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As the dust settles from the European Parliament elections, Sixmilebridge community activist, Richard Cahill said he was “extremely satisfied” with his final tally of 15,300 votes in thesouthern constituency before his elimination in the fifth count. Mr Cahill was very pleased with his showing in the constituency covering 10 counties in Munster and East Leinster, considering he had just over three and a half weeks to mount an election campaign. Before contesting the elections, Mr Cahill stated he wouldn’t have considered launching a Dáil bid. However, having “dipped his toes into democracy”, he is not ruling out contesting future elections. “I am tired now. It is not a time to be making decisions. I need to talk to my family as to how they feel about things. No doors are closed at this stage,” he said. Having completed a snapshot tally of the papers on Sunday morning, he said one-third of the ballot papers had him ticked, which amounted to …

A Kilkee man who was hoping to run in the local elections in the West Clare constituency has had to withdraw his candidacy due to an error registering. Noel Gavin is unable to deliver his papers personally to the returning officer before Saturday’s midday deadline as he is currently in the UK. As a result his name cannot now appear on the ballot paper. Mr Gavin is an award-winning photojournalist and had planned to run under the newly-formed Independents Together umbrella. The Limerick-born would-be candidate realized too late that he had to register in person. “I should have handed in my papers on Monday because I had them all ready. I thought I was going away on Thursday and I would have time to do it before then but I actually had to go on Wednesday,” he said. According to Mr Gavin, he had previously met with the returning officer but did not have his paperwork completed at that time. …