{"id":361748,"date":"2026-03-24T01:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:25:09","slug":"dublin-mayor-says-he-is-in-it-to-win-it-as-he-enters-by-election-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/361748\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin mayor says he is \u2018in it to win it\u2019 as he enters by-election race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin mayor Ray McAdam said he was \u201cin it to win it\u201d, before being selected as the Fine Gael candidate for a by-election triggered by the resignation of Paschal Donohoe.<\/p>\n

Donohoe, who resigned as finance minister and a TD, took up the second most senior position at the World Bank, as managing director and chief knowledge officer.<\/p>\n

At a selection convention in Dublin city on Monday, party members heard that McAdam, who is a former parliamentary assistant to Donohoe, was the only nomination received to be the party\u2019s candidate.<\/p>\n

The Cavan-born father-of-one has lived in Dublin for more than 20 years and has been a councillor for 17 years.<\/p>\n

\"PaschalFine Gael\u2019s Paschal Donohoe celebrates being elected at RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, in 2024 (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\n

He told the room that Dublin \u201cdeserves the very best\u201d, that he loves the \u201chonesty\u201d of the Dublin Central constituency, and said he was \u201cin it to win it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no constituency quite like Dublin Central,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He paid tribute to the communities \u201cof workers and carers\u201d, who have \u201cknown pressure\u201d, and said the choice in the byelection was between \u201ca voice of noise or a voice of substance, a voice that comments on problems or a voice that works to solve them\u201d.<\/p>\n

Director of elections for the byelection, Minister of State Neale Richmond; TD Emer Currie; MEP Regina Doherty; Senator Evanne Ni Chuilinn and secretary general of Fine Gael John Carroll, were at the selection convention.<\/p>\n

Richmond paid tribute to \u201cthe great\u201d Mr Donohoe and thanked him for his work for the constituency.<\/p>\n

Councillor Colm O\u2019Rourke, who proposed McAdam, said he had learned how to canvass from him, before telling the room: \u201cLet\u2019s take our seat back in Dublin central.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the confirmed candidates for the Dublin Central election are Gerry \u201cThe Monk\u201d Hutch, who just lost out on a seat during the 2024 general election, and councillor Janice Boylan, a running mate of Sinn F\u00e9in leader Mary Lou McDonald.<\/p>\n

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She competed for the Sinn F\u00e9in nomination against Gillian Sherratt, the mother of Harvey Morrison Sherratt, a nine-year-old boy who died after years of waiting for spinal surgery.<\/p>\n

Councillor Daniel Ennis for the Social Democrats, Councillor Janet Horner for the Green Party, Ruth O\u2019Dea for the Labour Party, musician Eoghan O Ceannabhain for People Before Profit, and Ian Noel Smyth for Aontu are also candidates.<\/p>\n

The Dublin Central byelection will take place in May, as will a byelection for the Galway West constituency, the seat vacated by Catherine Connolly when she became President of Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin mayor Ray McAdam said he was \u201cin it to win it\u201d, before being selected as the Fine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-361748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}