New guns expected to come out blazing

THE number of seats up for grabs in this electoral area has increased from three to four a result of a boundary revision which saw the addition of Ballincollig.

And with that addition two big guns come into the equation – Mark O’Keeffe (FF) and Derry Canty (FG).

In the last local election (when they were in the Carrigaline electoral area) both men pulled in more than 3,000 first preferences votes each, predominantly from the Ballincollig area.