"Fine Gael public representatives cannot in any way facilitate the nomination of any candidate other than the ratified Fine Gael candidate. "In the event of a vote of any local authority on the nomination of a person other than the ratified Fine Gael candidate, the Fine Gael local authority members are whipped to oppose that nomination," the email from party general secretary John Carroll said.
Every dog and divil in Kerry knows that man who pleaded guilty to electoral fraud worked for Healy-Rae company, according to one Fine Gael senator.
"I meant it when I said I think we should legislate in relation to the Occupied Territories. I will fulfil the commitment of the programme for government to bring forward legislation in relation to the occupied territories, we have to do everything humanly possible here, use every lever at our disposal."