Fine Gael's Cllr Marie Murphy is proud of the work done to protect local medical facility

Cllr Marie Murphy was elected to Tipperary County Council in the Cahir Local Electoral Area on the fifth count.

The Clogheen based councillor crossed the line in the fifth count after falling agonisingly short in the third count by 14 votes and by 9 votes in the fourth count.

She got over the line with the distribution of the voters of Social Democrat Candidate Alan Moynihan. In that distribution she received  28  votes to take her over the 1,437 quota with 1,456 votes.

"At the doors people commented on the work I had done to upgrade St Theresa's Hospital in Clogheen. It is a fabulous local facility. As Minister for Health Simon Harris visited the hospital in 2017 and we showed him the plans and in fairness to him he honoured the commitment he made at that time with funding," said Cllr Murphy.

Cllr Murphy said she was a bit anxious because of the congested line up of candidates in the Clogheen area.

"7 out of the 10 candidates were from the one area and we did not know how the vote would go," she said.

She said that health services along with the conditions of the roads and medical cards were the main issues brought up by the voters.

Looking ahead Cllr Murphy said she was looking forward to seeing real progress made on housing in the next term of the council and she welcomed the progress being made on a new car park in the town centre and the development of a state of the art library.

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