Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil vie for victory in local elections

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald: Morale across the party is low as 200-plus candidates failed to make it across the line. Councillors admit the party got its strategy wrong. Photograph: Damien Storan/PA Wire

The fallout from the elections continued in Sinn Féin, with some party sources admitting that members are now questioning the leadership of Mary Lou McDonald. Sinn Féin councillor John Hearne, who was re-elected in Waterford where seven Sinn Féin councillors were returned, said he believed the party needed to “get back to basics”.

Despite a clamour for an early election from some quarters within the Government, Tánaiste Micheál Martin reiterated that the election should be held early next year. Counting in the European elections will continue over the coming days. In Dublin, Fianna Fáil’s Barry Andrews and Fine Gael’s Regina Doherty led the field and are expected to take the first two seats with the remaining two seats to be scrapped over by Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan, Labour’s Aodhán Ó Riordáin, Green MEP Ciaran Cuffe, Independent Ireland’s Niall Boylan and outgoing MEP Clare Daly.

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