Gilmore defends selection of Bacik in Dún Laoghaire

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has defended the party’s selection of Ivana Bacik as his running mate in Dún Laoghaire, despite the fact she doesn’t even live in the constituency.

Senator Bacik ran unsuccessfully for the party both in Dublin in the 2004 European elections and in Dublin Central in last year’s Dáil by-election.

Earlier this year, Ms Bacik sought a nomination to run for Labour in Dublin South East — the constituency in which she lives — but lost at the selection convention to sitting TD Ruairí Quinn and Cllr Kevin Humphreys.