Parties eye up Donegal by-election
His Donegal South West seat vacancy opened immediately after his election and if the opposition manage a repeat of weekend victories it would whittle away the Government’s Dáil majority.
Yesterday Taoiseach Brian Cowen said he had yet to consider when to hold the by-election. He had been pressed by Sinn Féin’s Caoimhghín O Caoláin to move it as quickly possible.
