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Tue 02 Feb 2010Gilmore expects strong Dáil challenge from new recruit
LABOUR LEADER Eamon Gilmore has said he is confident the party’s newest recruit, John Kelly, will mount a strong challenge for a seat in Roscommon-South Leitrim in the next general election.
Mr Gilmore yesterday announced that Mr Kelly, an Independent member of Roscommon County Council, had joined the party. Mr Kelly has been a councillor since 2004 and topped the poll with two quotas in the Castlerea electoral area when re-elected last year. He stood as an Independent in the 2007 general election polling over 4,500 votes, or about 40 per cent of a quota.
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