Fine Gael councillor bids to overturn Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny’s defamation win over asylum centre ‘corruption’ slur

Sligo-Leitrim Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny took case. Photo: Collins

Mark Tighe

A Fine Gael councillor will this week attempt to overturn a circuit court finding that she defamed Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny with comments about a developer who built a direct provision centre in Leitrim.

The Sunday Independent has established that last October, Mr ­Kenny, a Sligo-Leitrim TD who is Sinn Féin’s spokesman on transport and communications, obtained a court judgment in default of appearance against Ita Reynolds Flynn, who was cathoirleach of Leitrim County Council last year.