Michael Colreavy (Sligo-North Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted on behalf of the people of Leitrim that the county has once again been restored and that Leitrim has been reunited for electoral purposes.

The wrong has been righted for Leitrim but that wrong has now been visited on other counties. It is wrong that any county should be divided for electoral purposes. East Galway was mentioned and I fully empathise with the people there. We love the people of west Cavan and south Donegal, except when we meet them on the football field, and we love to see them doing well in football if we are not doing well. I have no doubt, however, that the new constituency that takes in Sligo, Leitrim, south Donegal and west Cavan will need a lot of new official documentation because that is a very long constituency name - Sligo-Leitrim-West Cavan-South Donegal.

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