Fine Gael's Michael Creed to retire as TD

His decision to retire as a TD comes just a week after Fine Gael's John Paul Phelan also announced he would resign as a TD for Carlow-Kilkenny at the end of the Dáil term.

Sources have said that Mr Creed, a former agriculture minister, told a Fine Gael AGM in Millstreet, Cork on Monday night. Picture: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland

Michael Creed has told a private Fine Gael meeting that he would not be contesting the next general election.

Sources have said that the TD, a former agriculture minister, told a Fine Gael AGM in Millstreet, Cork on Monday night.