Martin accuses Government of gerrymandering

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has accused the Government of engineering a “good old-fashioned gerrymander” of new council constituencies.

Mr Martin went on the attack as he opened his party’s 75th ard fheis in Killarney with a fierce denunciation of Environment Minister Phil Hogan ahead of the May local elections.

“The manner in which the boundaries of the local councils were changed for this election probably represents the largest gerrymandering of the last 35 years, since independent boundaries commissions were established.