Voters in Sligo have bucked the national trend by electing two fewer Fine Gael councillors than in 2019 and electing a Labour councillor for the first time in a decade. For its part, Fianna Fáil has landed an extra seat.
Voters in Sligo have bucked the national trend by electing two fewer Fine Gael councillors than in 2019 and electing a Labour councillor for the first time in a decade. For its part, Fianna Fáil has landed an extra seat.
Her election alongside running mate Donal Gilroy in the same Local Election Area saw Fine Gael's Tom Fox lose his seat. The battle for the last seat went to the wire, with the Fianna Fail man winning by just 22 votes when the result was finally declared in the early hours of Monday. Another successful first-time candidate was Fergal Nealon , a son of former Sligo-Leitrim TD and Minister of State Ted Nealon, and who was elected in the Sligo-Strandhill area.Asked whether Sinn Féin had made a mistake by running so many candidates, including three in Ballymote-Tubbercurry, local party TD Martin Kenny said that, because of the geographical spread in the county, the party had made the right choice."Votes don’t cross the Ox mountains," he said.
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