City businessman selected to run as Green party candidate in local elections
Galway bay fm newsroom - Businessman Seamus Sheridan has been nominated to run for the green party in the local elections in the Galway city centre ward.
He has lived and worked in Galway for over 20 years and his business Sheridan's cheesemongers was founded in 1995.
This week Tuam town councillor Larry Bane was added to the Fine Gael ticket for the Tuam electoral area.
Meanwhile, Joe Byrne of Kinvara who is chairman of the county hurling board was added to the Fine Gael ticket for the Loughrea electoral area.
Seamus Sheridan has been the Green party's spokesperson on agriculture, food and the marine since 2011.
He says he'd like to see the creation of a food market in the city that will rival those in other European countries