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THE Shannon Municipal District now has two female representatives and two twenty-something members, after last weekend’s results. There was a feeling in advance that David Griffin and Rachel Hartigan could do well, and both were propelled onto the local authority, having won very large first preferences. With Pat McMahon not running there was a clear opportunity for someone from Newmarket to win a seat, but there was no guarantee that it would be taken. However once the early tallies came in it was clear that David Griffin had won a very strong local vote, something confirmed when the first count gave him 1534 number ones , well ahead of the quota of 1456. Griffin won 694 of 1013 votes cast at Newmarket on Fergus National School, according to the tallies, while at Stonehall National School, he took 166 out of 249. It was an exceptional performance and he actually ended up with more than 500 first preferences than Pat …
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