Determined Marie Murphy means business in Tipperary

“Marie Means Business,” is the slogan splashed on Marie Murphy’s election literature, posters, and campaign cars and the candidate herself is taking it literally during this whirlwind few weeks.

Chosen by Fine Gael HQ as a third candidate in the new, amalgamated Tipperary constituency, to the bemusement of some in the camps of sitting TDs Tom Hayes and Noel Coonan, the county councillor is determined to be no third wheel as she approaches polling day.

“I’m not, and never was, a token candidate,” she says with the air of someone who feels she has a genuine chance of upsetting the odds come February 26.