Sherlock cut age by five years for election

JOE SHERLOCK took five years off his age to have a better chance of winning a Dáil seat in the 2002 general election.

This emerged at his requiem Mass when his son, Joe Jnr, revealed that the former TD trimmed the years off following the advice of his family at a “kitchen cabinet meeting”.

The family feared that he would lose votes if the electorate found out he was over the 70 mark.