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Sean Sherlock to stand down at next general election in fresh blow to Labour

Cork East TD will step down after he lost key voter base in Mallow in constituency review

Sean Sherlock, Labour TD: Cork East TD said that would be wrong of him to pretend that the recent publication of the Electoral Commission’s Constituency Review Report 2023 had not influenced his decision. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

Sean Sherlock, the Labour Cork East TD, has announced that he is not going to contest the next general election, in a major blow to the party.

The former Minister of State said that he was making the decision with a “heavy heart” following the split up of his Cork East constituency in the recent constituency redraw.

Sherlock, whose late father Joe was also a TD, lost his key electoral base of Mallow which ...