By Dan Walsh
Seventy-two candidates have declared to run in the Local Elections on Friday, July 7th and contest 34 County Council seats across six Local Electoral Areas (LEA).
Wexford (7 seats), New Ross (6 seats) and Gorey (6 seats) have the highest number of candidates – 14 each – followed by Enniscorthy (6 seats) and Rosslare (5 seats) with 12 candidates each and Kilmuckridge (4 seats) have six candidates.
The state of the parties is as follows; Independent (24), Fianna Fáil (14), Sinn Féin (11), Fine Gael (10), The Labour Party (6), Green Party (2) and one each for Aontú, Ireland First, People Before Profit-Solidarity, The Irish People and The National Party.
The list of candidates is as follows and are order of the receipt of nomination which closed last Saturday.
WEXFORD LEA; CATHERINE BIDDY WALSH (The Labour Party), VICKY CLANCY BARRON (The Labour Party), GEORGE LAWLOR (The Labour Party), LEONARD KELLY (Non-Party), ROBBIE STAPLES (Fine Gael), STEPHEN POWER (The Irish People), GARRY LAFFAN (Fianna Fáil), DAVE RYAN (Non-Party), RAYMOND SHANNON, EMMET MOLONEY (Fianna Fáil), MICHELE O’NEILL, LORRAINE SMYTH (Sinn Féin), TOM FORDE (Sinn Fein) and DAVY HYNES (Sinn Féin).
ENNISCORTHY LEA; CATHAL BYRNE (Fine Gael), PAT KEHOE (Fine Gael), JOHN O’ROURKE (Non-Party), MAJELLA WALL, CYRIL WHEELOCK (Non-Party), JACKSER OWENS (Non-Party), AIDAN BROWNE (Fianna Fáil), BARBARA-ANNE MURPHY (Fianna Fáil), BRENDAN CAHILL-FLYNN (Green Party/Comhaontas Glas), ALFIE Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN (Sinn Féin), COLETTE NOLAN (Sinn Féin) and EAMONN DOYLE (Non-Party).
KIMUCKRIDGE LEA; OLIVER WALSH (Fine Gael), MARY FARRELL (Non-Party), PADDY KAVANAGH (Non-Party), PIP BREEN (Fianna Fáil), WILLIE KAVANAGH (Fianna Fáil) and DECLAN KENNY (Sinn Féin).
NEW ROSS LEA; BRIDÍN LYNG MOLONEY (The Labour Party), BRIDÍN MURPHY (Fine Gael), HARRY TWOMEY (Fine Gael), MICHAEL WHELAN (Fianna Fáil), MARTY MURPHY (Non-Party), ANTHONY CONNICK (Non-Party), JOHN FLEMING (Fianna Fáil), PAT BARDEN (Non-Party), ANNE FLYNN (Non-Party), MICHAEL SHEEHAN (Fianna Fáil), KAYLEY GOODISON (Sinn Féin), JAMES FURLONG (Non-Party), JOHN DWYER (Non-Party) and RAYMOND FORTE (Non-Party).
ROSSLARE LEA; DAMIEN CORISH (The Labour Party), GER CARTHY (Non-Party), WILIE FITZHARRIS (Fine Gael), JACK BARDEN (Non-Party), JASON MURPHY (The National Party – An Páirtí Náisiúnta), LISA McDONALD (Fianna Fáil), SIMON BOYSE (Fianna Fáil), AOIFE ROSE O’BRIEN (Sinn Féin), MICK ROCHE (Sinn Féin), JIM CODD (Aontú), JOE DRUHAN (Non-Party) and FRANK STAPLES (Fine Gael).
GOREY LEA; ASHLING HUDSON (People Before Profit-Solidarity), LORNA FITZPATRICK (The Labour Party), DARRAGH McDONALD (Fine Gael), ANTHONY DONOHOE (Fine Gael), DARREN McGOVERN (Ireland First), CILLIAN BYRNE (Non-Party), JOE SULLIVAN (Fianna Fail), DONAL KENNY (Fianna Fáil), ANDREW BOLGER (Fianna Fáil), JIMMY FLEMING (Non-Party), NICKY BOLAND (Non-Party), ANN WALSH (Green Party/Comhaontas Glas), KEVIN MOLLOY (Sinn Fein) and FIONNTÁN Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN (Sinn Fein).
- Independent candidates are denoted by Non-Party or blank beside their name.
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