At the recent general election took place on the 29th of November, the Dublin Fingal West Constituency returned three T.D’s, Deputy Louise O’Reilly (Sinn Fein), Cllr Rob O’Donoghue (Labour) and Grace Boland (Fine Gael), with all three candidates passing the quota of 7,530 votes.

Deputy O’Donoghue received a 16.7% of the first preference vote, the highest percentage for his Party in the Country and was deemed elected on the sixth count.

Speaking on his securing of the second of the three seats Deputy O’Donoghue stated, ‘It has been the most draining campaign that I have ever been on and I am thrilled with the results. I would like to thank everyone who helped me during this campaign, from canvassers, leafetlers, posterers and for the amount of time that my team of volunteers gave up to help me over the last two to three months, without their support we would not have taken a seat and I will be forever grateful to each and every person who helped me, it doesn’t matter if it was one day or the entire campaign, it would not have been possible without the team.

‘I would also like to thank everyone in the constituency that came out on the day to vote for me. It has been a privilege to serve as the Councillor for the Rush-Lusk Local Electoral Area for the last seven years and I appreciate the trust that has been placed in me by the people of Fingal West to represent them at national level. I will do my best for the constituency in the coming