Election special: Dublin a high-stakes dogfight as Labour and Fianna Fáil battle it out

The surprise package in Dublin in the last European elections was Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins.

Nessa Childers and Brian Hayes are both fighting for European seats in Dublin.

Constituency: Dublin

**Number of seats:** three

**Population:** 1,273,069

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The surprise package in Dublin in the last European elections was Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins, who made a stunning political comeback at the expense of Fianna Fáil’s Eoin Ryan.

This time, former Green Party minister Eamon Ryan is attempting to do the same, former Labour MEP Nessa Childers is trying to get elected as an independent and Socialist Party substitute MEP Paul Murphy ...