Shortly after 9am this morning, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny handed in his nomination papers to contest the upcoming general election. The Taoiseach was joined by his party colleagues Minister of State, Michael Ring TD and Michelle Mulherin TD who also submitted their nomination papers for the election.
They were the 14th, 15th and 16th candidates respectively to submit their nomination papers to Returning Officer for Mayo, Mr Fintan Muprhy, with whom the Taoiseach joked he was lining out at full forward refering to him being the number 14 on the list of nominees.
