Appetite is in West Clare to have a TD says Rita
*Cllr Rita McInerney (FF). Photograph: Eugene McCafferty WEST CLARE’s desire to get a TD in the Dáil and potentially in Government is boosting the chances of Cllr Rita McInerney (FF).
*Cllr Rita McInerney (FF). Photograph: Eugene McCafferty WEST CLARE’s desire to get a TD in the Dáil and potentially in Government is boosting the chances of Cllr Rita McInerney (FF).
ACCESS to services and disadvantages for the Clare public when it comes to health and disabilities were among the big issues put to General Election candidates on day seventeen of the campaign.
*Tánaiste Micheál Martin (FF) with Senator Timmy Dooley (FF), Cathal Crowe TD (FF) and Cllr Rita McInerney (FF). TÁNAISTE, Micheál Martin (FF) has said there is no guarantee of a Clare Minister if Fianna Fáil elect two TDs in the county.
*Leonora Carey (FG). Photograph: John McDermott. ARGUABLY the most important weekend of campaigning in the General Election has come to an end in Clare.
PART TWO of The Electoral Chair: Election Debate put candidates in the spotlight on some of the central issues influencing Clare voters.
*Kevin Hassett (IND). Photograph: John Mangan ONE OF six Independent candidates on the ballot paper, Kevin Hassett (IND) has said the Government have “a Pandora’s box which they are unable to control” regarding immigration.
*Cllr Gabriel Keating’s (FF) car is pulled from the floods in Quilty. CANDIDATES battled the elements on day fifteen of the General Election campaign in Co Clare.
*Cathal Crowe TD (FF). Photograph: John Mangan OUTGOING TD, Cathal Crowe (FF) is feeling the heat in his bid to be re-elected to the Dáil and said he won’t be drawn into “what ifs” on whether he will put his party whip on the line for the cause of Ennis Hospital.
TEMPERATURES are cold but the election campaign is only heating up in Co Clare.
CLARE’s election candidates were put through their paces in an entertaining debate held at Hotel Woodstock in the key moment of Thursday’s campaign.