Claire Kerrane set to make history as first SF TD in Roscommon-Galway for over 100 years

Claire Kerrane’s likely election means that for the first occasion since the foundation of the state neither Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael will take a seat in this constituency.

History is in the making in the Roscommon Galway constituency as Sinn Féin’s Claire Kerrane looks set to be the party’s first TD since the election of George Noble Plunkett in the famous North Roscommon bye-election "of the snows" of 1917.

Kerrane’s likely election means that for the first occasion since the foundation of the state neither Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael will take a seat in this constituency. If she takes the final seat, Kerrane will become only the second woman ever to win a seat in Roscommon and the first since 1981.