I am doing research for an American, Tony Byrne. His great-grandfather, Thomas Byrne, was baptised in Dunlavin on December 2, 1821. Thomas’s father, James Byrne, married Frances Elliot, and was buried in Baltyboys in 1864.

Why was Jimmy Deenihan, a man who was born, reared in and represents the constitutents of the most cultural area of Ireland, demoted?