Bertie doesn’t want a FF ‘plonker’ in Kildare

BERTIE AHERN doesn’t want a “plonker” candidate selected by Fianna Fáil tonight to contest the Kildare bye-election.

As the Meath and Kildare North bye-election campaigns got into full swing, Fianna Fáil appeared to make the first election promise as Minister for Transport Martin Cullen hinted that a rail link to Navan was in the pipeline.

In what was viewed as a reference to Charlie McCreevy’s influence over the local party organisation, the Taoiseach told his party’s TDs and senators that he didn’t want to see “dynasties” controlling the outcome of the selection convention in Maynooth for their own benefit.