Ó Murchú welcomes Cllr Watters on Louth election ticket
Cllr Antóin Watters joins Ruairí Ó Murchú TD and Cllr Joanna Byrne on the party’s Louth ticket for the general election
Sinn Féin TD Ruairí Ó Murchú has welcomed the news that Cllr Antóin Watters has joined him and Cllr Joanna Byrne on the party’s Louth ticket for the general election.
Sinn Féin in Louth announced on Friday, that Councillor Antóin Watters will run as a third candidate in the constituency
Deputy Ó Murchú said: “Antóin is a great councillor and a great colleague, we have worked really well together over the years and I am really looking forward to the wider electorate seeing him and getting to know what he is capable of.
“Antóin is one of a number of additional candidates added to the Sinn Féin slate in constituencies around the State.
“We will be running more candidates, giving voters the opportunity to effect real change, to get a new government.”
Ó Murchú added, “We are serious about being in government. We have the plans, in reforming health, housing, infrastructure, plans for progressing a United Ireland.
“We have the ambition and we have the candidates to make it happen.”