Auctioneers bidding for three seats

IT’S likely three auctioneers will end up grabbing four seats in this electoral area.

Fine Gael’s Tomas Ryan is retiring after 30 years in County Hall and the man hoping to replace him is Pat Burton, a former maths and science teacher who founded auctioneers’ firm Burton Crowley and O’Flynn in 1980.

Burton lives on the western side of the constituency at Inniscarra and should have a relatively free run in that area as the main battle ground is on the ‘eastern front’ in Glanmire.