FF appoint O'Cuiv as by-election campaign manager

The Government is coming under fire for appointing the Social Protection Minister Eamon O'Cuiv as Fianna Fáil's campaign manager in the Donegal South West by-election.

Mr O'Cuiv will head up the three-week election campaign, as political parties fight it out to win the seat vacated by Fianna's Fáil's Pat 'The Cope' Gallagher in June last year.

Last night the party selected Senator Brian O'Domhnail as their candidate.