Dublin North-Central was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from 1948 to 2016. The method of election was proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
It varied between 3 and 4 seats from its creation in 1948. It was located on the northside of Dublin city. It was subsumed into the new Dublin Bay North constituency at the 2016 general election.
The constituency's most high-profile TD was Charles Haughey, Taoiseach from 1979 to 1981, in 1982, and from 1987 to 1992. Haughey won the first seat in the constituency at every election from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. At that election, his son Seán Haughey succeeded him in the constituency.
transfer from Dublin North-East of North Dock and balance of Mountjoy
Ballybough, Drumcondra South, Glasnevin, Mountjoy, North City and North Dock wards;
that part of Cabragh East ward lying north of a line drawn as follows:
commencing at the junction of the eastern boundary of the ward with the Royal Canal, thence in a north-westerly direction along the Royal Canal to its junction with the ward boundary;
that part of Clontarf East ward which is not included in the constituency of Dublin North-East;
that part of Clontarf West ward which is not included in the constituency of Dublin North-East;
and that part of Finglas East ward lying south-east of a line drawn as follows:
the part of the townland of Kilmore Big, in the district electoral division of Coolock, situated south of a line drawn along the centre of Coolock Lane and Oscar Traynor Road;
the part of the townland of Santry, in the district electoral division of Drumcondra Rural Number Two, situated within a line drawn as follows:
transfer of the Ennafort–St Annes area to Dublin North-East;
transfer of Airport Road area with Dublin North-West;
transfer of Marino–Fairview–North Strand area from Dublin Central.[10]
Transfer of Clontarf East A, Edenmore, Grange E and Kilmore C from Dublin North-East.[14]
transfer of Beaumont A and Whitehall D to Dublin North-West.[16]
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
^ *: Outgoing TD
Following the death of Fianna Fáil TD Colm Gallagher, a by-election was held on 14 November 1957. The seat was won by Independent candidate Frank Sherwin.