A Buncrana schoolteacher will be seeking to retain the seat that will be vacated by long-serving Fianna Fail councillor Rena Donaghey in this summer’s local elections.
Fianna Fáil has selected Fionán Bradley, to contest the local elections in South Inishowen along with outgoing councillor, Paul Canning.
The party also selected sitting councillor, Martin McDermott, to run in North Inishowen.
Fionán Bradley will seek to retain the seat being vacated by Cllr Rena Donaghey, who announced recently that she is not seeking re-election.
Thursday night’s convention in the Lake of Shadows Hotel in Buncrana was chaired by Senator Robbie Gallagher, and attended by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, Senator Niall Blaney, and Fianna Fáil regional organiser, Rory Guerin.
Speaking after his selection, Mr. Bradley said he was “very heartened” by the support he had received from party members.
Paying tribute to Cllr Donaghey, he said: “Rena has been involved in politics for 30 years. It’s only in the years after Rena retires that Donegal, Inishowen, and Buncrana will see the contribution she has made, and it really has been immense. If I am lucky enough to be elected on June 7th and manage to do one tenth of what Rena has done, that will be some volume of work.”
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