Candidate defeated by two votes seeks full recount

A local election candidate has gone to court to have the result of the Listowel Electoral area declared invalid and to have a full recount.

Dan Kiely, a former Fianna Fáil councillor and senator, who lost out by just two votes to a Fine Gael candidate in Listowel last weekend, entered the Circuit Court in Tralee yesterday with his solicitor, the former Fianna Fáil councillor, Paul O’Donoghue, and his barrister Liz Murphy.

Mr Kiely, who stood as an Independent, claims that he did not get to see, and was twice refused his request to inspect, spoilt papers, including during a recount.