Fine Gael candidate said planners 'should be shot'

"While I used a poor turn of phrase, I do strongly believe in the need for a greening strategy for our public spaces," said Geoghegan

Cllr James Geoghegan did not know he was being recorded at council meeting.

Dublin Bay South election candidate James Geoghegan told a local meeting last week that whoever introduced concreted public spaces in Dublin "should be shot".

The Fine Gael candidate for the upcoming by-election was speaking on a video conference titled 'Reimaging Portabello's public spaces' with a number of Fine Gael members and locals in the area about recent anti-social behaviour along the canal.