CLAREGALWAY RESIDENT DANA EXPECTED TO JOIN ARAS RACE

Date Published: 19-Sep-2011

Claregalway resident, Dana Rosemary Scallon is expected to announce plans to run in the Presidential election later today. [19/9]

Meanwhile, a crunch meeting between the leader and deputy leader of Fianna Fáil is taking place this afternoon to try and reach a compromise on the Presidential election.

Galway's Éamon Ó Cuív had threatened to quit last week amid controversy over Micheál Martin's handling of the presidential issue.

FF Senator Labhras O'Murchu says if his colleagues have a free vote then he could get the 20 Oireachtas members required to run as an Independent.