Sinn Féin falls flat in hugely ambitious local election strategy

The party saw second, third and fourth candidates perform poorly around the country as it suffered from running too many candidatesSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald at the RDS during the count for the European elections. In Cabra-Glasnevin, her home turf, Fine Gael was outpolling Sinn Féin. Photograph: Damien Storan/PA Wire

By Saturday evening it was clear that the scale of Sinn Féin’s ambition – and they were hugely ambitious running 335 candidates nationwide – was seriously misjudged. In Cabra-Glasnevin, the home turf of party leader Mary Lou McDonald, Fine Gael were outpolling Sinn Féin in a development which the party will find hugely embarrassing.

In Tallaght South, where the party ran three candidates in a contest for five seats, Independent Patrick Pearse Holohan topped with poll with 21.8 per cent of the first preference vote, with Fine Gael candidate Baby Pereppadan elected on the second count with 1,172 votes. Sinn Féin had been eyeing up three-candidate strategies in constituencies around the country for the general election, and it may or may not alter this following a review of these local election results.

In Monaghan the party’s gamble of fielding its highest ever number of candidates in Monaghan paid off with eight candidates elected. The party also reclaimed the seat Noel Connell lost in 2019 in Cavan with the party’s councillor Damien Brady re-elected.

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