Sinn Féin urged to retract ‘nonsense’ fuel poverty statistic provided to Dáil

Party finance spokesman Pearse Doherty argued against ban on turf burning using ‘inaccurate’ figure that suggests 2,800 people a year die from fuel poverty

Air quality in Letterkenny, within Doherty’s own constituency, is among the worst in the country. Picture: RollingNews.ie