Picture: John Reidy
Sinn Fein’s Pa Daly is poised to be the second candidate elected in Kerry with the fifth count currently underway at the Killarney Sports and Leisure Centre.
With Michael Healy-Rae having hoovered up the greatest share of the first preference vote last night, all eyes are on the remaining four seats with Daly, Independent Danny Healy-Rae and Fianna Fáil’s Norma Foley all certain to be returned .
The big battle will be between Fianna Fáil’s Michael Cahill and Fine Gael’s Billy O’Shea who are slugging it out for the fifth and final seat with Cahill currently enjoying a 500-vote advantage.
O’Shea has refused to concede, however, and he is hoping that a sufficient amount of transfers will come his way but Cahill is expected to triumph, particularly with a big transfer anticipated when his party colleague, Linda Gordon Kelleher, is eliminated.
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