Two questions,
Will there be a by election in Dublin for European Parliament
No. A replacement list is offered by each candidate before the European Parliament elections and the replacement will be appointed from that list.
On the left:
Five from the United Left Alliance:
Higgins (Dublin West), Daly (Dublin North) - both Socialist Party.
Boyd-Barrett (Dún Laoghaire), Collins (Dublin South Central) - both People Before Profit (Boyd-Barrett is a member of the Socialist Workers' Party, whose front organisation People Before Profit is, while Collins is a former member of the Socialist Party).
Healy (Tipperary South) - Workers and Unemployed Action Group (local group in Clonmel town).
Other left:
O'Sullivan (Dublin Central) and McGrath (Dublin North Central) - both associated with the late Tony Gregory, would be generally left of Labour but pragmatic where local issues are concerned.
Murphy (Kildare North) - former member of the Workers' Party,Democratic Left and Labour who left the latter party in 2004.
Halligan (Waterford) - former member of the Workers' Party who left due to disagreements on local service charges, was unsucessfully wooed by Labour as a candidate earlier this year.
Pringle (Donegal South West) - originally elected as an independent to the local county council and then self-described as a "republican socialist", then joined and subsequently left Sinn Féin.
Wallace (Wexford) - building contractor and property developer who runs the local soccer team and who was noted during the last decade for using properties to host banners opposing Irish facilitation of the US invasion of Iraq and the war in Kosovo among other causes. Leftish but maverick.
"Gene-pool" FF:
Fleming (Kerry South) - stood as an independent after failing to be selected at this election.
McGrath (Tipperary South) - spent four years as a semi-permanent stone in the shoe of successive Fianna Fáil leaders before finally jumping ship earlier this year.
Healy-Rae (Kerry South) - no more need be said.
"Gene-pool" FG:
Lowry (Tipperary North) - former FG cabinet minister who was forced to stand down and subsequently resigned as a party member due to questionable business links, has acted as a "sugar daddy" for his constituency (a current major project is a proposed casino in a small village just off the main Dublin-Limerick road).
Other right:
Ross (Dublin South) - stockbroker, business journalist and general commentator and campaigner on shareholder issues. Has gained notice for his criticism of the business culture that led to the current crash (although he was less critical of some of the major figures involved during the time of the bubble itself). Member of the Senate for Trinity College Dublin and briefly a member of Fine Gael in the early 90s, which liaison ended badly.
Donnelly (Wicklow - possible) - former management consultant with McKinsey and Harvard Kennedy School of Government graduate, campaigned on economic issues in generally vague terms.
Both of these are highly critical of the terms of the EU/IMF bailout and general banking policy.
Others:
Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim) - commonly known as "Ming", first stood as a campaigner for the legalisation of cannabis in the early 00s, later widened his appeal as a community activist and was elected to the Roscommon County Council in 2004. One of his main issues over the last few years has been in opposition to restrictions on turf-cutting brought in by EU regulations (the ability to cut and use turf as fuel instead of other fuels being a major issue in rural areas).
