FUNCHION’S SCORN: Excellent former KK councillor Sean Tyrrell unfairly left out, unplatformed by unknown Sinn Fein city candidates for Kilkenny local elections in June. Sean is a cousin of the legendary Kilkenny hurler. He was Funchion’s consort until they separated last year.
The two men selected to replace the popular Loughboy man are unknown, not noted for anything. It might seem unfair to refer to them as nonentities, but Evan Barry and Mark O’Farrell, Kathleen Funchion’s new men in Kilkenny city, have never done anything or contributed to civic society in Kilkenny in any way whatsoever. They have absolutely no record of any service to the community. Sinn Fein TD Funchion now obviously believes that her party can elect monkees.
SEÁN TYRELL, WHO EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T GET ON WITH HIM PERSONALLY AT TIMES, WAS A DECENT HARD-WORKING KILKENNY COUNCILLOR. HE WOULD HAVE A LOT OF GOOD ON-THE-JOB EXPERIENCE WHEREAS HIS SUBSTITUTES WOULDN’T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT LOCAL GOVERNMENT. ONE OF THEM IS A METALLURGIST, THE OTHER WE DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT.
Sean worked really hard from 2016 to 2019 on Kilkenny County Council but went down in the 2019 local elections along with many other SF councillors throughout the country – though he was on over 800 votes when he finally went out at the count!
His absence from the Sinn Fein platform is so obviously malicious. But then Funchion turned on her colleague, former councillor Melissa O’Neill, got Melissa dismissed from the party on trumped up allegations and is chiefly responsible for Melissa losing her seat in 2019 as the South Kilkenny Sinn Fein mafia destroyed Melissa despite her great record as a councillor for the party,.
Funchion will allow no competition to herself to arise within the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency – Sinn Fein’s best councillor on the Carlow side, John Cassin, was also forced out of the party by Funchion – and now Sinn Fein are hard put to find a second Carlow-based candidate for the general election in Carlow as a result. And now it looks like Sinn Fein want to solve all the trouble caused by a narcissistic Ms. Funchion in Kilkenny by packing her off to Europe in June.
THE KILKENNY JOURNAL 