Martin Lonergan, an Independent candidate in the Tipperary County Council elections, has written and recorded a song encouraging voters to give him their preference.

A POLL-TOPPING councillor has maximised his vote for the fourth election in a row without climbing a single ladder.

More than 1,000 voters in Navan, Co Meath, have been told that they will not be allowed to vote in the forthcoming urban council election in the town next month.

LISMORE Town Council member Helen O’Sullivan has become the fifth public representative in Co Waterford in recent years to switch political allegiances to Fianna Fáil.