FINAL FEW HOURS OF CANVASSING IN BALLINASLOE TO FILL COUNTY COUNCIL SEAT

Date Published: 09-Jun-2011

The vote to select Michael Mullins replacement on Galway county council will take place in Gullane’s Hotel Ballinasloe tonight

Five candidates from the electoral area are competing for the Fine Gael seat left vacant following the election of Michael Mullins to the Senate.

Two former members of the county council, Michael Finnerty and Michael John Kilgannon are in the race for the seat.

Community activists, Sean Ryan from New Inn and Dan Dowling from Ballinasloe, and business man Jarlath Loughnane from Monivea are also competing for the seat.