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06 Sept 2025
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Newly elected TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, Peter 'Chap' Cleere has told Kilkenny Live that Fianna Fáil's strength in the constituency is due to the 'strength' and work rate of each individual candidate.
"Everybody is trying to go out and win their own seat. We're very fortunate in Carlow and Kilkenny that we have strong candidates," he said, adding, "it's a huge achievement."
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The Kilkenny-based candidate was less than 100 votes short of the quota after the fourteenth count but then received an additional 1,772 votes from the surplus of Catherine Callaghan (Fine Gael) to secure election for the very first time.
Hear Peter 'Chap' Cleere's full interview in the video attached.
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