Hi °C | Lo °C NOMINATIONS for the Meath East by-election closed this afternoon, and 11 candidates will be on the ballot paper when voters go to the polls on March 27.
All candidates have until noon tomorrow to withdraw their names.
The candidates are Fine Gael’s Helen McEntee; Fianna Fail senator Thomas Byrne; Cllr Eoin Holmes of the Labour Party; Sinn Fein’s Darren O Rourke; Sean O Buachalla of the Greens; Seamus McDonagh of the Workers’ Party and Ben Gilroy of Direct Democracy Ireland.
The Independents contesting the election are Charlie Keddy, Mick Martin, Jim Tallon and Gearoid O’Brien.
