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In Cork, Fianna Fáil’s Billy Kelleher finds that a variety of issues are exercising the public

Billy Kelleher, Fianna Fáil European elections candidate, chats with local Brenda King in the Lough area of Cork Picture: John Allen

Fianna Fáil MEP hopeful Billy Kelleher is looking for votes in the backyard of the man who never wanted him to run in the first place. He is out canvassing around the Cork city suburbs of Togher and the Lough. “That’s the boss’s territory,” said another Fianna Fáil TD, in reference to party leader Micheál Martin’s Cork South Central constituency.

Kelleher, a TD for Cork North Central for the past 22 years, was ...