Carlow residents feel that political representation in the constituency has traditionally favoured Kilkenny, but dividing it in two and adding an extra TD could greatly benefit area
“There’s still lots of empty shops on each street around the town, a lot of units that have been vacant for a long time, but some industries have come back,” he says.
In 2020, Sinn Féin’s Kathleen Funchion comfortably topped the poll, followed by Fianna Fáil’s John McGuinness and Jennifer Murnane O’Connor , Fine Gael’s John Paul Phelan and Malcolm Noonan of the Green Party. John Paul Gilmore, manager of Teach Dolmain in Carlow town, says many of the students who work in the pub and restaurant over the summer struggle to find somewhere to live.
Pat Crotty, owner of Paris Texas bar and chairman of Kilkenny Tourism, says: “I was talking to two Carlow people on the street yesterday in Kilkenny ... they couldn’t get over the number of people out here on the street on a Sunday, the whole sense of buzz and activity was on a different scale. `I personally believe dividing Carlow-Kilkenny into two would be a very positive development for Co Carlow’
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