Cork Sinn Féin party whip: “Nobody wants to lose a councillor.”
If losing one councillor may be regarded as a misfortune, and two carelessness, then three looks like… [Wilfulness? – Ed] Perhaps… But if Sinn Féin thought they had drawn a line under their little local difficulty in Cork when the party’s sitting TD Sandra McLellan announced she would not be standing in the next General Election, they might have to think again. The Irish Examiner reports that Glanmire-based Cobh Councillor Ger Keohane has informed Cork Council Council and Sinn Féin party headquarters that he, too, …