Sinn Féin TD Kathleen Funchion is on course to top the poll in Carlow-Kilkenny and may be the only candidate to reach the quota in the constituency. Early tallies show Deputy Funchion is mopping up a huge vote in Carlow, polling just behind Fianna Fáil’s Jennifer Murnane O’Connor and considerably ahead of locally-based Fine Gael […]
The Carlow-Kilkenny constituency is traditionally one of the most conservative in the country, and up until recently it was widely expected to return three Fianna Fáil TDs and two from Fine Gael, with Sinn Féin’s Kathleen losing out. Or so we thought… Now the tide appears to have turned fairly dramatically in Kathleen’s favour following […]
A Carlow-Kilkenny General Election candidate may have to examine the constituency boundaries after it emerged some of their election posters and a large sign were erected in a different voting area. Residents of the small Wicklow village of Ballyconnell were a bit confused when posters of Fianna Fáil Senator Jennifer Murnane O’Connell popped up in […]