Politics
Ciarán Cannon becomes 10th Fine Gael TD to announce exit from politics
Former junior minister said that there is now a ‘toxicity in politics now that was barely palpable twenty years ago’
Ciarán Cannon has become the latest Fine Gael TD to announce he is to retire from politics.
A former leader of the Progressive Democrats, Cannon served as a councillor in Galway from 2004 and was first appointed as a Senator with the party in 2007.
Cannon announced his resignation as leader of the Progressive Democrats in 2009 and joined Fine Gael. He won a Dáil seat in Galway East in the 2011 general election, which ...