Newly-elected TD for Cavan-Monaghan Cathy Bennett said Team Sinn Féin "put it all out on the field" for their general election campaign. She also told the Joe Finnegan Show that she was always "in it to win it".
The entire Sinn Féin membership agreed to put three candidates in her, Matt Carthy and Cavan's Pauline Tully on the ticket. She said the strategy "almost worked" with 90 per cent of voters in counties Cavan and Monaghan casting their ballot as the party asked them to.
Cathy Bennett said her win was "beyond her wildest dreams" and that of her parents but is also bitter-sweet as she won't have Pauline Tully by her side in Dáil Éireann:
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