Online abuse over Kinsale funfair row 'led councillor to seek medical help'

Cork County Council meeting told of online vitriol following plans to remove historic funfair from town

Brendan Piper, Piper's Fun Fair Kinsale with the showman's wagon currently being kept at his home near Glandore, Co. Cork. Picture: David Forsythe

A Kinsale-based Fine Gael councillor has said the abuse he has received on social media over controversial plans to remove a historic funfair and showman’s wagon from the town has led him to seek medical assistance due to the strain of the situation.

Cllr Kevin Murphy told the recent meeting of Cork County Council’s Bandon-Kinsale Municipal District where the matter was discussed that he has had to go for health checks over the last few weeks as a result of the online abuse he suffered.