Killarney mayor ‘doubts party’

THE Labour Party’s first mayor of Killarney has expressed doubts over membership of the party after a row over ex-TD Breeda Moynihan-Cronin decision to re-enter politics.

Sean Counihan, described by his fellow councillors as from “old Killarney stock” and a committed trade unionist, was unanimously elected mayor of his home town.

He was proposed for office by Cllr Michael Gleeson, a former Labour member who also left the party in the 1990s after a bitter row with the Moynihan faction of the Labour.