FG deputy apologises for Nally remarks

FINE Gael chief whip Paul Kehoe has apologised to party leader Enda Kenny for saying he would have acted in exactly the same way as the Mayo farmer who killed an intruder.

Mr Kehoe, a TD for Wexford, told a public meeting in Bunclody this week that Padraig Nally had been right to shoot John Ward, a Traveller who had intruded on his farm.

“Let me say, he was a victim, and if I was Padraig Nally, I think I would have done exactly the very same thing as well,” he said.