Renua denies asking Magdalene campaigner to be poll candidate

Renua Ireland has denied claims by Magdalene Laundry survivors campaigner Steven O’Riordan that the new party asked him to run as their candidate in the next general election.

Party leader Lucinda Creighton said it was “absolutely not true” that Renua had asked Mr O’Riordan to run for the party in the Cork North West constituency.

“He applied through our website like six or seven hundred other people, but I did not approach him to run,” Ms Creighton said last night.