McCourt plans to run for governor of New York on Green ticket

MALACHY McCOURT, writer, actor and brother of the author of Angela’s Ashes, says he plans to run for governor of New York. If elected, he pledges to work to end nuclear energy programmes and revoke the death penalty.

McCourt plans to run for governor of New York on Green ticket

McCourt will make official his declaration on Sunday, April 30, at the Cinema Arts Centre in New York.

In a statement, McCourt who is well-known in New York City progressive politics, said: “It is quite clear in the Bible ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’.”

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