Election 2024: If the far right are to make a breakthrough to the Dáil, it could be here

Dublin gangland figure Gerard Hutch says his campaign for election in Dublin Central is ‘genuine and truthful’

Hutch is so successfully laundering his reputation, some manufacturer of washing powder should immediately sign him up as a brand ambassador

Your essential end-of-week politics catch up

Election 2024: Former MEP to run in four-seater where TDs include Mary Lou McDonald and Paschal Donohoe

Plus: Alan Shatter seeks to protect the inheritance; a campaign for a Colm Meaney statue in Killarney; and Clare Daly’s political future

The only certainty is uncertainty, but here are the key bellwethers and battlegrounds in the European and local elections

All eight Dublin MEP candidates were very well briefed, armed with immediate data and quotable quotes, and did not hold back during a spiky debate

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Coalition-building across political groups more important in European Parliament than in the Oireachtas

Candidates face a battle where party running mates could be their most dangerous rivals transfers will in many cases be decisive

UK Labour and SF both have good policies ‘on paper’ but would still be subject to pressures when in power, union leader tells Dublin event

Names on European candidates’ replacement lists matter more than usual with a general election on the horizon

One startling fact: the number of Independents elected to the Dáil in recent years has exceeded the combined number elected to all other EU member state parliaments

Response from two elected members of the European Parliament to Stephen Collins’s Opinion piece

MEPs approve 10 Bills making up new migration pact following efforts to reform policies stretching back to 2016

Senior Saoradh figure attends closed-door talk in European Parliament about republican prisoners

Statement from Regina Doherty called on left MEPs to answer questions about links to Latvian politician

Mick Wallace and Clare Daly took part in five activities in 15 months with Tatjana Ždanoka on Russian-related themes

Left independent MEPs travelled to Lithuania twice with Tatjana Ždanoka, who has denied the allegations