Fianna Fáil will be desperately hoping to retain a foothold in the capital as the Dublin West by-election count gets underway later this morning.
The vote is to fill the seat left by the death of former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, who was the party's only Dublin TD.
Labour's Patrick Nulty is the favourite, having come fifth in this four-seat constituency at the General Election.
He will be hoping to put that right and to take a second seat for his party alongside Dublin West poll topper, Minister Joan Burton.
Competition in this rather left-leaning constituency comes from Socialist Party candidate Ruth Coppinger who has campaigned vocally against the Government's austerity programme.
Fine Gael believes it may pull off a surprise victory with candidate Eithne Loftus while Fianna Fáil's David McGuinness is very much an outsider, but one who has been keen to stress his links with the Lenihan dynast
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