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Ireland is Full
I am delighted to be contesting the 2024 local elections in the Kilkenny City Local Electoral
Area on behalf of the Irish Freedom party. The issues I’ll raise over the course of this
campaign will ensure the enduring competitiveness of Kilkenny City.

• Kilkenny city’s reduced tourist capacity is a result of our council accepting the
  government’s accommodation of supposed refugees or asylum seekers. For every one
  euro that a tourist spends on their hotel room, they spend three euro in local
  businesses. If elected, I will ensure that we become a county council which prioritises
  Kilkenny tourism over the immigration scam which harms our city.
• As a result of refugee and asylum seeker influx in Kerry, Their local council had
  stopped working with IPAS (International Protection Accomodation Service), which
  has made the government agency unable to continue with their creation of asylum
  centres in that area. If elected as your local councillor, I will refuse to work with
  IPAS.
• Housing Minister Darragh O’ Brien (Fianna Fáil) put out an order to all local county
  councils to disregard “local connection” to an area when assessing local housing lists
  as per the Sunday Business post. If elected, I will ensure that we house the Irish first.
• In 2019, every single sitting councillor in Kilkenny City pledged that they would not
  raise rates on local businesses during the lifespan of the current council. In 2022, they
  increased commercial rates by 3%. I vow to reverse this increase.
• In 2019, every sitting Kilkenny City councillor agreed that they needed to improve
  transparency in local government. Almost immediately, they reversed course and
  implemented a ban on the media and public from the council’s strategic policy
  meetings. When the national media became involved the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael
  councillors who pushed for the ban lost their nerve and overturned it. I will always
  work to engage with people and protect transparency in local government.
• The Council’s introduction of a one way system in Kilkenny City has clogged up an
  already congested City centre. Coupled with a lack of parking spaces, this has
  affected many local businesses in the area. This one way system was supposed to only
  be a temporary measure introduced during Covid 19 restrictions but yet the council
  has become paralysed by indecision, refusing to return to a two way system like they
  had promised originally. I want to reintroduce the two way system to create more
  accessibility.
• In 2023, I organised the “Kilkenny Says No” protest outside the Kilkenny Inn Hotel.
  Many local people turned up to show their opposition to the immigration scam that is
  affecting our area. The Kilkenny people and KCLR engaged in shameful attempts to
  cover up events like these. Instead they chose to promote events that were organised
  by state sponsored NGO’s to promote the government’s open borders policy. I will
  continue to stand up to local media if elected to the county council.
• What the council have done over the last 5 years is symptomatic of a corrupt and
  incompetent political class. They are prioritising broader global interests over the
  people they are elected to represent. That is the reason I am running this campaign. I
  hope you will support me in this endeavour.