Search

22 Oct 2025

Tipperary candidates should focus on local elections - Wood

'Put your names on the ballot paper for the May local election' says Cashel Councillor

Tipperary candidates should focus on local elections - Wood

Cllr Tom Wood

With the confidence and supply agreement between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil now extended until 2020 there will, according to Councillor Tom Wood, “be an expectation that candidates already selected to contest the next general election but who are not presently members of Tipperary County Council will have their names on the ballot paper for the May local election.”

Cllr Wood contends that by contesting the May election such candidates would have the opportunity of presenting themselves to the electorate while outlining their party or personal policies and what they actually stood for.

“Election to the Council as active participants within the local government structures and within their own Municipal District would then give them a valuable platform from whence to set about contesting the next general election in a more positive manner”, he says

To continue reading this article,
please subscribe and support local journalism!


Subscribing will allow you access to all of our premium content and archived articles.

Subscribe

To continue reading this article for FREE,
please kindly register and/or log in.


Registration is absolutely 100% FREE and will help us personalise your experience on our sites. You can also sign up to our carefully curated newsletter(s) to keep up to date with your latest local news!

Register / Login

Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.

Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.