Election 2024: Kathleen Funchion's election as MEP in June a big loss to Sinn Féin
Carlow-Kilkenny constituency profile: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil face scrap to determine who comes out on topElection 2024: The Carlow-Kilkenny constituency has tended to be an area where Fianna Fáil has performed strongly, but Fine Gael is also fielding three candidates
former minister of state John Paul Phelan is leaving the political stage after 13 years in the Dáil and nine in the Seanad. In 2020, Fine Gael ran Phelan, Pat Deering and Patrick O’Neill. The latter two lost out, with Phelan securing a seat on the eighth count after O’Neill’s elimination carried him over the line.
Given the state of play in the polls, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil face a scrap with each other to determine who comes out on top. Fine Gael believes there is momentum behind Cllr David Fitzgerald, a former mayor ofwill be a big electoral loss for the party, especially given the fact she secured a whopping 23.75 per cent of first preference in 2020. She was elected on the first count with 17,500 votes, smashing the quota of 12,274.
Malcolm Noonan will run again. Last time, he crossed the line after the elimination of People Before Profit’s Adrienne Wallace. But will negativity towards the Greens in rural Ireland count against Noonan?
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