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Noel McCarthy is to be Labour’s sole election candidate in the Fermoy electoral area for the local elections next year.

Labour has decided to stick to just the one candidate in the Fermoy electoral area for the local elections next year and to stick to the tried and tested in the form of sitting councillor Noel McCarthy.

The party had considered running a second candidate given that the number of seats in the electoral area has risen from four to six as a result of the boundary changes.

There had been some speculation that Joe Sherlock, brother of Minister Sean Sherlock, might be a contender but that hasn't come to pass. Fermoy Town Councillor Tadhg O'Donovan, as predicted will also not be running. This week he confirmed he was withdrawing his name and is rowing in behind Cllr McCarthy instead.

"It is my intention to do everything possible to ensure Cllr McCarthy retains his hard-won seat," he said. "I will be predicting that it will not be an easy task considering some of the adversarial policies being pursued by the present Government," Cllr O'Donovan continued in a shot over the bows at his party in Government.

He and Cllr McCarthy have been vocal in recent months about some of their party's policies, with both stating publicly their belief that the hierarchy had lost touch with the grassroots.

The Avondhu has learned that another political party was making overtures towards Cllr McCarthy in recent weeks. Despite that approach and his stated disaffection with his party's hierarchy, he obviously feels more confident of securing a seat with Labour.

He got 2,063 first preference votes in his first time out in the 2009 local elections, coming in behind Fine Gael's Pa O'Driscoll and Fianna Fail's Kevin O'Keeffe to take the third of the four seats on the fifth count.

The selection convention takes place in The Wagon Tavern on Monday evening next.

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