Councillor Tom McDonnell , elected to Kildare County Council, has apologised for saying that Irish women need to breed more. He initially dug himself in deeper by saying that he was reared on a farm and he meant breed in the sense of breeding a litter of pups. I was reared on a farm.
Neither my father nor my brothers ever had any difficulty distinguishing between farm animals and women. Nor did they ever use the word “breed” about human beings having babies. In the interests of full disclosure, my husband’s niece Melissa Byrne, an Aontú candidate, was part of an epic series of rechecks of the 10th count in Newbridge during the local elections.
If the final of four rechecks had been in her favour, she would most likely have been elected instead of Tom McDonnell , according to those tallying at the centre. None of this has any bearing on this article. McDonnell is afraid that the Irish race will die out.
On Newstalk’s Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan , he expressed concern that the most popular baby boy’s name in Galway was Muhammad. His call for Irish women to have more babies does not include Irish Muslims, or presumably, immigrants, as he was elected on an anti-immigrant ticket. READ MORE No, Irish women don’t need to ‘breed more’.
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