Fianna Fáil adds second candidate to Offaly general election ticket

Fianna Fáil has this morning confirmed that Cllr Claire Murray has been added to the party ticket for the general election in the Offaly constituency.

She will now join Cllr Tony McCormack on a two-candidate ticket for Fianna Fáil for the three-seat constituency.

Murray, from Clonmore, Rhode, was elected to Offaly County Council at the recent local elections for the Edenderry Electoral Area.

She had been nominated for the recent selection convention, at which McCormack was chosen, but withdrew. McCormack subsequently won the convention ahead of Cllrs Peter Ormond and Eddie Fitzpatrick.

Murray is a practice nurse based in Rhode.

The two Fianna Fáil candidates are part of a growing field for the Offaly area, which also currently includes sitting Independent TD Carol Nolan, Green Party Minister and Senator Pippa Hackett, Fine Gael Cllr John Clendennen, Sinn Féin's Aoife Masterson and Independent Ireland's Fergus McDonnell.