Embattled Labour targets Fianna Fáil in struggle to win final Dublin seat

The Labour Party has pitched itself against Fianna Fáil in the battle for the last of three seats in Dublin, where Emer Costello remains its only hope of avoiding a wipeout in next Friday’s European elections.

A number of senior ministers went on the attack against Fianna Fáil’s record in Government, while all but ignoring Sinn Féin, which is now uncatchable as it powers ahead in a series of opinion polls.

Sinn Féin is likely to take at least two, but probably three, European parliament seats after Friday’s vote, with the previously relatively unknown Lynn Boylan poised to top the poll in Dublin.