Battle of the Glass Bottle site: Housing dominates in Dublin by-election

The constituency that gave us the Rumble in Ranelagh now looks to produce the Battle of the Glass Bottle site, as housing dominates the agenda.

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The battle lines were drawn early in the Dublin Bay South by-election campaign, but a surprise challenger has flipped the script.

Thursday’s poll was billed as a straight shoot-out between Fine Gael’s James Geoghegan and Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan, but the odds have drastically shortened on Labour’s Ivana Bacik.