Mayoral hopeful loses vote after FG colleagues abstain

Fine Gael is to review the position of two of its councillors who refused to support a party colleague in a mayoralty contest, over her backing of a rezoning proposal.

Cllr Lola O’Sullivan lost out on the position of mayor of Tramore in Waterford on Tuesday night when two Fine Gael colleagues on the town council, Anne-Marie Power and Maxine Keoghan, abstained from the vote.

Ms O’Sullivan was one of a number of Fine Gael members of Waterford County Council who in 2008 voted in favour of rezoning agricultural land outside Dungarvan, which was the subject of a Garda investigation and a ministerial caution.