VETERAN TD for Cork East Ned O’Keeffe is one of the three candidates vying for the two slots on the Fianna Fáil ticket to run in the South constituency of the European Parliament elections in June.
Mr O’Keeffe, the sitting MEP Brian Crowley and Tipperary-born Senator John Hanafin have been nominated to contest the convention in the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork on Saturday.
Mr O’Keeffe said yesterday he had put his name forward because of his sense that not enough had been done to encourage a Yes vote in the Lisbon Treaty referendum last year.
Four candidates have been nominated for the North West convention next Sunday .
They are sitting MEP Seán Ó Neachtain; former senator Pascal Mooney; former ICMSA leader Pat O’Rourke; and Gerard O’Connor, a Sligo-based party activist.
The party said yesterday that the Dublin and East constituency conventions for the elections would also be announced in the near future.
Sitting MEPs Eoin Ryan (Dublin) and Liam Aylward (East) have both indicated they intend to stand in the elections.
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