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"This is about fear...": Renua candidate's poster defaced with anti-gay slurs

Paddy McKee, a Kilkenny councillor who is openly gay, quit Fianna Fáil earlier this year to run for Lucinda Creighton’s party.

RENUA IRELAND HAS condemned the actions of a vandal who defaced a poster for Carlow-Kilkenny candidate Paddy McKee.

The poster was found close to Callan in Kilkenny yesterday. Homophobic slurs had been written all over it, in black marker.

A spokesperson for McKee said the act had been “about fear and the politics of the past”.

“Renua is about a future where people speak openly about their lives and the true nature of their lives without fear.”

A Kilkenny councillor who is openly gay, McKee quit Fianna Fáil earlier this year to run for Lucinda Creighton’s party in the 22 May by-election.

Read: Renua poaches Fianna Fail councillor for by-election

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