Let’s face it, nobody would deny a general election candidate a holiday given the gruelling demands of the campaign, it’s just that most of them take it afterwards. According to a report on Laois Today, the councillor has “gone overseas on holidays at a critical stage in the 2020 general election campaign”. Maybe she feels it a risk worth taking given the addition of a fourth seat in the constituency and the surge in Sinn Féin support generally. “We’ve had three constituency debates over the last five days and [the] Sinn Féin candidate has not been at any of them because she is on holidays,” she said. File photograph: Niall Carson/PAParty tensions surfaceIt has been dubbed Fine Gael’s Meath East Melee.

Source: The Irish Times February 05, 2020 11:45 UTC