East Galway selects candidates

Eoghan Mac Cormaic, Jason Devlin and Danny Callanan

Two candidates have been selected by East Galway Sinn Féin to contest next year's local elections in the towns of Ballinasloe and Loughrea. A very successful Election Convention was held on Monday 15 December in O Dea's Hotel, Loughrea, attended by party members and supporters from both towns.

The candidates chosen are Jason Devlin in Ballinasloe, and Eoghan Mac Cormaic in Loughrea. Jason Devlin is a native Ballinasloe resident from a highly respected local family. He works in Portiuncula Hospital and has been involved with health, unemployment, housing, environmental and youth issues in the town for a number of years.

Eoghan Mac Cormaic is a native of Derry, living in Galway since 1991 and in Loughrea for the past five years. A community development worker, he is employed by GLOR, an Irish language group in East Galway. He is Chairperson of a local gaelscoil and participates in a number of local and national organisations.