Dublin canvass: Housing, transport and Gaza dominate as parties vie for votes

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Politics Dublin canvass: Housing, transport and Gaza dominate as parties vie for votes

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill says people seemed 'content' with the big issues but others are not so sure as election day looms

Cónal Thomas 01:00

"She works in the Department of Foreign Affairs, that woman," Micheál Martin tells one of his team, taken aback that he'd met a recognisable face from the day job while out and about canvassing.

"She was part of an incredible project down in Mozambique. Imagine," the Fianna Fáil leader says, beaming, before moving on to the next two-up-two-down redbrick on Kingsland Parade in Dublin's inner city.

Mozambique is 14,000km from Portobello, a 9,000-strong neighbourhood bound ...