Athy | 5 | |
| Celbridge | 4 | Zhyan Phelan IND, Lumi Panaite Fahey FG |
| Leixlip | 3 | |
| Maynooth | 5 | |
| Clane | 5 | |
| Kildare | 5 | |
| Newbridge | 6 | Aina Conway LAB |
| Naas | 7 | Evangeline Ngozi Omini SF |
| Kilkenny | 24 | |
| Castlecomer | 6 | |
| Kilkenny | 7 | Toluwani Akaehomen IND |
| Callan-Thomastown | 6 | |
| Piltown | 5 | |
| Laois | 19 | |
| Borris in Ossory-Mountmellick | 6 | |
| Graiguecullen-Portarlington | 6 | |
| Portlaoise | 7 | Naeem Iqbal FF, Bolaji Adeyanju IND |
| Leitrim | 18 | |
| Ballinamore | 6 | |
| Carrick-on-Shannon | 6 | Lola Gonzalez Farrell SocDem |
| Manorhamilton | 6 | |
| Limerick | 40 | |
| Limerick City East | 7 | Elena Secas LAB, Donnah Vuma SocDem |
| Limerick City North | 7 | Suzzie O’Deniyi FF |
| Limerick City West | 7 | Abul Kalam Azad Talukder FF, Shahin Reza IND |
| Adare-Rathkeale | 6 | |
| Cappamore-Kilmallock | 7 | |
| Newcastle West | 6 | Gerben Uunk PAW |
| Longford | 18 | |
| Ballymahon | 6 | |
| Granard | 5 | |
| Longford | 7 | Catherine Joseph GP, Uruemu Adejinmi FF, Sadia Athar IND, Mujahid Manzoor IND |
| Louth | 29 | |
| Ardee | 6 | Katerina Karpenko LAB |
| Drogheda Urban | 6 | Ejiro O’Hare Stratton FG |
| Drogheda Rural | 4 | |
| Dundalk-Carlingford | 6 | Liam Reichenberg AON |
| Dundalk-South | 7 | Dilip Mahapatra IND, Seun Grace Atiroko IND |
| Mayo | 30 | |
| Ballina | 6 | |
| Castlebar | 7 | Kamal Uddin LAB |
| Claremorris | 6 | |
| Swinford | 4 | |
| Belmullet | 3 | |
| Westport | 4 | |
| Meath | 40 | |
| Ashbourne | 6 | Marcin Czekalski IND, Sivakumar Murugadoss IND |
| Kells | 7 | |
| Laytown-Bettystown | 7 | Marjeta Qevani IND |
| Navan | 7 | Yemi Adenuga FG, Jose Cyriac AON |
| Ratoath | 7 | |
| Trim | 6 | Luba Healy FG |
| Monaghan | 18 | |
| Ballybay-Clones | 5 | |
| Carrickmacross-Castleblaney | 6 | |
| Monaghan | 7 | |
| Offaly | 19 | |
| Birr | 6 | Ekaterina Koneva GP |
| Edenderry | 6 | |
| Tullamore | 7 | |
| Roscommon | 18 | |
| Athlone (Roscommon) | 6 | |
| Boyle | 6 | Fayiz Alsani AON, Sajjad Hussain IND |
| Roscommon | 6 | |
| Sligo | 18 | |
| Ballymote-Tobercurry | 7 | |
| Sligo-Drumcliffe | 5 | Agnieszka Piwowarczyk GP |
| Sligo-Strandhill | 6 | |
| Tipperary | 40 | |
| Carrick-on-Suir | 5 | |
| Cahir | 4 | |
| Cashel-Tipperary | 7 | |
| Clonmel | 6 | |
| Nenagh | 5 | |
| Newport | 4 | |
| Roscrea-Templemore | 4 | |
| Thurles | 5 | |
| Waterford | 32 | |
| Waterford City East | 6 | |
| Waterford City South | 6 | |
| Tramore-Waterford City West | 6 | |
| Portlaw-Kilmacthomas | 5 | |
| Dungarvan | 6 | |
| Lismore | 3 | |
| Westmeath | 20 | |
| Athlone (Westmeath) | 5 | |
| Moate | 4 | |
| Mullingar | 6 | |
| Kinnegad | 5 | Carol Okeke GP |
| Wexford | 34 | |
| Gorey | 6 | |
| Kilmuckridge | 4 | |
| Enniscorthy | 6 | |
| New Ross | 6 | |
| Rosslare | 5 | |
| Wexford | 7 | |
| Wicklow | 32 | |
| Arklow | 6 | Viktoria Bodley IND |
| Baltinglass | 6 | |
| Bray East | 4 | |
| Bray West | 4 | |
| Greystones | 6 | Anne Waithira Burke LAB |
| Wicklow | 6 |
I do my best to ensure that the candidate lists on this website are fully accurate, but there can be errors and omissions (especially in the case of local election candidates, given the large number of people involved – usually over two thousand – and the difficulty in attaining information for some areas/parties).
If there are any candidates who should be included on this list (or are included here, but should not be) or if any other errors in relation to this list are noted, please bring these to my attention by emailing me at adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie.
Links to 2024 Local Elections Candidate Selection pages on this Website 12 May 2024 6:05 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, 12th May 2024
To make it easier for readers to access all the pages relating to candidate selections for the (upcoming) 2024 City and County Council elections quickly, I will list all the relevant pages in this posts. As of now, nominations have not been finalised, so up to the close of nominations on 18 May (or some days after that) the details on the pages, as listed here, may still be changed.
NB: If you do use this website/any of these pages to gain information for your work (e.g. media reports/newspaper articles, academic research… etc.) please do make sure to cite/reference this site, as the information gathered on these page has taken a lot of time to do (over thirteen months work) on my part.
List of Female candidates contesting the local elections
List of Younger candidates contesting the local elections
List of “New Irish” candidates contesting the local elections
List of current sitting Councillors/incumbents who are not contesting the local elections
List of Independent/Non Party candidates contesting the local elections
List of Fine Gael candidates contesting the local elections
List of Fianna Fáil candidates contesting the local elections
List of Sinn Féin candidates contesting the local elections
List of Labour Party candidates contesting the local elections
List of Green Party candidates contesting the local elections
List of People Before Profit and Solidarity candidates contesting the local elections
List of Social Democrat candidates contesting the local elections
List of Aontú candidates contesting the local elections
List of Other/Smaller Party candidates contesting the local elections (including candidate selections for Independent Ireland, Irish Freedom Party, The Irish People, National Party, Ireland First, 100% Redress Party, Workers Party, Rabharta, Right to Change, Independents4Change, Kerry Independent Alliance).
“The Younger Ones”: 2024 Local Elections candidates aged between 18 and 35 3 Apr 2024 9:30 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd April 2024
In a similar vein to earlier posts relating to the younger 2011 General Election candidates, 2014 Local Election candidates, 2016 General Election candidates, 2019 Local Election candidates and 2020 General Election candidates, this page seeks to list the names, and party affiliations, of all the 2024 County Council and City Council election candidates whose ages will still fall in the 18-35 years age category at the time that the 2024 elections take place (7th June 2024).
Candidates whose ages fall in the 18-29 years category will be denoted by a * beside their names.
Please note that this is likely to prove to be an incomplete list of the names of the younger local election candidates, mainly due to the difficulties faced in terms of accessing accurate age information for candidates in a large number of cases. Given the large number of candidates involved at local elections (usually around two thousand) and the difficulties involved in getting age details for some candidates, the likelihood is that I will miss out on some names that should be included here but I will do my best to ensure this list is as accurate as possible.
If you are one of the candidates that should be listed below, or are incorrectly listed below), then please contact me and I will update/amend this list as soon as I can. Please Tweet me at @adriankavanagh or email me at adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie.
But I can’t add names unless (i) candidates have already been selected, or declared and (ii) there’s certainty about the candidate age details (I won’t add someone because some other person is “pretty sure they’re 35″…in a lot of cases, they’re not!)
At present (24th September 2024), I can currently account for at least two hundred and twenty two candidates in the 18-35 age category (10.2% of the total number of local election candidates selected/declared to date that I am aware of) – one hundred and fifty two (68.5%) of the candidates in this group are male while seventy (31.5%) of the candidates in this group are female. At least ninety eight of these candidates are in the 18-29 (4.5% of the total number of local election candidates) age category.
In terms of political parties/groupings, out of the candidates listed below:
- 51 are Sinn Féin candidates – amounting to 15.2% of their total number of selected candidates
- 37 are Fianna Fáil candidates – amounting to 10.1% of their total number of selected candidates
- 31 are Fine Gael candidates – amounting to 9.1% of their total number of selected candidates
- 26 are Green Party candidates – amounting to 20.2% of their total number of selected candidates
- 20 are Solidarity-People Before Profit candidates – amounting to 37.7% of their total number of selected candidates.
- 18 are People Before Profit candidates – amounting to 40.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 15 are Social Democrat candidates – amounting to 19.5% of their total number of selected candidates
- 14 are Labour Party candidates – amounting to 12.8% of their total number of selected candidates
- 13 are Independent/Non Party candidates – amounting to 2.6% of declared non-party candidates
- 7 are Aontú candidates – amounting to 10.6% of their total number of selected candidates
- 3 are National Party candidates – amounting to 20.0% of their total number of selected candidate
- 2 are Solidarity candidates – amounting to 25.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is an Irish Freedom Party candidate – amounting to 3.6% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is an Independents 4 Change candidate – amounting to 100.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is an Workers Party candidate – amounting to 25.0% of their total number of selected candidates
- 1 is an Independent Ireland candidate – amounting to 1.7% of their total number of selected candidates
As of now, based on the younger candidates that I have listed so far, there seems to be a higher percentage of younger candidates in the more urban constituencies (12.0%) as opposed to the more rural constituencies (8.8%), with an especially high percentage in the Dublin region (14.5%)
The list of candidates in the younger age category (aged 18-35) accounted for to date, by electoral area, includes the following:
| Electoral Areas (166) | Candidates Aged 18-35 |
| Carlow | |
| Carlow | Fintan Phelan FF, Adrienne Wallace PBP, Molly Aylesbury GP, Daeln Murphy* NP |
| Tullow | Ben Ward* FG, Daeln Murphy* NP |
| Muinebeag | Daniel Pender* FF |
| Cavan | |
| Bailieborough-Cootehill | Marina McEntee* SF, Stiofán Conaty SF |
| Ballyjamesduff | Gráinne McPhillips* AON, Nathan Galligan* FF |
| Cavan-Belturbert | Liam van der Spek* LAB |
| Clare | |
| Ennis | |
| Killaloe | |
| Shannon | David Griffin* FF, Rachel Hartigan* FF, Fursa Cavanagh* GP |
| Ennistymon | Liam Grant GP |
| Kilrush | |
| Cork County | |
| Carrigaline | Monica Oikeh GP, Ben Dalton O’Sullivan IND |
| Bandon-Kinsale | |
| Macroom | Harriet Burgess GP, Eileen Lynch FG |
| Cobh | |
| Midleton | |
| Fermoy | William O’Leary IND, Nelius Cotter* FF |
| Kanturk | Becky Kealy AON |
| Mallow | Eoghan Kenny* LAB |
| Bantry-West Cork | |
| Clonakilty-Skibbereen | Isobel Towse SOCDEM |
| Cork City | |
| Cork City North East | Shane Ryan FF, Edith Busteed* SOL |
| Cork City North West | Saoirse Mackin* SOCDEM |
| Cork City South Central | Pádraig Rice SOCDEM, Shane Laird PBP, Luke McGrath SF |
| Cork City South East | Barry O’Brien* FG, Peter Horgan LAB, Rachel Hurley Roche* Workers Party |
| Cork City South West | Orla O’Leary* SF |
| Donegal | |
| Donegal | |
| Glenties | |
| Milford | Aaron Sweeney* FG |
| Buncrana | Niamh McGuinness* SF, Fionán Bradley* FF, Adrian Mc Myler* IND |
| Letterkenny | Ulick Hughes SF |
| Carndonagh | |
| Lifford-Stranorlar | Dakota McMenamin SF |
| Dublin City | |
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | Patrick Dempsey LAB, Niamh Mongey SOCDEM |
| Ballymun-Finglas | Keith Connolly FF, Briege Mac Oscar* FF, John Lonergan* LAB, Conor Reddy PBP |
| Artane-Whitehall | Aoibheann Mahon FF, Josh O’Rourke* SF |
| Donaghmede | Shane Folan LAB, Daryl Barron* FF, Clara McCormack PBP, Donnacha Geoghegan GP, Tamara Kearns SF |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | Amy Farrell SF, Colm O’Rourke FG, Declan Meenagh LAB, Léna Seale PBP, Feljin Jose GP |
| Clontarf | Alyssa Ní Bhroin* SF |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | Ciarán Ó Meachair SF |
| North Inner City | Ellen O’Doherty* SOCDEM, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin PBP |
| South West Inner City | Ammar Ali FF, Michael Pidgeon GP, Darragh Moriarty* LAB |
| South East Inner City | Brigid Purcell PBP |
| Pembroke | Rory Hogan* FF, Karen Hinkson-Deeney SOCDEM, Mary Martin PBP |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | |
| Blackrock | Daniel Carson* FG, Callie Nic Rállaigh SF, Michael Reynolds FF, Cian Mac Aonghusa* PBP |
| Dún Laoghaire | Hugo Mills SOCDEM |
| Dundrum | Eoin O’Driscoll FG, Cuán Young SF, Robert Jones GP |
| Glencullen-Sandyford | Aoife Murtagh SOCDEM, Pierce Dargan FG |
| Killiney-Shankill | Frank McNamara FG |
| Stillorgan | |
| Fingal County | |
| Balbriggan | Bryn Edwards PBP |
| Rush Lusk | Patrick Roche* SF |
| Castleknock | Siobhan Shovlin FG, Luke Daly* SOCDEM |
| Howth-Malahide | Cathal Haughey* FF, Aoibhinn Tormey FG |
| Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart | |
| Ongar | Ellen Murphy SOCDEM, Niall O’Donoghue SF |
| Swords | Luke Corkery* FG, Dean Mulligan I4C |
| South Dublin County | |
| Clondalkin | Joshua Ellul* LAB, Joe Nugent SF, Darragh Adelaide* PBP, Laura Donaghy GP, Sarah Adedeji FG |
| Palmerstown-Fonthill | Daniel Loftus* SF, Niamh Fennell SF |
| Lucan | |
| Tallaght Central | Vanessa Mulhall GP, Shane Duggan* SF, Niamh Whelan SF |
| Tallaght South | Anthony Clinton SF, Adam Smyth* FF, Leah Whelan* SOL |
| Rathfarnham-Templeogue | David McManus FG, Connor Kelly* PBP |
| Firhouse-Bohernabreena | Helen Meaney SOCDEM |
| Galway City | |
| Galway City Central | Eddie Hoare FG, Adrian Curran PBP |
| Galway City East | |
| Galway City West | Maisie McMaster* PBP |
| Galway County | |
| Athenry-Oranmore | Albert Dolan* FF, Louis O’Hara* SF, Cillian Keane* FF, Eoghan Gallgaher* FG |
| Gort Kinvara | |
| Ballinasloe | Alan Harney FG, Andrew Mannion* PBP, Regan Maher* SF |
| Conamara North | |
| Conamara South | |
| Loughrea | Shane Curley FF, Mark Larkin* FF |
| Tuam | Luke Silke AON, Karey McHugh IND |
| Kerry | |
| Killarney | Maura Healy-Rae IND |
| Listowel | |
| An Daingean/Corca Dhuibhne | |
| Kenmare | |
| Castleisland | Jackie Healy-Rae* IND |
| Tralee | Ben Slimm LAB, Mistura Oyebanji* SOCDEM, Paddy Kevane SF |
| Kildare | |
| Athy | |
| Celbridge | |
| Leixlip | |
| Maynooth | Naoise Ó Cearúil FF |
| Clane | William Durkan FG, Eoin Coates LAB, Killian Brennan* SF |
| Kildare | |
| Newbridge | James Stokes* SF, Melissa Byrne* AON, Ronan Maher GP |
| Naas | Evie Sammon FG |
| Kilkenny | |
| Castlecomer | Daniel Burke* INDIRE |
| Kilkenny | |
| Callan-Thomastown | |
| Piltown | Maria Wall* FF |
| Laois | |
| Borris in Ossory-Mountmellick | Conor Bergin FG |
| Graiguecullen-Portarlington | Vivienne Phelan FG, Aaron Kelly SF, Joey Kennedy* FF, Charlie Hackett GP |
| Portlaoise | Rosie Palmer GP |
| Leitrim | |
| Ballinamore | Adam Ó Ceallaigh GP |
| Carrick-on-Shannon | |
| Manorhamilton | |
| Limerick | |
| Limerick City East | Danielle O’Shea* SF |
| Limerick City North | Conor Sheehan LAB, Shane Hickey-O’Mara SOCDEM, Ruairí Fahy PBP |
| Limerick City West | Daniel McSweeney* FG |
| Adare-Rathkeale | Tommy Hartigan* IND, Adam Teskey FG |
| Cappamore-Kilmallock | Robert O’Donnell GP |
| Newcastle West | |
| Longford | |
| Ballymahon | Niall Dowler IND |
| Granard | |
| Longford | |
| Louth | |
| Ardee | Rachel Kerley FG |
| Drogheda Urban | Michael Kennedy GP |
| Drogheda Rural | |
| Dundalk-Carlingford | Sean Kelly FF, Andrea McKevitt* FF, Antóin Watters SF, Ciarán Fisher IND |
| Dundalk-South | James Hickey* PBP |
| Mayo | |
| Ballina | |
| Castlebar | Aidan Browne SOCDEM |
| Claremorris | Paul Lawless AON |
| Swinford | Antoinette Peyton* FG |
| Belmullet | |
| Westport | |
| Meath | |
| Ashbourne | Brandon Scott* AON, Bryan Mallon FF |
| Kells | Mike Bray FF, Paul McCabe FF, Cormac Corr* IND |
| Laytown-Bettystown | Thomas Behan FF, Cathal Mac Reamoinn* GP |
| Navan | Ross Kelly* FG, Kashif Ali* FF |
| Ratoath | Ruadháin Bonham* GP |
| Trim | Aoife Drew* SF |
| Monaghan | |
| Ballybay-Clones | |
| Carrickmacross-Castleblaney | Aoife McCooey* FF, Tate Donnelly* GP |
| Monaghan | |
| Offaly | |
| Birr | |
| Edenderry | |
| Tullamore | |
| Roscommon | |
| Athlone (Roscommon) | Emer Kelly* IND, Sam Brooks* SF |
| Boyle | Leah Cull SF, Rory Williams Doyle SF |
| Roscommon | Paul Hester GP |
| Sligo | |
| Ballymote-Tobercurry | Keith Henry FF, James Conway IFP |
| Sligo-Drumcliffe | |
| Sligo-Strandhill | |
| Tipperary | |
| Carrick-on-Suir | |
| Cahir | Cathal Ó hÉanna SF, Máirín McGrath IND |
| Cashel-Tipperary | Declan Burgess* FG, Tony Black SF, Molly Brown SF |
| Clonmel | Natasha Dingivan SF, Dean McGrath SF |
| Nenagh | Ryan O’Meara FF |
| Newport | Gavin Ryan* SF |
| Roscrea-Templemore | Jordan Lewis* LAB, Breandán O’Conchúir* SF, Aisling Moloney GP |
| Thurles | |
| Waterford | |
| Waterford City East | Adam Wyse FF*, Karl Cretzan* SF |
| Waterford City South | Kevin Burke* SF, Patrick Curtin PBP |
| Tramore-Waterford City West | Killian Mangan* RAB |
| Portlaw-Kilmacthomas | |
| Dungarvan | Fiona Regan SF, Críostóir Ó Faoláin GP |
| Lismore | |
| Westmeath | |
| Athlone (Westmeath) | Louise Heavin GP, Conor Dowling-Linehan SF |
| Moate | |
| Mullingar | Hazel Smyth GP |
| Kinnegad | Niall Gaffney* FF, Laura O’Neill AON |
| Wexford | |
| Gorey | Andrew Bolger* FF, Lorna Fitzpatrick LAB |
| Kilmuckridge | |
| Enniscorthy | Cathal Byrne FG, Brendan Cahill Flynn GP |
| New Ross | Kayley Goodison* SF, Raymond Forte* IND |
| Rosslare | Aoife Rose O’Brien SF, Jason Murphy* NP |
| Wexford | Robbie Staples FG |
| Wicklow | |
| Arklow | |
| Baltinglass | Peter Stapleton* FG, Connor Byrne SF |
| Bray East | |
| Bray West | |
| Greystones | Jack Commons FF |
| Wicklow | Danny Alvey SOCDEM, Abbie O’Loughlin* SF, Anthony Hill SF |
These details will still be constantly updated, as and when I come across details of younger candidates, who are to contest the June 7th elections but who are not currently on the list above.
2024 County and City Council Elections candidate selections for the “Other” political parties 22 Mar 2024 8:54 AM (last year)
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 22nd March 2024, with updates as new candidate nominations announced, or when I come across these details – latest update – 21st May 2024.
Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages.
The groups/parties listed here are smaller parties that won very few, or no, seats at the 2019 Local Election and who had – at least by the middle of March 2024– selected only a relatively small number of Local Elections 2024 candidates. As such – and mainly due to the time pressures being experienced by the owner/creator of this website – candidate selections for all of these parties will be logged in this “all in” post.
In all, across the different parties, there are one hundred and ninety one candidates for the smaller/new political parties, which will be contesting the 2024 Local Elections, listed here – forty one (21.5%) are women and one hundred and fifty (78.5%) are men.
The candidates listed as Independent Ireland candidates currently account for sixty candidates (eight are female – 13.3%) and this list of candidates includes twelve incumbents (20.0% of the total) and three other candidates who are former County Councillors (5.0%). Two candidates (Paul Hogan and Philip Sutcliffe) are contesting two electoral areas.
The candidates listed as 100% Redress Party candidates currently account for six candidates (one female – 16.7%)
The candidates listed as Workers Party candidates currently account for three candidates (all male)
The candidates listed as Workers and Unemployed Action candidates currently account for two candidates (one female – 50.0%) and this list of candidates includes one incumbent (50.0% of the total)
The candidate listed as a Independent 4 Change candidate currently accounts for one candidate (male).
The candidates listed as Rabharta: The Party for Workers And Carers candidates currently account for four candidates (two are female – 50.0%) and this list of candidates includes one incumbent (25.0% of the total) , although they do not appear as such on the official ballot papers
The candidates listed as Right to Change candidates currently account for two candidates (one is female – 50.0%) and both candidates are incumbents (100.0%).
The candidate listed as a Kerry Independent Alliance candidate currently accounts for one candidate (male).
The candidates listed as a Party for Animal Welfare candidate currently accounts for five candidates (four female – 80.0%).
The candidates listed as Irish Freedom Party candidates currently account for twenty eight candidates (eight are female – 28.6%)
The candidates listed as The Irish People candidates currently account for fifty six candidates (ten are female – 17.9%)
The candidates listed as Ireland First candidates currently account for eight candidates (three are female –37.5%)
The candidates listed as National Party candidates currently account for fifteen candidates (three are female – 20.0%). One candidate (Daeln Murphy) is contesting two electoral areas in County Carlow, one candidate (Jean Murray) is contesting three electoral areas in Dublin and Meath, and one candidate (Yan Mac Oireachtaigh) is contesting four electoral areas in South Dublin County.
While a number of the candidates in this grouping would appear likely to be first-time candidates, it does also include a number of more experienced candidates, as well as candidates who won Council seats in 2019 (or were subsequently co-opted on to the Council) as independents, or for other political parties, but then went on to later join new parties, with the most obvious example here being the incumbents who joined the new Independent Ireland political party in Spring 2024.
The candidates that have been officially selected across these different groupings include:
| Electoral Areas (166) | “Others” |
| Carlow | |
| Carlow | John Cassin Independent Ireland, Orla Donohoe Irish Freedom Party, Daeln Murphy National Party, Rory Woods The Irish People, Maria Ryan Ireland First |
| Tullow | Daeln Murphy National Party |
| Muinebeag | |
| Cavan | |
| Bailieborough-Cootehill | Kristofer Shekleton Independent Ireland |
| Ballyjamesduff | Shane P. O’Reilly Independent Ireland, Kieran Goggins Irish Freedom Party, Lester Gordon The Irish People |
| Cavan-Belturbert | |
| Clare | |
| Ennis | |
| Killaloe | Matthew Moroney Independent Ireland |
| Shannon | |
| Ennistymon | Mike Loughrey The Irish People |
| Kilrush | Joseph Woulfe Independent Ireland, Kevin Hassett Independent Ireland, John Hill Irish Freedom Party |
| Cork County | |
| Carrigaline | |
| Bandon-Kinsale | John Collins Independent Ireland |
| Macroom | Dermot Kelleher Independent Ireland |
| Cobh | Ger Curley Independent Ireland |
| Midleton | Eileen Kelly McCarthy Independent Ireland, Paddy Bullman Ireland First, James O’Sullivan The Irish People |
| Fermoy | Ken Brennan Independent Ireland, Derek Blighe Ireland First |
| Kanturk | Brendan O’Connor Independent Ireland |
| Mallow | Ross Cannon The Irish People |
| Bantry-West Cork | Danny Collins Independent Ireland |
| Clonakilty-Skibbereen | Daniel Sexton Independent Ireland |
| Cork City | |
| Cork City North East | Ken O’Flynn Independent Ireland, Anita Ward The Irish People |
| Cork City North West | Ross Lahive The Irish People |
| Cork City South Central | Joe Harris Independent Ireland, Tommy Murphy Ireland First |
| Cork City South East | Lorna Bogue Rabharta, Michael O’Riordan The Irish People |
| Cork City South West | Albert Deasy Independent Ireland |
| Donegal | |
| Donegal | John Molloy The Irish People |
| Glenties | Denis McGee 100% Redress Party |
| Milford | Eamon Jackson 100% Redress Party |
| Buncrana | Joy Beard 100% Redress Party, Kim Mc Menamin The Irish People |
| Letterkenny | Tomas Sean Devine 100% Redress Party, Anne McCloskey The Irish People |
| Carndonagh | Ali Farren 100% Redress Party, Donal McKinney The Irish People |
| Lifford-Stranorlar | Charles Ward 100% Redress Party |
| Dublin City | |
| Ballyfermot-Drimnagh | Philip Sutcliffe Independent Ireland, Barry Ward Irish Freedom Party |
| Ballymun-Finglas | Stephen Redmond National Party |
| Artane-Whitehall | |
| Donaghmede | Peadar MacMillan The Irish People, |
| Cabra-Glasnevin | Garrett Greene Workers Party, Jean Murray National Party, Mark Joseph Parsons The Irish People |
| Clontarf | |
| Kimmage-Rathmines | Philip Sutcliffe Independent Ireland, Pat Dunne Right to Change, Edmund Shanahan The Irish People |
| North Inner City | |
| South West Inner City | Gina Ahearne The Irish People |
| South East Inner City | |
| Pembroke | Conor P Rafferty The Irish People |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | |
| Blackrock | |
| Dún Laoghaire | |
| Dundrum | Conor Rafferty The Irish People |
| Glencullen-Sandyford | |
| Killiney-Shankill | |
| Stillorgan | |
| Fingal County | |
| Balbriggan | John Oakes Irish Freedom Party, |
| Rush Lusk | |
| Castleknock | |
| Howth-Malahide | |
| Blanchardstown-Mulhuddart | Patrick Quinlan National Party, Andy Heasman The Irish People |
| Ongar | Paul Fitzsimons Irish Freedom Party |
| Swords | Dean Mulligan Independents 4 Change |
| South Dublin County | |
| Clondalkin | Linda de Courcy Independent Ireland, Lauralee Robinson The Irish People |
| Palmerstown-Fonthill | David Gardiner Workers Party, Glen Moore Irish Freedom Party |
| Lucan | Robert Coyle The Irish People |
| Tallaght Central | Philip Dwyer Ireland First, Yan Mac Oireachtaigh National Party |
| Tallaght South | Patrice Nugent Party for Animal Welfare, Yan Mac Oireachtaigh National Party |
| Rathfarnham-Templeogue | Yan Mac Oireachtaigh National Party |
| Firhouse-Bohernabreena | Yan Mac Oireachtaigh National Party |
| Galway City | |
| Galway City Central | Shauna Ridge Independent Ireland, Sean Comer The Irish People, Mary Cummins Irish Freedom Party |
| Galway City East | Noel Larkin Independent Ireland, Jacinta Gibbons The Irish People, Susan Feeney Irish Freedom Party |
| Galway City West | AJ Cahill The Irish People, Rory Ó Beirn Irish Freedom Party |
| Galway County | |
| Athenry-Oranmore | Maria Carr The Irish People, Sean Hehir Independent Ireland |
| Gort Kinvara | Alan Sweeney The Irish People |
| Ballinasloe | Declan Geraghty Independent Ireland |
| Conamara North | Séamus Walsh Independent Ireland |
| Conamara South | Noel Thomas Independent Ireland, Michael Leainde Independent Ireland, Doran McMahon Irish Freedom Party, Aidan Walsh The Irish People |
| Loughrea | Declan Kelly Independent Ireland, John McGettigan The Irish People |
| Tuam | Shaun Cunniffe Independent Ireland, Ross Culligan National Party, Danann Gaughan The Irish People |
| Kerry | |
| Killarney | John O’Donoghue Kerry Independent Alliance, Alan O’Connor The Irish People |
| Listowel | Rosemarie Smith Party for Animal Welfare |
| An Daingean/Corca Dhuibhne | |
| Kenmare | William O’Brien The Irish People |
| Castleisland | |
| Tralee | Eddie O’Grady The Irish People, Jacob Sweeney National Party |
| Kildare | |
| Athy | William Carton Independent Ireland, Anthony Casey Irish Freedom Party |
| Celbridge | Darragh Toner The Irish People |
| Leixlip | |
| Maynooth | |
| Clane | Ryan McKeown Independent Ireland |
| Kildare | Paul O’Malley Independent Ireland |
| Newbridge | |
| Naas | Ger Dunne Independent Ireland, Avril Corcoran The Irish People |
| Kilkenny | |
| Castlecomer | Daniel Burke Independent Ireland, Stephen Delaney The Irish People |
| Kilkenny | Luke O’Connor Irish Freedom Party |
| Callan-Thomastown | |
| Piltown | Richard Daly The Irish People |
| Laois | |
| Borris in Ossory-Mountmellick | |
| Graiguecullen-Portarlington | Patsy Fennell Independent Ireland |
| Portlaoise | Colette Byrne Independent Ireland |
| Leitrim | |
| Ballinamore | Karina Charles Lynch Independent Ireland |
| Carrick-on-Shannon | |
| Manorhamilton | |
| Limerick | |
| Limerick City East | Michael O’Brien Rabharta |
| Limerick City North | Ruth Clarke Independent Ireland |
| Limerick City West | Esther Aherne Independent Ireland |
| Adare-Rathkeale | John O’Donoghue Independent Ireland, Thomas Hartigan Independent Ireland |
| Cappamore-Kilmallock | Gráinne Hanley Independent Ireland |
| Newcastle West | James Barrett Independent Ireland, Pat King Independent Ireland, Gerben Uunk Party for Animal Welfare |
| Longford | |
| Ballymahon | Mandy Larkin The Irish People |
| Granard | |
| Longford | Gareth McKendry The Irish People |
| Louth | |
| Ardee | Joe Bonner Independent Ireland |
| Drogheda Urban | Patrice Johnson Irish Freedom Party, Alan Fagan The Irish People, John Morgan The Irish People |
| Drogheda Rural | Patrice Johnson Irish Freedom Party, Derek McElearney The Irish People |
| Dundalk-Carlingford | Tracy O’Hanlon Irish Freedom Party |
| Dundalk-South | Cathal O’Murchu Irish Freedom Party, Barry Kieran Independent Ireland |
| Mayo | |
| Ballina | |
| Castlebar | Donal Geraghty Independent Ireland, Tom Moran The Irish People |
| Claremorris | Mark Devane Independent Ireland, Aaron Kelly The Irish People |
| Swinford | Marion Gordon The Irish People |
| Belmullet | |
| Westport | Chris Maxwell Independent Ireland, Niall McCormack Irish Freedom Party |
| Meath | |
| Ashbourne | Jean Murray National Party |
| Kells | Colm Mac an tSionnaigh Independent Ireland |
| Laytown-Bettystown | Raymond Westlake Independent Ireland |
| Navan | David O’Shea Irish Freedom Party |
| Ratoath | Gerry Rooney Workers Party, Jean Murray National Party, Carolyn Fahy Party for Animal Welfare |
| Trim | |
| Monaghan | |
| Ballybay-Clones | Mark Brady Irish Freedom Party |
| Carrickmacross-Castleblaney | |
| Monaghan | |
| Offaly | |
| Birr | |
| Edenderry | Fergus McDonnell Independent Ireland |
| Tullamore | Paddy Broder Irish Freedom Party |
| Roscommon | |
| Athlone (Roscommon) | |
| Boyle | Paul Forde Independent Ireland, Edmund Shanahan The Irish People |
| Roscommon | Nigel Dineen Independent Ireland, Justin Slamen Irish Freedom Party, Cathal Finnegan The Irish People |
| Sligo | |
| Ballymote-Tobercurry | James Conway Irish Freedom Party |
| Sligo-Drumcliffe | Amanda Gallagher Irish Freedom Party, Rob de Salle The Irish People |
| Sligo-Strandhill | Michael Kelly The Irish People |
| Tipperary | |
| Carrick-on-Suir | Martin Murphy Irish Freedom Party |
| Cahir | |
| Cashel-Tipperary | John McGrath National Party |
| Clonmel | Pat English Workers and Unemployed Action, Teresa Johnson Workers and Unemployed Action |
| Nenagh | |
| Newport | Eddie O’Gorman Indepedent Ireland |
| Roscrea-Templemore | |
| Thurles | |
| Waterford | |
| Waterford City East | John D Walsh The Irish People |
| Waterford City South | |
| Tramore-Waterford City West | Michael Gallwey Independent Ireland, Killian Mangan Rabharta, Samantha Dooley Party for Animal Welfare |
| Portlaw-Kilmacthomas | Declan Power The Irish People |
| Dungarvan | |
| Lismore | Michael McCarthy The Irish People |
| Westmeath | |
| Athlone (Westmeath) | Paul Hogan Independent Ireland, Cáit Ní Dhonnchadha Irish Freedom Party |
| Moate | Paul Hogan Independent Ireland, Shane Lynam Irish Freedom Party |
| Mullingar | Margaret Maguire Ireland First |
| Kinnegad | Brian Crum Independent Ireland, Ian McGauley The Irish People, Sarah Herraty Ireland First |
| Wexford | |
| Gorey | Darren McGovern Ireland First |
| Kilmuckridge | |
| Enniscorthy | |
| New Ross | |
| Rosslare | Jason Murphy National Party |
| Wexford | Stephen Power The Irish People |
| Wicklow | |
| Arklow | David O’Gorman Independent Ireland |
| Baltinglass | |
| Bray East | Ian Neary Independent Ireland, Finnian Cremins The Irish People |
| Bray West | |
| Greystones | Anthony Goldsmith Irish Freedom Party |
| Wicklow |
Further additions will be made to this candidate listing as, and when, further candidate selections take place and – naturally – when I become aware of these.