Larry O'TooleCame to prominence in the early 1990s by mounting a successful High Court challenge to the Section 31 broadcasting ban, which was later abolished.
RTE had refused to broadcast interviews with him in his position as chief shop steward in the Gateaux dispute. He fought the case on the basis that he was speaking as a trade unionist and not as a member of Sinn Fein. Active in the anti-drugs movement and other community issues, he was in the news last year when he and his son, Larry jnr, were shot and injured by a drug-dealer during his granddaughter's communion ceremony in Ballymun.
Mark Daly
A 25-year-old civil engineer from Old Bawn, Tallaght who first became involved in politics in Sean Crowe's 1997 general election campaign.
"Always a republican," he says he got "a more informed view on what was happening in Northern Ireland" from his Tyrone-born father. But his priority election issues were listed as "housing, Tallaght hospital, traffic, youth facilities and education".
He has the unusual distinction of playing for both the rival GAA clubs, St Anne's and Thomas Davis, which he manages by playing football for one (Davis) and hurling for the other.
Sean Crowe
Having missed a Dail seat by 200 votes in 1997, Sean Crowe's his election to south Dublin county council confirms him as Sinn Fein's best chance to join Caoimhghin O Caolain.
At 41, he has been in Sinn Fein for more than 20 years. Inspired by the hunger strikes, he gave up his job with Hallmark Cards to become a full-time party activist in 1983.
He is a former party youth officer, was delegation secretary at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, and was Sinn Fein's representative on the committee on confidence-building measures during the peace talks.
Christy Burke
A member of Dublin Corporation since 1985, he has deputised for the current Lord Mayor and once famously shook hands with the Rev Ian Paisley, who was unaware that he was a Sinn Fein member. Arising from that, he won a libel case against the Sun and RTE over a photograph of the incident captioned "Paisley in handshake with devil".
He is politically close to Independent TD Tony Gregory (they both had prison sentences imposed and later quashed for their support of the street traders in the mid-1980s) whose transfers helped elect him.
Dessie Ellis
Came to national prominence in 1983 when he was sentenced to eight years for possession of explosives. Subsequently extradited to Britain to face similar charges, during the 1991 trial there he said he had helped check the circuit boards of IRA devices, but for use in Northern Ireland only.
He was eventually acquitted and flown back to Dublin after the British home secretary signed an order forbidding him from re-entering the UK.
According to his literature, his main election platforms were housing, jobs, "and anti-social behaviour, especially the sale and abuse of drugs".
Nicky Kehoe
Secured 2,380 votes and was elected on the first count in the Cabra/Glasnevin area - as Independent TD Tony Gregory points out, "he was second only to Maurice Ahern, the Taoiseach's brother, who got the vote on the basis of being called Ahern".
Well-known in Cabra as a veteran member of St Finbarr's GAA club, Sinn Fein's election literature said he was active in "many local issues and organisations".
Other sources suggest he was effectively a single-issue candidate, winning his seat on the back of a very prominent role in the local anti-drugs campaign.