Anti-immigrant councillor needs to get his facts right on housing issue

FIANNA FÁIL councillor Kevin Sheahan is not a racist — some of his best friends are foreign nationals. He’s had a few over to dinner.

He just doesn’t want to allow more of them into the country.

The latest addition to the ‘I’m not a racist, but’ brigade, Mr Sheahan, a Limerick county councillor, says foreign nationals get preferential treatment when they apply for social housing, while Irish citizens are unable to secure a place on lengthy waiting lists.