Kate O’Connell ruled out of byelection due to ‘lack of leadership support’

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Former Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell says she will not be putting her name forward for the nomination for her party in the forthcoming Dublin Bay South byelection

has announced that she will not seek her party’s nomination for the Dublin Bay South byelection saying there is a faction in the party which does not want her to run.

“There has been a faction, I would feel, within the party since the leadership campaign which I though long gone out with the tide, who have long planned the exit of myself,” she told Today with Claire Byrne on RTÉ Radio. She said somebody had brought a sod of turf to a local event and that there was also a plan to put a sign outside her family pharmacy stating “This way to the M50”, signalling to her she should go home to her native Westmeath.

“I don’t really know. I have no problem with Leo Varadkar. I accepted he won the leadership. I put my heart and soul into legislation. “The coffin was made a long time ago,” she said, “which would make it impossible for me to win at convention.”

 

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