By-election candidate apologises for comments on Traveller housing scheme being scrapped in her area

A Fine Gael councillor and by-election candidate has apologised after she boasted and expressed her “delight” at a Traveller housing scheme being scrapped in her area.

Cllr Emer Higgins, contesting the by-election in Dublin Mid-West, wrote a letter to residents in her area in 2014 and described the decision of the council as a “victory for the community.”