Plans for a directly-elected mayor for Dublin are gone. Councillors in Fingal have overwhelmingly rejected the proposal at a meeting this evening.

Fianna Fail councillor David McGuinness was one of six Fingal councillors who voted for the proposal to hold a vote on a directly elected Dublin Mayor.

He is not happy his colleagues rejected the plan.

The Mayor of Fingal, Kieran Dennison, told Bobby Kerr - hosting The Right Hook here on Newstalk - this could now go to a body similar to the Constitutional Convention.

While the proposal was rejected in Swords, across the city in Tallaght South Dublin councillors had voted in favour.

But that result - and the result of a Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Council meeting later - are now redundant as the proposal had to be agreed by all Councils.

The votes by Fingal County Council were 6 For, 16 Against and 2 Abstained.