O’Donoghue: Footballers not running for FF

Former ceann comhairle John O’Donoghue has dismissed reports that Kerry footballers are being targeted as candidates to run for Fianna Fáil in the new five-seater Kerry constituency.

Speculation in the last week suggested the former footballer and sports columnist Darragh Ó Sé is being courted by the party to run as a candidate in the new constituency.

However, speaking on Radio Kerry over the weekend, Mr O’Donoghue, who has been close to the Ó Sé family, said “no such approaches” had been made, as far as he is concerned.