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LAST UPDATE | 2 Dec 2024
FOR SOME TDs, the past three days have been confirmation of huge support in their local constituency. For others, years on the Dáil benches have been brought to an end.
Here’s who has lost out – in alphabetical order.
Sinn Féin’s outgoing TD for Dublin Bay South Chris Andrews has lost his seat.
Andrews was eliminated on the twelfth count, with the final seat in the affluent four-seater going to Social Democrats’ councillor Eoin Hayes.
Andrews, who is his party’s spokesperson for Sport, had been a TD for the area since 2020.
In Cork North-Central, Labour’s Eoghan Kenny was declared the winner ahead of outgoing Solidarity-People Before Profit TD Mick Barry, with just 35 votes separating them.
A full recount was called for, during which it emerged that the gap had increased to 39 votes for Kenny.
Barry conceded the election. He had been a TD since 2016.
In Kildare South, Independent Cathal Berry was eliminated on the tenth count.
He was elected to the Dáil for the first time in 2020.
Cashel native Martin Browne lost his seat in Tipperary after being eliminated on the fifth count.
Browne had been elected to the Tipperary constituency in 2020.
Joan Collins has been a TD since 2011, and she’s been a member of the Right To Change party since 2020.
She was eliminated in the Dublin South-Central constituency on the twelfth count.
Green Party TD Patrick Costello didn’t hang on to his seat in Dublin South-Central after one term in the Dáil.
He was eliminated on the ninth count.
He is married to Hazel Chu, a Green Party councillor who also failed to get a seat this weekend.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly was one of the most high-profile casualties to lose his seat, missing out on the thirteenth and final count in Wicklow in the early hours of Monday morning.
Donnelly was first elected in 2011 as an independent, before co-founding the Social Democrats in 2015 alongside Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy. He left the party the following year, before joining Fianna Fáil in 2017.
Green Party spokesperson on housing Francis Noel Duffy was a TD in Dublin South-West, but he has now lost his seat.
He was eliminated on the second count.
Duffy is married to Catherine Martin, who was deputy leader of the Green Party until June of this year.
The Dail’s longest serving TD, Bernard Dublin, lost his seat in Kildare North after the 12th count.
Durkan was first elected in 1981 and previously served as a junior minister for social welfare, Fine Gael chief whip.
Fianna Fáil newcomer, Naoise Ó Cearúil, took the final seat in the constituency.
Running in the new Dublin Fingal East constituency (created by the boundary changes last year), Fine Gael’s Alan Farrell didn’t manage to win a seat.
Farrell, who is chairperson of the parliamentary party, was eliminated on the eleventh count.
He has been a TD since 2011 – first in the Dublin North constituency (2011 – 2016) and then in Dublin Fingal.
Fianna Fáil TD Joe Flaherty missed out on keeping his seat in Longford-Westmeath.
The former Longford County councillor, who has been a TD since 2020, was eliminated on the fifteenth and final count.
Outgoing Dublin Central TD Neasa Hourigan failed to hang on to her seat.
She was eliminated on the seventh count.
During the lifetime of the last Dáil, Hourigan was suspended from the Green Party twice – first for voting against the government on a motion calling for the new National Maternity Hospital to be built on state-owned land, and then for voting against the government on an amendment to a motion calling for an extension on the eviction ban.
People Before Profit – Solidarity TD Gino Kenny hasn’t managed to keep his seat in Dublin Mid-West.
He conceeded defeat before he was eliminated on the ninth count, following two terms in the Dáil.
Kenny previously served as a councillor on South Dublin County Council from 2009 to 2016.
Green Party TD Brian Leddin was elected in 2020 and has now lost his seat in Limerick City.
He was eliminated on the seventh count.
Deputy Leader of the Green Party Catherine Martin has lost her seat in Dublin Rathdown.
Martin served as Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media since June 2020.
She was eliminated on the ninth count.
Green Party TD Steven Matthews, who was elected in 2020, lost out on keeping his seat in the Wicklow constituency.
Matthews was eliminated on the eighth count.
In Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party minister of state Malcolm Noonan has lost his seat.
He was eliminated on the eighth count.
Junior minister Joe O’Brien was quickly eliminated from the running in Dublin Fingal West.
After one term in the Dáil, he was today eliminated on the third count.
Green Party TD did not manage to keep his seat in the Waterford constituency.
The party Spokesperson for Social Protection was eliminated on the eighth count.
Thomas Pringle lost his seat in Donegal in a closely-fought battle, losing out in the final count to Fianna Fáil’s Charlie McConalogue and 100% Redress’s Charles Ward.
Pringle had been an independent TD for Donegal for 13 years.
Fianna Fáil TD and Minister of State Anne Rabbitte has lost her seat in Galway East after two terms in the Dáil.
She was eliminated on the ninth count.
Her party colleague, 26-year-old Albert Dolan won a seat.
After breaking away from the Sinn Féin party only recently, Independent candidate Patricia Ryan managed to garner very few votes, getting eliminated on the fourth count.
It’s a sharp contrast to her performance in the 2020 election, when she topped the poll.
Independent TD Matt Shanahan lost his seat in the Waterford constituency.
Shanahan had served one term in the Dáil. He was eliminated on the final (twelfth) count.
Green Party TD Ossian Smyth was eliminated on the fifth count in Dún Laoghaire.
He served as a a Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure since 2020.
It was his first term in the Dáil.
Pauline Tully, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson for disability and carers, has not been returned in Cavan-Monaghan after she was eliminated on the 11th count.
Tully was first elected to the Dáil in 2020.
Independent TD Violet-Anne Wynne’s performance this time around fell far short of her result in 2020, when she was elected on the back of the Sinn Féin surge in that election.
She was eliminated on the third count in Clare with just 328 votes.
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