A Sligo councillor has confirmed his intention to contest the Fine Gael Sligo/Leitrim General Election convention. Sligo Drumcliffe Cllr Thomas Walsh announced yesterday that he is set to contest the convention on September 1st. Sitting Fine Gael TD in the constituency, Frank Feighan, has already confirmed that he is seeking to retain his Dáil seat.
Cllr Walsh ran in the 2020 election and recently received close to 1900 first preference votes in the last local election. He's confident he can get over the line if selected in September's convention: