2024 Irish local elections

[7] On 8 May, Fingal councillor Tania Doyle and her husband, while erecting election posters, were assaulted by a man shouting anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric while an accomplice filmed it.

[12] Aaron Daly of Caherdavin, was subsequently arrested by Gardaí, and was charged with two counts of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, contrary to section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994, before being released on bail.

Daly was ordered to have no contact of any kind with O'Deniyi and to report to gardaí regularly until his trial, which was scheduled for 6 September 2024.

[14] On 17 May, Fine Gael candidate in Artane–Whitehall Linkwinstar Mattathil Mathew and his campaign team were forced to take down posters after they were racially abused and intimidated by a group of men.

[16] The results were seen as a victory for governing coalition parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and a disappointment for Sinn Féin, which had significantly underperformed its polling despite performing better than in the 2019 elections.

[21][22] Fine Gael credited the results to the resignation of Leo Varadkar, which injected "fresh energy" in the coalition.

[22] Financial Times reported that Sinn Féin did particularly poor because their core demographic, the working-class and youth, increasingly hardened on immigration, and instead voted for independents and far-right parties.