Kilkenny TD Kathleen Funchion says housing and cost of living are main issues on the doorsteps rather than migration
Sinn Féin European election candidate Kathleen Funchion speaks with Joe Hayes from Dangan Terrace while canvassing in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny . Photograph: Dylan Vaughanfor Sinn Féin in the old East constituency. Then, she was a 28-year-old councillor, young, inexperienced, unknown outside her native Kilkenny .
He and Funchion recall that after the drubbing Sinn Féin took in 2019, the party looked like it was on a downward spiral. Kennedy says with fond recall: “The day of the count, the moment they opened the boxes from Windgap and Tullaherin, we knew, we just knew there and then. It was all Funchion, Funchion, Funchion and those were strong Fine Gael areas. Even in Ballyhale, where Bobby Aylward came from, we pulled 110 votes from the box.”
Political parties tend to steer journalists towards canvasses in their own heartland areas. It’s no exception here. That’s like catnip to a Sinn Féin representative. Funchion assures him Sinn Féin is opposed to the EU Commission president being reappointed.
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