Former broadcaster has been contacting members of the party seeking support
The former RTÉ and Sky News presenter moved to South Africa in 2016 with her husband Leon Jordaan and set up a bespoke diamond business. The couple moved back to Ireland over the past two years.
It is understood that, as of now, neither of the party’s two sitting councillors in Connemara, Máirtín Lee or Gerry King, will be putting their names forward. Given Mr Ó Cuív’s strong base in Connemara, the party is likely to field one candidate from there with the second candidate coming from the city area.
The leading candidates in the east of the constituency are Senator Ollie Crowe, and city councillors John Connolly and Eddie Cheevers. However, after 2011, she appeared less frequently as a presenter on RTÉ. In 2017, she liquidated the production company for her TV work, and other media work, because of a significant decline in earnings.
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