Electing our candidate in Galway 'would be the ultimate two fingers to the far right', Labour says

Meanwhile, many who have been out canvassing in Dublin Central see the Green Party councillor Janet Horner as a dark horse, writes Elaine Loughlin

Labour's Helen Ogbu has been targeted online, receiving a stream of abuse, and in recent days has had one of her election posters vandalised with the 'N' word spraypainted across it. Photo: Leah Farrell/© RollingNews.ie

Could this be the election that delivers the country's first black female TD in the most unlikely of constituencies?

"It would be the ultimate two fingers to the far right," was how one Labour party politician put it this week.