Minister hits back at Lonely Planet description of his home town
Mr Ahern dismissed the criticism of his Co Louth base and insisted it had come a long way since its El Paso border town image of the 1980s.
The guidebook’s seventh edition, written by Dubliner Fionn Davenport said: “Tough, uncompromising Dundalk is a reminder of a bygone age, when Irish towns couldn’t care less about looking pretty for the nice tourists and just went about the hard business of eking out a living. Louth’s dour county town is a charmless place, with few historic sites and not much else to see or do.”
