Fianna Fáil is to run two candidates in North Tipperary for the General Election. The selection convention held in Templemore on Friday night agreed to the decision without a vote. Sitting TD Jackie Cahill is not standing in the General Election which is now expected on November 29th.
Cllr Ryan O’Meara and Cllr Michael Smith will contest the seat in the revised North Tipperary constituency with 7 other candidates also declared to date. The other candidates declared to date include sitting TDs Regional Independent Michael Lowry, Labour TD Alan Kelly and Independent Cllr Jim Ryan, Cllr Phil Bugler for Fine Gael, Dan Harty for Sinn Fein, Iva Pocock for the Green Party and Peter Madden for the National Alliance Group.
The constituency will return a total of 3 TDs as will South Tipperary – due to a population increase Tipperary as a whole will return 6 TDs instead of the current 5 TDs.
The boundary for North Tipperary has changed and the constituency now includes 13 Local Electoral Areas(LEAs) in North West Kilkenny, and certain electors based in the Cashel-Tipperary Municipal District as 6 areas will be voting in the Tipperary North constituency – Curraheen, Glencar, Cappagh, Donohill, Clonoulty West and Clonoulty East – totalling 2,812 electors approximately. Birdhill, Newport, and Kilcomenty will also join the North Tipp Constituency for the General Election having previously been included in the Limerick Constituency.
215 voters in Ballymoreen near Littleton comprising the 3 townlands of Curraheen, Parkstown, and Liskeveen will vote in the Tipperary South constituency following the new boundary created to deliver the North and South Tipperary constituencies.
