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VETERAN politician Brendan Daly is remaining tight lipped on whether he’ll run for election to the Seanad.
Senator Daly said he would first have to speak to the Fianna Fail par- ty in Kilrush and discuss a strategy for the future of Fianna Fail in west SEK
“We don’t want to leave the west without a representative,” he said.
Fellow west Clare politician Cllr Madeleine Taylor-Quinn was also remaining tight lipped on a possible Seanad election.
The former TD and Senator said
that it was too soon after her defeat in the general election for such a con- sideration.
“It is early days to make an assess- ment on the Seanad. We are only over One campaign.”
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The two Fine Gael senators on the five person panel, Brian Hayes and Noel Coonan, were both elected to the Dail at the weekend.
But Cllr Taylor-Quinn would be the first to admit this does not auto- matically mean she will be returned to one of the most hotly contested
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Meanwhile, some of Clare county councillors are also considering a term in the upper house.
Ennis County Councillor Pat Daly has already been proposed by the GRA for selection by the Irish Con- ference of Professional and Service Association as one of its Seanad nominations.
The meeting on June 6, will see the association appoint their candidates for the Labour Panel, of which FI1- anna Fail Senator Brendan Daly is currently a member.
Cllr Bill Chambers (FF) said he was also considering his options.
The Cooraclare man said he believed that the west of the county needed representation at national level. But he added that he would wait to see the position of other candidates be- fore deciding.
Fine Gael’s Cllr John Crowe has also actively been seeking a nomina- tion from different bodies.
But he said he was conscious that his nomination would not clash with another candidate.
Other names being bandied about within their parties as possible Sea- nad candidates are Fine Gael’s Mar- tin Conway and Tony Mulcahy, and Fianna Fail’s Pat Hayes.