Dara Murphy to run in Cork North Central for FG

The European Affairs Minister — who has been embroiled in controversy since it emerged last week that he was driven to Dublin Airport in a Garda car after his own car broke down in north Cork — was selected over Senator Colm Burke by 16 votes at a constituency selection convention chaired by Housing and Planning Minister Paudie Coffey.
It is understood he won 188 votes to Senator Burke’s 172.