*Photograph: Joe Buckley
FIANNA FÁIL’S CLARE OIREACHTAS DUO “work very well” together, TD Cathal Crowe (FF) has said.
Following Crowe’s Shannon Heritage funding announcement prior to Christmas, his party colleague Senator Timmy Dooley (FF) in recent weeks noting the absence of an agreed deal on the transfer stated “the staff were most upset by the false information circulated before Christmas by another politician”.
When speaking to The Clare Echo, Deputy Crowe repeated that Shannon Heritage workers were not annoyed with him and rather it was fellow politicians trying to portray it as such.
This prompted The Clare Echo to flag that it was his own party colleague who was most critical in this regard. “I’ve no comment to make on that. He is a colleague and I’m a team player,” Crowe said of Dooley’s remarks.
A constant social media battle between the duo to be first to share positive funding announcement has also been observed. “I’m a member of a party and when you’re a member of a party you’re elected to work as a team. I work very well with Timmy Dooley, we are a TD and Senator team for the county, we worked well before the General Election and we still work well together. My opposition would be other political parties not my running mate”.
That criticism of Crowe was more visible from his own running mate and not opposition prompted the Meelick native to respond, “That’s The Clare Echo’s take, I’m giving you my take on it”.
