Red faces in FG as cllr to run for Seanad

FINE Gael have been left red-faced after one of its own representatives became the first person in Ireland to announce plans to run for the new Seanad — despite the party promising to scrap the upper house.

In an update on her blog yesterday, Cork city councillor and former deputy lord mayor, Laura McGonigle, said she wants to “contest the forthcoming Seanad Éireann election.”

The Fine Gael representative, who is part of Cork South Central candidate Deirdre Clune’s backroom election team, added that she is “delighted” to have been nominated to the upper house’s industrial and commercial panel.