DUBLIN HAS ELECTED its first Green Party candidate.
Patrick Costello has managed to take a seat in Rathmines:
Here he is doing an election selfie:
In the 2009 local elections, the party only got 1.1 per cent of the national vote and not much better in the last General Election in 2011 – with 1.8 per cent.
With the talk of a resurgence in popularity, how are the Green Party doing so far?
Earlier today, despite no official results about the European elections being released yet, Eamon Ryan was accepting congratulatory hugs in Citywest earlier today after exit polls put him in third place in Dublin – which could mean he takes the final, precious MEP seat.
RTÉ Exit Poll results from the European Elections for Dublin showed:
There are three seats up for grabs in the constituency, meaning that the Greens might just take it.
(warning – these are not definitive or without margin of error)
In some of the Dublin tallies today for Fingal Castleknock the Green Party were at 10.2 per cent, while in Fingal Howth/Malahide they were at 6.8 per cent.
However in Balbriggan ward the party has just 5 per cent in the tallies.
With eight seats in Dun Laighaire Rathdown, Ossian Smyth of the Green Party was tallied at 6.9 per
It is also thought that former TD Paul Gogarty might take a seat in Dublin in the Palmerstown and Lucan ward – tallying at 8.89 per cent.
He once said: “Music is a hobby, politics is my vocation.”
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