We here at News Four would like to offer our warmest congratulations to the successful candidates in the recent Local and European elections and our commiserations to those who did not quite make it, good luck in the future!

It was an interesting and enthralling election with quite a few surprising results for the major parties which hopefully will motivate our elected officials to do all they can for their constituents and fulfil their election promises. Another bright spot to come from the election was the increase in voter turnout on a national level.

In the Local Elections the six councillors elected were:
Pembroke: Lucinda Creighton (Fine Gael), Dermot Lacey (Labour) and Wendy Hederman (Progressive Democrats)

South East Inner City: Kevin Humphreys (Labour), Daithi Doolan (Sinn Fein) and Garry Keegan (Fianna Fail)

Over the next five years these councillors will be part of setting the policy agenda for the whole city and in particular the South East Area and we wish them all the best in doing so.

In the European Elections the four candidates for Dublin elected were:
Gay Mitchell (Fine Gael), Eoin Ryan (Fianna Fail), Proinseas De Rossa (Labour) and Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein).

Special congratulations must go to Eoin Ryan who is one of our local TDs and we wish him all the best on his new European position.