Large field of candidates to contest Carlow Kilkenny constituency for Dail Eireann election

20 Candidates are contesting the Carlow Kilkenny constituency in the General Election later this month.

It’s the largest number of candidates to contest the election in recent times after nominations closed at midday today.

The full is of candidates is as follows:

Carlow Kilkenny

• Peter Chap Cleere (Fianna Fail)
• Catherine Callaghan (Fine Gael)
• Michael Doyle (Fine Gael)
• David Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)
• Jennifer Murnane O’Conner (Fianna Fail)
• Natasha Newsome Drennan (Sinn Fein)
• Aine Gladney Knox (Sinn Fein)
• Tom Healy (Non-Party)
• John McGuinness (Fianna Fail)
• Malcom Noonan (Green Party / Comhaontas Glas)
• Patricia Stephenson (Social Democrats)
• Noel G Walsh (Non-Party)
• Adrienne Wallace (People Before Profit – Solidarity)
• Sean O’hArgain (Labour)
• Eugene McGuinness (Non-Party)
• Gary O’Neill (Aontu)
• Luke O’Connor (Non-Party)
• David Egan (Liberty Party)
• Orla Donohoe (Irish Freedom Party)
• John O’Leary (Non-Party)

Tipperary North

• Phyll Bugler (Fine Gael)
• Diana O’Dwyer (People Before Profit – Solidarity)
• Petter Madden (The Irish People)
• Alan Kelly (Labour)
• Francis O’Toole (Aontu)
• Ryan O’Meara (Fianna Fail)
• Iva Pocock (Green Party / Comhaontas Glas)
• Evan Barry (Sinn Fein)
• Dan Harty (Sinn Fein)
• Michael Smith (Fianna Fail)
• Jim Ryan (Non-Party)
• Michael Lowry (Non-Party)
• Justin Roundy Phelan (Non-Party)
• Liam Minehan (Non-Party)

Candidates have until midday on Monday to withdraw from the General Election.