It's still a couple of months away yet but candidates have already been chosen. Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie It's still a couple of months away yet but candidates have already been chosen. Image: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR all but confirmed during the week that the upcoming by-elections will be held at the end of November.
But this could well be different after the by-elections with Fine Gael in a weaker or stronger position depending on how they’ll go. Higgins was previously selected as a candidate in the next general election at the end of 2017 so she told TheJournal.ie that she has been focused on the Dáil for the past two years.
Sinn Féin’s Eoin O’Broin topped the poll ahead of Fitzgerald in 2016 with Fianna Fail’s John Curran winning a seat and Solidarity’s Gino Kenny taking the last one. McNally said that as a commuting constituency with a large number of young families, housing and the price of rent are huge issues in Dublin Mid-West.McNally says she hopes that the constituency profile will mean there is an “opportunity for a left-wing party”.
Green Party councillor Peter Kavanagh, who was elected for the first time in May, will be attempting to turn that momentum into a Dáil seat.Sinn Féin has not yet selected its candidates for any of the by-elections but will be contesting each of them. Its selection for Dublin Mid-West is expected to be finalised first at the end of the month before the others follow.
Fine Gael is running Senator Colm Burke in the constituency with Oliver Moran for the Green Party and Sinéad Halpin for the Social Democrats.
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