TD demands Browne apology

A CORK Fianna Fáil TD has demanded a written and broadcast apology from journalist Vincent Browne for saying two towns in his constituency deserved to be flooded.

Mr Browne, in a newspaper column on the recent weather referred to the problems Newcastle West had faced before adding: “Fermoy and Mallow — the Sodom and Gomorrah of Co Cork — deserved to be flooded. But Newcastle West?

“Two prostitutes were brought to Broadford (eight miles from Newcastle West) one time and did their business in a horsebox conveniently provided by a local entrepreneur. One of the prostitutes came from Mallow, the other from Fermoy.”