Green de Burca causes Dublin recount

Deirdre de Burca of the Green Party has been granted a recount however Labour's Prionsias de Rossa and Fine Gael's Gay Mitchell are on course to take the first two seats.

The battle for the third seat will be between Socialist Joe Higgins, Sinn Fein's Mary Lou McDonald and Fianna Fail's Eoin Ryan with Higgins best placed to take the seat.