Coffey defamation action: TD who sent press release says locals were 'up in arms' about Waterford/Kilkenny boundary review

A TD who issued a press release at the centre of the Senator Paudie Coffey defamation action told the High Court he did not think the newspaper's coverage of the change of boundary issue in Waterford/Kilkenny was balanced.

Carlow-Kilkenny Deputy John Paul Phelan, who is a junior environment minister, also denied he felt betrayed by Mr Coffey's announcement that there was to be a boundary commission review to look at moving part of Kilkenny into the Waterford administrative area.