Politician defends advert on ‘salacious’ gay dating website

A FIANNA Fáil councillor who posted his picture and an advert on a gay website looking for dates says he’s done nothing illegal or immoral and won’t be stepping down.

Malcolm Byrne, 31, admitted yesterday that he did advertise for dates in the gaydar.co.uk website.

But he said those who leaked details of his advert to a local newspaper in the hope it might spur him to resign from Gorey Town Council in county Wexford have wasted their breath.