Campaigners to challenge constituency changes

THE GOVERNMENT faces a legal action against plans to split Co Leitrim for electoral purposes, as locals believe it will deprive the county of a TD.

Campaigners are set to go to the High Court to legally challenge the use of three seat constituencies in areas of low population.

The new constituencies of Sligo-North Leitrim and Roscommon-South Leitrim were proposed by Fianna Fáil and Fianna Gael in submissions to the independent body responsible for redrawing boundaries of Dáil Éireann constituencies, the Constituency Commission.