Capital is seen as the ‘cockpit of government’, so who will claim the 49 seats available?
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has her work cut out for her to add Sinn Féin seats in her heartland. Photo: Eamonn Farrell
The unpredictability of where the 174 seats will go in Election 2024 is summed up by the mixed picture in Dublin. The late Fianna Fáil minister Séamus Brennan, a renowned psephologist, used to call Dublin “the cockpit of any government” as a prospective taoiseach had to perform well there to take power.
The campaign will change the picture everywhere, but here’s how each race is shaping up in Dublin at the start.
