FF councillor defends last-minute leaflet about Travellers - Ireland

From the Irish Times

A Fianna Fáil councillor has defended a last-minute leaflet drop reminding constituents he voted against Traveller accommodation plans, and saying he would continue to oppose them if re-elected.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown councillor Gerry Horkan said some candidates from “other parties say they are going to do the divil and all to stop it when half their party voted for the plan”.

While some constituents received the letter just yesterday, Mr Horkan said he had distributed it over the past few days.

“It is an issue,” Mr Horkan said. “People are saying to me: ‘I heard you voted for it’ but I didn’t.”

His leaflet reads: “Just a short note overleaf to brief you on an issue that has regularly come up on the doors over the last few months and to also ask you for your number one vote or highest possible next preference.

“If re-elected I will continue to oppose this fundamentally flawed programme.”

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