A total of 51 candidates are officially on the cards for the local elections in Clare.
The deadline to register as a candidate has passed, leaving the final list
But candidates have until Tuesday to withdraw, should they so wish.
From noon today, the deadline closed for candidates to declare for local elections in Clare and the final list includes 51 names.
Ennis accounts for the bulk of those with 15, there are 10 in both Shannon and Killaloe, Kilrush has 9 while there are 7 in the Ennistymon area.
In the county town, sitting Fine Gael Councillors Mary Howard, Johnny Flynn and Paul Murphy are all running again.
Fianna Fáil Councillors Pat Daly and Clare Colleran Molloy are joined on the ticket by their party colleague Mark Nestor.
Ann Norton, Amanda Major, Frank Cullinan and Alfonso D’Auria are running as Independents in Ennis while Labour’s Séamus Ryan and Sinn Féin’s Donna McGettigan are also in the hat.
Indepedenent candidates André Hakizimana and Dermot Hayes and the Social Democrats’ Chris Kirwan round that area off.
In Shannon, 10 candidates will battle it out for a seat – they include sitting Independents Gerry Flynn, Michael Begley and PJ Ryan, along with Fianna Fáil’s Cathal Crowe and Pat McMahon.
Fine Gael’s John Crowe, Garrett McPhillips and Eugene Long are also up for election, while Sinn Féin’s Mike McKee and Betty Walsh of the Social Democrats round it off.
In the Ennistymon district, Fine Gael is represented by Bill Slattery and Joe Garrihy, Fianna Fáil is fielding Shane Talty, Martin O’Loghlen and Joe Killeen and the Green Party’s Róisín Garvey and Sinn Féin’s Noeleen Moran are running.
Just down the coast in the Kilrush area, the three Fianna Fáilers are PJ Kelly, Cillian Murphy and Bill Chambers; Ian Lynch, Joseph Woulfe and Noreen Lynch are running as independents and Sinn Féin are fielding Violet-Anne Wynne.
Gabriel Keating and Mike Taylor are representing Fine Gael in that district.
And finally in the Killaloe area, it’s Joe Cooney, Pat Burke and Ger O’Halloran for Fine Gael and Pat Hayes, Tony O’Brien and Alan O’Callaghan for Fianna Fáil.
Beckha Doyle is running for the Social Democrats, Seán Naughten for Sinn Féin, Joe Floyd is running as an Independent in Tulla and rounding it off is Barry O’Donovan for the Greens.
Candidates have until this Tuesday to withdraw their names.
