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06 Sept 2025
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Sinn Fein leader, Mary Lou McDonald
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald has expressed her desire to see an increase in party representation from/in County Kilkenny and has pledged to grow party representation locally.
Currently, there is one TD and MEP from the county and just one representative on the council.
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"We're determined to grow. Kathleen Funchion is an established and such a popular political figure in Kilkenny so when she wasn’t running (in the General Election) we were conscious that they were very big shoes to fill," she said, hailing new candidates Natasha Newsome Drennan and Aine Gladney-Knox.
"I think we have the basis for optimism but what it’s all about now is hard work," affirming they will grow that number in the years to come.
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