FIDELMA HEALY EAMES WINS SENATE SEAT

Date Published: 25-Jul-2007

Galway Fine Gael County councillor Fidelma Healy-Eames has been elected to the Seanad.She was elected to the Labour Panel early this morning in a nail-biter by just one vote on the 23rd count.Senator Healy-Eames will now have to give up her seat representing the Oranmore-Headford area on Galway county council.A Fine Gael source has indicated moves to fill the Fine Gael vacancy on the council will begin towards the end of the summer.A name will be put forward by the party at a co-option convention which is expected to take place in early September.