Senator and Minister are expected to be only two candidates to compete for Eamon Ryan’s former position
Eamon Ryan: ‘I will never forget seeing a really nasty comment about my father, who had just died. It has become worse since then’Clare-based Senator Róisín Garvey is the latest Oireachtas member to back Ms Hackett who is a Minister of State for Agriculture and farmer in Co Offaly.
For his part Mr O’Gorman, the Minister for Children and Integration, has pushed back on suggestions that the party needs a leader from outside Dublin to improve its popularity in rural Ireland.
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