Green Party running two candidates in Inishowen
Michael White is running in the Carndonagh local electoral area while Jason Le Masurier will contest a seat in the Buncrana local electoral area
The Donegal Green Party has confirmed its candidates for the local elections in Inishowen.
The chair of the Green Party in Donegal, Michael White, will run in the Carndonagh local electoral area (LEA), while Jason Le Masurier will run in the Buncrana local electoral area.
Michael White is a Moville native now living in Greencastle. After studying computer science at Trinity College Dublin, he worked abroad in Kenya, Colombia and Jamaica before returning to Ireland to work in the IT sector.
He moved back to Inishowen in 2005 and runs a software business in Letterkenny with his wife Annmarie. They have two sons in college. Michael is chair of the Donegal Green Party, was a general election candidate in 2020 and previously served on the Green Party's national executive committee.
Jason Le Masurier is a chartered civil engineer with a 30-year career in the construction industry, and was formerly professor of civil engineering at Christchurch University in New Zealand. He moved to Buncrana in 2016 with his wife Liz, who is from Carndonagh. Jason set up Buncrana Parkrun and volunteers with Inishowen Rivers Trust, the board of the Credit Union and the RNLI.
“We stand for climate action, warm homes, safer streets and clean rivers, lakes and sea,” Mr White said. “And given that I am personally affected by mica, I understand what a huge issue it is for people across Inishowen.”