Labour’s Kathleen Lynch well aware she’s in a dogfight to retain her seat

Minister has her supporters but concedes she will face a battle for the fourth seat in Cork North Central, writes Catherine Shanahan

FIERY confrontations, family feuds, more boos than a pantomime, exes at war — vying with Jeremy Kyle for voters’ affections all featured in a morning’s canvass on the northside of Cork city for Labour candidate Kathleen Lynch.

Paul Creighton, canvassing on behalf of the the minister with special responsibility for primary care, social care (disabilities and older people), and mental health, blamed the closed front doors on the talk-show host. “It’s all Jeremy Kyle’s fault,” he said.