John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps it is more like three out of four if one includes the part of Ulster in the Connacht-Ulster constituency. I do not know whether anyone else present tonight has contested the European election before. I stood for election to Europe in 2009. I come from the part of Waterford city that is in Kilkenny. I recall canvassing in Oldcastle and places I had never been in before - and have never been back to since - during that election.

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