Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew, despite being over
eight months pregnant, took time to canvass in Sligo City Centre
during the last week with the former Mayor of Sligo, Councillor
Seán MacManus, the Sinn Féin candidate in
Sligo/Leitrim.
Gildernew, who was elected MP for the neighbouring
constituency of Fermanagh/South Tyrone last May, is expecting her
first child within a matter of weeks. She is pictured canvassing
in a city centre arcade with MacManus, where she joked, "I'll
take a chance of my child being born in Sligo, if it helps
Seán get elected!"
Letterkenny entertains Gildernew
On Thursday 21 February, Michelle visited a number of projects and groups
in the Donegal North-East constituency with the candidate for the
area, Padraig MacLochlainn. She visited the Letterkenny Institute
of Technology on Thursday morning to meet with members of the
LYIT Sinn Féin cumann and also with other students and
members of the teaching staff and the Students Union at the
college.
Michelle and Padraig then visited the recently completed
Letterkenny Women's Centre at Port Road and were met by Nora
Newell and Eilish McArt, who talked about the resources available
at the centre before giving a guided tour of the new facilities.
They also visited the Abhaile Aris Centre, which services the
needs of the republican ex-prisoner community in Donegal and
people displaced as a result of the conflict, and the Donegal
Ancestry centre in Ramelton. In the late afternoon, Michele and
Padraig visited the Mevagh Resource Centre in Downings, which
provides services and training for the local community, where
they heard about the deprivation of the Downings and Carrigart
area due to lack of adequate employment and neglect by government
bodies over the years.
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