*Hilary Tonge (SD) with Eugene Fawl and Seán McMahon. Photograph: Joe Buckley SOCIAL DEMOCRATS “are on the map in Clare” following the General Election, unsuccessful candidate Hilary Tonge (SD) maintained.
THE CLARE ECHO is live from Treacy’s West County Hotel with counting underway to determine who the county has elected as its four TDs to serve in the 34th Dáil.
*LOR-KEY. CLARE’S first General Election anthem has been released and Sinn Féin supporters have said there is a growing support in the county for the party.
ACCESS to services and disadvantages for the Clare public when it comes to health and disabilities were among the big issues put to General Election candidates on day seventeen of the campaign.
*Leonora Carey (FG). Photograph: John McDermott. ARGUABLY the most important weekend of campaigning in the General Election has come to an end in Clare.
PART TWO of The Electoral Chair: Election Debate put candidates in the spotlight on some of the central issues influencing Clare voters.
SINN FÉIN in Clare was “extremely misogynistic towards women,” a former member who is contesting the General Election in Clare for the Social Democrats has said.
*Cllr Gabriel Keating’s (FF) car is pulled from the floods in Quilty. CANDIDATES battled the elements on day fifteen of the General Election campaign in Co Clare.
TEMPERATURES are cold but the election campaign is only heating up in Co Clare.
*Hilary Tonge (SD). Photograph: John Mangan HILARY TONGE (SD) is the Social Democrats’ first General Election candidate in Clare and she is confident that the party is striking a chord with voters in the county.
