Brothers get mayoral job on same day

TWO brothers have been elected mayors of different county councils on the very same day.

Cllr Jack Walsh became Mayor of Co Waterford at the same time that his brother, Cllr Tomás Breathnach, was collecting the chain of office from Kilkenny County Council.

To make the occasion every more unusual, Tomás was following in the footsteps of another brother, Joe, who was a previous chain holder in Kilkenny.