Leitrim is set to have no Fianna Fáil candidate in the next general election. With the deadline now passed, only three Sligo people have been nominated to contest the Sligo-Leitrim selection convention - Keith Henry and councillors Edel McSharry and Paul Taylor.
Sligo TD Marc MacSharry won a seat for the party in 2020, but he's now an Independent and isn't running in the next election. Carrick-on-Shannon man Fintan Cox, a former local elections candidate for Fianna Fáil, says the line-up is bad news for Leitrim:
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