Media scrutiny of the Senator was reignited with his selection as a Fine Gael candidate in the Louth constituency.

John McGahon has said that he'll be stepping back from politics after being eliminated from contention in the General ...

Taoiseach Simon Harris had said he was ‘not sure’ if he would canvass with McGahon had he visited Louth during the election ...

FINE Gael election candidate John McGahon has broken his silence about the controversial pub assault. The incident which ...

John McGahon has said he will be taking a step back from politics for the foreseeable future and now plans to spend more time ...

Simon Harris has said that he is 'not sure' if he would canvass with controversial Louth Senator John McGahon if he were to ...

The letter, seen by the Irish Mirror, says that the Senator “loves his community” and that if it is “not possible” for voters ...

While Sinn Féin will likely return Ruairí Ó Murchú and Joanna Byrne to the next Dáil, one of the emerging stories in Louth is ...

FINE Gael’s John McGahon said it has been a “very tough” two weeks after his election campaign was dealt a blow when a video emerged of him involved in an altercation. The outgoing senator ...

Senator John McGahon is the party's main hope of retaining its seat in Louth as one of its stalwarts, Fergus O’Dowd, retires. But a late-night street fight outside a pub in Dundalk six years ago ...

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Senator John McGahon, who is standing in County Louth, was acquitted in 2022 of assaulting Breen White outside a Dundalk nightclub in 2018 but was found to be 65% civilly liable by a High Court jury.