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THE Fianna Fail party in Shannon is struggling to find nominees to contest the next county council elections.
With most areas around the coun- try having returned their nominees to Fianna Fail head office by the September 5 deadline, sources close to the party said Shannon town is struggling to find a candidate to con- test the expanded Shannon electoral area.
The party met in Shannon on Sun- day night however to propose nomi- nees to run for the town council, just a week after its two sitting council- lors announced that they would not
be running again.
Among the three nominated is a Polish national, a director of elec- tions and a well known community “oO Mane
Director of elections for Fianna Fail in Shannon during the last gen- eral election Noel McNamara will be hoping to get the nod from head of- fice to run as a candidate in the next election.
Polish native Woyceich Wieviewski is anew name and face to politics in Shannon, and those nominating him will be hoping he appeals to the non- national vote.
The third nominee is Ollie Allen who is hoping to capture the local
community vote.
Shannon town councillors Sean Hillary and Geraldine Lambert told the Sean Lemass Cumann last week that they would not be contesting the next local elections, leaving the town council, like the county coun- cil without any returning Fianna Fail councillor from Shannon.
The current Shannon area has fa- voured Independent candidates for the county council with former may- or of Clare Patricia McCarthy and Cllr Gerry Flynn both from Shan- non sitting on the town and county council.
Fine Gael Cllr Tony Mulcahy (FG) is the other county councillor from
the town.
While the Sean Lemass Cumann may be struggling to find candidates for the county council elections, oth- er cumann preparing to contest the expanded Shannon Electoral Area have no such problems.
In Sixmilebridge they have already nominated former council candidate PJ Ryan and new candidate Pascal avis
Sitting Fianna Fail county council- lor Pat McMahon and Robert Frost have been nominated by Newmar- ket-on-Fergus, while former county councillor Pat O’Gorman has been nominated by the Cratloe Cumann to contest the Shannon area.