Supporters of Mayo Independent TD Beverley Flynn attended her campaign launch last evening in Castlebar despite a written warning that they risked expulsion from Fianna Fáil.
Leading members of the old Micheál Ó Moráin cumann, which was disbanded following the expulsion of Ms Flynn from Fianna Fáil in 2005, were among about 200 people who attended the meeting. The premises at Market Square is owned by the candidate's partner, Tony Gaughan.
Ms Flynn's father Pádraig and mother Dorothy were both there.
The former EU commissioner did not speak but he smiled as his daughter thanked the crowd.
Four past presidents of the Ó Moráin cumann - Jimmy Rowland, Josie Livingstone, Paddy Glynn and Larry McHale - as well as former chairman John Browne, greeted and hugged Ms Flynn as she arrived.
Mr Glynn told reporters the "expulsion edict" did not worry him in the slightest.