Ms Beverley Cooper-Flynn, daughter of the EU Commissioner, Mr Padraig Flynn, was co-opted as a Fianna Fail councillor to Mayo County Council yesterday. This follows her selection by the Castlebar Fianna Fail Comhairle Ceanntair to replace the late Mr Dick Morrin, who died suddenly last July.
Ms Cooper Flynn, who contested the 1994 Mayo by election to replace her father in the Dail following his move to Brussels, was narrowly defeated at the time by Mr Michael Ring, of Fine Gael. Earlier this year, Ms Cooper Flynn was once again ratified by Fianna Fail throughout Mayo to contest the next general election.