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Verona Murphy speaking to media at the Wexford count centre following November's by-election.
Image: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Verona Murphy speaking to media at the Wexford count centre following November's by-election.
Image: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
VERONA MURPHY IS expected to announce herself as an independent candidate in the upcoming general election later this morning.
Murphy was dropped from the Fine Gael ticket for the upcoming general election following a controversial by-election campaign in which she sustained criticism for a series of comments about migrants.
Speculation has been rife that she would instead run as independent candidate and Murphy told TheJournal.ie that she will announce her decision on local radio in Wexford at 10am this morning.
She is expected to announce her candidacy for one of the four Dáil seats in Wexford.
Speaking to South East Radio last month, Murphy said her comments about immigration were “misrepresented in the media” and that her comments were based on security concerns.
Fianna Fáil’s Malcolm Byrne topped the poll in the Wexford by-election and took the available seat with Murphy receiving the second-highest first preference vote in the November poll.
Yesterday, it was announced that Seanie O’Shea is to contest the general election in Wexford for Independents 4 Change. O’Shea has campaigned alongside former TD and now MEP Mick Wallace since he entered politics in 2011.
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