Healthcare worker Charles Ward has been selected to represent the 100% Redress Party to contest a seat in the Lifford-Stranorlar Muncipal District.
He becomes the party’s fourth candidate who will contest the forthcoming local elections in Donegal in June
Originally from Arranmore Island, Charles has lived in Drumkeen since building his dream home over 20 years ago. Until recently he was a key committee member of the Mica Action Group (MAG),
Charles is a healthcare worker at a Convoy nursing home and is father to four children. He is married to fellow campaigner Angela Ward, an assistant school principal in the Finn Valley area and MAG PRO.
“The opportunity to advocate and fight the continued injustice being dished out to every individual by local and national government in its handling of the Defective Concrete Crisis, means that hope for Donegal has not yet been completely extinguished,” Chales said.
“I have experienced first hand the physical, psychological, and financial trauma that the people of the Finn Valley area and beyond have been subject to.
“When people say, ‘it’s just bricks and mortar’, it tells me they have not been impacted in any way by the crisis.
“It is mould, it is anxiety, it is life savings decimated, it is asthma, it is relationship breakdown, it is the denial of college education, it is depression, it is suicide, it is medication, and it is so much more than ‘just bricks and mortar’.
“In fact, nothing about this man-made crisis is ‘just’ and it is this lack of justice and the apathy that surrounds the need for a proper 100% redress, that needs to be challenged in both the local and national arena.”
The party has already confirmed three other candidates for the local elections – Eamonn Jackson (Milford), Ali Farren (Carndonagh) and Tomas Sean Devine (Letterkenny).
Receive quality journalism wherever you are, on any device. Keep up to date from the comfort of your own home with a digital subscription.
Any time | Any place | Anywhere
SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT EDITION TODAY
and get access to our archive editions dating back to 2007(CLICK ON THE TITLE BELOW TO SUBSCRIBE)