EAST GALWAY LABOUR ANNOUNCES NEW LOCAL ELECTION CANDIDATE

Date Published: 17-Nov-2008

The Galway-East Labour Party has announced a new candidate to contest the upcoming 2009 local elections in the Loughrea-Athenry area. A stonemason by trade, PJ McDonnell, who's married with two young daughters is originally from Co. Laois, but moved to east Galway ten years ago.He's been a Labour supporter since the 1970’s and a member of the management committee of the Loughrea Family Resource Centre which the community launched earlier this year.He recently graduated from GMIT with a B.A. degree in heritage studies, specialising in the environment.