Politician to take two-vote defeat to Supreme Court

Papers are to be lodged in the Supreme Court in relation to a Circuit Court ruling in an action by a former senator who was unsuccessful in his attempt to have a local election result overturned.

Former Fianna Fáil politician Dan Kiely, standing as an Independent, narrowly missed out on a county council seat in the Listowel, Co Kerry, electoral area.

In June, Mr Kiely failed in a petition to Tralee Circuit Court to have the municipal area vote declared invalid and to have a full recount. Judge Carroll Moran had dismissed the petition.