Green Party to Pick up Seanad Seat as Fianna Fail nominate Cllr James Carroll
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Fianna Fail will nominate Cllr James Carroll – Louth County Councillor and parliamentary assisatnt to Margaret Conlon for one of the two Seanad seats to be filled at the forthcoming Seanad election. You might remember him from his scintillating blog posts during the local elections (he is also one of Suzy’s stepford candiates).
It looks like Alan Kelly’s seat will be filled by the Green Party.
It also emerged last night that the Green Party will fill a vacancy in the Upper House caused by the election of Labour’s Alan Kelly to the European Parliament in June. This seat is on the agricultural panel. However, the Greens last night would not comment on the development.
Party whips from Fianna Fáil and the Greens in the Seanad had agreed on alternating replacements for vacancies on non-Government seats.
The names of four possible candidates have emerged in recent weeks: Louth councillor Mark Dearey; Clare councillor Brian Meaney; the former mayor of Galway Niall Ó Brolcháin; and the former county councillor in Fingal, Joe Corr.
Don’t really see Corr as a runner here, Deary and Meaney are likely to remain in their current seats. It’s probably going to be O’B.
Meaney seems to be suffering from the <disappearing party logo syndrome suffered by so many Fianna Fail candidates recently.