Mushroom business mogul selected as one of Fianna Fail's candidates for upcoming local election in Kildare

Fianna Fail have announced that Newbridge man Noel Heavey will be contesting the local area election next May, alongside current councilor Rob Power and one more candidate who has yet to be finalised. Heavey was selected at the party’s convention in the Keadeen Hotel on Thursday night, and the two Fianna Fail candidates and are expected to be joined by a third, likely to be either Councillor Murty Aspell or Antoinette Buckley from Kilcullen, both of whom contested the convention election.

Heavey is currently serving on the committee of June Fest Newbridge of which he has been chairperson for 5 years. He also served for eleven years on the Executive of Newbridge RFC, spearheading the development of its facility in Rosetown. From this connection emerged the twinning of Newbridge with Argentre-Du-Plessiss, a small town in Brittany of which Heavey was chairperson 2012-2017

Heavey taught for 15 years in St. Farnan’s Post Primary School Prosperous from which he took early retirement to go into the mushroom business. As Managing Director of Miltonfield Ltd, he developed this to become the major supplier of mushroom products to the Irish multiple retail trade.