Irish voters rejected ‘anti-migrant’ candidates and returned to centre – Kelleher

Irish voters have rejected “populist, anti-migrant groupings” and moved back to the centre, Fianna Fáil’s European candidate for Ireland South Billy Kelleher has said.

He added that people considered alternatives to the Coalition parties and “rejected them resoundingly”.

There had been concern that a wave of rhetoric around immigration and climate change, seen across the EU, would be repeated in the local and European elections.

But the Coalition parties have performed better than expected based on early results.

Irish MEPs will be the last in the European Parliament’s elections to be confirmed.

Mr Kelleher, who is expected to comfortably regain his seat along with Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly, said that his party leader and Tánaiste Micheál Martin had contributed to his party’s electoral success.

With most of the 949 council seats filled, Fianna…

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