101 candidates await countdown for 48 county council seats

A TOTAL of 101 candidates will be sweating it out at Saturday’s counts as they wait to see if they will get one of the 48 Cork County Council seats on offer.

101 candidates await countdown for 48 county council seats
Thu, 04 Jun, 2009 - 01:00
Sean O’Riordan

Fine Gael are running the largest number of candidates with 31. Fianna Fáil are next with 23, one ahead of the independents. Labour have 11 candidates, Sinn Féin 10 and the Greens four.

There are just 14 women candidates seeking seats in County Hall. There are no women standing in either the Blarney, Macroom or Skibbereen electoral areas.

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