Kenny leads emotional tribute to Fine Gael TD McFadden

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was visibly as he delivered a graveside oration for Longford/Westmeath TD Nicky McFadden yesterday.

Kenny leads emotional tribute to Fine Gael TD McFadden
Fri, 28 Mar, 2014 - 00:00
Eoghan MacConnell

He remembered the 51-year-old Fine Gael TD, who passed away on Tuesday following a two-year battle with motor neurone disease, as a “person of immense courage, dignity, and integrity”.

“We have lost a beautiful woman with a beautiful mind and a beautiful heart,” Mr Kenny told mourners at Coosan Cemetery in Athlone.

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