On Thursday's version of 'Déise Today', Damien was speaking to Martin Cullen, former Fianna Fail minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism, who has recommended local Waterford Fianna Fail councillor Eddie Mulligan for the cabinet table.
Mr Cullen, along with Damien Tiernan and local Fianna Fail councillor Eddie Mulligan visited the proposed site for the North Quays development to talk about what this development can do for Waterford.
Mr Cullen hopes that the North Quays development will drive on not only Waterford, but also the whole South East Region, “you can feel the hunger, and the demand for something to happen… If the north quays happen, then before you know it, the confidence will spring to the city, people will start to believe that the airport is now possible among other things”.
On the possibility of a Waterford minister, Martin Cullen says that “my inside contacts, Michael Martin, the people at the top would like to see Eddie Mulligan up there”.
When quizzed by Damien Tiernan on where that would leave current Fianna Fail TD for Waterford Mary Butler, Martin says “we don’t need another TD, we have enough TD’s… I’d like to see Mary Butler elected”.
If you want to hear that interview, you can just click here.
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-6th-june-damiens-interview-with-martin-cullen-and-eddie-mulligan
Also on the show, Damien sat down with the newly elected MEP for the Green Party, Grace O’Sullivan.
Grace is from Tramore and was elected to Europe in the fourth seat in the Ireland South constituency.
Independents4Change candidate Mick Wallace secured third place in Ireland South.
The results of the 19th count saw him comfortably reach the quota.
Following the distribution of Mr Wallace’s surplus of 19,674 votes, 2,077 additional votes went to Ms Clune, bringing her final figure to 112,162.
5,414 votes went to Ms O’Sullivan, giving her a total of 119,701.
Fine Gael’s Sean Kelly and Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher had already been deemed elected to the first two seats.
Former MEP, Sinn Féin’s Liada Ní Riada, bowed out of the race last night when she accepted that she could not bridge the gap between herself and Ms O’Sullivan.
If you want to watch that interview with Grace and hear all about her campaign trail and the up’s and downs of it, you can just click here.
If you want to listen to the full version of 'Déise Today', you can just click here.
https://soundcloud.com/wlrfmwaterford/deise-today-thursday-6th-june-2019
