Fine Gael’s candidate in the upcoming by-election has hit out at Sinn Fein’s Senator Lynn Boylan, calling on her to reveal how she will vote on renewing the laws underpinning the Special Criminal Court.
Cllr James Geoghegan said voters in the Dublin Bay South area need to know whether Ms Boylan’s party will abstain from voting to renew the legislation at the end of the month.
Speaking in Ranelagh on Monday, Cllr James Geoghegan said the Special Criminal Court has prosecuted members of the IRA and gangland members and "is not something to trivialise..you either support law and order in this country or you don’t and Sinn Fein abstained last year and I think it’s only reasonable, on a policy point of view, that the voters of Dublin Bay South know whether Senator Boylan is going to vote in favour of the Offence Against the State Act or is she not going to vote in favour.”
Cllr Geoghegan said he is “worried about persuading” voters claiming locals are “concerned” there may not be a voice for them if he doesn’t win in the upcoming by-election.
He is the only male candidate vying to retain the seat once occupied by former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.
Cllr Geoghegan is in competition with six other female candidates in the upcoming Dublin Bay South by-election.
