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Sinn Fein selects Connemara candidates for county council election
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Sinn Féin has selected its two candidates for next year’s County Council election in Connemara.
Tom Healy Junior from Cleggan and Máirín Mhic Lochlainn from Inverin were selected at a convention in Ros Muc last night.
Sinn Féin have adopted a strategy of a candidate in north Connemara and a candidate in south Connemara in the Local Election.
Tom Healy is an engineer in Clifden and he has been associated with Sinn Féin politics for many years.
Máirín Mhic Lochlainn is from Baile na mBrabhach in Cois Fharraige. A community activist she formerly worked in Raidio na Gaeltachta as an archivist and programme maker.
Tom Healy was selected without opposition last night but in south Connemara there was a contest between Máirín Mhic Lochlainn and Christine Nic Dhonnchada from an Trá Bháin which Máirín Mhic Lochlainn won.