FG election hopefuls clash over Lowry’s support

WARRING Fine Gael European election candidates Sean Kelly and Colm Burke have clashed over the appearance of the former GAA president at a party for an independent TD supporting the Government.

Mr Kelly’s courtship of his old friend, Michael Lowry TD, angered Fine Gael supporters in north Tipperary, part of the Ireland South Euro constituency where both men want a seat.

But Mr Kelly defended his decision to attend the Tipperary function organised to celebrate independent Mr Lowry’s 21st anniversary in the Dáil.