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Several prospective election candidates locally are keenly reassessing their prospects in the wake of Denis Naughten’s unexpected announcement that he is to bring his political career to an end. An intense battle for the Dáil seat held by Naughten for over a quarter of a century is now underway. In a statement issued on Monday, Deputy Naughten confirmed that he will not contest the next general election. It signalled that the curtain is set to fall on a very prominent Dáil career and means one of Roscommon’s leading politicians of the past quarter-century is exiting the stage. As matters stand, Fine Gael are slight favourites to benefit electorally from Naughten’s decision to opt out of politics.
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In reality, it is impossible to definitively gauge the local implications of Naughten’s exit from the political scene until the outcome of the latest constituency boundaries’ review is known later this year. If the current Roscommon-Galway constituency were to remain in place, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil would both see Naughten’s absence from the ballot paper as a boost to their respective bids to regain a Dáil seat here. Amongst the politicians who this week are assessing the fallout from Naughten’s pending exit are sitting TDs Michael Fitzmaurice (tipped by many to follow suit and run in the next European elections instead) and Claire Kerrane, Senators Aisling Dolan and Eugene Murphy, and Cllrs. Paschal Fitzmaurice, John Keogh and John Naughten (brother of Denis). For more, see pages 15 & 19.
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