by Evelyn Cullen
HAVING been selected at the party convention on Thursday night in the Clanree Hotel in Letterkenny as one of two candidates to contest the next general election for Fianna Fáil, Pat the Cope Gallagher is optimistic that he can win back the Dáil seat he lost in 2020.
He will run alongside Minster Charlie McConalogue, who was also selected in the two candidate strategy and will be hoping to keep his seat and his voice for Donegal in the cabinet.
“We aim to win two seats this time like we did in 2016 and I’ll be fighting for the second seat,” Pat The Cope told the Donegal News.
“I am as enthusiastic as I was when I first entered politics more than 40 years ago and nearly as fit,” said the Dungloe man, who walks five km at 6am every morning hail, rain or shine, and had just completed his 1700th consecutive morning walk.
Full article in today’s edition of the Donegal News.
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